Tag Archives: Varia

Tunström’s epic masterpiece (personal) The Christmas Oratory — based on Göran Tunström’s s epic masterpiece — is a stunningly beautiful and totally heartbreaking movie. Stefan Nilsson wrote the God-given music. [embedded content]

[embedded content] Tillägnad alla gamla radikala vänner och kollegor som numera glatt traskar patrull och omfamnar allt de en gång i tiden hade modet att våga kritisera och ifrågasätta …

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One of yours truly’s Sunday morning rituals is reading the obituary column of The Telegraph. This obit is rather typical: Peter Scott, who has died aged 82, was a highly accomplished cat burglar, and as Britain’s most prolific plunderer of the great and good took particular pains to select his victims from the ranks of aristocrats, film stars and even royalty. According to a list of 100 names he supplied to The Daily Telegraph, he targeted figures such as Soraya Khashoggi,...

Likt en sländas spröda vinge .                                                                                                                              [embedded content]

Ola Gjeilo — Serenity .                                                                                                                                [embedded content]

Max von Sydow (1929-2020) was a Swedish actor who featured in more than 100 films and TV series. He made many memorable film roles, but the one that touched me most was as the father in Pelle Erobreren — based on Martin Andersen Nexö’s epic masterpiece. Bille August directed. Stefan Nilsson wrote the music. Max von Sydow made the performance of his life. And it breaks my heart every time I watch it. A legend is dead. Long live his memory. [embedded content]

Why does someone have to die? Till minnet av min vän Bengt Nilsson. Det gör fortfarande — efter två år — ont. Det känns ofta — som du brukade säga — ‘förtvivlat.’ Men jag minns också — skratten, glädjen, omtanken, den mäktiga intelligensen, den drastiska humorn, det starka sociala patoset. Livet går vidare, men kommer alltid att vara lite gråare, lite tristare, utan dig min käre vän. [embedded content]

Rom i regnet (personal) .                                                                                                                                 [embedded content] Till Anna — som fick mig att överleva tre långa gymnasieår på Linnéskolan. Och till Ulf — som skriver den sorts musik som glömskan inte rår på. 

A paedophile writer is on trial in France. And so are a bunch of the most celebrated French ‘intellectuals.’ MeToo has finally reached France. That’s good news. [embedded content] Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Gilles et Fanny Deleuze … Jack Lang … André Glucksmann, et bien d’autres encore; tous font partie des 69 intellectuels français qui, aux côtés de l’écrivain Gabriel Matzneff … ont signé une tribune publiée le 26 janvier 1977. D’abord dans Le Monde...