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Yesterday, 11:12 PM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I often use Kael as THE example of a critic when, even when their judgment is off, I still admire their ability to express their opinion...

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Yesterday, 10:55 PM

stlukesguild replied to a thread Classical Listening in General Movies, Music, and Television

I've been exploring of rediscovering a lot of Mozart's works that I have yet to explore in great depth. Today it was the Haffner Serenade and the...

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Yesterday, 10:52 PM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Ikiru is pretty damn popular; it's usually mentioned with Rashoman and Seven Samurai as being Kurosawa's best (I place it second). High and Low is...

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Yesterday, 01:22 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Give me the claim I'll give the reference book. For technology you can skip right ahead and check the works of Needham, particularly the Cambridge...

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Yesterday, 11:23 AM

mortalterror replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I see where you are coming from. I think there are British people who really enjoy his quieter more human films like Brief Encounter, the same way...

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Yesterday, 08:20 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I think it had more to do with him being a perfectionist that couldn't make a film unless he had every detail planned out to the most minute. There's...

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Yesterday, 08:09 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Good call on animation and Japan, Aylinn. I'm a huge fan of anime myself and frequently feel it doesn't get the serious critical attention it...

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Yesterday, 06:05 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Outside of 2001:ASO, Lyndon, and Strangelove, I find Kubrick a bit overrated, though I certainly couldn't deny his supreme level of artistry. 2001...

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Yesterday, 12:26 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Time will indeed tell, but Robin Wood noted in his book that Hitch's arch from a popular entertainer suddenly proclaimed as a great artist by future...

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Yesterday, 12:22 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Kael is probably the most literary and eloquent film critic ever, but I’ve never found her especially insightful or analytical; she frequently seems...

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Yesterday, 12:15 AM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

No, its translation is. The flavor of the original is different (coming from someone who has more than half of it memorized). We like to think of...

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Yesterday, 12:08 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Except for Lawrence, I’ve never been overly thrilled with Lean’s epics. In some respects I prefer his smaller films, like the utterly charming...

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05-23-2013, 08:44 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

as an answer to that, I would say Chinese literature is right now incredibly unattractive to Chinese students, and has always had a weird place in...

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05-23-2013, 06:40 PM

stlukesguild replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Film has done very badly because it is controlled by money men and ego-maniacs who think they can rewrite the work of great authors. The move from...

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05-23-2013, 12:50 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I would never propose the propaganda model of China as an entity with 5000 years of history that seems so preached by both educators and textbooks in...

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05-23-2013, 11:29 AM

Lokasenna replied to a thread Musical instruments associated with famous characters in literature and history ? in General Literature

Coleridge's The Aeolian Harp is one of his finest poems - does that count? Oh, and Dryden's Ode on Saint Cecilia's Day, which is one of my favourite...

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05-23-2013, 10:03 AM

mortalterror replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

I have to agree with JBI here, Atheist. China was as influential in Asia as Rome was in Europe. Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, were all writing, and...

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05-23-2013, 07:44 AM

mortalterror replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Actually, the popular music composers were frequently able to leave records and sheet music for their songs since at least the Renaissance. I've...

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05-23-2013, 06:13 AM

JBI replied to a thread Musical instruments associated with famous characters in literature and history ? in General Literature

Gu Qin with most Chinese literati.

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05-23-2013, 04:40 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Did You Find Paradise Lost Hard to Read? in Poems, Poets, and Poetry

Yes, do so; I've read it all 3 times, and it just gets better each time.

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05-23-2013, 01:00 AM

MorpheusSandman replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Lots of good discussion here, so many good (and several bad) posts to respond to: No Murnau, Lubitsch, or the German New Wave (Fassbinder, Herzog,...

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05-23-2013, 12:07 AM

Virgil posted a visitor message on qimissung's profile

Good to hear it didn't seem to effect your family. Yeah, that's tornado alley.

05-22-2013, 09:33 PM

stlukesguild replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Yes Bernini not Bellini. Bellini probably just popped into my mind in connection with the painting Fete Champetre which I had just posted. I actually...

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05-22-2013, 09:00 PM

stlukesguild replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

Hmmm... indeed I did misread the post. My mistake. On the other hand... "illiterate"... "foolish"... criticism of my manner of posting. I could...

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05-22-2013, 07:52 PM

JBI replied to a thread Greatest Culture... in General Literature

What utter nonsense again. Papyrus and Paper are not the same thing, though they are similar in function, hence their shared etymology. As for...

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