Smashbomb

"I remember going to my first “gay” film festival in the ’70s, with its tiny newsprint program, folding chairs for the audience, a complete underground experience. I asked my companion, “When do we see a lesbian movie?” Chantal Akerman’s avant-garde jewel was my first. My God, talk about ahead of her time. A proto-punk dyke protagonist, a butch, a whore, an outlaw, the unrepentant seize-fiend of all she sees . . . We still fight for glimpses of such antiheroines in the movies. Julie/Chantal is, regretfully, still a woman on the edge of antipatriarchal time."

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Zero Squared

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Zero Squared is a philosophy podcast from Zero Books. Zero publishes radical philosophy, aesthetics,...

Futurism

Flaminio Gualdoni

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This work focuses on the myth of modernity told through the works of Balla, Depero, Boccioni and...

A Regicide

Alain Robbe-Grillet and John Calder

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Set in an unspecified island kingdom, A Regicide tells the story of the statistician Boris who,...

Rutger Hauer recommended Wings of Desire (1987) in Movies (curated)

Wings of Desire (1987)

1987 | International, Drama, Sci-Fi

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"Wings of Desire, by Wim Wenders. The guy who wrote the screenplay, Peter Handke, is a playwright in Germany, and I was very much a part of reading the avant garde writers, be it plays or novels. I loved his writing, it was so strong and so sharp, and when the film came out, I just loved it. Everything about it was marvelous. Bruno Ganz was so brilliant. He’s brilliant most of the time. On our side of the ocean, let’s say, he was one of our stars, like Redford and Paul Newman and Brando were on that side. I had a few European actors where I went, “They’re so fantastic.”"

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