Simon Popek

Baje je tam manj stresno. bsky.app/profile/simonl…

Priobčil par besed o Denisu Johnsonu in noveli Sanje o vlaku. rtvslo.si/kultura/beremo…

Priobčil par besed o Miljenku Jergoviću in knjigi Vojna. rtvslo.si/kultura/beremo…

Priobčil par besed o Bulšihtih (Bullshit Jobs) Davida Graeberja. Več kot vredno branja. rtvslo.si/kultura/beremo…

Program Festivala dokumentarnega filma #FDF2026 je objavljen, vstopnice v prodaji. Novinarska v torek, 3.3. fdf.si/sl

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

@BohemiaStable 🥂

@SimonLiffe ah hah. "When people go on and on about Graham Greene, especially his important books like “End of the Affair,” I get puzzled. But I shouldn’t be. There’s nothing wrong with Greene and there’s nothing wrong with Forster either, I just feel like, what’s all the fuss about?"

after 16+ years, now 1/2 way through odd outlier THE TENTH MAN, which leaves me only the two he "withdrew" soon after publication but which emerged again after his death: THE NAME OF ACTION and RUMOUR AT NIGHTFALL.

@BohemiaStable Franzen would like to have a word with you.

still to read his posthumously-published novella NO MAN'S LAND. Top 10: 1. The Quiet American 2. The Ministry of Fear 3. The Heart of the Matter 4. The Human Factor 5. A Gun For Sale 6. The Comedians + Brighton Rock A Burnt-Out Case The Power and the Glory Travels With My Aunt

Takšni trajni je pa Raymond Chandler rekel, da je "narejena iz portlandskega cementa."

Norman Mailer by Diane Arbus. Portret na*určenega pisatelja, kakršnih ne delajo več.

@BohemiaStable Not yet there. It will probably need some time to become a proper shabby biererei.

@SimonLiffe a month early! how is/was the new place?

reminder to those heading to Berlin next month (or any time) that the Stadtklause is sadly no more.

@BohemiaStable Heading there today!

advice to those heading to the Berlinale next month: Stadtklause II ! tagesspiegel.de/berlin/wiedere…

@BohemiaStable Well Grandma was completely financed by Japanese, if that helps 🤪

@SimonLiffe no, I mean "known outside Slovenia and its neighbouring areas." but thanks again for the suggestion and happy new year!

who are the well-known fiction-feature filmmakers (past or present) who wrote **and performed** (solo or with others) their own scores -- John Carpenter style?

@BohemiaStable You mean not well "American-known"...

@SimonLiffe thanks for the suggestion! I'm sure he was marvellous, but --- not exactly what one could call "well-known"...

Slikovita detekcija problemov slovenskega (literarnega) žanra, predvsem kriminalke (by @AlHarlamov). Žal je stanje - s par častnimi izjemami - resnično porazno.

"Problem pri žanru je, da nanj vplivajo filmi in serije. Veliko avtorjev piše knjige kot scenarije, malo je opisov in atmosfere, nič senzoričnosti [...] zgodba se opira predvsem na vizualne učinke. To v književnosti ne deluje na enak način kot na platnu." n1info.si/novice/intervj…

Takole so razočarani ljubimci v nemih filmih reagirali na "košarico" ;)

@BohemiaStable He's the Marty of southern hemisphere!

love how so many people still aren't sure what the currently red-hot Brazilian writer-director's surname actually is*, so they just call him "Kleber" like they're his good pal! (*Mendonça).