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The Royal Mint celebrates 400 years of William Shakespeare with new \u00a32 coins<\/a>. The “Tragedies” design gives Britain the Gothiest coin of all time.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “I hate successful films that travel on an easy wave of ‘good taste’: for me, that is simply anti-culture.” Cinematographer Luciano Tovoli<\/a> talks to Alexandra Heller-Nicholas about photographing Dario Argento’s masterwork, Suspiria<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: F\u00fcr die Liebe II, an hour of ambient drift by Matthew Dekay<\/a>, and Carwyn Ellis Mixtape No. 354 by The Voice Of Cassandre<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Americans in Europe: Frances Mayes<\/a> on the enduring mystique of the Venetian lagoon, and David Farley<\/a> on the trail of Kafka in Prague.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d read that Brion Gysin and William Burroughs had played around with some scientific equipment from Columbia University,\u201d [Jim] Jarmusch recalls. It was \u201csome kind of strobe light that they claimed, by placing eidetic pulses on the outside of your eyelids, could cause states of hallucination and trance. We found out how to check out this machine and experimented with \u2026 not fantastic results! In a way though, Luc [Sante] channels ghosts: he\u2019s able to imagine and mentally reconstruct events and places from the past and weave them into stories. He can cross influences like Blaise Cendrars and JG Ballard with James M Cain and Raymond Roussel.\u201d<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n If New York celebrates amnesia, perpetual transformation, accelerated obsolescence \u2013 and offers newcomers a blank slate, a chance to be born again \u2013 then Sante offers a mordantly heretical vision of the city. For him it\u2019s full of layers and depths, of echoes and eerie reverberations, of occult whispers. \u201cThe tech crowd thinks that we can\u2019t afford the past to be sitting on our shoulders. It\u2019s a burden, a dead weight. 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