"Friðriksson challenges Icelanders to not only consider the negative aspects of American culture, but their own culture as well."
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"riginal meditations on the need for, and simultaneous resistance to, intimacy."
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The Ad-Man who shook the world - "man who doesn’t get drunk and who passionately extols the virtues of monogamy" George Lois - http://www.shortlist.com/cool-st...
"The commercial artist who wants to be more than a “stylist” must either become clear as to what his cultural contribution may be, or else be overwhelmed by the demands of clients, myths about public taste, consumer research surveys, etc." | http://www.paul-rand.com/foundat... |
"At her house another lesbian moved in and every time i was visitng she was there that huge redhair Lizi, who she was staring at me with ayes which looked like those of a dead fish, filled from stupid hate." William S. B. "Junky" 1953.
" If we are willing to make peace with life on these terms, and to affirm whatever remains, then life can still be as wonderful as it ever was. Sometimes it helps to cry."
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"Nirvana Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, He was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere. And it began to snow. And the bus stopped at a little café in the hills and the passengers entered. And he sat at the counter with the others, and he ordered, the food arrived. And the meal was particularly good. And the coffee. The waitress was unlike the women he had known. She was unaffected, and there was a natural humor which came from her. And the fry cook said crazy things. And the dishwasher in back laughed a good clean pleasant laugh. And the young man watched the snow through the window. And he wanted to stay in that café forever. The curious feeling swam through him that everything was beautiful there. And it would always stay beautiful there. And then the bus driver told the passengers that it was time to board. And the young man thought: “I’ll just stay here, I’ll just stay here.” And then he rose and he followed the others into the...
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"It’s a close look at how Allen’s career was shaped, from his Brooklyn youth to his precocious launch as a comedy writer, his rise to local fame as a standup comedian and to national celebrity on television, his move from screenwriter to director of the “early, funny” films to internationally lionized auteur to pariah and, gradually, back again."
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"Where American jazz is centered around improvisation, Czech jazz is much more oriented towards composition. Many composers experimented with long suites, rhythm changes, strange sounds and melodies and unusual arrangements with an avant-garde flavour"
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The film presents a character study of the common US soldier during the Vietnam War, revealing the shifting morale and open rebellion of Western troops.
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"The Story of Film promises an intriguing journey running every Saturday night through until nearly Christmas, with Cousins no doubt continuing to play off his belief in cinema as an art form of passion and ideas against its reality in the multiplex age."
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"Moneyball”: Beane and Brand are possessed by a passion that is almost sacred in its strength, yet it’s devoted not to character or courage but to hard, cold numbers, an irony that the moviemakers could have made more of."
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“In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.” Jack Kerouac
"hear what he said and what he meant simply by going to the Internet — a medium that he himself presaged almost five decades ago."
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"Jazz at Lincoln Center announces Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton will perform together in Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton Play the Blues in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The special concert events have been added to the season schedule as the organization’s 2011 Annual Gala on April 7 and as ticketed concerts open to the public on April 8 and 9. As the preferred card of Jazz at Lincoln Center and Lead Sponsor for the three concerts, MasterCard will run an exclusive advance ticket sale beginning January 28."
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Gil (Owen Wilson), a screenwriter and aspiring novelist on vacation in Paris with his termagant fiancée (Rachel McAdams) who finds his wish to live in the City of Lights in the 1920s come true.
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“Melancholia, is supremely operatic, enlivened by its cosmic sensibility, and yet amazingly rendered on an intimate scale. Beyond its opening and closing minutes, the movie’s appeal mainly comes from its fine-tuned performances, each of which adds to the developing sense of dread."
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