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Je chante au rythme de ta douce respiration

C'est le printemps, ça seraparce que je t'aime

Une étoile tombe, mais dit moi où nous sommes

Que tantn'importe? ça sera je t'aime

Et vole, vole ça se sait

Toujours plus haut ou on va

Etvole vole avec moi

Le monde est fou parce que

Et si l'amour n'est pas là il suffitd'une seule chanson pour faire de la confusion

à l'extérieur et à l'intérieur de toi

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Hannigram

[farttherapy]

This cinematography is wild.

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In today’s installment of Nobody Is Moving On™️ ✨🍑✨

[drneilfox]

The Cinematologists: Season 6 Underway

Wow, it's been so long since I updated here. I know, I know, for shame to start a blog post with that line, but my lack must be noted.

We finished the last season with episode 50, which felt like a real milestone and gave us a chance to assess where the podcast is and can go. We did this over dinner this summer, which was lovely.

There have been some small changes here and there - I overhauled the website and am currently working on some designs for merchandise. We are introducing some bonus episodes with the longer term aim of having a membership/patreon section. I am also now editing the episodes (so please bear with us while that smoothes out). 

Earlier this year I worked with a colleague at SoFT, Richard Butler to acquire a recording suite, which fits in an easy to carry box and means I am now mobile and can record events solo, anywhere, practically. Again, you might need to bear with us on that as I get it really streamlined. 

Highlights of the last season in terms of interviews and collaborations for me include my chat with the wonderful Lenny Abrahamson, Dario's episode with Hope Dickson Leach and our collaboration with the collective Club Des Femmes, which yielded an incredible chat with B. Ruby Rich that Dario conducted. 

Curzon Aldgate also invited us to do an event and episode around Aki Kaurismäki's latest The Other Side Of Hope, which may be my favourite film of the year so far.

The new season is underway and I am particularly excited to share our in-depth interview episode covering the contemporary state of film criticism. So far we have some amazing interviews with amazing writers and critics. It's going to be amazing.

Catch up here.

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We’ve got Great news! #TheGreatBuster: A Celebration is about to have it’s UK Blu-Ray & DVD release this coming Monday 21st September! The cinematic release was sadly cut short due to the pandemic but there were some preview showings.  One of these included a Q&A with famous fan, Paul Merton interviewed by our very own David Macleod & is included as a special feature!

And there is still chance to see it on the big screen on September 29th at the Genesis Cinema, London - plus a Q&A with Silent London’s Pamela Hutchinson - genesiscinema.co.uk

And there’s more! Director Peter Bogdanovich is on the The Cinematologists podcast Friday Sept 18th - cinematologists.com for previous episodes.

Big thanks to Screenbound Pictures for being as relentless as Buster Keaton himself in making this all happen <3

[criterionfilms]

This week The Cinematologist is digging into Ari Aster’s follow up to Hereditary - Midsommar (2019) and critiquing its role in the modern film culture.

[birthword]

Fun and educational

Bizarre cinematologist Joan Birthword and lackey Igor Daniel Janesdaughter  switch genders to dive deep and discover esoteric symbology in ancient television programs starring favorite actors from lovable old TV shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Maybe you never recognized the lessons embedded in TJ Hooker, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Emergency, Hawaii Five-O and Tales of Tomorrow. Learn your biology! Learn psychoanalysis! Learn to love yourself!

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Old Hollywood Bloopers ~

I need moar!!!! 🤣

[theam-cjsw]

October 12, 2020: On Gratitude

Listen on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theamcjsw/the-am-monday-october-12-2020

Stream on CJSW.com: https://cjsw.com/program/the-a-m/episode/20201012/

About an hour into this week’s episode I tried to put together some thoughts I’ve been having about Thanksgiving’s complicated past and the importance of gratitude, and because I don’t think it quite came together, I wanted to try again here. Hopefully you’ll indulge the non-musical digression.

First of all, for a bit on the history of Canadian Thanksgiving, this Macleans piece offers a well-written summary. The short of it is, there isn’t a single clear point of origin, and there are connections to indigenous harvest celebrations, Puritan days of Thanksgiving, Christian proselytizing, broken treaties, and self-serving myths, all of which make unquestioningly celebrating the holiday a difficult thing to do.

On the other hand, a day devoted to gratitude, separate from the history of Canadian and American Thanksgiving, is a good, healthy, and maybe even essential thing. Kahsto’sera’a Paulette Moore and Tehahenteh Frank Miller write in great detail about the importance of gratitude in their culture (both describe themselves as Kanyen’kehaka Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory), and although a few things from that piece struck me, what hit me deepest was the notion of gratitude as a redemptive and reconnective practice.

They describe a dark time in their culture's history, where they were at war with each other and disconnected from their lands, which was only overcome after they were reminded of the gift of gratitude. “Our ancient practice of thanksgiving saved us time and again from the devastation of a world out of balance,” they write. “We were fearful and greedy, hoarding resources and extracting life and energy... Over time we were able to achieve what seemed impossible; we re-engaged simple acts of thanks, which led to healed relationships. Eventually we united as the people known as Rotinonhsyón:ni/Iroquois – a confederacy that remains the oldest participatory democracy on Earth.”

On the BBC News this morning, there was a report on a study promising a bleak future for humanity if we (meaning the world, but really meaning industrial nations) continue on the path we’re on. It was an eerily direct echo of Moore and Miller’s writing of their Nation’s past before rediscovering gratitude and the connections it nurtures. As in their example, practicing gratitude won't be an instant fix—it's an ongoing practice that leads to incremental change—but it may be at least part of the answer.

