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Writer; recovering film scholar; holistic grader; center-left child of the 60s.
Remembering professor of language, writer, and WW I veteran J.R.R. Tolkien, who transformed High Fantasy literature, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on this day in 1892.
January 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Remembering professor of language, writer, and WW I veteran J.R.R. Tolkien, who transformed High Fantasy literature, born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on this day in 1892.
Remembering poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague on this day in 1875.
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
– first elegy, ‘Duino Elegies’ (1922)
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
– first elegy, ‘Duino Elegies’ (1922)
December 4, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Remembering poet Rainer Maria Rilke, born in Prague on this day in 1875.
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
– first elegy, ‘Duino Elegies’ (1922)
For beauty is nothing
but the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,
and we are so awed because it serenely disdains
to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying.”
– first elegy, ‘Duino Elegies’ (1922)
November’s Top First Time Viewings
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Germany) [pictured]
The Iron Claw (2023)
Top Rewatches
Scarface (1932)
From Russia with Love (1963, UK-US)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy-Spain)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Germany) [pictured]
The Iron Claw (2023)
Top Rewatches
Scarface (1932)
From Russia with Love (1963, UK-US)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy-Spain)
December 3, 2024 at 1:38 PM
November’s Top First Time Viewings
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Germany) [pictured]
The Iron Claw (2023)
Top Rewatches
Scarface (1932)
From Russia with Love (1963, UK-US)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy-Spain)
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924, Germany) [pictured]
The Iron Claw (2023)
Top Rewatches
Scarface (1932)
From Russia with Love (1963, UK-US)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy-Spain)
A happy 82nd birthday to the great Martin Charles Scorsese, film director, producer, scholar, teacher, and preservationist, born in Queens, New York on this day in 1942.
November 17, 2024 at 8:32 PM
A happy 82nd birthday to the great Martin Charles Scorsese, film director, producer, scholar, teacher, and preservationist, born in Queens, New York on this day in 1942.