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Today, 06:29 AM
Yes, he was less-prolific than many directors, but I think that was more to do with only wanting to do films that turned him on.
I can understand...
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Today, 03:36 AM
*Update*
1. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy 3.75/5
2. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 10/5
3. Chérie by Colette 3.75/5
4. A Visit from the...
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Today, 02:28 AM
Interesting new study on the very subject:...
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Today, 02:26 AM
Stanley Kubrick. He's no Mozart, Beethoven or Rembrandt, but I'd happily put him up against Bach.
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Today, 02:21 AM
Actually, if you check what I wrote, I agreed with that myself.
I'll just repeat that I'm neither denying Chinese influence or the extent of it,...
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Yesterday, 02:21 PM
My god, this is one of the most ignorant posts I have ever seen, and I am the most ignorant person I know. What does one case of Producers screwing...
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Yesterday, 08:18 AM
Hi wordeater - nice to see you on the thread. Also nice to see another reader of female authors around. There are some great ones out there :)
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05-22-2013, 11:04 PM
Sure it is. I agree with you entirely.
I wasn't damning them with faint praise so much as being lazy.
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05-22-2013, 06:13 PM
That have been countless mediocre novels that were adapted into great movies.
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05-22-2013, 05:32 PM
Im sorry but that is an over-simplification of what films can do. Besides, art films are for a refined audience like serious literature.
In fact,...
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05-22-2013, 05:26 PM
Mal-4-mac, you need more experience with film. Not even citizen kane is the pinnacle of film. The best directors of the 20th century are just as...
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05-22-2013, 05:15 PM
That's a widely-held belief, but I can only disagree strongly with it.
Shakespeare is a good example. His plays are more than the sum of the...
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05-22-2013, 05:11 PM
No, I don't forget that at all; Europe has never had the majority of population, as anyone who can count will tell you.
Nice of you to completely...
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05-22-2013, 04:51 PM
That's why you need to distinguish between the proper noun "The Greatest" which can only be Ali, and the adjective "greatest" applied to boxing.
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05-22-2013, 04:38 AM
That's why boxing is such an excellent subject for this kind of thing. Everyone knows who The Greatest was.
Culture is pretty subjective.
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05-21-2013, 08:44 PM
I thought my post was so obviously humourous that nobody would be silly enough to argue against it, but there you go.
You do make some nonsensical...
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05-21-2013, 08:22 PM
That's almost right, shown by the barely-past-children whose biographies are published because they will be complete unknowns in 20,30 and 40 years'...
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05-21-2013, 01:56 AM
Greatest and most influential culture of all time: The British Empire.
Those nations we didn't destroy the culture of, our descendants, Americans,...
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05-20-2013, 03:08 PM
The tragedy of it, had he not been a chronic smoker, he probably would have lived for years, because his TB would have been much more treatable and...
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05-20-2013, 03:19 AM
Would I be able to pronounce the words properly in my head? Its just the fact that reading translated works isn't as good as reading them in the...
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05-20-2013, 02:51 AM
Is it true you don't have to be a fluent speaker to a fluent reader? I feel like being lazy and settling for the reading part and forget speaking if...
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05-19-2013, 05:59 PM
Yes, there should have been a link, as the answer was in the article:
Only the wrong kind of pork in that, sorry.
Link:...
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05-17-2013, 05:42 PM
Pope Francis
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05-17-2013, 04:31 AM
Especially when faced with the present trend of releasing a biography at age about 27.
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05-14-2013, 03:55 AM
Less specific stories but more collections:
The Foxes Come at Night - Cees Nooteboom
The Bloody Chamber or Black Venus - Angela Carter
Cosmicomics...
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05-12-2013, 08:22 PM
That would be three of the many endocrine glands in the human body, many of which have different responses and length of response depending on the...
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05-12-2013, 07:51 PM
All that partying - see where it gets you.
Degenerate!
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05-12-2013, 11:08 AM
*Update*
1. The Purple Shroud by Stella Duffy 3.75/5
2. The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt 10/5
3. Chérie by Colette 3.75/5
4. A Visit from the...
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05-11-2013, 05:04 PM
Note that I am not arguing that people should be identified by their gender status, but I will argue that there are differences beyond the genitals....
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05-10-2013, 04:41 AM
There'd be a kind of ironic justice in that - the universe is a Disney film.
(Good, coherent posting, by the way.)
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