Nicolas Leblanc
@ngrl.bsky.social
"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."
Baby's first notice to vacate.
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Baby's first notice to vacate.
Bernard-Henri Lévy, eminent buffoon. Picture it: what if a no-account pop philosopher wanted real badly to Henry Kissinger (even added the first name to his). But this old asshole biggest achievement is still his first one: derailing the image of the French public intellectual.
November 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Bernard-Henri Lévy, eminent buffoon. Picture it: what if a no-account pop philosopher wanted real badly to Henry Kissinger (even added the first name to his). But this old asshole biggest achievement is still his first one: derailing the image of the French public intellectual.
This is Michel Houellebecq.
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is Michel Houellebecq.
Cheney is like Teflon. Non stick, toxic, and now he's everywhere. The forever VP.
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Cheney is like Teflon. Non stick, toxic, and now he's everywhere. The forever VP.
SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Trier): Let's exorcise cinematic modernism tonight, kids! Let every scene be "momentous!" Only simple character dynamics! Let's humanize the artists around us, they are not monstrous, they care! Smart cookies will remember something however: Art is not interested in your suffering
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Trier): Let's exorcise cinematic modernism tonight, kids! Let every scene be "momentous!" Only simple character dynamics! Let's humanize the artists around us, they are not monstrous, they care! Smart cookies will remember something however: Art is not interested in your suffering
Ah, fond memories of when some journos dared to suggest some films of Ivan Reitman's gobbled...
To rebound on this, the French cinephiles do know Tavernier. They like him and his films. The critics have generally been harder on Tatave.
As for the outrage, it was mostly about Skorecki daring to say that BACK TO THE FUTURE was crap. Really. The nerve. A million grown children in tears wah-wah.
As for the outrage, it was mostly about Skorecki daring to say that BACK TO THE FUTURE was crap. Really. The nerve. A million grown children in tears wah-wah.
November 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Ah, fond memories of when some journos dared to suggest some films of Ivan Reitman's gobbled...
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arditti celebrando 51 años del cuarteto en la wiener konzerthaus con stefan prins!
November 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
arditti celebrando 51 años del cuarteto en la wiener konzerthaus con stefan prins!
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It's been abt a year since we republished the first supernatural horror novel in English literature, in a modernized text by Steven Moore. ‘The Adventures of Lady Egeria’ (1585) is an incredibly gruesome & violent book that shows the stylistic influence of John Lyly asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It's been abt a year since we republished the first supernatural horror novel in English literature, in a modernized text by Steven Moore. ‘The Adventures of Lady Egeria’ (1585) is an incredibly gruesome & violent book that shows the stylistic influence of John Lyly asterismbooks.com/product/the-...
Desolation! at the office
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Desolation! at the office
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Mon entretien avec Rita Azevedo Gomes autour de son nouveau film Fuck the Polis est désormais en ligne. Je suis très heureuse d’avoir pu discuter longuement avec elle et d’explorer sa vision du cinéma en profondeur.
debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...
debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...
Rita Azevedo Gomes – Débordements
debordements.fr
October 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Mon entretien avec Rita Azevedo Gomes autour de son nouveau film Fuck the Polis est désormais en ligne. Je suis très heureuse d’avoir pu discuter longuement avec elle et d’explorer sa vision du cinéma en profondeur.
debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...
debordements.fr/rita-azevedo...
October 26, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Sounds horrible will study it"
"Hey I made a big mess from all the murders I did. The blood, oh god the blood"
wydddd
October 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Sounds horrible will study it"
Terrorizing my partner into seeing THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK.
October 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Terrorizing my partner into seeing THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK.
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An open letter to Luciano Berio on his hundredth birthday
open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...
open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...
Luciano Berio at 100
Dear Luciano,
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
An open letter to Luciano Berio on his hundredth birthday
open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...
open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...
"Not even the shortest truce and, in the end, surrender without mercy."
Louis-René des Forêts, "Face à l'immémorable"
Louis-René des Forêts, "Face à l'immémorable"
October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Not even the shortest truce and, in the end, surrender without mercy."
Louis-René des Forêts, "Face à l'immémorable"
Louis-René des Forêts, "Face à l'immémorable"
In the Albert Béguin French translation, this madcap little book had a lot in, of course humor but also, lyricism. For lovers of the run-on sentence, of authorial inserts and digressions, the Appendix (a parallel genre to the novel, don't need Antoine Volodine to come up with one) is a must.
Jean Paul’s ‘The Parson in Jubilee: An Appendix’ (1797) is translated from German (and studiously annotated with footnotes) by Matthew Spencer. Publication date of Nov. 18. See here for a partial preview of the book’s interior:
asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
asterismbooks.com/product/an-a...
October 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
In the Albert Béguin French translation, this madcap little book had a lot in, of course humor but also, lyricism. For lovers of the run-on sentence, of authorial inserts and digressions, the Appendix (a parallel genre to the novel, don't need Antoine Volodine to come up with one) is a must.
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It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today.
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
It’s been a long while! Empyrean Series nos. 46–50 are announced & available for preorder as of today.
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
Books by Jean Paul, Pierre Custot, & Fernando Pessoa are due out in November. Ludwig Tieck & Niu Sengru will be published next spring.
asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...
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Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.
September 3, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono and Maurizio Pollini, ca. 1970s.
I am all for aesthetic terrorism. Putting the art in artillery.
October 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I am all for aesthetic terrorism. Putting the art in artillery.
No kings you say? I beg your pardon...
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 PM
No kings you say? I beg your pardon...
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much reading of poet Ronald Johnson (1935–98) of late. including this magnificent reissue of his walking, seasons poem ‘The Green Man’ (1967) from @uniformbooks.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
much reading of poet Ronald Johnson (1935–98) of late. including this magnificent reissue of his walking, seasons poem ‘The Green Man’ (1967) from @uniformbooks.bsky.social
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I wrote about Fellini’s lesser-known THE TEMPTATIONS OF DOCTOR ANTONIO here:
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evillights.substack.com/p/the-tempta...
The Temptations of Doctor Antonio
Le tentazioni del Dottor Antonio / a film by Federico Fellini (1962)
evillights.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I wrote about Fellini’s lesser-known THE TEMPTATIONS OF DOCTOR ANTONIO here:
evillights.substack.com/p/the-tempta...
evillights.substack.com/p/the-tempta...
Stretch, retch, watched Fletch.
Dutch, clutch, talks too much
Scotch, blotched, and kicked in the crotch
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Stretch, retch, watched Fletch.
The folks with that perfect ending prompt are sending me like...
October 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The folks with that perfect ending prompt are sending me like...