Dear Pynchon listserve: NP but quite Pynchon-adjacent

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I have blocked reddit on all my devices (too addictive). Can anyone post it here?



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On Thursday, 03/05/26 at 16:03 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
this is quite good in a similar vein

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/03/sunset-review-laszlo-nemes

a great director is Nemes
he is reportedly directing a version of McCarthy's Outer Dark (o boy) and a
film on resistance leader Jean Moulin (o boy)

and I figure u guys have seen Pynchon's letter to lazlo krasznahorkai
recently posted on Reddit?

rich

On Thu, Mar 5, 2026 at 6:07 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>  A possibly great movie called *My Twentieth Century *
> was chosen by the local Film Society I
> am part of. A 1989 Hungarian movie by another of the brilliant
> women making art and movies in our time. The female gaze, not the male.
> Look it up. Consider watching it if you haven't or watching it again.
>
> So, this viewing--I had seen it when released in a shallow
> appreciative way--
> because of immersion in Pynchon's vision and  on modernity and
> and modernism since,  I saw it deeper, I think.
>
> Major themes of this movie align with many of Pynchon's. Simplistically,
> light
> and electricity in themselves and as a synecdoche for the invasion of
> technology
> into the twentieth century. And a copy of Kropkin's* Mutual Aid* --I am
> giving a local lecture on this concept and history and aliveness in our
> world in the fall--plays a major role--
> Kropotkin's self-organizing 'anarchism' is one of P's constant, hidden
> themes and
> the plot involves two twin sisters who take different paths in life, one
> becoming a
> bomb-carrying anarchist---but no spoilers about how or whether--so the
> theme
> of violence or not for social change is also major....
>
> I think this movie, set mostly in Budapest, may have been part of the
> influence 'soil', so to speak,
> of* Shadow Ticket* which ends in Hungary, as we know...
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