February 2012
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Best of frenemies →
 Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Stoppard famously sets Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in the interstices of Hamlet, elevating two supporting characters from Shakespeare’s play into leads. His focus is on how the pair occupy themselves when they are offstage in the parent play, which appears to be by aimless banter and mock-philosophical arguments. But there’s...
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 3rd
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Groundhog Day (1993)
Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?
Ralph: That about sums it up for me.
Feb 2nd
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January 2012
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WatchWatch
First seven minutes of Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Drive” (via)
Jan 31st
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“One day, I was reading a psychology book and a word jumped out at me....”
– [Andrew Vachss, Blue Belle]
Jan 31st
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Lasagna vs. lasagne
For the flat, wide pasta and the dish made from such pasta, North American English speakers use lasagna. English speakers from outside North America use lasagne. Other than the spelling, there is no difference between the words in English. The word comes from Italian, of course. In that language, lasagna is the singular noun and lasagne is the plural. The word first appeared in English in the...
Jan 30th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
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ListenMorrissey - First of the Gang to Die
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
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Lumiere and Company (1995) →
► David Lynch ► Peter Greenaway  ► Wim Wenders  Lumière and Company (original title “Lumière et compagnie”) was a collaboration between 41 international film directors in which each made a short film using the original Cinématographe camera invented by the Lumière brothers. Shorts were edited in-camera and abided by three rules:  1. A short may be no longer than 52 seconds  2. No...
Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)
Nana: Shouldn't love be the only truth?
The Philosopher: For that, love would always have to be true.
Jan 20th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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“E in quel momento capii. Eravamo state meravigliose compagne di viaggio, ma in...”
– [La ragazza dello Sputnik]
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
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Valorous
adjective 1: possessing or acting with bravery or boldness: courageous 2: marked by, exhibiting, or carried out with courage or determination: heroic Word of the Day
Jan 12th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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Profumo di donna (1974)
Fausto: Lo sai chi sono io?
Giovanni: No.
Fausto: L'undici di picche.
Giovanni: Ma non esiste.
Fausto: Appunto. Una carta che non sta nel mazzo, buona per nessun gioco.
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 9th
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His music could certainly move you, but the main emotion it instilled was a kind of boggling awe, not least 1976’s Station To Station, made at the height of the wee-in-the-fridge era and yet - incredibly given that Bowie claimed to not actually remember making it - arguably his best album. You listen to it, or Low, or Diamond Dogs in the absolute certainty that the person who made it was not...
Jan 8th
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Jan 5th
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ListenDavid Sylvian - A Certain Slant of Light (by Emily...
Jan 4th
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Jan 4th
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impropriaMente: Mathilda: I don’t wanna lose you, Léon. Léon: You’re not going to lose me. You’ve given me a taste for life. I wanna be happy. Sleep in a bed, have roots. And you’ll never be alone again, Mathilda. Please, go now, baby, go. Calm down, go now, go. Léon (1994)
Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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This much I know: Eddie Izzard →
The comedian on the Iron Man triathlon, spiders and stand-up in French.
Jan 1st
December 2011
Dec 31st
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“Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people...”
– [Maya Angelou]
Dec 31st
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Dec 28th
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ListenRobert Downey Jr. - River [Originally by Joni...
Dec 26th
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Charlie Brown: I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel. I just don't understand Christmas, I guess. I like getting presents and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I'm still not happy. I always end up feeling depressed.
Linus Van Pelt: Charlie Brown, you're the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn it into a problem. Maybe Lucy's right. Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie Browniest.
Dec 25th
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Il muro è scrostato, la scritta ormai è quasi invisibile, sbiadita dal tempo. Ma ogni volta che passo per via di Torre Rossa la vedo e non posso fare a meno di sorridere.             Lasciamo vivere gli abeti, coloriamo le suore. *
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Holiday Cocktail Recipes →
Drinks to celebrate the season, from light and sparkling to warm and boozy.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“There’s no need to lie. It’s like poker. The truth is best. The...”
– [Breathless]
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Segue disinteresse
impropriaMente: La faccio breve, perché i post lunghi annoiano e gli argomenti seri ancor di più: però mettere un link alla fonte o scrivere una didascalia delle immagini che si postano non serve solo a dare i meriti a chi li ha, ma anche a dare la possibilità di vedere a chi non ce l’ha. Sarebbe cosa buona e giusta farlo sempre. The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone...
Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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