Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A busy last week of October 🍂

books & movies:
The Phantom of the Opera dir. by Rupert Julian (1925)
Strega by Johanne Lykke Holm (trans. Saskia Vogel) (2020)
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay (1967)
Picnic at Hanging Rock dir. by Peter Weir (1975)
Suspiria dir. by Dario Argento (1977)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. Ruth L. C. Simms) (1940)
Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (trans. Karen S. Kingsbury)
Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang (1979)
Lust, Caution dir. by Ang Lee (2007)
Family by Natalia Ginzburg (trans. Beryl Stockman) (1977)
Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer (trans. Shaun Whiteside) (1958)

program note/essay on my substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com/p/recreation

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