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The Sound of Claudia Schiffer

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Published: May 13, 2026 15:30

A minor entry in the Nicolas Roeg filmography that few people will have seen. In March 2001 the BBC broadcast four 15-minute films that the corporation had commissioned for an occasional arts strand, Sound on Film. Each episode featured a new piece of…

Roeg abroad

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2026/05/11/roeg-abroad/

Published: May 11, 2026 15:30

Japan, 1998. I’m currently in the middle of a Nicolas Roeg rewatch season after acquiring a blu-ray of the recently reissued Castaway, Roeg’s 1986 adaptation of Lucy Irvine’s memoir (which shouldn’t be confused with 2000’s Cast Away). In the early 1980s…

Weekend links 829

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Published: May 9, 2026 18:00

In the Constellation of Pisces by Adolf Hoffmeister. • “Comb through many of the numerous ‘greatest post-punk albums of all time’ lists that you’ll find dotted around the internet and one fairly continual omission is Thirst, which is something of a…

Léon Carré’s In the Garden of Gems

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Published: May 6, 2026 15:30

Léonard Rosenthal’s follow-up to In the Kingdom of the Pearl was this volume with illustrations by Léon Carré. In the Garden of Gems was published in 1924 in an edition that matches the earlier book for page layout, print quality and decoration. The…

Edmund Dulac’s In the Kingdom of the Pearl

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Published: May 4, 2026 15:30

An unusual commission for Edmund Dulac, being a work of non-fiction published in France in 1920, with a British edition following in the same year. The author, Léonard Rosenthal, was a French diamond merchant who wrote a handful of books intended to…

Weekend links 828

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Published: May 2, 2026 18:00

Visitation (1976) by Gilbert Williams. • “It’s the perfect storm of a UFO case.” Daniel Lavelle explores the Rendlesham Forest mystery of 1980, Britain’s own answer to the Roswell Incident. The case has more substantial documentation than most close…

Doodlin’ – Impressions of Len Lye

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Published: April 29, 2026 15:30

Finally, finally, Keith Griffiths’ documentary about Len Lye (1901–1980) turns up on YouTube. Doodlin’ – Impressions of Len Lye was made in 1987, and is one of several films that Griffiths made about avant-garde film-makers. There’s some slight crossover…

Art on film: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

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Published: April 27, 2026 15:30

Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. This is a minor entry but a worthwhile one if only to draw some attention to an unusual fantasy film by Albert Lewin, an equally unusual director. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman was made in…

Weekend links 827

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Published: April 25, 2026 18:00

Dante in his Study with Episodes from the Inferno (1978) by Tom Phillips. • “This set, featuring two of the surviving members of Cabaret Voltaire, is as clear and powerful as any of the live albums the group released while Richard H. Kirk was alive.” Derek…

Kay Nielsen’s Book of Death

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Published: April 22, 2026 15:30

Disconsolate. More unknown Kay Nielsen, although “little-known” would be more accurate since the sombre nature of these drawings has made them popular among the image-hoarders in the Tumblr labyrinth. Nielsen created the series known as The Book of Death…