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[The Paris Review @parisreview]

We at the Review mourn the loss of David Hockney, who died this week at the age of eighty-eight. In memory of his life and work, we’ve unlocked his early “Notes for Illustrations: Grimm’s Fairy Tales” from the archive. https://t.co/D6prCDWbMD

[Asymptote Journal @asymptotejrnl]

Before Amruta Patil's Kari and Malik Sajad's Munnu, there was Marjane Satrapi's Marji.

Arunava Banerjee's tribute traces how Satrapi's signature defiance inspired Indian comics to let the political erupt from the personal, without apology or solemnity. https://t.co/zQ5YUTV5Mr

[Memorïa @deathofmeaning]

Bruno Dumont talks about how museums are the best place to meditate on what an image is

[🌿_ @rebeca6169]

Dusk

I feel my heart melting
in the mildness like candles:
my veins are slow oil
and not wine,
and I feel my life fleeing
hushed and gentle like the gazelle.

― Gabriela Mistral

[Relaa Collective @RelaaCollective]

The poems of the noted Marathi revolutionary poet, Narayan Surve (1926- 2010) in his own voice. http://t.co/qcloChu8Es

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

Marjane Satrapi’s illustrated ode to smoking, 2005, @nytimes

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

As India took its place on the world stage in the 20th century Raghu Rai was there. The photographer, who died last month, at the age of 83, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of the country’s post-colonial evolution. See more of his photos: https://t.co/UioP2YyP9Q

[Devdutt Pattanaik @devduttmyth]

The popular story is that vegetarianism is rooted in compassion. But this compassion does not extend to the forests being destroyed, and tribes being displaced for mines, industries, and gated communities

Read more ...

https://t.co/tl10TYKsuf

[María A. @zarandillo]

"If I were the minister of culture for the world, I would make every student wiser by requiring them to travel to five continents before the age of 18."

Marjane Satrapi.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:

https://t.co/z9eRSlkwQ8

[u t k u tun @utktun]

Far from Vietnam
1967
directed by Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnes Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais
Movie poster designed by Kiroku Higaki

[Ramu Ramanathan @BoodhuRamu]

My tribute to the historian and archaeologist Shereen Ratnagar (1944-2026) in today's Hindustan Times.

A feisty voice. Also the voice of sanity.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

“What kind of pleasure is derived from preventing Muslims from celebrating their festivals peacefully? Will Hindu society ever confront this pathology within itself?” A powerful and moving piece by Professor @Apoorvanand__ :
https://t.co/kMuTjrqnaY

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[RadiantFilm @RadiantFilm]

Paweł Pawlikowski on Loves of a Blonde (1965):

"When I got into documentaries in the mid-eighties, I discovered how you could not just observe but also sculpt reality. This is when I fell in love with the Czech New Wave. So Forman, Passer, Nemec. My favorite film from that era is probably Loves of a Blonde, which looks at the world without an agenda, rhetoric, or plot mechanics, but with lots of empathy and irony. It shows that if you have a good sense of casting and know where to put the camera and when not to cut, the most ordinary things can be lifted into something poetic and timeless."

— "Paweł Pawlikowski's Top 10", The Criterion Collection (2018)

⬇️ Paweł Pawlikowski / Loves of a Blonde.

[VTucker @Thelastlizard_]

Nagisa Oshima on Yukio Mishima's suicide

From The strange case of Yukio Mishima (1985)

[Crusader of Christ ⚔️ @Defendthewest17]

All 13 episodes of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation are available to watch on https://t.co/2YcB1MJkdN

Here's the link
https://t.co/VPsFCN9BmP

[Distracted Film @distractedfilm]

"Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.”

- Jim Jarmusch

"I like turning on two radios at once. I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.”

- Tom Waits

[Omeesh Zøshy @Kavin_07]

Burden of Lies in Majoritarian Hindi Cinema https://t.co/uan7YpVkr8 @TheIndiaForum

[Sabzian @Sabzianbe]

Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up (1990) originated from the article ‘Bogus Makhmalbaf Arrested’ by Hassan Farazman, published in Sorush in autumn 1989. The English translation, including an interview with Hossein Sabzian, can be found on our website. https://t.co/sTKimarnAf