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We close out our Varda series with her penultimate film Faces Places (2017), co-directed by visual artist JR, with whom Varda travels across France, meeting people, taking photographs, and discussing art, image, and the passage of time. We also decide that Godard is a jerk. Next week, we're moving into Pride month viewing with some queer classics and even a brand-new film! First up is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)!
Ein Kino, in dem jede Generation sich wieder neu verlieren kann. In dem man immer noch etwas bergen kann. Christian und Lucas sprechen mit Judith Niehaus im neuen Special über die Filme von Agnès Varda. Das ist aber nur der Teaser. Unterstützt und auf https://steadyhq.com/cuts für die ganze dreistündige Folge.
How close are we to making space not just the final frontier, but the next big investment opportunity? In this episode of The Angel Next Door Podcast, host Marcia sits down with Tim Maul of Balerion Space Ventures to break down the exciting—and very real—landscape of space investing, moving the conversation far beyond science fiction.Tim brings a wealth of experience from institutional investing and now plays a key role in connecting investors to groundbreaking space and defense technologies. His clear and engaging approach makes the complexities of space investing accessible for all, highlighting how this rapidly evolving sector is full of possibilities for savvy investors.From the realities of lunar mining and pharmaceutical manufacturing in zero gravity to the crucial growth of private capital in satellite infrastructure and defense, this episode covers it all. If you want a front-row seat to where innovation, entrepreneurship, and outer space intersect—and why now is the time to pay attention—this is an episode you can't afford to miss. To get the latest from Tim Maul, you can follow him below!https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-maul-62907a7/ https://balerionspace.com/ Sign up for Marcia's newsletter to receive tips and the latest on Angel Investing!Website: www.marciadawood.comLearn more about the documentary Show Her the Money: www.showherthemoneymovie.comAnd don't forget to follow us wherever you are!Apple Podcasts: https://pod.link/1586445642.appleSpotify: https://pod.link/1586445642.spotifyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/angel-next-door-podcast/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelnextdoorpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marciadawood
This week, the Dames continue our Varda series with the surreal and unique Jane B par Agnès V. Is it a documentary? Is it an essay film? What is this movie? In another inventive film from Agnès Varda, she sets out to help her friend Jane Birkin experience the film roles she never got to play and her fears about turning 40.
Varda Space is sending "huggable" capsules into low-Earth orbit for autonomous research and just recently, it returned its third successful mission. Plus, often nicknamed Earth's twin, Venus didn't evolve like Earth at all.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
In "Nino", in many ways reminiscent of Agnès Varda's "Cleo from 5 to 7", director Pauline Loquès focuses on trivial, daily things, which she says are her primary material, to explore "what happens when nothing happens" The post “Nino”, an interview with director Pauline Loquès appeared first on Fred Film Radio.
Season 25 begins! We meet Juergen Teller, one of the world's most sought-after contemporary photographers, successfully straddling the interface of both art and commercial photography.We discuss childhood, touring with Nirvana, Agnès Varda, Tracey Emin, William Eggleston, Kate Moss, Pope Francis, Kristen McMenemy, Zoe Bedeaux, collaborating with @DovileDrizyte and breakthroughs with Marc Jacobs. Juergen Teller's new exhibition of his photographs taken at Auschwitz Birkenau is now open Kunsthaus Göttingen, Germany until 1 June 2025 @KunsthausGoettingen. An accompanying photobook is published by @SteidlVerlag. 7 ½, Teller's concurrent exhibition runs at Galleria Degli Antichi, Sabbioneta, Italy until 23 November 2025 @VisitSabbioneta.Teller (b.1964) grew up in Bubenreuth near Erlangen, Germany. Teller graduated in 1986 and moved to London, finding work in the music industry shooting record covers for musicians such as Simply Red, Sinéad O'Connor and Morrissey with the help of the photographer, Nick Knight. By the early 1990s, he was working for avant-garde fashion magazines such as i-D, The Face, Details and Arena. Teller has collaborated with many fashion designers over the years, including Helmut Lang, Marc Jacobs, Yves Saint Laurent, Vivienne Westwood, Celine and Louis Vuitton.Teller was the recipient of the Citibank Photography Prize in association with the Photographer's Gallery, London in 2003. In 2007, he represented the Ukraine as one of five artists in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Teller has exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Photographer's Gallery, London (1998), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2004), Foundation Cartier, Paris (2006), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (2009), Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul (2011), Dallas Contemporary, USA (2011), Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2013), Deste Foundation, Athens (2014), Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (2015) and Bundeskunstalle, Bonn (2016).Teller's work is featured in numerous collections around the world, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; International Center for Photography, New York; Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. He has published forty-one artist books and exhibition catalogues since 1996. He currently holds a Professorship of Photography at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, and lives and works in London. Follow @JuergenTellerStudio and https://www.juergenteller.co.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Our Agnès Varda month continues with a discussion of Le Bonheur (Happiness), following the lives of a happy little nuclear family whose happiness gets challenged (or does it?) when the father begins an affair. Deeply feminist and gorgeously filmed, Le Bonheur fools you into thinking its one thing and then becomes another. We do recommend watching the film before listening to the podcast! Next week, we'll be chatting some of Varda's documentaries, starting with Jane B. par Agnès V.
Jackie and Greg wait for important test results for Agnès Varda's CLEO FROM 5 TO 7. Topics of discussion include Varda's style, how she compares to her Nouvelle Vague contemporaries, the film's mix of realism and fantasy, and its reverberating influence on cinema.#14 on Sight & Sound's 2022 "The Greatest Films of All Time" list. https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-timeCheck us out on Instagram: instagram.com/sceneandheardpodCheck us out at our official website: sceneandheardpod.comGraphic Design: Molly PintoMusic: Andrew CoxEditing: Greg KleinschmidtGet in touch at hello@sceneandheardpod.comSupport the showSupport the show on Patreon: patreon.com/SceneandHeardPodorSubscribe just to get access to our bonus episodes: buzzsprout.com/1905508/subscribe
This month we are (finally!) exploring some of the works of the great Agnès Varda, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave. First up, we're starting with one of her most widely seen: Cléo from 5 to 7. Corinne Marchand stars as the titular Cléo, a young singer waiting for important medical results. Over the course of 90 minutes, Cléo tries to distract herself from the agonizing wait, first among friends, and then on a winding route through Paris. The film screened at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival, currently ranks at 14 on Sight and Sound's list of greatest films of all time (only two spots behind The Godfather, just sayin'), and is part of the Criterion Collection.
