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Nicolas Leblanc

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"Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings."

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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 1h
Paul Vecchiali's ROSA LA ROSE, FILLE PUBLIQUE is one of those works that make you go: "that, too, is possible." You can plop 30s melodrama and Gallic theatricality 50 years later and have it still work and vibrate.
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Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hey everyone, I'm excited to share with you all this chapter from Antoine Volodine's forthcoming novel Living in Fire. It's titled "Aunt Yoanna" and it's my favorite. With intro by @brianevenson.bsky.social @electricliterature.com @uminnpress.bsky.social electricliterature.com/aunt-yoanna-...
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My Aunt's Collection of Miniature Men Is Probably Not Harmless - Electric Literature
“Aunt Yoanna” from LIVING IN FIRE by Antoine Volodine, recommended by Brian Evenson
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Jacob Siefring @jsief.bsky.social · 6h
we got all the simenons here for ya @ north gloucester
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 7h
Now Maldoror can be my friend!
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I lived bitch
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Jhon H. @cruyffbedroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Axelle Ropert on Actors theluckystarfilm.net/2026/09/28/t...
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Translation – The 7 Families Game: The Families of Actors
We continue our commitment to the work and ideas of Axelle Ropert with this translation. Ropert also did one on the work of actresses, which can be found here The 7 Families Game: The Families of A…
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Call everyone a "son of a bitch!" It works like gangbuster.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh Jaime Christley got suspended?
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's called a lens. The refraction of light on two diopters directs light, bends it as you say.
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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RIP Mighty Sparrow (1935-2026)
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Legendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow has died
Legendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, has died at the age of 91.
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C.J. Prince @cjprince.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I compiled my thoughts on TIFF's new market along with twelve features and ten shorts from this year's festival in one (very long) post. Includes thoughts on Club Kid, La Bola Negra, The Debut, The Face of Horror, and more. Read below: acquiredcinema.substack.com/p/tiff-2026-...
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TIFF 2026: Welcome to The Market
Reviews of a dozen features and ten short films from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Now for actual good music youtu.be/AVK5AZFBbC4
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Klang auf Schön Berg La Monte Young
YouTube video by Goeyvaerts String Trio - Topic
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Top of charts discourse. The song about Texas is terrible but people have been doing mash-ups to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre's ending on TikTok so who knows if it is good or bad.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Memories of that French comic who reportedly at crab after his cancer diagnosis, to even the score.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Steal Pierre Bayard's shtick at your peril...
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The song of the summer. The whole of it. youtu.be/vMj0Q_xXX5g
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your body is a volume (2016-2019) for string quartet
YouTube video by JACK Quartet - Topic
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Sacred Fount by Henry James.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In preparation for OTHER MOMMY, I am going to watch Suwa's M/OTHER.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My mother sought out BLIND BEAST (Masumura) and now recommends it. I do, too.
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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I came to Berlin partly fot another sight of this painting by Hugo van der Goes,...
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don't think I have the words. Disappointment's the least of it. Embarrassment is closer to the mark.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
AI-powered training module about using caution using AI.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Jaime “Nightmare” Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
not to be outdone, Disney+ has announced a new reality series titled 'THE NEW STANLEY MILGRAM OBEDIENCE EXPERIMENTS'
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Guy Davenport, "Late Beckett" in Every Force Evolves a Form.
No character im Beckett has ever admitted that existence is other than a cruel joke. But her in Company Beckett reaches into a darker dark than he has hitherto plumes, to ask if the poor jokester didn't, after all, create us, his joke, to keep his lonely self company? This is a way of asking if in our profond and agonizing loneliness we have invented the jokester, God, to...keep ourselves company? And what is company? What have we not done for its sake? For everything human we have made up, beginning with ours names. Our laws, our quaint systems of kinship, our cities, our technology, a Victorian clergyman's carefully researched study of the Sumerian cosmology—fiction all. We've made it all up, to hide a mystery in an idiotically decorated box. The only reality is that we became aware of the world on our back in the dark (the womb, the cradle), with a voice speaking to us, and will end on our backs the dark (deathbed, grave). Beckett in Company connects these two points of existential helplessness.  We are forever on our backs in the dark, listening to a voice (dreams, the imagination, philosophy, religion,  Walter Cronkite). But, as he says, the voice is company, or we are company for it.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"You asshole!"
