#Open City

[wellconstructedsentences]

My friend, who seemed to have read my thoughts, said, You have to set yourself a challenge, and you must find a way to meet it exactly, whether it is a parachute, or a dive from a cliff, or sitting perfectly still for an hour, and you must accomplish it in a beautiful way, of course.

Open City by Teju Cole

[fayegonnaslay]

Anna Magnani at home, 1943.

[litandlifequotes]

We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float

Open City by Teju Cole

[paintingsandrecords]

pūteketeke; ink and watercolor

last twenty two day’s listening:

juliana hatfield - sings elo

kenny rogers - greatest hits

they might be giants - the spine

bette midler - the divine miss m

they might be giants - phone power

soophie nun squad - pasizzle slizzles tha drizzle

screaming females - desire pathway

they might be giants - long tall weekend

garrison - a mile in cold water

s.o.a. - no policy

shellshag - shellshag forever

elvis costello - imperial bedroom

peeping tom - peeping tom

barbra streisand - streisand superman

open city - hands in the honey jar

quicksand - quicksand

embrace - embrace

the shaggs - shaggs’ own thing

run-dmc - raising hell

[byneddiedingo]

Anna Magnani in Open City (Roberto Rossellini, 1945) Cast: Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero, Vito Annichiarico, Francesco Grandjacquet, Carla Rovere, Maria Michi, Harry Feist, Giovanna Galletti. Screenplay: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Alberto Consiglio. Cinematography: Ubaldo Arata. Music: Renzo Rossellini. The considerable reputation of Roberto Rossellini's Open City lies in its place in film history, as a pioneering work of what came to be known as neorealism. But it often feels more conventional and traditional than subsequent films in that genre, like Vittorio De Sica's Shoeshine (1946) and Bicycle Thieves (1949) or Rossellini's own Paisan (1946). Its most famous moment, Pina's (Anna Magnani) run after the truck carrying away Francesco recalls Renée Adorée's pursuit of the truck that carries John Gilbert to the Front in The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925), and Open City depends very much on such melodramatic scenes, centered on established actors like Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi instead of neorealism's dependence on nonprofessional performers. It also relies rather heavily on stereotypes, especially Harry Feist's sneering Übermensch of an SS officer and the predatory lesbian Ingrid (Giovanna Galletti), who is just one step away from the cliché She-Beast of the Third Reich. But none of this really detracts from the film's brilliance or its status as one of the greatest of films. It was made under the harshest of circumstances. That it was made at all is astonishing, but that it is so good and so moving is miraculous.

[litteratured]

(via Marc Campbell)

[ahhcadamia]

Open City

[sonicziggy]

"Fever Dream" by Open City https://ift.tt/QnBDrlb

[ma1up891186]

Richard Sennett; The Open City notes

[sleepingvillage]

Open City - Blitz Kids Stay Sick

Absolute ripper.

[tuuneoftheday]

Open City - Return Your Stolen Property Is Theft

[tarnussy]

Nokstella, Eternal City

[anyanary]

I present to you: fem wangxian

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 329

Bruce was admittedly suspicious when Talia requests a meeting, and is admittedly still upset with the entire hiding Damian’s existence from him for literal years. But he also admits that he just… has to take a moment. 

“Run that by me again please?” He had to have misheard, right? Or gotten drugged by something maybe. 

Talia sighs, sounding just as tired as he felt. “Father’s tea supplier has moved to Gotham after an argument, and he wishes to discuss the agreement of him not entering the city- to speak with said vendor.” 

[lizardpersonyknow]

Tim Drake is responsible for the majority of Gotham's streams of the song skater boy by Avril Lavigne. This is because he keeps captivating people with his autistic goblin rizz. They play this song while daydreaming about wooing him by bringing the bedraggled rat boy at the skate park a zesti like they're y/n herself. Sometimes they don't even realise that That's Tim Drake Wayne. He's a cute, skrungly Thing™ that you could either fix or make worse depending on your romantic daydreams.

[jess-total-mess]

hadestown really does convince you that maybe it’ll turn out different this time. maybe eurydice wont go. maybe hades will let them go. maybe, just maybe, orpheus wont turn around early.

and then she does go. and hades makes them take a test. and doubt creeps in.