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Saint Maud

Movies watched in 2024

Saint Maud (2019, UK)

Director & Writer: Rose Glass

Mini-review:

Well, this was different from what I expected, but I actually liked it a lot. The main character is so unpredictable that you just can't stop watching her own personal descent into hell, and Morfydd Clark does a superb job portraying her. Rose Glass' visual style also keeps you glued to the screen, and I will never forget the distorted faces at the end of the religious ecstasy scenes. That being said, it's also a very hard watch, with tons of triggering moments, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to check some warnings beforehand.

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Half Bad (Half Bad Trilogy #1) by Sally Green | Book Review

I finally read #HalfBad by @sa11eGreen and I was not ready for how intense this book is. #YANovels #BookReview #UrbanFantasy

Wanted by no one.Hunted by everyone. Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the…

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W A T C H I N G

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Saint Maud (2020)

Director - Rose Glass, Cinematography - Ben Fordesman

"Never waste your pain."

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Time 08-Oct-2020 18:00 Day Thursday Where Cineworld - Northampton Screen 9 Seat J9 Price £9.20

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royal shakespeare company → plays [2/?]

the provoked wife (2019)

no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

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This is one that I was glad to finally see. It was one of more anticipated films from last year, so I was glad to finally get to see this. I did see the trailer, which I normally don't do. My expectations were pretty high coming in and it met what I wanted from it. Have you seen Saint Maud yet? What did you think?

[earlyspringtranscendence]

I feel insane

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The Trial of the Angry Brigade by G. White ♦️ BBC Radio 4 (2002)

If you want to hear Tom only then start from 18:00 and 44:00

The Angry Brigade were a group of young anarchists who planted a series of explosives in Britain in the late 1970s. This dramatisation marked the 30th anniversary of their controversial trial, which became the longest in British criminal court history.

Duration: 59 minutes

Director: Peter Kavanagh Narrator: Juliet Stevenson Cdr Bond: Kenneth Cranham

Ian: Mark Strong John Matthew: Gerard McDermott Sgt Davies: Tamer Hassan Howard: Ian Masters John Barker: Tom Hiddleston Anna: Helen Longworth Hilary: Fiona Clarke James: Carl Prekopp

Broadcasted on August 9, 2002. All rights go to BBC Radio and all its contributors.

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Transcript of part of Audible interview with author RR Haywood, discussing Colin Morgan’s narration of The Worldship Humility

(The interviewer is Robin Morgan-Bentley, and the author’s first name is Richard. The entire interview is available as a free download here)

Robin: So, last I want to talk about the audio edition. This is available exclusively in audio.

Richard: Yes.

Robin: Do you think that there’s something about it that listening to it that people may not have got if they were reading it?

Richard: Yeah, definitely, yeah. For a start, Colin Morgan’s narrating it!

Robin: Yeah, what a kid, eh?

Richard: Ah, unbelievable! He’s so fantastic! And I wrote the opening...prologue I guess it’s called, with Kristy Carter? So that was one of the last things, that was an addition right at the end. We had the final draft done but, “I’m still not happy with that opening,” you know? So I ended up adding that prologue with Kristy Carter and was like, “Yeah, that’s it. Perfect.” And then hearing Colin Morgan narrate that in the voice of Kristy Carter when you sent the audio file through was, “Wow! Whoa, that’s just so good!”

Robin: Yeah, that was his very first...it was his first audiobook and it’s his first day of recording--

Richard: Really!? Wow.

Robin: Yeah, it was pretty good. Yeah, and he’s such a perfectionist. He actually, on his last day, said, “I want to go back and do the first chapter again--”

Richard: --Really?--

Robin: --”...because I think I can do it even better.”

Richard: Brilliant. That’s something special.

Robin: Yeah.

Richard: I’ve been lucky with narrators. Joe Jameson on the Undead is just fantastic. The poor--there’s so many characters in that series. Carl Prekopp with the Extracted is just brilliant. And now again, I think, with Colin I’ve been exceptionally lucky to get, you know, a really talented narrator that’s just going to add such a level of depth to that story. And I’ll come in as the writer and sort of...in my head I’ve got an idea of the character and how they speak, how they interact, how they’re nuanced. But here, you’ve got a trained actor translate that, how they perceive them, is just brilliant.

Robin: I think what’s great is that I really got the sense of Colin that he really loved the book and he really engaged with the material, and that happens when there’s a real connection which from the narrator with the text that that’s what makes a really special audiobook. So I think you’re going to be loving the finished product when we finally, rapidly, quickly, get it edited and out for everyone to hear.

Richard: I can’t wait!

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children's short stories audiobooks : Half Bad by Sally Green | Kids

Listen to Half Bad new releases children's short stories audiobooks on your iPhone, iPad, or Android. Get any AUDIOBOOK by Sally Green Kids FREE during your Free Trial

Written By: Sally Green Narrated By: Carl Prekopp Publisher: Listening Library (Audio) Date: March 2014 Duration: 8 hours 36 minutes

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tallsaint replied to your post “im like so fucking obsessed with audiobooks that i cannot for the LIFE...”