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Many great points in this thread
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On a related topic, the trades bemoaning the dearth of great 9/11 movies feels sort of sickening. In these days where most everyone sees movies as a business venture, I do have to ask: what's on your mind exactly? And then go like Flaubert: "Saint Polycarp!"
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On 9/11, if you have a few minutes to spare, track down Imamura Shōhei's allusive short film for the otherwise mostly rotten September 11 project. It's a simple tale of a soldier who wills himself into a snake, turning his back on humanity for having sent him to a war. His last film, it looms large.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
37. youtu.be/1q9vyrB2k6s
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The Armando Iannucci Shows - Armando the great adult
YouTube video by alanmarsden
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For our anniversary, he gave me the gift of Neo-kantian philosophy.
The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (Ernst Cassirer) in three volumes, side by side: volume 1: Language, volume 2: Mythical Thought, volume 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Undertow
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The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com · 07/09/2026
As #TIFF26 begins this week, @cjprince.bsky.social offers a thorough overview of the ten best films in this year's Short Cuts:
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10 Must-See Shorts Premiering at TIFF 2026
Much of the talk at the Toronto International Film Festival revolves around the feature films, but the Short Cuts program can offer the most bang for your buck in terms of a festival experience. Split...
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do you remember Your president Nixon? (Oo-oo-ooh!)
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This has been stuck with ever since I first saw it. youtu.be/CMG-4VHizz0
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The Armando Iannucci Shows - Happiness
YouTube video by alanmarsden
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
...and Tiny Tim, who didn't die, though frankly who would have missed the bottom-feeding mooching scumbag asshole leech, always after a dollar...
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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Images from the films of Maurice Pialat - BOTD in 1925 L'enfance nue (1968) A nos amours (1983) Under the Sun of Satan (1987) Van Gogh (1991)
L'enfance nue (1968)A nos amours (1983)Under the Sun of Satan (1987)Van Gogh (1991)
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
25 years since this thing came out. I’m very fond of it, it’s possibly the most personal thing I’ve made and, if I’m allowed to be proud for a day, I’m rather proud of it. All 8 eps up on Channel 4. #TheArmandoIannucciShows #Ch4 #ABigEgg
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I saw a video of Curtis Sliwa stating he could reach a détente with the rats of New York City and I am convinced: the man is your regular Francis of Assisi.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
COYOTE VS. ACME: one must imagine the coyote sappy?
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Accident (Joseph Losey)
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Dmitry Martov @domitori.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
open.substack.com/pub/radicalc...
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Filmed theater (Commedia dell'Arte)
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just bypassing TIFF this year. Not feeling it.
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C.J. Prince @cjprince.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RED ROCKS (2026, dir. Bruno Dumont)
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Saw The End of Oak Street at the pictures and had a ridiculously good time. Here's my write up, not so much a review as a list of all the moments I liked, so absolutely do not read it unless you have seen the film. Careful with spoilers in the comments too please! letterboxd.com/marie_philli...
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A ★★★★ review of The End of Oak Street (2026)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA Abstract This sucks ass. Introduction One of several definitions for theoretical given by the Merriam Webster dictionary is "relating to or having the character of theory."¹ In this paper, we'll examine the scourge of theoretical filmmakers regurgitating textbo
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Gaston Bachelard: Dead and Lovin' It.
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Paul Griffiths @disgwylfa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
New post on this afternoon's concert in Lucerne: disgwylfa.substack.com/p/on-three-o...
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On three orchestral works by Mark Andre
This is no time for art to be transcendental, so why am I shaking?
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Nicolas Leblanc @ngrl.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dark intellectual web. Distinction not cost effective as someone used to say: academic mediocrity got gold-plated megaphone to spout rich people talking points.
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