A l'occasion du Festival de Cannes, plongez au coeur du star système et découvrez ces couples qui ont crevé l'écran. Ils nous ont fait rêver ou simplement réfléchir à notre conception de l'amour. Plongez dans l'intimité des plus beaux couples d'acteurs et d'actrices avec Alice Deroide. Jacques Demy et Agnès Varda se sont aimés pendant près de 30 ans. Des Demoiselles de Rochefort aux Plages d'Agnès, en passant par les Parapluies de Cherbourg, leur amour, c'est avec le cinéma qu'ils le partagent. Figures incontournables de la “Nouvelle Vague”, ils marquent au fer rouge le cinéma international. Pour eux, aimer c'est tourner. Recréer un univers, accepter de changer les codes. C'est vivre en couleur. Un podcast Bababam Originals Première diffusion : 22 mars 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week planet Earth is seeing two re-entries of man-made objects: first the uncontrolled, possibly life-threatening, Soviet-era Kosmos 482; and second, the W-3 - an example of the very controlled, defense and in some cases possibly life-extending, business case that is Varda Space Industries. Laura Winter speaks with Delian Asparouhov, Varda Space Industries' co-Founder and President, and Partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund; and Muk Pandian, Varda's Director of Strategic Partnerships and Advanced Concepts.
durée : 00:27:07 - Les Midis de Culture - par : Marie Labory - Au programme du débat critique, deux expositions : "Robert Doisneau, instants donnés" au musée Maillol et "Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci de-là" au musée Carnavalet. - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Philippe Azoury Journaliste, critique et auteur; Joseph Ghosn Directeur adjoint de la rédaction de Madame Figaro
durée : 00:11:28 - Les Midis de Culture - par : Marie Labory - Si Agnès Varda a arpenté le monde et a même vécu aux États-Unis, c'est le 14e arrondissement et la rue Daguerre qui ont conquis son cœur et ont constitué son refuge. Avec "Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci, de-là", le musée Carnavalet offre une plongée dans la vie et l'œuvre de l'artiste. - réalisation : Laurence Malonda - invités : Joseph Ghosn Directeur adjoint de la rédaction de Madame Figaro; Philippe Azoury Journaliste, critique et auteur
Cette semaine sur le podcast, je reçois deux femmes fortes et inspirantes : Varda Étienne et Kim Rusk. Ensemble, elles plongent dans des conversations profondes sur l'amour, l'amitié, les ruptures, la culpabilité et le respect de soi. Au menu :
C'est le plus français des soulmen, ancré dans le paysage musical depuis une bonne quinzaine d'années. Depuis ce tube qui l'avait propulsé en 2010, il était alors tout jeune. Depuis, il ne s'est pas laissé enfermer, au contraire. Ben l'Oncle Soul revient avec Sad Generation, son nouvel album. Le chanteur français n'a cessé de se renouveler et il trace sa route avec dans la voix une vibration et un flow que n'auraient pas renié les figures tutélaires américaines du Blues avec une exigence musicale intacte et des textes sensibles.Ben l'Oncle Soul est l'invité de Sur le pont des arts. Sad Generation est paru sur le label Enchanté records. Au programme de l'émission :► ReportageLisa Giroldini nous présente l'œuvre photographique d'Agnès Varda grâce à l'exposition Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci, de-là. On y découvre l'humour et le regard décalé que porte la célèbre cinéaste française sur les gens et les rues de la capitale. L'exposition est à voir au musée Carnavalet à Paris jusqu'au 24 août 2025. ► Playlist du jour- Ben l'Oncle Soul - I'm good- Ben l'Oncle Soul - F*** what you want- Ben l'Oncle Soul - Hard to do - Ben l'Oncle Soul - Devil on my shoulder- Ben l'Oncle Soul - The walls.
C'est le plus français des soulmen, ancré dans le paysage musical depuis une bonne quinzaine d'années. Depuis ce tube qui l'avait propulsé en 2010, il était alors tout jeune. Depuis, il ne s'est pas laissé enfermer, au contraire. Ben l'Oncle Soul revient avec Sad Generation, son nouvel album. Le chanteur français n'a cessé de se renouveler et il trace sa route avec dans la voix une vibration et un flow que n'auraient pas renié les figures tutélaires américaines du Blues avec une exigence musicale intacte et des textes sensibles.Ben l'Oncle Soul est l'invité de Sur le pont des arts. Sad Generation est paru sur le label Enchanté records. Au programme de l'émission :► ReportageLisa Giroldini nous présente l'œuvre photographique d'Agnès Varda grâce à l'exposition Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci, de-là. On y découvre l'humour et le regard décalé que porte la célèbre cinéaste française sur les gens et les rues de la capitale. L'exposition est à voir au musée Carnavalet à Paris jusqu'au 24 août 2025. ► Playlist du jour- Ben l'Oncle Soul - I'm good- Ben l'Oncle Soul - F*** what you want- Ben l'Oncle Soul - Hard to do - Ben l'Oncle Soul - Devil on my shoulder- Ben l'Oncle Soul - The walls.
Nouvelle semaine, nouvelle thématique... et aujourd'hui, on ose parler d'un sujet qui ne laisse personne indifférent : le cash. Eh oui, il était grand temps, mesdames, de faire sauter les tabous autour de l'argent !Que l'on l'aime, qu'il nous stresse ou qu'on préfère l'ignorer, l'argent est une réalité incontournable de nos vies. Pourtant, notre rapport à lui est souvent teinté d'idées préconçues, de jugements et de lourdes attentes sociales. Mais pourquoi, au juste ?Dans cet épisode vibrant, on plonge sans filtre dans notre lien personnel et émotionnel avec l'argent — pas de conseils d'investissement ici, mais une exploration en profondeur de notre histoire, de notre indépendance et des influences culturelles qui nous façonnent.Pour enrichir la discussion, nous avons échangé avec deux femmes inspirantes issues de générations complètement différentes : Madeleine Reiter et Alicia Fontaine. À travers leurs parcours et leurs visions, on met en lumière les avancées (et les défis !) du côté des finances au féminin.À mes côtés pour cette conversation sans langue de bois : Nour Belkhiria, Matthieu Lévesque, et pour couronner le tout, l'incroyable Varda Étienne.Authenticité, perspectives croisées et réflexions puissantes sont au rendez-vous.
