This is the poster for the 1966 screening of Alphaville and La Jetée at which JG Ballard first saw two films he would often mention as SF favourites. He reviewed La Jetée in New Worlds shortly after. John Brunner (at the same screening) reviewed Alphaville in the following issue. He hated it.

“You’re Weird Now” is OUT TODAY on Sub Pop !! 🎉🥳🕺

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Magazine covers for the surrealist art & literature magazine "Minotaure" by Pablo Picasso, André Derain, Joan Miró and René Magritte, 1933-37.

From: Inspiration (1948), dir. Karel Zeman, Krátký Film Zlín

Stop-motion animation crafted with glass

It’s Monday Moebin’ time. Art by the master Jean Henri Gaston Giraud aka Moebius (1938 - 2012)

It was on this day that Magnus Hirschfeld was born (1868) and died (1935), so it’s a good time to tell you my translation of his utterly groundbreaking 1904 study of sexuality and gender, “Berlin’s Third Sex”, has just been reissued by @uoftpress.bsky.social. This is also good timing because … 🧵

Not an anachronism anyway, unlike the appearance later in the same film of The Caress by Fernand Khnopff twenty years before it was painted. Someone could write a sequel in which Ellen Olenska is a time-travelling art thief.

Peter Behrens, "Der Kuss" from the exhibition "Jugendstil. Made in Munich"

Rector of Warleggan
Carl Mydans, 1953