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RIP Robby Muller – Cinematographer for Jarmusch, Wenders, Schroeder, & L.V. Trier
July 4th, 2018
(via Mubi on twitter)
Robby Müller, Cinematographer for Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier, Dead at 78
R.I.P. Robby Müller. “When I choose to work on a film, the most important thing to me is that it is about human feelings. I try to work with directors who want their films to touch the audience, & make people discuss what the film was about long after they have left the cinema. (Film Society tweeted)
Mystery Train – Jim Jarmusch
I don’t know what this life is about. I thought I did for a long time, but now I have no idea.
I am not even sure if it matters what we do while we are here. But I think it is something to leave behind as much love and beauty as is possible.
Robby Muller has died.
If there is anyone who surpasses him as far as leaving beauty behind, I have no idea who that could be.
He was a true artist. John Lurie on Facebook July 4, 2018
Buena Vista Social Club 
Coffee and Cigarettes – Cate Blanchet in two roles.
Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves (directed by Lars Von Trier)
Ken Russell, Kafka and Tom Stoppard Born on July 3.
July 3rd, 2018
Ken Russell July 3rd, 1927 (The Mad music lover – previous post)
(Robert Crumb – Introducing Kafka)
Kafka Imagining (previous post)
Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard photographed by Arnold Newman
Both Tom Stoppard and Franz Kafka were born in Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic today).
Patrick Morell – Filmmaker, Documentaries, & Travels
June 29th, 2018
Patrick Morell Filmmaker, Documentaries, Taravels and more.
Happy birthday!
Interview – on books – Proust, Thomas Wolfe, Genet, August Wilson, Philip Roth etc.
Lawrence of Arabia. From Lawrence Book. The 7 pillars of wisdom. Big influence. I took a nap under his Rock in the desert of Wadi Rum, at the order and border of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. – Patrick Morell
Wellfleet. Massachussetts
Patrick Morell –Golden Rabbit films LLC
Patrick’s #1 inspiration was Louis Malle’s most personal film, Phantom of India .
Uummannaq. Western Greenland.
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Photo by Patrick Morell
Donald Hall – Work, Love, Build a House and Die – (1928-2018)
June 25th, 2018
(Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon)
The joy and tragedy of his life were his years with Kenyon, his second wife. They met in 1969, when she was his student at the University of Michigan. By the mid-’70s, they were married and living together at Eagle Creek, fellow poets enjoying a fantasy of mind and body — of sex, work and homemaking.
“We sleep, we make love, we plant a tree, we walk up and down/eating lunch,” he wrote.
Donald Hall, Who Gave His Life to Work and Eros.
He was also very funny and very particular (“I love chicken salad, egg salad as long as it has onion, turkey and salami. I don’t like tuna”). The horrors of antiquity—a “black fatigue,” congestive heart failure, “a hundred and fifty colonoscopies,” walking more slowly with his “rollator,” falling down, the loss of words—did not exclude joy and love.
New Yorker -Between Solitude and Loneliness (Hall’s short Story)
“Work, love, build a house, and die,” he wrote. “But build a house.” – Donald Hall
Often compared favorably with such writers as James Dickey, Robert Bly, and James Wright, Hall used simple, direct language to evoke surrealistic imagery. In addition to his poetry, Hall built a respected body of prose that includes essays, short fiction, plays, and children’s books. Hall, who lived on the New Hampshire farm he visited in summers as a boy, was also noted for the anthologies he has edited and is a popular teacher, speaker, and reader of his own poems.
Nusch Eluard, René Char & Cafe Society -2018
June 21st, 2018
Nusch Eluard
The combustive Nusch Eluard Born: June 21, 1906
René Char – Lucidity is the Wound Closest to the Sun
René Char with Picasso 
Protesting with Picasso on the heights of the Mont Ventoux against the nuclear installations.
obéissez à vos cochons qui existent;
j’obéis à mes dieux qui n’existent point.obey your pigs who exist;
I obey my gods who do not.
Coffee & Cigarettes, Cafe Society
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Simone de Beauvoir – Paris with Sartre, Chicago with Nelson Algren.
(Picasso, Beauvoir, Sartre, Camus and Picasso’s dog)
Fotos of R. Crumb by H. Benson & G. Cooper by Robert Capa
June 16th, 2018
Robert Crumb 1968, photo by Harry Benson
Robert Crumb, Birthday Bean Effect (previous post)
Gary Cooper photo by Robert Capa
Happy Father’s day!
Being There – Jerzy Kosinski, Hal Ashby & Peter Sellers
June 14th, 2018Kosinski 
Photo via Jerzy Kosinski
Who was Jerzy Kosinski? (Previous post)
Jerzy Kosinski was born on June 14, 1933. He was an award-winning Polish-American novelist, best known for the novels The Painted Bird (1965) and Being There (1971), the latter of which was adapted into a film in 1979.
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Hal Ashby directed Being There.
Philip Roth on Jerzy Kosinski –
In the end, I don’t understand Jerzy Kosinski. At some level, he must have judged his life as successful. Using his talent, wits, boldness and determination, he went far, if you consider the boy growing up under the most menacing of shadows. Was he happy? There is so much darkness in his novels, I wonder how much brightness there was in his life (inside him, in the place he kept hidden). I am left with a sense of pity, which I’m sure he would not want me to feel. He would prefer respect. And I can grant him that.
Jerzey
David Foster Wallace described Steps as a “collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that’s like nothing else anywhere ever”. Wallace continued in praise: “Only Kafka’s fragments get anywhere close to where Kosiński goes in this book, which is better than everything else he ever did combined.
Frida Escobedo – Mexican Architect -Serpentine Pavilion 2018
June 11th, 2018
Serpentine Pavilion 2018 – Woven Tapestry Concrete Tiles
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has completed this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, a secluded courtyard framed by decorative, latticed walls.
Located outside the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London, Escobedo’s pavilion features walls of concrete roofing tiles, a curving mirrored ceiling and a shallow, triangular pool of water.
El Eco Pavilion Mexico City
See more from here, Photo by Rafael Gamo
Bye & Thank you Anthony Bourdain – Parts We’ve Known
June 8th, 2018
(Anthony Bourdain with Palestinian children)
Anthony Bourdain’s Boundless Curiosity Was an Inspiration
Three Brief Encounters with Anthony Bourdain
Paris Review (What Bourdain thought about Hunter Thompson?)
Why Shooting Parts Unknown was a Cinematic Dream.
With Christopher Doyle, and Asia Argento here.
Parts Unknown – Lagos Sneak peek
(via)
If I had to eat in one city for the rest of my life, I would probably pick Tokyo because it’s just so deep with delicious and crazy stuff to enjoy. I love the food; it’s fairly low impact — just a good bowl of ramen or a good izakaya for some yakitori [grilled chicken skewers] would make me very happy in Tokyo.
The Atlantic – Anthony Bourdain’s extreme empathy
Under the Volcano, The Farmers and Punkdaydreamers in Bali
June 4th, 2018
(Photos by Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen)
The noise of single hearts battles noise of society in media … whilst the volcano is just there, and so also this farmer. Together they collaps into a fiercely peacefulness that no western journalist or her editor can accept.
When Pieter Bruegel painted his “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus”, did he leave us with an accusation, metaphorically, represented by that farmer who seems to ignore the scenario he is captured within? (via Citizen 5 )
Punk Daydream (Lamuna-oi)
World Premier of this film at Edinburgh Film Festival. (June 24, 2018)
See more photos from previous post.
(Øivind Klungseth Zahlsen did some steadycam work in Bandung’s toxic environments back in January 2014 for this film.”
