TU ME RENDS FOU

Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson in “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”

The Piano Teacher (2001)

[Text id] :- All this palm reading was just an excuse to hold your hand.

— François Mauriac, tr. by Gerard Hopkins, from The Loved and the Unloved

Mary Frey, Catcher, 2014 as part of the Satan Ceramics show

Chora, Patmos, Dodecanese, Greece, 2016

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Villa Cimbrone, Ravello, Italy, photo by Luigi Tramontano

Evening bodice, 1884-86, USA.

Asako Narahashi: Kawaguchiko (2003)

If you haven't seen any, good, and I'll just say that they aren't even all epics, they just concluded everything needed to be a 189 minute roadshow to be a serious movie since that was the business model (actually the business model fell apart hard years before they started to abandon it, but). Musicals, comedies, movies for children. There's one whose entire premise is "fish-out-of-water comedy about a guy visiting L.A. and stumbling through various celebrity cameo comedy sketches" and it's three hours long. Two and a half hour long cowboy musicals. What a baffling time