durée : 02:28:32 - France Musique est à vous du samedi 26 avril 2025 - par : Gabrielle Oliveira-Guyon - Au programme d'aujourd'hui : la fraîcheur de jeu du pianiste et mathématicien Kit Armstrong, la gigantesque Symphonie des Sirènes d'Arseny Avraamov, une bouleversante chanson d'Agnès Varda et Michel Legrand composée pour le film "Cléo de 5 à 7" et la connivence du quatuor Girard ! - réalisé par : Delphine Keravec
In this podcast we are tying into our April conversations about the cinema of Kelly Reichardt with a conversation about a seminal work of another great female director Agnès Varda titled Vagabond. Over the course of our chat you will hear us try to break down this complex tapestry of episodic fiction and isolate its many meanings. We talk about visual symbolism in support of feminist expression, the French landscape depicted as hostile to women, the role of on-screen nudity in Varda's movie and the readings behind female-female interactions the filmmaker pays close attention to. We also talk about the dangers of travelling alone in winter, the etiquette of meddling with other people's car radio, taking phone calls in the bath and much more!Tune in and enjoy!Subscribe to our patreon at patreon.com/uncutgemspod (3$/month) and support us by gaining access to this show in full in addition to ALL of our exclusive podcasts, such as bonus tie-ins, themed retrospectives and director marathons!Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy BurrowsFeaturing: Hillary WhiteHead over to our website to find out more! (uncutgemspodcast.com)Follow us on Twitter (@UncutGemsPod) and IG (@UncutGemsPod)Buy us a coffee over at Ko-Fi.com (ko-fi.com/uncutgemspod)Subscribe to our Patreon (patreon.com/uncutgemspod)
Phil Roy parle de son ennui ! Joel Legendre a testé les différentes options végétariennes des fast-food et il nous fait un compte-rendu ! Megan Brouillard partage des trucs et astuces et se demande si tout le monde sait ça ou si elle révolutionne la vie des auditeurs ? BONNE ÉCOUTE !
durée : 00:55:39 - Certains l'aiment Fip - Rencontre avec l'actrice, réalisatrice et scénariste, à l'affiche du film "Le Mélange des genres", qui a joué avec Agnès Varda, Zabou Breitman, Agnès Jaoui, Mathieu Kassovitz, ou encore Quentin Dupieux.
durée : 00:12:50 - L'invité de 7h50 du week-end - Aujourd'hui à 7h50, nous recevons Rosalie Varda, responsable du fonds Varda pour l'exposition “Le Paris d'Agnès Varda, de-ci, de-là” consacrée à sa mère, au Musée Carnavalet jusqu'au 24 août.
This week on ClapperCast, Nicolò Grasso joins Carson Timar to return to Agnès Varda's filmography with a review of her underseen masterpiece, Jacquot de Nantes!Subscribe on Patreon for Bonus Episodes & Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/clappercastpodEmail us at ClapperCast@gmail.com- Social Media Links -Twitter: https://twitter.com/ClapperPodcastLetterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/clappercast/Carson Timar: https://bsky.app/profile/carsontimar.bsky.socialNicolò Grasso: https://bsky.app/profile/nickygra97.bsky.socialCreate Your Podcast on Zencastr Today: https://zencastr.com/?via=clappercastThanks for Watching!
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In this episode, we chat with Cameron Bailey, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival. Cameron shapes the vision and strategy of one of Canada's premier cultural brands, responsible for presenting the world's largest public film festival every September. A champion of diverse voices and bold storytelling, he's been the guiding force in transforming TIFF into a global hub known for groundbreaking international premieres to Oscar-bound favourites.With an eye for brilliance and a heart for storytelling, Cameron Bailey talks to us today about the evolution of technology in film, creating magical moments with an audience, and how important it is to remember that the audience…is us.We recorded this episode in Varda at TIFF Lightbox, an inspiring setting to reflect on the past, present, and future of film.
durée : 01:01:21 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1988, la personnalité d'André Bazin est évoquée par Agnès Varda, Jean Narboni, Jean Collet, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze et Jean-Charles Tacchella dans une émission en deux parties de la collection "Profils perdus". - réalisation : Virginie Mourthé - invités : Agnès Varda Cinéaste, photographe et plasticienne (1928-2019); Jean Narboni Historien, théoricien et critique de cinéma
durée : 00:59:14 - Femmes cinéastes (1/3) : Elles ont ouvert la voie - par : Thierry Jousse - En cette Journée internationale des droits des femmes, voici un premier parcours musical dédié à des femmes qui ont su, dès les années 1960-70, s'imposer derrière la caméra, de la française Agnès Varda à l'italienne Liliana Cavani, en passant par la tchèque Věra Chytilová,…
The space business landscape is changing. Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are moving at breakneck speed toward goals Americans have dreamed of since the 1960s. At the same time, a whole host of smaller startups are arriving on the scene, ready to tackle everything from asteroid mining to next-gen satellites to improved lunar missions.Today on Faster, Please — The Podcast, I'm talking with Matt Weinzierl about what research developments and market breakthroughs are allowing these companies to thrive.Weinzierl is the senior associate dean and chair of the MBA program at Harvard Business School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Weinzierl is the co-author of a new book with Brendan Rosseau, Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier.In This Episode* Decentralizing space (1:54)* Blue Origin vs. SpaceX (4:50)* Lowering launch costs (9:24)* Expanding space entrepreneurship (14:42)* Space sector sustainability (20:06)* The role of Artemis (22:45)* Challenges to success (25:28)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Decentralizing space (1:54). . . we had this amazing success in the '60s with the Apollo mission . . but it was obviously a very government-led, centralized program and that got us in the mode of thinking that's how you did space.You're telling a story about space transitioning from government-led to market-driven, but I wonder if you could just explain that point because it's not a story about privatization, it's a story about decentralization, correct?It really is, I think the most important thing for listeners to grab onto. In fact, I teach a course at Harvard Business School on this topic, and I've been teaching it now for a few years, and I say to my students, “What's the reason we're here? Why are we talking about space at HBS?” and it's precisely about what you just asked.So maybe the catchiest way to phrase this for folks, there was one of the early folks at SpaceX, Jim Cantrell, he was one of the earliest employees. He has this amazing quote from the early 2000s where he says, “The Great American Space Enterprise, which defeated Communism in defense of Capitalism, was and is operating on a Soviet economic model.” And he was basically speaking to the fact that we had this amazing success in the '60s with the Apollo mission and going to the moon and it truly was an amazing achievement, but it was obviously a very government-led, centralized program and that got us in the mode of thinking that's how you did space. And so for the next 50 years, basically we did space in that way run from the center, not really using market forces.What changed in various ways was that in the early 2000s we decided that model had kind of run its course and the weaknesses were too big and so it was time to bring market forces in. And that doesn't mean that we were getting rid of the government role in space. Just like you said, the government will always play a vital role in space for various reasons, national security among them, but it is decentralizing it in a way to bring the power of