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Weekend links 776

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/05/03/weekend-links-776/

Published: May 3, 2025 18:00

Illustration by Adolf Hoffmeister for a Czech edition of The First Men in the Moon by HG Wells. • It’s good to hear that Czech animator Jiri Barta is back at work on his long-gestating feature film based on the Golem legend. The new iteration looks like a…

Art on film: Crimes of Passion

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/28/art-on-film-crimes-of-passion/

Published: April 28, 2025 15:30

Continuing an occasional series about artworks in feature films. I’ve been spending the past couple of weeks working my way through the Ken Russell filmography, rewatching familiar documentaries and feature films while acquainting myself with the portions…

Weekend links 775

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/26/weekend-links-775/

Published: April 26, 2025 18:00

The Bride of the Wind (1914) by Oskar Kokoschka. • Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: Fantômas, by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain (translated by Cranstoun Metcalfe). • This week’s Bumper Book…

Twenty-four octopuses and a squid

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/21/twenty-four-octopuses-and-a-squid/

Published: April 21, 2025 15:30

Abalone Fishergirl with an Octopus (c. 1773-1774) by Katsukawa Shunsho. Cephalopods in Japanese prints. There are many more octopuses than squids, especially the marauding variety, and that’s before you get to the erotic encounters like Hokusai’s notorious…

Weekend links 774

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/19/weekend-links-774/

Published: April 19, 2025 18:00

Fish and Octopus (Colourful Realm of Living Beings) (circa 1765) by Ito Jakuchu. • At Aeon: “Could extraterrestrial technology be lurking in our backyard—on the Moon, Mars or in the asteroid belt? We think it’s worth a look.” Ravi Kopparapu and Jacob Haqq…

Playhouse: Aubrey

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/16/playhouse-aubrey/

Published: April 16, 2025 15:30

Aubrey was a TV play for BBC 2’s Playhouse strand, an eighty-minute drama enacting events from the last three years of Aubrey Beardsley’s life. It was broadcast on 22nd January, 1982, and never repeated. After I digitised my own VHS copy in 2008 I wrote a…

Baurenfeind’s capitals

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/14/baurenfeinds-capitals/

Published: April 14, 2025 15:30

Six of the enigmatic capitals. After writing about my occasional and not very diligent search for the origin of an unidentified set of calligraphic capitals, Jacob Filipp resolved the whole matter for me very quickly. The mystery dates back to 1997 when I…

Weekend links 773

https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2025/04/12/weekend-links-773/

Published: April 12, 2025 18:00

The Tower of Babel from Turris Babel (1679) by Athanasius Kircher, showing how wide the Tower would have to be at its base to reach the Moon. • The week’s literary resurrection: Penguin announced Shadow Ticket, a new novel by Thomas Pynchon. “Hicks…