Saturday, September 16, 2017

First Lines: Sax Rohmer - The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu


"A gentleman to see you, Doctor."

Daphne Guinness


ph: Markus & Koala

A day in the life, Sep 12


A day in the life, Sep 12, objet trouvé

Inka Hoeper


Go With Me (2015)


An ex-logger comes to the aid of a woman who returns to her hometown in the Pacific Northwest and finds herself harassed and stalked by a former cop turned crime lord.

Well-made adaptation of the Castle Freeman Jr. novel has an excellent cast and beautiful landscape photography, but is told like a slow-paced, but unremarkable modern-day Western abandoning the more complex and ambiguous plot of the book.

Suki Alice Waterhouse


New Stuff: When a Stranger Calls


Friday, September 15, 2017

Audrey Marnay


The A-Team (2010)


A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

The movie manages to recreate the TV series not-so-serious tone and does entertain in that fashion, but is weighed down by over-the-top (and expensive) pyrotechnics.

Maltin**1/2: "A B movie tricked out with big-budget production values...Neeson establishes the seriocomic tone with self-mocking sass and steely-eyed authority. Overdone, to be sure, but surprisingly entertaining."

Who's That Girl?


Sixties mod girls

Art: Lu Kimmel

Diana Moldovan


Window faces


Regensburg, September 2017

Yvonne Strahovski


A day in the life, Sep 11


A day in the life, Sep 11, objet trouvé

Mila Krasnoiarova


ph: Takahiro Ogawa

New York


Jersey City Water Front, circa 1911

Magdalena Frackowiak


First Lines: William Hope Hodgson - The Night Land


"And I cannot touch her face And I cannot touch her hair, And I kneel to empty shadows - Just memories of her grace; and her voice sings in the winds And in the sobs of dawn And among the flowers at night And from the brooks at sunrise And from the sea at sunset, And I answer with vain callings..."

Jennifer Connelly


A day in the life, Sep 10


A day in the life, Sep 10, objet trouvé

Sunniva Wahl


ph: Ash Kingston

Thursday, September 14, 2017

New Stuff: The Wire


Nathalie Sorrell


ph: Charlie Engman

Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)


Werner Herzog examines the past, present and future of the Internet and how it affects human interaction and modern society.

Typically for its director this exploration of digital technology is more essay than documentary crisscrossing the topic from seemingly random angles, but nonetheless presenting some astounding insights. 

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Lindsey Wixson


ph: Zeng Wu & Paolo Zagoreo

New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Chris Ware)

Who's That Girl?


Plunging Necklines, 1949. Photograph by Nina Leen, colorization by Metacolor

Photographer: Kim Holtermand


Find more at:

http://www.holtermand.dk

Helga Hitko




A day in the life, Sep 9


A day in the life, Sep 9, windfall

Janelle Monae


ph: Aaron Smith

New York


New York City by Alfred Statler, 1950s

Scarlett Johansson


First Lines: H. Rider Haggard - Marie


My dear Sir Henry, -
Nearly thirty-seven years have gone by, more than a generation, since first we saw the shores of Southern Africa rising from the sea.

Claudia Schiffer


ph: Tom Munro

A day in the life, Sep 8


A day in the life, Sep 8, fence

Gemma Refoufi


New Stuff: The Big Bang Theory


Damaris Goddrie


ph: Sarah Moon

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Into the Abyss (2011)


Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.

Gripping and in-depth study that manages to analyze this difficult issue without bias.

On renewed: again amazed how Werner Herzog manages to deliver an equally personal as well as  unbiased study.

Audrey Hepburn


New Stuff: Neil Young



Who's That Girl?


Marilyn Monroe look-a-like competition in Hastings, UK, circa 1958

Art: Vladimir Tatlin

Ilda Lindqvist


A day in the life, Sep 7


A day in the life, Sep 7, yellow grapes