the market to bear.Maybe the low point — and that low point, that crisis, maybe created an opportunity — was the end of the Space Shuttle program. Was that an important inflection point?It's definitely one that I think most people in the sector look to as being . . . there's the expression “never waste a crisis,” and I think that that's essentially what happened. The Shuttle was an amazing engineering achievement, nobody really doubts that, and what NASA was trying to do with it and with their contractors was incredibly hard. So it's easy to kind of get too negative on that era, but it is also true that the Shuttle never really performed the way people hoped, it never flew as often, it was much more costly, and then in 2003 there was the second Shuttle tragedy.When that happened, I think everybody felt like, "This just isn't the future." So we need something else, and the Shuttle program was put on a cancellation path by the end of that decade. That really did force this reckoning with the fact that the American space sector, which had put men on the moon and brought them back safely in 1969, launching all sorts of dreams about space colonies and hotels, now, 40 years later, it was going to be unable to even put a person into orbit on its own rockets. We were going to be renting rockets from the Russians. That was really a moment of soul searching, I guess is one way you think about it in the sector.Blue Origin vs. SpaceX (4:50)I guess the big lesson . . . is that competition really does matter in space just like in any other business.I think naturally we would lead into talking about SpaceX, which we certainly will do, but the main competitor, Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos company, which seems to be moving forward, but it's definitely seemed to have adopted a very different kind of strategy. It seems to me different than the SpaceX strategy, which really is kind of a “move fast, break things, build them back up and try to launch again” while Blue Origin is far more methodical. Am I right in that, is that eventually going to work?Blue Origin is a fascinating company. In fact, we actually opened the book — the book is a series, basically, of stories that we tell about companies, and people, and government programs, sprinkled in with some economics because we can't resist. We're trying to structure it for folks, but we start with the story of Blue Origin because it really is fascinating. It illustrates some really fundamental aspects of the sector these days.To your specific question, we can talk more about Blue in many of its aspects. The motto of Blue from its beginning has been this Latin phrase, gradatim ferociter or, “step-by-step, ferociously,” and Bezos in the earliest days, they even have a tortoise on their company shield, so to speak, to signal this tortoise and the hair metaphor or fable. From the earliest days the idea was, “Look, we're going to just methodically work our way up to these grand visions of building infrastructure for space,” eventually in the service of having, as they always said, millions of people living and working in space.Now there's various ways to interpret the intervening 20 years that we've had, or 25 now since they were founded. One interpretation says, well, that's a nice story, but in fact they made some decisions that caused them to move more slowly than even they would've wanted to. So they didn't continue working as closely with NASA as, say, for instance SpaceX did. They relied really almost exclusively on funding from Bezos himself issuing a lot of other contracts they could have gotten, and that sort of reduced the amount of external discipline and market competition that they were facing. And then they made some other steps along the way, and so now they're trying to reignite and move faster, and they did launch New Glenn, their orbital rocket, recently. So they're back in the game and they're coming back. That's one story.Another story is, well yes, they've made decisions that at the time didn't seem to move as fast as they wanted, but they made those decisions intentionally. This is a strategy we will see pay off pretty well in the long run. I think that the jury is very much still out, but I guess the big lesson for your listeners and for me and hopefully for others in the sector, is that competition really does matter in space just like in any other business. To the extent that Blue didn't move as fast because they didn't face as much competition, that's an interesting lesson for the private sector. And to the extent that now they're in the game nipping at the heels of SpaceX, that's good for everybody, even for SpaceX, I think, to have them in the game.Do you think they're nipping at the heels?Well, yeah, I was just thinking as I said that, that might have been a little optimistic. It really does depend how you look at it. SpaceX is remarkably dominant in the commercial space sector, there's no question there. They launch 100 times a year plus and they are . . . the latest statistic I have in 2023, they launched more than 80 percent of all the mass launched off the surface of Earth, so they run more than half the satellites that are operational in space. They are incredibly dominant such that concerns about monopoly are quite present in the sector these days. We can talk about that.I think “nipping at the heels” might be a little generous, although there are areas in which SpaceX still does have real competition. The national security launch sector, ULA (United Launch Alliance) is still the majority launcher of national security missions and Blue is looking to also get into the national security launch market. With Amazon's satellite constellation, Kuiper, starting to come into the launch cadence over the next couple of years, they will have demand for lots of launch outside of SpaceX and that will start to increase the frequency with which Blue Origin and ULA also launch. So I think there is reason to believe that people in the sector will have more options, even for the heavy-lift launch vehicles.Lowering launch costs (9:24)[SpaceX] brought the cost of getting a kilogram of mass into orbit down by 90 percent in less than, really 10 or 15 years, which had been a stagnant number for going on four or five decades.People in Silicon Valley like talking about disruption and disruptors. It's hard to think of a company that is more deserving, or A CEO more deserving than Elon Musk and SpaceX. Tell me how disruptive that company has been to how we think about space and the economic potential of space.We open our chapter in the book on SpaceX by saying we believe it'll go down as one of the most important companies in the history of humanity, and I really do believe that. I don't think you have to be a space enthusiast, necessarily, to believe it. The simplest way to summarize that is that they brought the cost of getting a kilogram of mass into orbit down by 90 percent in less than, really 10 or 15 years, which had been a stagnant number for going on four or five decades. It had hovered around — depending on the data point you look at — around $30,000 a kilogram to low earth orbit, and once SpaceX got Falcon 9 flying, it was down to $3,000. That's just an amazing reduction.What's also amazing about it is they didn't stop there. As soon as they had that, they decided that one of the ways to make the business model work was to reinvent satellite internet. So in a sector that had just over a decade ago only 1000 operational satellites up in space, now we have 10,000, 6,000 plus of which are SpaceX's Starlink, just an incredibly fast-growing transformational technology in orbit.And then they went on to disrupt their own disruption by creating a rocket called Starship, which is just absolutely massive in a way that's hard to even imagine, and that, if it fulfills the promise that I think everyone hopes it will, will bring launch costs down, if you can believe it, by another 90 percent, so