Mark Larson

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RIP Flott. The great soprano Felicity Lott has died at the age of 79.

On Vexations, written for today’s performance @Openealing

—Passejar —vaig respondre— m’és imprescindible per revifar-me i per mantenir el contacte amb el món, perquè si no el sentís, no podria escriure ni mitja lletra més ni produir cap poema, per petit que fos, en vers o en prosa.

Liberace b otd 1919. He knew exactly what he was about: "Liberace is a creation...The audiences seemed to enjoy the kind of performance I could give them. They kept coming back... and I kept trying to please them." And truly talented: youtube.com/watch?v=3OTRa2…

Coming soon to Blu-ray from Flicker Alley King Vidor’s “The Crowd” (1928) •New 4K Restoration by Blackhawk Films •Slide 2 contains a before and after screencap of the restoration. Synopsis: The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls. MORE INFO TBA SOON #SilentFilm #classicfilm #Cinema #PhysicalMedia #Bluray #Movie #Movies #Horror #physicalmedia #Bluray #HorrorCommunity #FilmCommunity #4KBluray #4KUltraHD #physicalmedia #FilmstaGram #physicalmediaforever #bluraycollector #bluraycollection #Horror #HorrorMovie #HorrorMovies #Film #Cinema #CinemaLovers #FilmTwitter #Cinephile #MovieBuff #NowWatching

"I had the notion that the music should be exploratory, experimental, partly to get out from under the enormous weight of traditional Western classical music, partly because I can't think of, or haven't the skills for, anything else." Happy Birthday Christian Wolff March 8, 1934

O Último Mergulho (João César Monteiro) Glorious and foul this evening on 35mm ––

CINDERFELLA (1960)

@Abhinavstwt I don't care.

Some dance lofts of the 1970s and 80s are still going strong. @clthomps81 writes about Cathy Weis and @DunnDance in SoHo: allarts.org/2026/05/nyc-da…

RIP David Burke. Truly one of the finest portrayals of Dr Watson ever to grace our screens. We doff our bowler hats to you.

"That figure floats somewhere between a photograph and a fantasy, a dream image generated by the poems." Langdon Hammer on Cavafy. yalereview.org/article/langdo…

Claudio Monteverdi b otd 1567! What a great composer - his imagination, passion and depth of feeling mirroring that of the great Italian visual artists of his day. "The end of all good music is to affect the soul." "The modern composer builds his works on the basis of truth."

So true. When I read certain names I still hear them in James Mason's voice—Edna Purviance, Al St. John, Mal St. Clair, Mabel Normand, Roscoe Arbuckle...

Absolutely. We've waited So Long for this. I often rewatch Vidor's interview with Brownlow just to hear his thoughts again on this beautiful film. youtu.be/CuZVYk-gzd4?si…

Remembering composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier, born OTD in 1931 🎶🎶🎶 newworldrecords.org/search?q=alvin…

RIP Clarence Carter, 90. Few artists so successfully bridged classic soul ("Slip Away"), pop chart success ("Patches"), and the type of risque R&B ("Strokin'") that in the late '80s became dominant on "grown folks" soul/blues radio stations like WDIA in Memphis.