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A bridge to Lorca (w/ Waking Life, Jodorowsky and Dylan Thomas)

I love Lorca. I first found him through Linklater’s amazing Waking Life, where those haunting words rang like a clarion. ‘The living iguanas will bite those who do not dream…’ I had to know more, and soon found Bly‘s beautiful translation of the 1930 poem ‘The City that does not sleep’ (Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne) when […]

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Birth of Octopuses

I recently watched for the second time, the 2007 debut film by French writer-director Céline Sciamma, Les Naissance des Pieuvres (Birth of Octopuses) translated for its English language release as ‘Water Lillies’. I first saw this film about 8 years ago and was left with a feeling that it was one of those films whose […]