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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

The kindest book about isolation I know. It never once feels like a puzzle box even though it is one.

The Shadowy Light (feat. Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Ajay Prasanna, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash)

Gorillaz, Asha Bhosle, Gruff Rhys, Ajay Prasanna, Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash

Super cool sad song

Why old films feel different

There is a kind of patience in them that newer films rarely allow. A scene is permitted to simply exist for a while before it justifies itself. The camera trusts you to be bored for ten seconds. That trust is the texture. Fewer cuts per minute Faces held longer than comfortable Silence used as a material, not a gap to fill I don't think it's nostalgia. I think it's a different theory of the viewer's attention — one that assumed attention was a thing you gave, not a thing to be captured.

Arrival

Denis Villeneuve

A film about grammar that made me cry. The twist isn't the aliens — it's what learning their language does to how she experiences time.