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Dream Workshops as part of the Ilya and Emilia Kabokov Exhibition "House of Dreams" Wednesdays in November 2 – 6pm The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Serpentine Gallery Free, booking essential Places limited Participants will sleep, rest and dream in the exhibition, taking...

Great night! Hope it happens again. Some moments of incredible transporting intensity when they locked themselves into a little focused knot and seemed completely oblivious to the audience around them.

These are fantastic. :)

If you want to be in striking distance of the centre then inner(ish) south east London is cheaper: elephant, walworth, bermondsey, camberwell, peckham, new cross, deptford. Always worth doing a sweep of newsagent window ads in these areas rather than Loot if you have time and energy. None of...

I've just been reading C. Carr's take on 1990s New York Bohemia here (courtesy of blissblogger) http://villagevoice.com/specials/0543,50thcarr,69274,31.html An elegiac riff on the fact that the avant-garde is no longer geographically localised. No more Paris. No more New York. NO more Berlin...

Fair enough Rambler, I think it was the mention of British 'instincts' which sent me haring off up the wrong tree. The bland capaciousness of Britishness as a descriptor renders it fairly useless though. Also I can't really see how the great Hitchcock films like North by NW, The Birds or Vertigo...

I agree with this, but it might be worth working out what it means. One one of the big factors in the structure of feeling in H's films is Catholicism, which sits uneasily with sweeping ideas of 'Britishness'.

Should be an interesting acceptance address, hope he's around for long enough to make it. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4338082.stm

Tanazaki's The Makioka Sisters is great too, though very different from his other stuff, much more, erm, restrained.

I saw this last night and its stunning, elemental stuff, especially if you like mannequins, wigs, clockwork dolls and giant purple kangaroos.

Cornelius Cardew innit.

I like words with g in them: sponge, gunk, nougat. I could go on.

there are some ambiguously redemptive moments in it, that bit where the guy steers the kid away from the fire, and the final few minutes shot from the moving train. Is it really an allegorical film? I compared it to Stalker on another thread but thats much more obviously allegorical, TOTW is in...

Walter Benjamin is good on this: reception in a state of distraction.

1. Elephant (Alan Clark) 2. La Jetee (Chris Marker) 3. Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer) 4. L'Avventura (Antonioni) 5. The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pasolini) 6. Stalker (Tarkovsky) 7. Beau Travail (Clair Denis) 8. 10 (Abbas Kiarostami) 9. Time of the Wolf (Michael Haneke) 10. Dogville (Lars von...

I'm fine, just back from central london. Army on the streets but everything weirdly calm. My wife missed the city bombs by minutes. We're in for a fairly unpleasant time.

Anybody in London catch any of the season at the NFT? I saw three, L'Avventura, L'Eclisse and Red Desert (with Richard Harris) and was whelmed in a big way. That bleak, antiseptic, neurotic aesthetic: totally Ballard innit? All those factories, airstrips, radar stations, mysterious islands...

Some nice precise descriptions of London in there. Leaving aside my moans about James, I think that if you're going to do the whole interior-life character thing, then TLOB pulls it off (snigger) pretty successfully. He sets himself a pretty stern task by having a central figure who is, and i...

Glad you liked it. Yeah its strange how Kundera has fallen beneath the radar now. Houellbecq seems to have replaced him as the honorary philosophical continental. In Prague on the other hand he never seems to have figured at all. I spent a few months there in the mid nineties and all the Czech...