Ivan’s Childhood (1962) – directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
“They sent me out by plane to a boarding school, but I ran away. You just eat up grain supplies
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Author: J.A.A. Purves
The Swell Season (2011) – directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, & Carlo Mirabella-Davis
The Swell Season is a melancholy and meditative documentary on romance, music and fame. The Swell Season is also the actual name for
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Evangenosticegalism
Be always quick to take offense at the slightest misperception; But you really also mustn’t use any form of contraception.
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The Cabin in the Woods (2012) – directed by Drew Goddard
“After the prize-giving the valedictions; after the phone call a brief sense of what happiness would be like; after the
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When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012) – by Marilynne Robinson
Modern Ciceronian Musical English Prose ______________________________________________________________________________________________ “At a certain point I decided that everything I took from studying and reading
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A Good War is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America (2006) – by David Griffith
“Even though a photograph is still … we trust it to tell the truth more vividly than a carefully-researched article.
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If Only We Could Ask One Man About the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary
A purely imaginary conversation we can only daydream about having. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Interviewer: Mr. B______, I can’t thank you enough for taking
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Beginners (2010) – Mike Mills
“People in the building like us. Half of them think things will never work out. The other half believe in
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) – Guy Ritchie
“When all is said and done, there have never been better detective stories than the old series of Sherlock Holmes;
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The Merchant of Venice (2004) – Michael Radford
“Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my sober house.” – Shylock ________________________________________________________________________________ C.S. Lewis wrote the following –
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