Michael Ewins
@E_Film_Blog
Histoire(s) du cinephiles des follies. Writing about Akerman, tweeting about Keanu.
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Chantal Akerman: 10 Essential Films. I wrote this for @BFI, before NO HOME MOVIE is released on Friday: bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/n…
here he is reading the excerpt about commodity fetishism at some event or another, it's one of my favorite things anyone's written about marx ever.
Wallace Shawn is trending, so it's a great time to read The Fever. It's a beautifully written monologue of the experience of being in the intelligentsia/middle class of the imperial core, and coming to terms with what that means for your way of life. Listen to an audiobook.
I'm months behind on new music - too many other commitments - but I've liked so many recommendations for this that I had to make space for it this morning. You were all right. joannerobertson.bandcamp.com/album/blurrr
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Blurrr, by Joanne Robertson
"Sometimes, to write on a bookmark is to admit the insufficiency of the book. Not in the sense that the book lacks something, but in that it cannot contain the whole of what it stirs. Reading spills." A lovely, intimate piece. Make time to read slowly, spend time in the small.
For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal: On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks. draughtjournal.com/article/on-boo…
I’m looking for more experimental/literary texts about Marilyn Monroe that study her away from the traditional movie biogs, closer to the person we see in her “Fragments.” The Carson and Rose books pictured are good examples of what I’m looking for. Thank you.
Maurice Blanchot, born on this day, “offering you a mirror for your perfect nothingness, for your shadows which are neither light nor absence of light, for this void which contemplates.”
Starting this morning. My first full Jabès (read scattered poems).
I'm looking - always - for more books like these. Offerings of embarrassments, abasements, foibles, as rituals, incantations, presents. Experimental in form (I think they have to be?), excoriating, self-excavating in content. Nothing less than a total inside-outing.
I translated this passage of Natalia Ginzburg many years ago, and now I would do a better job, but what she says is truer than ever:
One of Farber’s best paragraphs
Goya, "Boy Frightened by a Ghost" (1823-1824)
What are the best books, essays, poems, that deal with ghosts philosophically, or advance a theory of ghosts beyond the usual fuddy superstition and tropes? (and no hauntology please, not that I’m against it) I’m looking for something really against the known grain.
New Susan Howe in September! I need to quit my job for three months to get through this autumn’s publishing schedule.
A great essay for those of us attempting to come to terms with what could have been and what ended up being lareviewofbooks.org/article/much-l…
john ashbery reading at the living theater in 1963: media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/auth…
This looks like THE HUMAN SURGE 3.
I feel like the screenshots of the "The Wizard of Oz at Sphere" do NOT do justice to how absolutely terrible it looks in motion. Watching how this is edited/moves to get to that Neil Breen-ass background is so much worse than whatever you're picturing in your head:
Superb passage. Fleur Jaeggy's "These Possible Lives" and Javier Marías's "Written Lives" are excellent in this form.
From Quentin Bell's life of Ruskin, and a perfect example of why I love concise biographies as opposed to doorstoppers (although I love doorstoppers too):
I can’t wait to read this. I’m sure he’s been working on the book for a lot longer, but given that he interviewed Rosmarie Waldrop for the Fall 2024 Paris Review, and signs of his intro with this note for Keith, I wouldn’t be surprised if their presence looms over this book.
This is the premise for Ben Lerner's next novel, which is supposed to be out in April 2026
performance idea from Linda Montano's The Art/Life Institute Handbook
I’m only a few chapters in, but Jennifer Doyle’s Hold It Against Me is one of the best books I’ve read this year. She’s specifically talking about the risks in staging and reciprocating intimate performance/body art, but its critical method would be useful to any artist/critic.
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