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“How cruel the earth, the willows shimmering, the birches bending and sighing. How cruel, how profoundly tender." Ryan, 23. films and other things.
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chadwickboseman It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman. 
Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV. 
⁣A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy. ⁣⁣
It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther. ⁣He died in his home, with his wife and family by his side. ⁣
The family thanks you for your love and prayers, and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time. ⁣⁣
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Milena BonillaNoises, 2007 (ongoing), ink on paper

The drawings are made by following with the gaze pedestrians in parks, airports, malls, streets, etcetera, and mapping the paths that people are taking in paper by tracing lines according to the “direction” the eye perceives in the movement.

Swedish actor Björn Andrésen, who, at age 15, played Tadzio, the symbol of mythic beauty and youth (and ultimately an angel of death) that obsesses Dirk Bogarde’s Gustav von Aschenbach in Luchino Visconti’s “Death in Venice” (1971), also appears in a significantly symbolic capacity in Ari Aster’s brilliant “Midsommar” (2019).

Who needs beautiful things nowadays, Claudia? How long will they last? Back then, they built for the ages. But today, how long do things last? 10, 20 years, and then? Who knows?

L’Avventura (1960) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni