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The Whole Business of Man Is The Arts & All Things Common. he/him/fo.
91. One Battle After Another (2025), dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
November 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
90. F for Fake (1973), dir. Orson Welles
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
89. The Trial (1962), dir. Orson Welles
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
35. I’ve been writing a lot since I moved to Munich but I’ve struggled to read. My mind has once again been BLOWN by teaching Ellis Bell’s perfect novel
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
88. What Does That Nature Say To You (2025), dir. Hong Sang-soo
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
87. Mr. Arkadin (1955), dir. Orson Welles
October 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
So now I live in Munich - please give me your suggestions for good bars, cinemas, bookshops, arts spaces, cafes, etc etc. It’s a very big city to find your feet in! Even better if you live here and you want to meet up!
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
86. Macbeth (1948), dir. Orson Welles
September 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Big life announcement: On my way to Munich where I’ll be working as a Research Associate at Ludwig Maximilian University. Do I know anyone in Munich? I’m going to need some friends and I’m interested in arts and/or academic collaborations!
September 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
85. All the President’s Men (1976), dir. Alan J. Pakula
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
84. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), dir. Riccardo Freda
September 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
34. Scott was just too huge an omission in my reading which needed fixing. This is also brilliant, on its own terms as an intellectual and artistic achievement, and as a road not taken by the popular novel whose anti-humanism and excess has much to say to the contemporary experimental novel.
September 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
83. Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), dir. Vernon Sewell
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
82. Highest 2 Lowest (2025), dir. Spike Lee
September 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Can't help thinking about Kurt Tuchlosky's Weimar-era satirical poem, Rosen auf den Weg gestreut today, and most days in the UK just now - here in the singer Daniel Kahn's translation
September 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
33. A charged moment of time blasted out the continuum of history, a reverse ekphrasis of arts you wished existed, a democratic homage to our universal capacity and obligation to make art, a field guide to saying Yes even to suffering. 💯
August 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
81. The Long Hair of Death (1964), dir. Antonio Margheriti
August 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
80. Fallen Leaves (2024), dir. Aki Kaurismäki
August 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
79. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), dir. Roger Corman
August 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
32. The Brontë novel you’ve never read is better than you think it is
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
31. It’s a while since I read Rancière and loved this. At first it seems a small footnote to Aisthesis on landscape gardening, but it’s a fascinating rehabilitation of the category of the picturesque as a form capable of realising the freedom and shared sensible world offered by revolution
August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
30. I’d never read a Stephen King novel before (!) - this is great fun, much more formally inventive than I expected and it’s fascinating to watch him manipulate the most familiar crude myths and symbols of modern America into something strange and compelling
August 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
78. Black Sunday (1960), dir. Mario Bava
August 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
29. Even in his earliest work Melville is compelling: playful, critical of power, full of strange set pieces, digressive, and REALLY REALLY HORNY
August 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
27. I loved everything about this joyous outrageous tendentious playful partial virtuoistically close read liberation of (non)originary nonbinary energies in Austen
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM