{"id":28826,"date":"2025-10-18T19:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=28826"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:33:54","slug":"weekend-links-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/10\/18\/weekend-links-800\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links 800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Plate_43_from_%27Los_Caprichos%27-_The_sleep_of_reason_produces_monsters_(El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_razon_produce_monstruos)_MET_DP816992.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/goya.jpg\" alt=\"goya.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Plate 43 from Los Caprichos: The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sue\u00f1o de la razon produce monstruos) (1799) by Francisco Goya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Senses of Cinema: An interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sensesofcinema.com\/2001\/jacques-rivette\/rivette-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacques Rivette<\/a> from 2001 in which the director passes judgment on a variety of feature films, old and new. Having read a couple of Cocteau-related books recently, I was pleased to see his comments about the importance of Cocteau&#8217;s example for his own film-making. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MetaFilter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Why is sleep, which literally occurs daily on a planetary scale, so often taken for granted, and not only by most people but even by scientists? Perhaps because its essence, its key property, is to be elusive, out of sight?&#8221; A long read by <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/two-billion-humans-are-doing-something-bizarre-right-now-sleeping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladyslav Vyazovskiy<\/a> on the nature of sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 &#8220;Often one cannot be sure if an object in a Welch picture is drawn from life or from other depictions of it, in sculpture, porcelain, woodwork or embroidery.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/oct\/13\/alan-hollinghurst-denton-welch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alan Hollinghurst<\/a> on the paintings and drawings of Denton Welch. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2024\/02\/26\/the-art-of-denton-welch-1915-1948\/\">Previously<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Colossal: Sinister skies set the scene for derelict buildings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2025\/10\/lee-madgwick-surreal-buildings-paintings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Madgwick<\/a>\u2019s surreal paintings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 New music: <a href=\"https:\/\/aufabwegen.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-mosaic-of-starlight-slips-back-like-the-lid-of-an-opening-eye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Mosaic Of Starlight Slips Back Like The Lid Of An Opening Eye<\/em><\/a> by Paul Sch\u00fctze.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At Public Domain Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/collection\/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles le Brun\u2019s Human-Animal Hybrids<\/a> (1806).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mix of the week: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ambientblog.net\/blog\/2025-10\/dreamscenes-october-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DreamScenes \u2013 October 2025<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 At the BFI: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lists\/10-great-french-horror-films\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anton Bitel<\/a> chooses 10 great French horror films.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikonsmallworld.com\/galleries\/2025-photomicrography-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Winners of the 2025 Photomicrography Competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 RIP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/8952-diane-keaton-letting-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diane Keaton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thisheat.bandcamp.com\/track\/sleep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleep<\/a><\/em> (1981) by This Heat | <a href=\"https:\/\/paulschutze.bandcamp.com\/track\/sleep-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sleep<\/em><\/a> (1995) by Paul Sch\u00fctze | <a href=\"https:\/\/djolive.bandcamp.com\/album\/sleep\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sleep<\/em><\/a> (2006) by DJ Olive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plate 43 from Los Caprichos: The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sue\u00f1o de la razon produce monstruos) (1799) by Francisco Goya. \u2022 At Senses of Cinema: An interview with Jacques Rivette from 2001 in which the director passes judgment on a variety of feature films, old and new. Having read a couple of Cocteau-related &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2025\/10\/18\/weekend-links-800\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend links 800&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Weekend links 800","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,29,7,22,3,44,12,13,18],"tags":[8398,13805,14248,3886,2024,14249,13775,7232,132,14247,465,7964,14246],"class_list":["post-28826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-electronica","category-film","category-horror","category-music","category-painting","category-photography","category-science","category-surrealism","tag-alan-hollinghurst","tag-anton-bitel","tag-charles-le-brun","tag-denton-welch","tag-diane-keaton","tag-dj-olive","tag-francisco-goya","tag-jacques-rivette","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-lee-madgwick","tag-paul-schutze","tag-this-heat","tag-vladyslav-vyazovskiy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-7uW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}