I loooove really long audiobooks do you have any recs for good ones that are 15/20+ hrs long?

oh do i ?????

i think the longest one ive listened to is about 24/25 hrs and its warbreaker by brandon sanderson (would rec the audiobook, but if u dont wanna dish out ur money brandon sanderson actually has warbreaker as a free pdf on his website right here (and if u doubly dont wanna dish out ur money but u still wanna listen to it pm me and i’ll get u the link where i listened to it) narrated by james yaegashi, who if i recall correctly is a very big celeb with audiobook fanatics

the one that i read most recently which was either just under 15 hrs or just 15 hrs was the binding by bridget collins read by carl prekopp and my friend kat can attest to this but i am absolutely head over heels in love with this narrator, he usually does audio dramas and plays and you can tell in the way he manipulates his voice. also ! big bonus, sheffield accent for a country boy! absolutely LOVE when narrators have specific accents or ways they speak

also the rook by daniel o’malley, read by susan duerden, pretty good book, liked the narrating alright, honestly this is a bit of a meh for me cause theres parts i really like a lot and then didnt like a lot of the other things but def worth a try!

then mandatory magicians mention, all three books are around 16 hours, highly recommend mark bramhalls narrating although at one point he does an australian accent and if you have an ear for that sort of this ive read that he doesnt do it very well, also, he pronounces words like white like hwite, bob ross style, so you see whether u find it endearing or annoying! books written by lev grossman (also u can find these on youtube so yay free books)

skyward by brandon sanderson, read by suzy jackson, 15 hrs, FANTASTIC narration, the kind where it doesn’t jump out at you how good the narrating is until you have to go back to something else, really i couldn’t reccomend this enough especially since a problem i have often with ya is that the narrating just isn’t good enough in my opinion, and i love this one cause its a good ya book with narrating where u can hear that the narrator is putting emotion into what she’s saying, LOVE this book!

the night circus by erin morgenstern is 13 hours and 40 minutes BUT its narrated by jim dale so rly im doing u a favour mentioning it even tho its not what u wanted :////// jdhfgj yeah no listen to this its very great

Oh also just remembered six of crows the audible full cast production I think that's like 20 hrs but I could be very wrong

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‘Historic Evening (Soir Historique)’

The Musical Contest c.1754, by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

"'What I like about music', said John Ashbery (1927–2017), 'is its ability to … carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities … I would like to do this in poetry.' This affinity for musical rather than rational structures (he once said he wanted to produce a poem 'that the critic cannot even talk about”) is one of the qualities that made Ashbery well suited to translate the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891), especially the prose poems of Illuminations which, in a TLS review of Ashbery’s versions published in 2011, Edmund White compared to 'a musical score meant only to be read'. In what he called Rimbaud’s 'disordered collection of magic lantern slides', Ashbery discovered the prototype of 'absolute modernity', that is, 'the simultaneity of all of life, the condition that nourishes poetry at every second'. ..."

TLS

2008 May: Arthur Rimbaud, 2010 November: Arthur Rimbaud - 1, 2012 October: Patti Smith: Poem about Arthur Rimbaud (Subtitulado), 2012 December: Writers’ Houses Gives You a Virtual Tour of Famous Authors’ Homes, 2013 August: Arthur Rimbaud Documentary, 2013 November: julian peters comics - The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud, 2014 June: In Which We Begin To Roar With Laughter At Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud, 2015 May: Illuminations - Arthur Rimbaud (John Ashbery - 1875), 2016 March: Rimbaud in New York, 2016 December: The Photography of Poet Arthur Rimbaud (1883), A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud (Robert Wyatt, Carl Prekopp, Elizabeth Purnell, 2009), 2019 September: A Rebel French Poet Draws New Followers to the Hometown, 2019 December: 127 years after his death, letters of love and angst still come to Rimbaud’s grave.

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royal shakespeare company → plays [3/?]

venice preserved (2019)

dear revenge, whene’er thou call’st i’m ready.

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Introducing, Jeremy Fetch...

Jeremy is a character in William Congreve’s Love for Love (1695).  As the protagonist’s (Valentine) servant, he often jokes about wishing to be released from his contract. Jeremy feels himself to be above servant status and mentions twice that he has been “at Cambridge” (albeit as a servant) and has picked up some education from his master there. Valentine confides in him and uses him to advance his plans. In the first act, he is quite impudent to Valentine, making fun of him and even criticizing his master’s refusal to pay his debts. In act 4, though, it is Jeremy who is the intermediary between Valentine and the people to whom Valentine wishes to appear insane. Jeremy’s purported intelligence and education are generally undercut by the other characters, who scoff at his pretense. In a scene not depicted on stage, we learn that Jeremy is quite clever, indeed: he tricks Tattle and Mrs. Frail into marrying each other, when they both were attempting to trick others into marrying them (Tattle sought Angelica’s hand, while Mrs. Frail pursued Ben).

A history of dress...

1700’s Meanswear At the beginning of the 18th century the male silhouette differed greatly from that of today. A typical outfit consisted of a full-skirted knee-length coat, knee breeches, a vest or long waistcoat (which could be sleeved), a linen shirt with frills and linen underdrawers. Lower legs showed and were an important part of the silhouette. Men wore silk stockings and leather shoes with stacked heels of low or medium height. The whole ensemble would have been topped by a shoulder-length full-bottomed wig and a tricorne (three-cornered) hat with an upturned brim.

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As the century progressed, the male silhouette slowly changed. By the middle of the century the wig was usually tied back (known as the tye or bag wig). By the end of the century it was out of fashion altogether except for the most formal occasions. Undergarments and knee breeches did not change very much. Coat skirts gradually became less full and the front was cut in a curved line towards the back. Waistcoats became shorter. The upper leg began to show more and more and by the end of the century breeches fitted better because they were often made of knitted silk. Shoes became low-heeled with pointed toes and were fastened with a detachable buckle and straps or ribbon on the vamp (the upper front part of a boot or shoe).

1. Costume design for Jeremy Fetch by Jeanetta Cochrane. Production date unknown. Image courtesy of CSM Museum & Study Collection.

2. Carl Prekopp as Jeremy Fetch, Swan Theatre (2015/16).

3. Chad Bradford as Jeremy Fetch, American Shakespeare Centre (2016).

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“my heart contracted”