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Hi, everybody. Back in 2006 I took an elective European Cinema course which was mostly a Criterion Collection sampler. Needless to say it absolutely ruled. But recently I’ve been trying to remember all the films we watched.

The only one I am unsure of was, I believe, a UK miniseries or TV movie more or less about miserable, poor British domestic life. I want to say Thatcher-era? It may not have been a Criterion title. The only specific bit I remember is an older father character who had some awful boil on his neck or back that his wife was trying to deal with. Anyone know what this might have been?

For fun, here are the other titles I remember watching. Except the bottom one which I remem

Intro/Background:

Baader-Meinhof (pronounced "badder mainhoff") was first published in The New Yorker April 1, 2002.

The title might bring to mind the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, a type of cognitive bias where something you recently learned suddenly appears 'everywhere'. (For example, a few years ago I bought a nondescript model/color of car that I had no familiarity with whatsoever. Within a few months I discovered at least half a dozen fellow residents of my small city driving the same exact car.)

But more directly

So there's plenty of stuff in Against the Day about light and photography. One thing I may have picked up on occurs on page 410:

Around the edges of his form, a strange magenta-and-green aura had begun to flicker, as if from a source somewhere behind him, growing more intense as he himself faded from view, until seconds later nothing was left by a kind of stain in the air where he had been, a warping of the light as through ancient window-glass.

What really raised my eyebrows there is the "magenta-and-green" bit. My photographer's mind leapt immediately to the optical problem known as chromatic aberration. This is essentia

I've always loved the original Gravity's Rainbow cover art, and being the type of dweeb that I am I've been stymied by the size/quality of digitized versions. So today I scanned a paperback copy and cleaned it up into three iterations, each with more text removed. I think these could be good for desktop backgrounds and that sort of thing.

https://imgur.com/a/sUers1H

Edit: I noticed that imgur scaled down my images to 2800px. If that size isn't good enough for anyone, maybe DM me and we can work out a way to get you something larger. Probably overkill, but my working file is 7400px at 600ppi.