a total of 99 percent down to, say, $300 a kilogram. Now you may not have to pass those cost savings on to the customers because they don't have a lot of competition, but it's just amazingWhat's possible with those launch costs in that vicinity? Sometimes, when I try to describe it, I'm like, well, imagine all your 1960s space dreams and what was the missing ingredient? The missing ingredient was the economics and those launch costs. Now plug in those launch costs and lots of crazy things that seem science-fictional may become science-factual. Maybe give me just a sense of what's possible.Well first tell me, Jim, which of the '60s space dreams are you most excited about?It's hard for me, it's like which of my seven kids do I love more? I love the idea of people living in space, of there being industry in space. I like the idea of there being space-based solar power, lunar mining, asteroid mining, the whole kit and caboodle.You've gone through the list. I think we're all excited about those things. And just in case it's not obvious to your listeners, the reason I think you asked that question is that, of course, the launch cost is the gateway to doing anything in space. That's why everyone in the industry makes such a big deal out of it. Once you have that, it seems like the possibilities for business cases really do expand.Now, of course, we have to be careful. It's easy to get overhyped. It's still very expensive to do all the things you just mentioned in space, even if you can get there cheaply. Once you put humans in the mix, humans are very hard to keep alive in space. Space is a very dangerous place for lots of reasons. Even when there aren't humans in space, operating in space, even autonomously, is obviously quite hard, whether it's asteroid mining or other things. It's not as though, all of a sudden, all of our biggest dreams are immediately going to be realized. I do think that part of what's so exciting, part of the reason we wrote the book, is that there is a new renaissance of enthusiasm of startups building a bit on the SpaceX model of having a big dream, being really cost-conscious as you build it, moving fast and experimenting and iterating, who are going after some of these dreams you mentioned..So whether it's an asteroid mining company — actually, in my course later this week, we're having Matt Gialich, who's the CEO of AstroForge, and they're trying to reboot the asteroid mining industry. He's coming in to talk to our students. Or whether it's lunar mining, we have Rob Meyerson who ran Blue Origin for more than a decade, now he's started up a company that's going to mine Helium 3 on the moon; or whether you're talking about commercial space stations, which could eventually house tourists, manufacturing, R&D, a whole new push to bring the cost savings from the launch sector into the destinations sector, which we really haven't had.We've had the International Space Station for 20 plus years, but it wasn't really designed for commercial activity from the start and costs are pretty high. So there is this amazing flowering, and we'll see. I guess I would say that, in the short run, if you're trying to build a business in space, it's still mostly about satellites. It's still mostly about data to and from space. But as we look out further, we all hope that those bigger dreams are becoming more of a reality.Expanding space entrepreneurship (14:42)The laws of supply and demand do not depend on gravity.To me, it is such an exciting story and the story of these companies, they're just great stories to me. They're still, I think, pretty unknown. SpaceX, if you read the books that have been published, very harrowing, the whole thing could have collapsed quite easily. Still today, when the media covers — I think they're finally getting better —that anytime there'd be a SpaceX rocket blow up, they're like, “Oh, that's it! Musk doesn't know what he's doing!” But actually, that's the business, is to iterate, launch again, if it blows up, figure out what went wrong, use the data, fix it, try again. It's taken a long time.To the extent people or the media think about it, maybe 90 percent of the thought is about SpaceX, a little bit about Blue Origin, but, as you mentioned, there is this, no pun intended, constellation of other companies which have grown up, which have somewhat been enabled by the launch costs. Which one? Give me one of those that you think people should know about.There's so many actually, very much to your point. We wrote the book partly to give folks inside the industry a view they might not have had, which is, I'm an economist. We thought there was room to just show people how an economist thinks through this amazing change that's happening.Economics is not earthbound! It extends above the surface of the planet!The laws of supply and demand do not depend on gravity. We've learned that. But we also wrote the book for a couple other groups of people. One, people who are kind of on the margins of space, so their business isn't necessarily involved in space, but once they know all the activity that's happening, including the companies you're hinting at there, they might think, “Wait a minute, maybe my business, or I personally, could actually use some of the new capabilities in space to drive my mission forward to have an impact through my organization or myself.” And then of course the broader population of people who are just excited and want to learn more about what's going on and read some great stories.But I'll give you two companies, maybe three because I can't help myself. One is Firefly, which just landed successfully on the moon . . . 24 hours ago maybe? What a great story. It's now the second lander that's successfully landed, this one fully successfully after Intuitive Machines was a little bit tipped over, but that's a great example of how this model that includes more of a role for the commercial sector succeeds not all the time — the first lunar lander in the program that was supporting these didn't quite succeed — but try, try again. That's the beauty of markets, they find a way often and you can't exactly predict how they're going to work out. But that was a huge success story and so I'm very excited about what that means for our activity on the moon.Another really fascinating company is called K2. A lot of your listeners who follow space will have heard of it. It's two brothers who basically realized that, with the drop in launch costs being promised by Starship, the premium on building lightweight small satellites is kind of going away. We can go back to building big satellites again and maybe we don't need to always make the sacrifices that engineers have had to make to bring the mass down. So they're building much bigger satellites and that can potentially really increase the capabilities even still at low cost. So that's really exciting.Finally, I'll just mention Varda, which is a really fun and exciting startup that is doing manufacturing in automated capsules right now of pharmaceutical ingredients. What I love about them, very much to your point about these startups that are just flowering because of lower launch costs, they're not positioning themselves really as a space company. They're positioning themselves as a manufacturing company that happens to use microgravity to do it cheaper. So you don't have to be a space enthusiast to want your supply chain to be cheaper and they're part of that.Do you feel like we have a better idea of why there should be commercial space stations, or again, is that still in the entrepreneurial process of figuring it out? Once they're up there, business cases will emerge?I was just having a conversation about that this morning, actually, with some folks in the sector because there is a wide range of views about that. It is, as you were sort of implying, a bit of a chicken-and-the-egg problem, it's hard to know until you have a space station what you might do with