Oh yes, me too. THE FACE OF ANOTHER is well worth checking out. An intriguing film that plays with the ideas around identity in a very interesting way. It’s also beautifully shot, which always helps!
Fabulous book. Enjoy!
That’s what prompted my viewing of this one. It’s not quite in the same league as DUNES, but that’s an extremely high bar to live up to!
I have! One of my favourite first-time watches of 2025. I was knocked out by it at a rep cinema screening!
Haha. Indeed!
In a good way?
'Still life at Charleston' (1945) depicts a scene inside Duncan Grant's studio at Charleston farmhouse in East Sussex, it was a period where his work began to shift toward a richer use of colour.
Yes, I liked it a lot. Not quite in the same league as WOMAN IN THE DUNES, but that’s a phenomenal film!
Splendid!
My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday.
Norwegian navel-gazing, Japanese New Wave, a pre-Code drama and some Italian crime. A varied week! #FilmSky #Films
Georges Henri Manzana was the third of Camille Pissarro's eight children. He studied with his father and spent his formative years surrounded by artists associated with the Impressionist movement including Monet, Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin. This is from 1920.
Oh, I think I’ve found the site I was thinking of. Try the link included here:
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'So little sunlight ever found its way to this spot, that it had an earthy, deadly smell; and so much cold wind rushed through it, that it struck chill to me, as if I had left the natural world.' #BookSky 💙📚
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It’s a hard one to find. I found a copy on a rare films website 18 months ago, but I’ve a feeling it’s no longer there…
Will let you know if I come across it again.
Great book. Someone got there before you with the film adaptation!
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Here's one that I haven't shown for a very long time indeed! This is a sketch of "Colebrooke Row, Islington" by Walter Steggles that is undated but I believe that it might come from either 1930 or 1931. #WalterSteggles #Islington #EastLondonGroup
Yes, me too. Her self-portraits feel so haunting...
New on the blog today, my thoughts on two excellent stories from @galleybeggars.bsky.social's Pocket Ghosts series.
THE SIGNALMAN by Charles Dickens & THE OLD NURSE'S STORY by Elizabeth Gaskell - two atmospheric ghost stories to chill the bones. #BookSky 💙📚
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Parisian avant-garde painter
Marie Laurencin,
The counryside dance, 1913
#WomensArt
First watch: Luis Buñuel's 1964 take on Octave Mirbeau's much-adapted novel Le journal d'une femme de chambre, with a screenplay by long-term collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière. Jeanne Moreau stars as the titular chambermaid, who leaves Paris to work in a provincial manor house. 1/4
One of my favourite artists! I discovered her at the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, maybe 8 years ago. She deserves to be much better known.
'The Working Woman.' (1905) Helene Schjerfbeck is one of many women artists who keep getting rediscovered over and over again. Every decade or so, a curator shines a brief spotlight on Schjerfbeck, before she slips out of sight again.
'That very day, as a train came out of the tunnel, I noticed, at a carriage window on my side, what looked like a confusion of hands and heads, and something waved. I saw it just in time to signal the driver, Stop!' #BookSky 💙📚
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GODLAND is an extraordinary film. Historical setting, epic scale, intense emotions. It’s very different to this new one, which seems much ‘smaller’ and intimate. He’s a fascinating filmmaker. (I think his daughter appears in both of these films!)
Wow. Many thanks for the link. I look forward to exploring this!
Really looking forward to catching this one. It sounds completely different to GODLAND, but the reviews sound promising. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!
My latest #InternationalBookerPrize2026 review is Ana Paula Maia's On Earth As It Is Beneath, translated by Padma Viswanathan and published by @charcopress.com
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Inspired by some of the International Women’s Day posts circulated on Sunday, I’ve put together a list of 36 excellent films directed by women (one per director) - all in languages other than English.
Recommendations welcome, esp. for underrepresented regions! #FilmSky #IWD #Films
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Liza Minnelli turns 80 years old today. Happy birthday to the ultimate trouper. I hope she spends it basking in the glow of how much she is loved.
📷 Terry O'Neill, 1974
Camille Pissarro and his family left France for England in 1870 to escape the Prussian invasion and lived in Lower Norwood, just outside London. This work shows the Crystal Palace in Sydenham - it was originally built in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.
