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Monday, May 06, 2019

Under the Silver Lake, Raymond Chandler

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Under the Silver Lake (2018): It’s a movie that loves the art of decades past, and hates who perverts it. It reminded me of both David Fo...
Wednesday, May 01, 2019

November Criminals: novel vs film

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Why the Aeneid? It’s exciting but also difficult to understand. The stories in it are kind of incomprehensible. Aeneas returning from the...
Monday, April 29, 2019

List of Best Noir Films: #8 Nightmare Alley

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 #8. Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947) Once described as the greatest noir movie not made by arch cynic Billy Wilder, Tyrone Powe...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019

West Side Story (2020) by Spielberg starring Ansel Elgort and Rachel Zegler

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West Side Story  (2020) has found its leading man and created a brand new role for original cast member Rita Moreno, so count us as offic...
Thursday, April 25, 2019

Nightmare Alley (1947), Remake by Guillermo del Toro with Leonardo DiCaprio

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Guillermo del Toro are nearing a collaboration on “Nightmare Alley,” the director’s adaptation of William Lindsay G...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

Collapse of the golden age of music recording

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The golden age of recorded music: Going back to 1945, by the end of the war, there was a “golden age” of music, the big band era, the beg...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Favorite Music: Buddy Holly, Paul McCartney

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Network Science and the Effects of Music Preference on Functional Brain Connectivity: Listening to music that is liked or a favorite so...
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