it, what business cases might result. On the other hand, it's hard to invest in a space station if you don't know what the business case is for doing it. So it is a bit tricky.I tend to actually be slightly on the optimistic end of the spectrum, perhaps just because, as an economist, I think you are trained to know that the market can't be predicted and that at some level that is the beauty of the market. If we drive down costs, there's a ton of smart entrepreneurs out there who I think will be looking very hard to find value that they can create for people, and I'm still optimistic we'll be surprised.If I had to make the other side of the case, I would say that we've been dreaming about using microgravity for many decades, the ISS has been trying, and there hasn't been a killer app quite found yet. So it is very true that there are reasons to be skeptical despite my optimism.Space sector sustainability (20:06)Space does face a sort of structural problem with investing. The venture capital industry is not really built for the time horizons and the level of fundamental uncertainty that we're talking about with space.It's also a sector that's gone through a lot of booms and busts. That certainly has been the case with the idea of asteroid mining among other things. What do you see as the sustainability? I sort of remember Musk talking about there was this kind of “open window to space,” and I don't know what he thought opened that window, maybe it was low interest rates? What is the sustainability of the financial case for this entire sector going forward?It is true that the low interest rate environment of the early 2020s was really supportive to space in a way that. Again, opinions vary on whether it was so hot that it ended up actually hurting the sector by creating too much hype, and then some people lost their shirts, and so there was some bad taste in the mouth there. On the other hand, it got a lot of cash to a lot of companies that are trying to make really hard things happen. Space does face a sort of structural problem with investing. The venture capital industry is not really built for the time horizons and the level of fundamental uncertainty that we're talking about with space. We don't really know what the market is yet. We don't really know how long it's going to take to develop. So that's I think why you see some of these more exotic financing models in space, whether it's the billionaires or the so-called SPAC boom of the early 2020s, which was an alternative way for some space companies to go public and raise a big pile of cash. So I think people are trying to solve for how to get over what might be an uncomfortably long time before the kind of sustainable model that you're talking about is realized.Now, skeptics will say, “Well, maybe that's just because there is no sustainable model. We're hoping and hoping, but it's going to take 500 years.” I'm a little more optimistic than that for reasons we've talked about, but I think one part we haven't really mentioned, or at least not gone into that yet, which is reassuring to investors that I talked to and increasingly maybe an important piece of the puzzle, is the demand from the public sector, which remains quite robust, especially from the national security side. A lot of startups these days, even when capital markets are a bit tighter, they can rely on some relatively stable financing from the national security side, and I think that will always be there in space. There will always be a demand for robust, innovative technologies and capabilities in space that will help sustain the sector even through tough times.The role of Artemis (22:45)Artemis is a really good example of the US space enterprise, broadly speaking, trying to find its way into this new era, given all the political and other constraints that are, of course, going to impinge on a giant government program. I can imagine a scenario where most of this book is about NASA, and Artemis, and what comes after Artemis, and you devote one chapter to the weird kind of private-sector startups, but actually it's just the opposite. The story here is about what's going on with the private sector working with NASA and Artemis seems like this weird kind of throwback to old Apollo-style way of doing things. Is Artemis an important technology for the future of space or is it really the last gasp of an old model?It's a very timely question because obviously with all the change going on in Washington and especially with Elon's role —Certainly you always hear rumors that they'll cancel it. I don't know if that's going to happen, but I certainly see speculations pop-up in the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times from time to time.Exactly, and you probably see debates in Congress where you see some Congress-people resistant to canceling some contracts and debates about the space launch system, the SLS rocket, which I think nobody denies is sort of an older model of how we're going to get to space. On the other hand, it's an incredibly powerful rocket that can actually get us to the moon right now.There's a lot of debate going on right now. The way I think about it is that Artemis is a really good example of the US space enterprise, broadly speaking, trying to find its way into this new era, given all the political and other constraints that are, of course, going to impinge on a giant government program. It's a mix of the old and the new. It's got some pieces like SLS or Gateway, which is a sort of station orbiting the moon to provide a platform for various activities that feel very much like the model from the 1980s: Shuttle and International Space Station.Then it's got pieces that feel very much like the more modern commercial space era with the commercial lunar payload services clips contracts that we were briefly talking about before, and with some of the other pieces that are — whether it's the lander that's also using commercial contracts, whether it's those pieces that are trying to bring in the new. How will it all shake out? My guess is that we are moving, I think inexorably, towards the model that really does tap into the best of the private sector, as well as of the public, and so I think we'll move gradually towards a more commercial approach, even to achieving the sort of public goods missions on the moon — but it'll take a little bit of time because people are naturally risk averse.Challenges to success (25:28)We're going to have some setbacks, some things aren't going to go well with this new model. There's going to be, I'm sure, some calls for pulling back on the commercial side of things, and I think that would be a real lost opportunity. . .How do we not screw this up? How do we not end up undermining this momentum? If you want to tell me what we can do, that's great, but I'm also worried about us making a mistake?There are threats to our ability to do this successfully. I'll just name two which are top of mind. One is space debris. That comes up in virtually every conversation I have. Especially with the increasing number of satellites, increasing number of actors in space, you do have to worry that we might lose control of that environment. Again, I am on the relatively more optimistic end of the spectrum for reasons we explain in the book, and I think the bottom line there is: The stakes are pretty high for everybody who's operating up there to not screw that part up, so I hope we'll get past it, but some people are quite worried.The second, honestly, is national security. Space has always been a beacon, we hope, of transcending our geopolitical rivalries, not just extending them up there. We're in a difficult time, so I think there is some risk that space will not remain as peaceful as it has — and that could very much short-circuit the kind of growth that we're talking about. Sadly, that would be very ironic because the economic opportunities that we have up there to create benefit for everybody on Earth and are part of what hopefully would bring people together across borders up in space. It's one of those places where we can cooperate for the common good.How could we screw this up? I think it's not always going to be smooth sailing. We're going to have some setbacks, some things aren't going to go well with this new model. There's going to be, I'm sure, some calls for pulling back on the commercial side of things, and I think that would be a real lost opportunity. 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A l'occasion de la Saint-Valentin, découvrez ces couples qui ont crevé l'écran. Ils nous ont fait rêver ou simplement réfléchir à notre conception de l'amour. Plongez dans l'intimité des plus beaux couples d'acteurs et d'actrices avec Alice Deroide. Jacques Demy et Agnès Varda se sont aimés pendant près de 30 ans. Des Demoiselles de Rochefort aux Plages d'Agnès, en passant par les Parapluies de Cherbourg, leur amour, c'est avec le cinéma qu'ils le partagent. Figures incontournables de la “Nouvelle Vague”, ils marquent au fer rouge le cinéma international. Pour eux, aimer c'est tourner. Recréer un univers, accepter de changer les codes. C'est vivre en couleur. Un podcast Bababam Originals Première diffusion : 22 mars 2019 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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With its 13 Oscar nominations, Adam and Josh could no longer ignore EMILIA PÉREZ. True to the film's divisive reputation, they split on it. Plus, a very special musical edition of Massacre Theatre and a revelatory Pantheon Project review of Agnès Varda's CLÉO FRMO 5 TO 7. This episode is presented by Regal Unlimited, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. (Timecodes will not be precise with ads; chapters may start early.) Intro (00:00:00-00:01:42) Review: “Emilia Pérez” (00:01:43-00:28:36) Filmspotting Family (00:28:37-00:32:03) Next Week / Notes (00:32:04-00:39:02) Musical Massacre Theatre (00:39:03-00:50:14) Pantheon Project: “Cléo From 5 to 7” (00:50:15-01:20:52) Credits / New Releases (01:20:53-01:25:13) Notes/Links: Filmspotting Fest https://www.filmspottingfest.com Filmspotting Pantheon https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting/list/filmspotting-pantheon/detail/ Feedback: Email us at feedback@filmspotting.net. Ask Us Anything and we might answer your question in bonus content. Support: -Join the Filmspotting Family for bonus episodes and complete archive access. http://filmspottingfamily.com -T-shirts (and more) on sale at the Filmspotting Shop. https://filmspotting.net/shop Follow: https://www.instagram.com/filmspotting https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting https://twitter.com/filmspotting https://facebook.com/filmspotting https://letterboxd.com/larsenonfilm https://twitter.com/larsenonfilm https://facebook.com/larsenonfilm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Voltamos para mais um “Dicas Triplas do PFC” e desta vez Fred recebe os amigos e colaboradores Tony Vendramini e Willian de Andrade para mais um papo sobre ótimos filmes que servirão como dicas a nossos ouvintes. Curiosamente, cada integrante trouxe um filme da década de 90 sem saber das indicações dos outros. Neste áudio falamos sobre “A Garota da Fábrica de Caixas de Fósforo” (Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö, 1990), produção finlandesa de Aki Kaurismäki; depois seguimos para o americano “Os Donos da Rua” (Boyz n the hood, 1991), o primeiro filme do diretor estreante John Singleton; e terminamos na França com a veterana Agnès Varda e seu longa “As Cento e Uma Noites” (Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, 1995), uma bela homenagem ao centenário do cinema. Capítulos 00:00:00 Introdução 00:07:55 A Garota da Fábrica de Caixas de Fósforo 00:32:15 Os Donos da Rua 01:00:20 As 101 Noites 01:28:08 Spoilers de "A Garota da F. de Caixas de Fósforo" 01:36:10 Spoilers de "Os Donos da Rua" 01:42:30 Spoilers de "As 101 Noites" ---------------------- Acesse nosso site: http://www.filmesclassicos.com.br/ Acesse nossa página no Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/podcastfilmesclassicos/
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This week on Pathfinder, we welcome Adam Draper, founder and managing director of Boost VC, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Mateo, CA, specializing in pre-seed deals in deep tech, including space.Boost VC's track record includes early investments in space companies such as Varda, Starfish Space, and K2 Space. This episode explores the philosophy and strategy behind the firm's approach to venture capital.In addition, we discuss:Adam's journey into VC and the Draper family legacy in the industryThe firm's commitment to backing “impossible” ideas and frontier technologiesInsights into investing in deep tech, from identifying committed founders to understanding market risksThe importance of storytelling and momentum in aerospace and defense startupsBoost's role in shaping the future of space industries, from lunar water mining to satellite servicing and space manufacturingPredictions for the future of space and deep tech, including the rise of biopharma in orbit and even the search for extraterrestrial lifeAnd much more… • Chapters •00:00 - Intro00:45 - Adam's background07:48 - Boost VC11:57 - How do you tell a founder has commitment?14:04 - Signs of a founder with a real interest in space17:54 - Making the case for the space market20:51 - On the frontier23:01 - Signs Adam looks for when he needs to step in and direct a company28:20 - Investing in software vs. deep tech30:43 - Early-stage pre-seed investing38:07 - How would a founder differentiate themselves when it comes to fundraising?43:25 - How to stay ahead of the curve with investing in space48:36 - Craziest space deal Adam has invested in51:46 - Adam's 2025 predictions • Show notes •Boost VC website — https://www.boost.vc/Boost's socials — https://x.com/BoostVCAdam's socials — https://x.com/AdamDraperMo's socials — https://twitter.com/itsmoislamPayload's socials — https://twitter.com/payloadspace / https://www.linkedin.com/company/payloadspacePathfinder archive — Watch: https://www.youtube.com/@payloadspacePathfinder archive — Listen: https://pod.payloadspace.com/episodes • About us •Pathfinder is brought to you by Payload, a modern space media brand built from the ground up for a new age of space exploration and commercialization. We deliver need-to-know news and insights daily to 19,000+ commercial, civil, and military space leaders. Payload is read by decision-makers at every leading new space company, along with c-suite leaders at all of the aerospace & defense primes. We're also read on Capitol Hill, in the Pentagon, and at space agencies around the world.Payload began as a weekly email sent to a few friends and coworkers. Today, we're a team distributed across four time zones and two continents, publishing five media properties across multiple platforms:1) Payload, our flagship daily newsletter, sends M-F @ 9am Eastern2) Pathfinder publishes weekly on Tuesday mornings (pod.payloadspace.com)3) Polaris, our weekly policy briefing, publishes weekly on Tuesdays4) Payload Research, our weekly research and analysis piece, comes out on WednesdaysYou can sign up for all of our publications here: https://payloadspace.com/subscribe/
In this mini Lore of the Rings episode, we explore the hidden connections between our world and Middle-earth through a starry detail in the chapter "Strider" from *The Fellowship of the Ring*. Discover how the constellation we know as the Big Dipper was crafted by Varda, the Valar, as a defiant sign against Melkor, Sauron's master. For a deeper dive into the chapter, download our free guide at ringspodcast.com/strider.Who are you?What's the best day for you to listen to new episodes? Tell me here: ringspodcast.com/newTell me more about you! ringspodcast.com/feedbackWander FartherDownload my free chapter guide for "Strider": ringspodcast.com/striderDeals for you, my fellow wandererExclusive discount for Lore of the Rings Listeners: 25% off your entire order at Manly Bands. Details at https://www.ringspodcast.com/p/rings/Download my FREE guide for reading Tolkien's Silmarillion: https://ringspodcast.kit.com/a982347493About the Lore of the Rings PodcastContact the show, donate, and find past episodes: ringspodcast.comEmbark on an immersive journey through the captivating realms of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, where the epic sagas of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales, and more come to life. Join us as we delve into the rich tapestry of Tolkien's masterful storytelling, drawing intriguing comparisons between his literary works and the cinematic adaptations crafted by Peter Jackson. Be at the forefront of the latest developments as we explore the highly anticipated Rings of Power series from Amazon. Prepare to be enthralled as we uncover hidden connections, untold tales, and delve into the depths of Middle-earth lore. Tune in now and become part of our fellowship on this extraordinary journey!This podcast is not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ringspodcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
In this mini Lore of the Rings episode, we explore the hidden connections between our world and Middle-earth through a starry detail in the chapter "Strider" from *The Fellowship of the Ring*. Discover how the constellation we know as the Big Dipper was crafted by Varda, the Valar, as a defiant sign against Melkor, Sauron's master. For a deeper dive into the chapter, download our free guide at ringspodcast.com/strider.Who are you?What's the best day for you to listen to new episodes? Tell me here: ringspodcast.com/newTell me more about you! ringspodcast.com/feedbackWander FartherDownload my free chapter guide for "Strider": ringspodcast.com/striderDeals for you, my fellow wandererExclusive discount for Lore of the Rings Listeners: 25% off your entire order at Manly Bands. Details at https://www.ringspodcast.com/p/rings/Download my FREE guide for reading Tolkien's Silmarillion: https://ringspodcast.kit.com/a982347493About the Lore of the Rings PodcastContact the show, donate, and find past episodes: ringspodcast.comEmbark on an immersive journey through the captivating realms of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, where the epic sagas of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales, and more come to life. Join us as we delve into the rich tapestry of Tolkien's masterful storytelling, drawing intriguing comparisons between his literary works and the cinematic adaptations crafted by Peter Jackson. Be at the forefront of the latest developments as we explore the highly anticipated Rings of Power series from Amazon. Prepare to be enthralled as we uncover hidden connections, untold tales, and delve into the depths of Middle-earth lore. Tune in now and become part of our fellowship on this extraordinary journey!This podcast is not affiliated with the Tolkien Estate.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ringspodcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
The Author Events Series presents Carrie Rickey | A Complicated Passion, The Life and Work of Agnès Varda REGISTER In conversation with Gary Kramer Born in Los Angeles, Carrie Rickey is an award-winning film critic, art critic, and film historian. She was the film critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty-five years and has also written for Artforum, Art in America, Film Comment, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and Politico. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia. A Complicated Passion, The Life and Work of Agnès Varda is the first major biography of the storied French filmmaker, who was hailed by Martin Scorsese as ''one of the Gods of cinema.'' Over the course of her sixty-five-year career, the longest of any female filmmaker, Agnès Varda (1928 – 2019) wrote and directed some of the most acclaimed films of her era, from her tour de force Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), a classic of modernist cinema, to the beloved documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) four decades later. She helped to define the French New Wave, inspired an entire generation of filmmakers, and was recognized with major awards at the Cannes, Berlin, and Venice Film Festivals, as well as an honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards. In this lively biography, former Philadelphia Inquirer film critic Carrie Rickey explores the ''complicated passions'' that informed Varda's charmed life and indelible work. Rickey traces Varda's three remarkable careers - as still photographer, as filmmaker, and as installation artist. She explains how Varda was a pioneer in blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, using the latest digital technology and carving a path for women in the movie industry. She demonstrates how Varda was years ahead of her time in addressing sexism, abortion, labor exploitation, immigrant rights, and race relations with candor and incisiveness. She makes clear Varda's impact on contemporary figures like Ava DuVernay, Greta Gerwig, Barry Jenkins, the Safdie brothers, and Martin Scorsese, who called her one of the Gods of cinema. And she delves into Varda's incredibly rich social life with figures such as Harrison Ford, Jean-Luc Godard, Jim Morrison, Susan Sontag, and Andy Warhol, and her nearly forty-year marriage to the celebrated director Jacques Demy. A Complicated Passion is the vibrant biography that Varda, regarded by many as the greatest female filmmaker of all time, has long deserved. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Books will be available for purchase at the library on event night The views expressed by the authors and moderators are strictly their own and do not represent the opinions of the Free Library of Philadelphia or its employees. (recorded 9/16/2024)
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This is my preview of what the coming year 2025 may hold for the Space sector - including in launch, satcom, earth observation, lunar exploration, in-space manufacturing, science, government, finance, events, etc. For the second half of the episode, fellow space investors Alexandra Vidyuk and Faraz Khan join me to provide their perspectives, in a roundtable format.
Lizrok means ‘to throw' in Hebrew, but how is it used in relationship lingo? Oh, and who is the most famous ‘Varda' in Israel? Hear the All-Hebrew Episode on Patreon New Words and Expressions: “Ve-chamesh shanim itach zarakti la-pach” – And five years with you, I threw in the garbage – וחמש שנים איתך זרקתי לפח “Ulai tafsik lizrok aleyha kesef?” – Maybe you'll stop throwing money on her? – אולי תפסיק לזרוק עליה כסף Lizrok la-zevel – To throw something in the garbage – לזרוק לזבל Lizrok mishehu la-klavim – To throw someone to the dogs – לזרוק מישהו לכלבים Tizreki oto – Dump him – תזרקי אותו Ulai tizrok et ha-nayad – Why won't you throw away the cellphone? – אולי תזרוק את הנייד Tizrok, zrok – Throw (imp.) – תזרוק, זרוק “Rak zrok mila” – Just throw a word – רק זרוק מילה Zrok lo eize mila – Throw in a word when you talk to him – זרוק לו איזה מילה Zaruk – Thrown, dumped – זרוק Dafuk ve-zaruk be-paris u-ve-london – Down and out in Paris and London – דפוק וזרוק בפריס ובלונדון Nizrak – It was thrown, he was dumped – נזרק Kacha nizrakti ba'olam – This is how I got thrown out in the world – ככה נזרקתי בעולם Lehizarek al sapa – To lie on the sofa – להיזרק על הספה Zrika – Throwing, injection – זריקה Zrikat adrenaline – Adrenaline shot – זריקת אדרנלין Mizraka – Fountain – מזרקה Zark'or – Projector – זרקור Playlist and Clips: Oren Adam – Mami Ze Nigmar (lyrics) Avihu Shabbat & Michal Amdursky – Yalla (lyrics) Ivri Lider – Kartisei Ashrai (lyrics) Climax – Zrok Mila (lyrics) Ep. 172 about dafuk