5aug24

Helicopters overhead this morning. Doorbell and phone haven’t stopped ringing yet.

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• Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns and flees country as protesters storm palace
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• Don’t Call What’s Happening in Venezuela a Civil War

OPERATIONS: Gear change
STATUS: Inbox 100.
READING: EVERYTHING IS CINEMA: THE WORKING LIFE OF JEAN-LUC GODARD, Richard Brody.
LISTENING: Late Junction
LAST WATCHED: ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES
THINKING ABOUT:

“Godard has, at last, created the form he needed. It is a combination of essay, journalistic sketches, news and portraiture, love lyric and satire.”

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