02/08/23: Best of July 2023

In no particular order:

Films:

• Barbie (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2023)
• Reign of Fire (dir. Rob Bowman, 2002)
• A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora’s Box (dir. Jeffrey Lau, 1995)
• Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (dir. Eric Rohmer, 1987)
• Viy (dir. Georgiy Kropachyov and Kostiantyn Yershov, 1967)
• Freeway (dir. Matthew Bright, 1996)
• Asteroid City (dir. Wes Anderson, 2023)
• Leviathan (dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2012)
• Matinee (dir. Joe Dante, 1993)
• Bernice Bobs Her Hair (dir. Joan Micklin Silver, 1976)
• Drunken Angel (dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1948)

Literature:

• Ice (Anna Kavan, 1967)
• Heartbreak Tango (Manuel Puig, 1969)
• The Preserve Journal: Issue 8 — Spring/Summer 2022 (The Preserve Journal, 2023)
• ‘Preface to the English Edition: The Sight Machine’ to ‘2: Cinema Isn’t I See, It’s I Fly’: War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception (Paul Virilio, 1989)

Academic Papers:

• ‘Reality Celebrity: Branded Affect and Emotion Economy’: Public Culture, 27:1 (Laura Grindstaff and Susan Murray, 2015)
• ‘Euroscepticism, Anti-Nostalgic Nostalgia and the Past Perfect Post-Brexit Future’: Journal of Common Market Studies, 60:6 (Francesca Melhuish, 2022)
• ‘From self-representation to self-exoticisation: Gurinder Chadha’s film projects from 1993 to 2017’: Re-thinking Histories of Popular British Film and TV conference, 27–28 June (Sanghita Sen, 2023)*
• ‘Session E2: Spies, Detectives, and Cops’: Re-thinking Histories of Popular British Film and TV conference, 27 – 28 June (Estella Tincknell, Richard Farmer, Jonathan Murray, and Joseph Oldham, 2023)*

Music/Sound:

• Partly On Time: Recordings (1968–1970) (Kinloch Nelson, 2019)
• ‘My Big Nurse’: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (David Byrne and Brian Eno, 2008)
• ‘And When I Die’: Blood, Sweat & Tears (Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968)
• Bamboo (Minoru Muraoka, 1970)
• ‘59: Takeshi Hayatsu’: Scaffold [podcast] (The Architecture Foundation, 10 Mar 2022)
• ’81: The Seaweed Commons, Soy-free Pigs and Regenerative Viticulture’: Farmerama [podcast] (Farmerama, 30 Apr 2023)
• ‘Vampire Empire’: Vampire Empire Single (Big Thief, 2023)
• ‘The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers’: Let My Children Hear Music (Charles Mingus, 1972)
• ‘Baruch Spinoza’s “Ethics”’ series: Theory & Philosophy (David Guignion, 27 May-24 June 2023)

Food & Drink:

• Over the Sia to Skye: pizza with seaweed, silverskin anchovies, Hebridean smoked salmon, capers, prawns, mussels, and tomato sauce (Cafe Sia, Broadford, Isle of Skye, UK)
• Vegan shredded duck korma, with black cardamom pilau rice and Bombay aloo-style potatoes (Homemade)
• Datiles con Serrano, and Judias Verdes (Ambiente Leeds, Leeds, UK)
• Ancient grain and spelt sourdough (Number Eight Bakehouse, Darlington, UK)

Misc:

• ‘A Snow Storm’ (Leeds Art Gallery, William Edward Stott, c. 1891)
• InterCity 125 ‘Sir Kenneth Grange’ (National Rail Museum, York, 1976)
• Cover artwork for Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Stefan Sagmeister, 2008)
• Beocom 2000 telephone (Bang & Olufsen, 1989–2000)
• Australia 2–3 Nigeria (2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, 27 July 2023)
• ‘The Unexpected Objects That Fill A Designer’s Home’ (The Modern House, 16 June 2023)

*Not strictly July, but I’m treating them as such.