Glen W Norton
@glenwnorton.bsky.social
I teach Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University
Film, chess, backgammon, guitar, phenomenology, Lagavulin, Godard, Varda, Rohmer, Cavell, Bazin, Kracauer…
Lived Moments: Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
Film, chess, backgammon, guitar, phenomenology, Lagavulin, Godard, Varda, Rohmer, Cavell, Bazin, Kracauer…
Lived Moments: Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2025)
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LIVED MOMENTS: PHENOMENOLOGY, NEOREALISM, AND THE NEW WAVE, now available from McGill-Queen's University Press:
www.mqup.ca/lived-moment...
#Godard #Antonioni #DeSica #Rohmer #Rossellini #Phenomenology #Modernism #NewWave #Neorealism #FilmPhilosophy
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#Godard #Antonioni #DeSica #Rohmer #Rossellini #Phenomenology #Modernism #NewWave #Neorealism #FilmPhilosophy
Best chess commentator, streamer, and speedrunner in the past decade bar none. RIP Daniel Naroditsky.
GM Daniel Naroditsky passed away. He was a talented chess player, commentator, and educator. FIDE extends its deepest condolences to Daniel’s family and loved ones.
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Best chess commentator, streamer, and speedrunner in the past decade bar none. RIP Daniel Naroditsky.
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Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.
Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87
Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Terence Stamp, who made his name as an actor in 1960s London and went on to play the arch-villain General Zod in the Hollywood hits "Superman" and "Superman II", has died aged 87, his family said on Sunday.
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The fifth event in the #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
www.chess.com/news/view/fr...
www.chess.com/news/view/fr...
Freestyle Chess Calls Off India Event, Buettner Steps Down As CEO
The fifth event in the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
www.chess.com
June 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The fifth event in the #FreestyleChess Grand Slam Tour was scheduled to take place in Delhi from September 17-25, but has now officially been cancelled due to a lack of sponsors.
www.chess.com/news/view/fr...
www.chess.com/news/view/fr...
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Melvyn Bragg & guests discuss philosopher Merleau-Ponty who was working within phenomenology. He rejected Descartes’ division between body & mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Insights into the relationship between the body and the mind, habits, language and thought
www.bbc.co.uk
June 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Melvyn Bragg & guests discuss philosopher Merleau-Ponty who was working within phenomenology. He rejected Descartes’ division between body & mind, arguing that the way we perceive the world around us cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical body www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Is Cinema Mortal?
“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin
“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin
Is Cinema Mortal?, André Bazin, 1953
The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.
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June 5, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Is Cinema Mortal?
“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin
“The fact that one can reasonably ask oneself such a question today, and that it requires some thinking through to come to an optimistic answer, should be enough to justify astonishment and musing.” – André Bazin
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What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate
We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.
Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.
For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...
We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.
Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.
For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...
June 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
What Will Photography Be? An Invitation to Speculate
We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.
Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.
For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...
We are interested in ideas about photography’s future roles in social, artistic, scientific, and everyday realms.
Applications are due on July 31st, 2025.
For the full call, please have a look here:
cloud.folkwang-uni.de/s/2zMFsW2WoZ...
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"I'll take it, of course!" said Magnus Carlsen after Hikaru Nakamura resigned in a winning position, handing over the match!
www.chess.com/news/view/20...
#ChessChamps
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#ChessChamps
2025 Chess.com Classic: Carlsen Advances After Nakamura Resigns In Winning Position
GM Magnus Carlsen earned his spot in the 2025 Chess.com Classic Grand Final after knocking GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Hikaru Nakamura out of the Winners Bracket.
www.chess.com
May 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
"I'll take it, of course!" said Magnus Carlsen after Hikaru Nakamura resigned in a winning position, handing over the match!
www.chess.com/news/view/20...
#ChessChamps
www.chess.com/news/view/20...
#ChessChamps
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HIKARU RESIGNS IN A WINNING POSITION!? 🫨
Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps
Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps
May 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
HIKARU RESIGNS IN A WINNING POSITION!? 🫨
Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps
Both players crack up checking the game review after the match! #ChessChamps
Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague looks… accurate? Hopefully it’s not just a game of recognition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...
NOUVELLE VAGUE, a film by Richard Linklater
YouTube video by ARP Sélection
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May 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague looks… accurate? Hopefully it’s not just a game of recognition. m.youtube.com/watch?v=795B...
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1m0...
Mirror Scene from "Stolen Kisses" (1968)
Francois Truffaut
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May 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@sheilakathleen.bsky.social Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel Antoine Doinel! m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1m0...
I remember be assigned The Imperative in grad school. A fascinating, frustrating, inspirational writer. He will be missed.
Alphonso Lingis, professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State, has died.
Alphonso Lingis (1933-2025) - Daily Nous
Alphonso Lingis, professor emeritus of philosophy at Penn State University, has died. Professor Lingis specialized in phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and continental philosophy. He w...
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May 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I remember be assigned The Imperative in grad school. A fascinating, frustrating, inspirational writer. He will be missed.
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ayééé!
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot
May 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
ayééé!
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot
François Truffaut
Correspondance avec des cinéastes. 1954-1984
chez Gallimard
paraitra le 8 mai
shout out @lauratruffaut.bsky.social pour sa vigilance aiguisée .
Et merci Bernard Bastide & Patricia Guedot
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“What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life.” - @feuilladist.bsky.social on Godard's posthumous films
The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025
What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...
sabzian.be
April 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
“What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two decades of his life.” - @feuilladist.bsky.social on Godard's posthumous films
On Godard’s final works sabzian.be/text/the-las...
The Last Things Before the Last, Jonathan Mackris, 2025
What is new in these posthumous films is the amount of access they offer into Godard’s working process, his thinking about films, and his working relationship to his collaborators in the last two deca...
sabzian.be
April 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On Godard’s final works sabzian.be/text/the-las...
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Books! Godard, Satyajit Ray, Anita Loos, James Gandolfini, Sigrid Nunez, Zheng Zhi, Jonathan Rosenbaum … www.criterion.com/current/post...
April 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Books! Godard, Satyajit Ray, Anita Loos, James Gandolfini, Sigrid Nunez, Zheng Zhi, Jonathan Rosenbaum … www.criterion.com/current/post...
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Jan Henric Buettner: "We are obviously incredibly disappointed to hear about Hans Niemann's withdrawal from this event"
Niemann Withdraws Last Minute From Freestyle Chess In Paris
Less than 48 hours before The Paris Freestyle Chess Grand Slam kicks off in the French capital, GM Hans Niemann has withdrawn from the tournament for "personal reasons".
www.chess.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Jan Henric Buettner: "We are obviously incredibly disappointed to hear about Hans Niemann's withdrawal from this event"
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📚 Just published: the Spring edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.
New Book Releases / Spring 2025
Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.
sabzian.be
March 31, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📚 Just published: the Spring edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.
Quite a find www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Only known script of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless to be auctioned online
About 70 pages of director’s handwritten notes for the New Wave classic were found after more than 60 years
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Quite a find www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
Hmm… which one is cake? It’s a head-scratcher.
Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.
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February 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hmm… which one is cake? It’s a head-scratcher.
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Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.
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Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966
Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966
Note: Yesterday, Marianne Faithfull passed away at age 78. In her memory, we're bringing back a favorite from deep in our archive. It originally appeared on our site in June 2012.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Jean-Luc Godard Shoots Marianne Faithfull (RIP) Singing “As Tears Go By” in 1966
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Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.
Out now! https://buff.ly/4gOQJpS
Out now! https://buff.ly/4gOQJpS
January 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Lived Moments by Glen Norton is a new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.
Out now! https://buff.ly/4gOQJpS
Out now! https://buff.ly/4gOQJpS
I’m just learning about private firefighters from all the LA coverage. If they fail to save your home, can you refuse to pay? Can you sue? If they put out your neighbour’s fire, is this breach of contract? If your insurance provider sends them, can you refuse?
Capitalism is a mystery.
Capitalism is a mystery.
January 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I’m just learning about private firefighters from all the LA coverage. If they fail to save your home, can you refuse to pay? Can you sue? If they put out your neighbour’s fire, is this breach of contract? If your insurance provider sends them, can you refuse?
Capitalism is a mystery.
Capitalism is a mystery.