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The work of Gertrude Eileen Trevelyan was out of print and utterly forgotten for over 80 years. But now, thanks to the Recovered Books series from @bhousepress.bsky.social, four of her best novels are back in print.

All four are available in the US from @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

underrated books i will always recommend

On our latest MFH episode we talk about the films SINGAPORE SLING and THE MAFU CAGE, a double bill inspired by our pal @Carmelitasays.bsky.social

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2024 was a sensational year for new releases. You would not know this if you only looked at the Oscar nominations.

TWIN PEAKS: VISUAL SOUNDTRACK (1992)
A LaserDisc that plays like an elaborate music video. The entire soundtrack album is played over video footage shot by a Japanese TV crew visiting the Snoqualmie, WA, locations where the series was shot.
gofile.io/d/apUJ2h

DYNAMIC:01: THE BEST OF DAVIDLYNCH(.)COM (2007)
7 short films all with introduction by Lynch and a twenty-minute segment with the director answering various questions from members of his website.
FULL DVD + Extras. Many thanks to Manuel @ Twitter for sending me this one.
gofile.io/d/1YpcxT

And a link & list with all the films Lynch shows here:
gofile.io/d/Vj9pSU

ENTR'ACTE (René Clair, 1924)
EMAK-BAKIA (Man Ray, 1926)
VORMITTAGSSPUK (Hans Richter, 1928)
CHELOVEK S KINO-APPARATOM (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
LE SANG D'UN POÈTE (Jean Cocteau, 1932)
DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN BUY (Hans Richter, 1947)

Here's RUTH, ROSES AND REVOLVER (1987), a documentary from BBC's Arena series with David Lynch presenting clips from early surrealist films that he considered most significant to his own work. Big improvement over Dailymotion's copy. Only aired once! gofile.io/d/CWDkwh

Random cover from my TBR pile:
Rule III: Pretend to be Nice by Annabel Dilke (1964)
Naive Katie falls in with Dominic, "an ex-Cambridge petty criminal in elastic-sided boots" who grows marijuana in his window box. Will virtue prevail? Stay tuned.

2024 was the year of #WaferThinBooks. 366 daily posts with suggestions of (mostly) under-150 page long books to accompany our WaferThinBooks.com reading group.

I'll continue to post occasional recommendations, but the daily posts are at an end. I hope you found a few books worth reading.

A small selection of Christmas movies is now available on rarefilmm, didn't have much time to work on these so nothing too rare but I still wanted to upload some. Next year, if all goes well, should be a much better and varied selection. Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas :)

Lindsay Anderson once said, “… when two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up.” What few of her film fans know, however, is that after she said goodbye to her acting career, she went on to write six striking novels.

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Four out of five of these have been highlighted as Today's #WaferThinBook this year.

Some (not 20) books that influenced me, with explanations.
5. Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage
For a man, Pilgrimage, its 13 volumes amounting to over 2,000 pages, involves weeks/months of seeing the world through the eyes of a woman who refuses any subservience to men. It's extremely mind-opening.

I watched this last night. For research (seriously). Heartbreaking to learn that the amazing Kay Kendall died less than two years later from leukemia. And sad to learn that her husband, Rex Harrison, and her doctor kept the fact of her disease from her. Was that kind or cruel?

Dark Octave for Edmond Jabès To see darkness the eye withdraws from light in light the darkness is invisible the eye's weakness is no weakness of the light but the eye away from light is eyeless its power is not-seeing and this not-seeing sees the night do not dismiss your darkness or you’ll be left with vision's lesser angles it fills the eye entirely

“left with vision’s lesser angles” A poem by Rosmarie Waldrop

NANCY - By Ernie Bushmiller ANYTHING- - CAN HAPPEN- - IN A -- COMIC STRIP ( NANCY HAS WALKED UP A WALL AND IS STANDING UPSIDE DOWN ON THE CEILING)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
December 19,1952

#nw

IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS (1978)

A newly restored copy of Carl Theodore Dreyer's LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (1921) is now streaming on the Danish Film Institute website and with English subtitles, this restoration premiered early this year at the Pordenone Film Festival and looks absolutely gorgeous.
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碧雲天 Azure clouded sky 黃葉地 Yellow leafed earth 秋色連波 Autumn ripples across the waves 波上寒煙翠 waves misted in cool jade. 山映斜陽天接水 芳草無情 Yet the fields, ever verdant, fall 更在斜陽外。 Cruelly beyond dusk's reach. 黯鄉魂 追旅思 Homeward yearnings wear a traveler's soul 夜夜除非 night upon night - but for 好夢留人睡。 明月樓高休獨倚 酒入愁腸 化作相思淚。 Hills glow in the gloaming, skies blur into sea - a rare sweet dream lingering one in sleep. Never dwell alone in a high tower, under a bright moon - As wine entering a sorrowful spleen Surely turns into tears of stricken longing. - ci lyric set to the Central Asian tune, Sumuzhe H# E by the Song Dynasty poet Ev Fan Zhongyan (989-1052) trans. Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

Never dwell alone in a high tower, under a bright moon
As wine entering a sorrowful spleen
Surely turns into tears of stricken longing

明月樓高休獨倚
酒入愁腸
化作相思淚

-Closing lines to Sumuzhe, a ci lyric by Song Dynasty poet Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 (989-1052)
#everynightapoem #moon

IN BAD TASTE (Steve Yeager, 1999)
A documentary on the career of film maker John Waters. Featuring interviews with actors and fellow film-makers. The life and death of actor, Divine is also discussed.
IFC airing copy with about 5 minutes of promos at the beginning.
gofile.io/d/vvrPDT

I didn’t make a Goodreads account to read things about my own book (widely regarded as unhealthy) but I finally caved and made one to read the Claims Adjustor’s list. Which a) lol and b) he’s a normie who reads mostly business books !!! And Infinite Jest was on his tbr.

gotta watch this one asap 🙏

This bit that Jacques Tourneur lays on us at the start of I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, about the overshadowing savagery of existence and how things aren’t really as they seem, is really bumming me out.

1978 commercial for Jovan Sex Appeal aftershave animated by Richard Williams and based Frank Frazetta's painting 'Against the Gods'. Never for evil! 🔥🔥🔥

BLACK BEAUTY (1933), starring Alexander Kirkland and Esther Ralston, has finally been digitized— hidden in a "15 Family Movie Collection" DVD (apparently, a VHS has been floating around, too). Hopefully, more people will see this piece of cinema history.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

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#BookChallenge

Day 20