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We are FRAGMENTS of FICTION!!!

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Roger Corman explains the reason for casting Vincent Price in 'House of Usher' (1960) & what Price and Corman considered to be 'Horror':

"I chose Vincent Price for 'House of Usher' (1960) first and foremost because I found him smart and distinguished. It also seems to me that Poe described himself or used certain aspects of his own personality in his characters, at the very least those that had a leading role. He never wrote an autobiographical story as such, but often used the first person. And so he was describing himself, if only to a certain point, of course. That is why I wanted an actor who was as smart as he was cultured. And there aren’t too many, to tell the truth, who exhibit these two traits while at the same time looking the part. So it was totally natural for me to choose Vincent because, in addition to bringing a real dignity to his characters, not to mention a great talent for acting in keeping with a given time period, he conferred on them a raw and unaffected authenticity. Certain actors, as good as they may be, are used to acting “modern,” and they have trouble “passing off” a character from the eighteenth or nineteenth century, which Vincent’s flawless theater training overcame.

Furthermore, over the course of several conversations, Vincent and I came to agree that horror comes from the unconscious. In fact, for years we have had this theory, developed little by little over the course of our working together, that horror and fear are two quite distinct things. Horror is in part the reconstruction of childhood fantasies, and in part the anxiety from the world that surrounds us. You always fear someone bigger and stronger than you, who could hurt you, even if it’s in your unconscious. Civilization advances, of course, and that fear is currently transforming into a fear / horror of a superior culture, one that is around us and watching over us, or that comes from a distant past that you can sense and that ordinary people don’t suspect . . . And each time Vincent admirably knew how to express that ancestral fear that spurs horror."

(Roger Corman's interview with Patrick Schupp, 1973)

P.S: On this day, 66 years ago, 'House of Usher' (1960) premiered in Palm Springs, California, USA.

[Joan Burdeus @JoanBurdeus]

Miquel Barceló va passar per Barcelona la setmana passada a dir les coses que diuen els pintors genials, encara sense novetats sobre si serà l'escollit per fer la Façana de la Glòria.

Sobre Miquel Barceló, David Hockney i la glòria, a @nuvol_com

https://t.co/kTJxzfoVrd

[Jordi Graupera @JordiGraupera]

Tenim nova traducció de l'Odissea en català just enmig d'una batalla campal al voltant de la pel·lícula que n'ha fet Nolan i la traducció que ha triat pel guió.

Sembla una batalla entre wokes i nazis, però és més interessant.

N'he fet un reportatge:

https://t.co/O2ER7Qkk6K

[Víctor Riverola i Morera @riverolavic]

Hola Ajuntament de Barcelona. Destrossar la vida de la gent de la Floristería Soriano es un crim. Sou una vergonya.

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

Remembering the legendary film title designer Saul Bass, born on this day in 1920 ❣️With his mesmerizing graphic compositions, Bass transformed opening credits into an art form, collaborating with directors such as Otto Preminger, Hitchcock, Kubrick, and Scorsese.

[Núvol @nuvol_com]

Per a què serveixen les pel·lícules, si no és per a tot això. Per néixer, per jugar, per estimar, per fugir.
https://t.co/oey9USIaH7

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Nobody captured the ritual of the human touch quite like Robert Bresson

[Ultravox Unofficial @UltravoxU]

Ultravox ... Midge Ure at Zentralfriedhof Vienna 1981.

[Figs From Plums @FigsFromPlums]

Studio Feixen

[Samuel J. May @sjmay92]

Remembering Dirk Bogarde ~ The Servant (1963) #botd

[Jordi Graupera @JordiGraupera]

Avui he fet una conferència sobre Frankenstein a la facultat de filosofia. Si us interessa, aquí teniu el text.

https://t.co/XRxr3FA5TM

[Núvol @nuvol_com]

Ferran Palau: «Sempre he tingut por de ser cursi»

El cantautor presenta el seu darrer treball, "Aniversari feliç", un cant a la innocència i la tendresa

Entrevista de Mateu Sagarra amb fotos de Marina Miguel Pavia.
https://t.co/fmFmprfWlj

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

The visionary Yellow Magic Orchestra member and Oscar-winning composer could arguably be called the "Godfather of Techno”

https://t.co/mjrpMLp9Tu

[btv notícies @btvnoticies]

Un quatre mans amb esperit de bar: l’Haití convida la mítica Casa Collado a cuinar de nou

https://t.co/OhJoXKL4Ej

[JukeBox @JukeBoxNonStop]

Roxy Music - More Than This (TOTP 1982)

We didn't have smart phones or internet in the 80s, but man, did we have amazing music... 🎶

[Hollywood Remembered @ridethepastlane]

Kim Novak and James Stewart during the filming of the Alfred Hitchcock film, Vertigo, released in 1958

[Paul Holdengraber @holdengraber]

“Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase.”
~ Marcel Duchamp

📷 Irving Penn (1948)

[🇬🇧📺 Classic British TV 📺🇬🇧 @Classicbritcom]

It's my Vesuvius, my grand finale, Frank Spencer the human volcano 🌋