This week’s newsletter is about Frida Kahlo and a certain image from “The Substance”: https://open.substack.com/pub/sabinastent/p/duality?r=ceu&utm_medium=ios
Newsletter: Duality
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David Lynch
“I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.”
David Lynch, who passed away mere days ago, would have been 79 day. He’ll eternally be the maestro of the beautiful, the surreal, and the terrifying 💙
Newsletter: Art on Display
My first newsletter for paid subs is up and live! It’s something I wrote a while back – unseen by everyone but a faculty – about Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God (2007), how art is displayed, and how we consume in galleries: https://substack.com/home/post/p-154261863?source=queue&autoPlay=false
Newsletter: New Stars
A newsletter for the new year: https://open.substack.com/pub/sabinastent/p/new-stars?r=ceu&utm_medium=ios
My Top Twenty Films of 2024
Once again, you didn’t ask, and once again, I deliver: my Top 20 Films of 2024 – loosely ranked! – of titles to appear on the UK’s official FDA release schedule from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2024. The complete list is also up on my Letterboxd, but here it is for your perusing pleasure (starting with my favourite):
- Red Rooms (“La chambres rouges”), Pascal Plante, 2023.
- Witches, Elizabeth Sankey, 2024.
- Our Body (“Notre corps”), Claire Simon, 2023.
- Dahomey, Mati Diop, 2024.
- The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer, 2023.
- A Different Man, Aaron Schimberg, 2024.
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, George Miller, 2024.
- Close Your Eyes (“Cerrar los ojos”), Victor Erice, 2023.
- Evil Does Not Exist, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2023.
- Sing Sing, Greg Kwedar, 2024.
- Hundreds of Beavers, Mike Cheslik, 2022.
- The Beast (“La Bête”), Bertrand Bonello, 2023 [above].
- All We Imagine As Light, Payal Kapadia, 2024.
- Juror #2, Clint Eastwood, 2024.
- Conclave Edward Berger, 2024.
- Monster, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023.
- Timestalker, Alice Lowe, 2024.
- Monkey Man, Dev Patel, 2024.
- My Old Ass, Megan Park, 2024.
- Trap, M. Night Shyamalan, 2024.
Newsletter: The Truth About Comets
Today’s newsletter is about Dorothea Tanning’s lovely The Truth About Comets (1945): https://sabinastent.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-comets
From the Archives: Vampira
Malia Nurmi – aka Vampira – was born on this day (11 December 1922). A few years ago, for Magnum Photos, I wrote about Dennis Stock’s portraits of “The First Hostess of Horror”: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/cinema/vampira-first-hostess-of-horror-dennis-stock-maila-nurmi-halloween-horror-gothic/
Sabina Stent 