My Entire Collection! I’m Not Going To Be Buying Any More Decks For A While, So An Update If My Complete

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Another Country (1984) | Maurice (1987) | The History Boys (2006) | Brideshead Revisited (1981) | Dead Poets Society (1989)

Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka is a 1961 fairy tale fantasy Soviet film directed by Alexander Rou. It is based on Nikolai Gogol’s collection of short stories of the same name (specifically based on the short story The Night Before Christmas). In a small Ukrainian village, a young blacksmith, Vakula, is in love with the village beauty, Oksana. Oksana is a capricious girl who states that she will only marry Vakula if he brings her the slippers that Empress Catherine the Great wears. At the same the Devil aims to get back at Vakula for painting an embarassing picture of him. The Devil steals the moon, in the hopes of creating chaos and visiting Vakula’s witch mother. Vakula, however, tricks the Devil into taking him to Saint-Petersburg. [watch]

Monday 3 June 2019

I love this corner of the library. Perfect silence, perfect temperature, perfect view.

Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford

Composers on Halloween!

Dita Von Teese in episode 2 of Le Carrosse Noir (The Black Carriage), 2010. A mini series by Christian Louboutin.

The most under-appreciated film in history has to be The Prince of Egypt. I mean, I don’t care if you follow the religion, this a good fucking movie.

I mean, look at the love they put into the Egyptian culture and hieroglyphics: 

Everybody is actually a realistic color of where they live:

ThE MOTHERFUCKING ART THEY PUT INTO THIS MOVIE

The fucking music alone won a fucking oscar people:

The fucking cast like have you seen this line-up???:

Strong female characters:

And last but not least - THE. MOTHER. FUCKING. BEAUTIFUL. HAIR:

and best of all, even though it’s based off of a bible story, it isn’t trying to ram god down your throat. legit the whole movie is about loving yourself and others

LIVRES CENSURÉS PAR LES AUTORITÉS À TRAVERS LES SIÈCLES

BOOKS CENSORED BY LEGAL AUTHORITIES OVER THE YEARS PART V

Salomé - Oscar Wilde (1891)

Histoire d'O - Pauline Réage a.k.a. Dominique Aury (1954)

Mademoiselle La Quintinie - George Sand a.k.a Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (1863)

three waves: Katsushika Hokusai. “Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura),” also known as “the Great Wave,” from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei), ca. 1830–32.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. “Finale”, from cycle Sonata of the Sea, 1908.

Ivan Bilibin. Illustration for the picture book, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, 1905.