I ended this week’s episode by trying to show some of the gratitude that I feel for my community and the land I live on—and found it was surprisingly awkward to do. Expressing gratitude is vulnerable and bringing it up on air felt hokey, and somehow embarrassing. Afterwards I tried to figure out why that was, and I think it’s because it cuts against the grain of self-sufficiency that’s so deeply inherent in Western culture. To understand how, it helps to think about when you do and don't express gratitude. You don’t say thank you for something you did for yourself, so to be grateful for something is to say that you are dependent, or even subservient to whatever provided it. You don’t say thank you for things that are inevitable, so gratitude is a reminder that the things we value most are contingent and temporary. Both of those are vulnerable admissions. Gratitude also implies a debt of sorts, although not in the same sense that a bank loan creates a debt, where there’s an obligation to repay exactly what was given. That's a transaction, and we don’t really feel gratitude for transactions, for bank loans or purchases where we spend an amount equal to what we received. But it’s not about getting more than we put in, either. We don’t feel gratitude just because we got the better deal. Instead it seems to be about the relationship a gesture implies, and the obligation it creates isn’t to even the accounts, it’s to create more gratitude, by doing the sorts of things that others can be grateful for. In that way, the debt gratitude creates isn't owed to any one person, it's owed to everyone—and when repaid, it grows exponentially. One last though. Last month I was on the Sunshine Coast in BC, and there was a hiking path I walked on at least three different days. Every time, it was jaw-droppingly beautiful. The last time I walked it, as I was leaving, I felt the need to thank the path for those experiences--to literally say thank you to the woods for the beauty and calm it had given me. I don’t believe there was anything there, spiritual or otherwise, that could hear me and understand what I was saying. I did it because I liked the relationship it created between me and that place. Rituals of gratitude are about connection, but they’re also about your own internal attitudes, and the relationship you want to have to the world. And because of that, Thanksgiving—the concept, if not the holiday—is one of the most profound rituals we have.

Playlist is below, if you’re curious.

Hour One:

City of Mountains Various Artists, featuring Christa Belle • AUDIO: An Experimental Noise Compilation

Dream Rain Stilz, Ian Urbina • Forgotten Shores

Nashville Various Artists, featuring Ryan Hemsworth • EVER NEW

Cholorophyl Sunset Proxima Psychoacoustics • Kaznmward

Friends in Secret CRi • Juvenile

Long Road Home Oneohtrix Point Never • Drive Time Suite

Landstrasse 2020 Hainbach • Assertion

An Elephant on Your Eyelid The World Next Door • Single

Search for Peace Various Artists, featuring Ishmael Ensemble • Blue Note Re:Imagined

Thank U Malcolm Flying Lotus • Flamagra

Streetlights Buildings and Food • Up Down Strange Charm

Theme from the Cinematologists Gwenno • Podcast theme

Taking the Present for Granted (Traffik Island mix) Bananagun • Single

Hour Two:

Rivers That You Cannot See North Americans • Roped In

Thank You Brainstory • Buck

Stop and Listen Peter Broderick • Blackberry

All That Love in Your Heart Bastien Keb, featuring Claudia Kane • The Killing of Eugene Peeps

Heavy Metal Cindy Lee • What's Tonight To Eternity

Breathe SUUNS, featuring Jerusalem In My Heart • Fiction EP

Sleep Godspeed You! Black Emperor • Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Hour Three:

Brokenhead Zoon • Bleached Wavves

Sequel Various Artists • AUDIO: An Experimental Noise Compilation

Corsican Shores Deradoorian • Find The Sun

Never the Bride Raf Wilcot • Cinnabar Bouquet

Avalanche The Notwist • Ship

Radiation Various Artists, featuring Dark Time • The Sled Island Lemonade Stand Vol. 1 & 2

Ocean City Gunn-Truscinski Duo • Soundkeeper

Sunlight is Collecting On My Face Dixie's Death Pool • The Man With Flowering Hands

The Uncertainty Principle Heliocentrics • A World of Masks

Sweet Path Janko Nilovic, The Soul Surfers • Maze of Sounds

Awoke in the Early Days of a Better World Andrew Wasylyk • Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation

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qué ricooooo! 💪🏽 big thank you to the awesome #QUERICO music video crew! @silash @catdeakins @cinematologist & Alex 🎯🍰💙🔥

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What Wins Oscars? Award Show Analysis | The Cinematologist

Hollywood is stuck in a corner in how they select their Oscars. Let's discuss!

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The Cinematologists: Season 4 Review

As we speak plans are in motion for season 5 of the podcast and we are working through a couple of special episodes in the meantime.

Season 4 was a really strong one, even if the birth of my daughter and Dario's bicycle accident meant it was a bit shorter than normal. We were really pleased with the calibre of guests we were able to source for the interview segments and felt our rapport and confidence really started to come into its own. The audience were brilliant too and we are delighted that we finally got to kick off a partnership with the wonderful Filmhouse cinema in Newlyn.

The films screened and discussed this season were Memento, Before Sunrise, Lost In Translation, The War Room and Gremlins. There's also a year-end round up where Dario and I discuss the year in film.

http://www.cinematologists.com/podcastarchive/

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Evolving her style from Spice World to #NewYorkFashionWeek was no small task, and over the past two decades @victoriabeckham has served up plenty of iconic #fashion moments. Watch her reflect on those memorable looks... 🎶🎵 Director | @ggggbone DP | @cinematologist Gaffer | @cinemahebrero Sound | @phforandafter Editor | @savannafair https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqesx0mhylX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dcvxvl3ywa0l

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Cinestate is the Future of Cinema

This week LowRes, The Cinematologist, and CLASH Books managing editor Christoph Paul discuss Cinestate bringing the art of filmmaking out of Hollywood, their merger with Fangoria, and the implications of it on independent publishing. 

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