Super excited about this! #SusanSontag #Movie
“Today, in casting news that just feels right: Kristen Stewart will be starring as Susan Sontag in a biopic based on Benjamin Moser’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 biography Sontag: Her Life and Work.
Kristen Stewart is no stranger to biopics, having starred, most recently, as Princess Diana in 2021’s Spencer as well as 2009’s The Runaways (as Joan Jett), 2018’s JT LeRoy (as Savannah Knoop) and Seberg (as Jean Seberg). And while I’m generally skeptical of biopics (because lives have no narrative arc and I find that attempts to force them into a shape that movie-going audiences find interesting are usually unsuccessful), both the casting and the source material of this one have piqued my interest.
The film—working title: Sontag—will be directed by Kirsten Johnson, whose most recent previous film, Dick Johnson Is Dead, is a speculative documentary in which Johnson’s father, who suffers from dementia, enacts various versions of his death.
Okay, fine, I’ll watch a biopic. Just this once.”
https://lithub.com/kristen-stewart-is-playing-susan-sontag-in-a-new-biopic/
Love this!! Great 🙌🏼
Nice!!! Enjoy— we have plans to (hopefully) go out next weekend to a local “soccer” Pub that reopened recently to watch football ⚽️🥅
good luck!
#evening #poem gn 💜
The Owl
BY ARTHUR SZE
“The path was purple in the dusk.
I saw an owl, perched,
on a branch.
And when the owl stirred, a fine dust
fell from its wings. I was
silent then. And felt
the owl quaver. And at dawn, waking,
the path was green in the
May light.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/156008/the-owl-60b79785176ac
Also— I’ve used this book in the classroom with kids. Sharing incase you have any kiddos in your life. https://portal.flyleafpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/books/0-dll-books/42-True-Bugs/mobile/index.html#p=1
That’s really interesting. I saw them everywhere today at home & when I ventured out. I don’t like pesticides either but “parasitic wasp” sounds scary. I love that bit about bee health— definitely positive! My little nephew loves anything about insects— I’ll ask him too! I remember when the “stink bug” entered our environment— everyone was freaking out. I’m always gentle with them if they wander inside— carry them out. Thank you for this!
Debating if I should rewatch the whole film tonight or reread a little of the book.
“If I had to make a list of the most authentic female characters invented by the great male directors, I don’t know if I would put the woman in Solaris at the top, but certainly I would place her in the first ranks – because of the blind suffering she emanates, because of her serene yet furious refusal to be eliminated.” #ElenaFerrante
#Solaris
#Movie https://youtu.be/sVSPG40aA8g
Debating if I should rewatch the whole film tonight or reread a little of the book.
“If I had to make a list of the most authentic female characters invented by the great male directors, I don’t know if I would put the woman in Solaris at the top, but certainly I would place her in the first ranks – because of the blind suffering she emanates, because of her serene yet furious refusal to be eliminated.” #ElenaFerrante
#Solaris
#Movie https://youtu.be/sVSPG40aA8g
Thank you for the Zap & Double Follow! I appreciate you more. Thank you!
I hope you feel better! Safe travels 🙏❤️
The nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x reimagining I'm doing puts Relay Sets at the top of the UX
Bakhtin approves! (I have him on my phone home screen — a reminder not get to distracted — until I finish the essays) 
