Queer love stories are often defined by yearning, never more so than in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady On Fire”; the forbidden-love story, which is now streaming on Hulu, is the perfect quarantine watch.
Nicole Kidman has twice worked with Jane Campion, on 1996’s “Portrait of a Lady” and on the 2017 series “Top of the Lake: China Girl,” but Kidman revealed a big regret in turning down the opportunity to work with the auteur when Kidman was just a teenager.Speaking to W Magazine,...
He went up to his room after dinner in order to be alone with his soul, and at every step his soul seemed to sigh; at every step his soul mounted with his feet, sighing in the ascent, through a region of viscid gloom. He halted on the landing before the door and then, grasping ...
When the order list had been booked the two would go on to the park where an old friend of Stephen’s father, Mike Flynn, would be found seated on a bench, waiting for them. Then would begin Stephen’s run round the park. Mike Flynn would stand at the gate near the railway station...
Fresh Nelly is waiting on you. --Good night, husband! Coming in to have a short time? The equation on the page of his scribbler began to spread out a widening tail, eyed and starred like a peacock's; and, when the eyes and stars of its indices had been eliminated, began slowly to...