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Have yourselves a merry little Christmas, my... →
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“Irene è la città che si vede a sporgersi dal ciglio dell’altipiano...”
– Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili - Irene “Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on, and in the limpid air, the pink of the settlement can be discerned spread out in the distance below: where the windows are more...
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Top 20 Films of 2011 – Byronic on JunkiePop →
Il classificone dei film dell’anno secondo me, come da tradizione su JunkiePop. Clicca e scopri. [The text is in Italian, but the pictures are in English]
Dec 20th
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I am now one introduction and a very short conclusion away from completing my PhD thesis. I think I’ll pass out.
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“Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nevver)
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“We shall have to adapt ourselves to the shadowy screen and to the cold machine....”
– Leo Tolstoy discussing cinema with Isaak Teneromo in August 1908, as reported in the New York Times on January 31st 1937. The article also reports that Tolstoy was planning to write “a play for the screen” likely to have “a terrible and bloody theme.” I really rather wish...
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'The Artist': This is your brain on silent films  →
ecantwell: I love the brain. “If we were able to record your brain while you watch a silent movie, we would see your auditory cortex activate, even though there’s not a single sound that impacts your eardrum,” said Kaspar Meyer, research assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California’s Brain and Creativity Institute. “There’s a creative process involved. The brain...
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Reasons to love Emma Thompson, part 1273: The...
frauleindrosselmeyer: Extracts from Emma Thompson’s diaries while shooting Sense and Sensibility, from ‘The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries,’ a rather wonderful book I just happened to find - in English - at the back of a second-hand shop near Rorschach. Okay I know it’s possibly my favourite book and movie ever but still… TUESDAY 18 APRIL: We discussed the ‘novelisation’...
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Would you like to exchange Christmas cards?
Receiving stuff in the post that doesn’t come from amazon.com is a rare treat these days, and I don’t send letters and cards often enough anymore. It would be really nice to do this over Christmas with you, my international tumblr-friends.  If you’re interested please drop me a line at byronic(@)gmail(.)com with your full name, address, and the name of your tumblr, and...
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