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•→www.http://playphrase.me/⇐ — 205165 phrases, from 222 movies . . . Φ Just type in the phrase you would like to hear; it might be: – «I was wondering…» or – «Would you believe…?» or – «Do you mean?» or – «…and the like.» or – «You see…» or – «as long as…» or -«There seems […]
•→ Crime words … →[elementary] ⇔ [intermediate] ⇔ [advanced]←
¤ Quizzes . . . ⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐
♣ ‘ROB’ – ‘STEAL’ – ‘BURGLE’ ↓
•→www.usingenglish/crime-&-punishment←
•→www.esldiscussions.com/juvenile_crime.pdf←
•→www2.ku.edu/~topeka/THEMATIC_UNITS/Crime.pdf←
•→www.umich.edu/student_projects/trial/executions.html←
⇐Methods of Execution
•→ The vocabulary […]
•→A Beginner’s Guide to Wes Anderson Movies⇐
•→http://www.abramsbooks.com/wesandersoncollection/⇐
It takes more than a trailer to explain Wes Anderson’s «The Grand Budapest Hotel.» →Fox Searchlight← releases a full, indepth featurette to help out.
A young woman walks into a cemetery in […]
◊ Kids sniffing airplane glue ⇓
There were kids eight or nine years old, they were sniffing aeroplane glue, to get high on. These kids are responsible for turning musicians onto a lot of things they never knew about actually. So, I had a fantasy, how it happened. Kid is alone […]
A documentary horror film about the environmental devastation left in the wake of the giant toads’ unstoppable march across Australia. Cane Toads: The Conquest [85 min] is a comic yet provocative account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder from filmmaker Mark Lewis.
Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, Cane Toads: The Conquest tracks […]
◊ «Smoke» ↓ Wayne Wang + Paul Auster 1995
Read SCRIPT…→http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texts/articles/paul-auster-smoke_699.html←
•→ SMOKE & ILLUSIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL AUSTER ← [read]
♦ ◊ ‘Blue in the Face‘, a sequel to ‘Smoke‘ ↓ highlights
Auggie (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist’s in Brooklyn, while Jim Jarmusch comes into the […]
♣ Three reading links at monologuearchive.com:
•→dramatic_men⇐ / •→comic_women⇐ / •→children⇐
¤ Bob Rafelson‘s «Five Easy Pieces» [1970]
⇓ Bobby Dupea’s (Jack Nicholson) monologue with his old mute father
Are […]
The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is caught up in the […]
Very few films achieve a kind of subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those: a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure.
Considered a cult favorite for years, Nicolas Roeg‘s 1971 film is about two British […]
This is reputed to be the best film ever made involving native Americans.
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner is the first feature film in the Inuktitut language, spoken by the Inuit tribes of northern Canada. The film, based on an ancient Inuit legend, is set at the dawn of the millennium. It’s an epic […]
The Night of the Hunter [1955]—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for […]
Adapted from James Dickey’s popular novel, John Boorman‘s 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty), and Drew (Ronny Cox) agree […]
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Based on Stephen King‘s work of the same title
The Twins… ↓ «Come Play With Us…» [Stanley Kubrick, […]
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, The Road to Guantanamo, directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, uses interviews, news footage, and reenactments to tell the story of the Tipton Three, young British men of Pakistani descent who were detained for over two years without charges at […]
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A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family.
Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
◊ This is England […]
Zatōichi← (座頭市?) is a 2003 Japanese samurai drama and action film, directed, written, co-edited, and starring Takeshi Kitano in the eleventh film he has directed. He also plays the protagonist role of the blind swordsman in this revival of the classic Zatōichi series of samurai film and television dramas.
The film ends with a dance number led by noted Japanese tap dance troupe The Stripes, and Zatōichi walking […]
1930 – 2009
Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn — he would later, much later, memorably describe the scene of his conception in his memoir — but he grew up in Ireland. His parents were both Irish immigrants, and they moved back there, to Limerick, in an effort to stay […]
¤ Ray Bradbury ⇓ [1920-2012] Φ «The Veldt« ⇐[song]
A short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as «The World the Children Made» in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. The anthology is a collection of […]
1917 – 1993
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A diatribe against behaviourism (or «behavioural psychology») of the 1940s to 1960s as propounded by the psychologists John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner. Burgess disapproved of behaviourism as much as I do myself, calling prominent behaviourist B. F. Skinner’s most popular book, Beyond Freedom and Dignity […]
Rodrigo Paestra shots his unfaithful wife dead ↓ [10:30 P.M. Summer – directed by Jules Dassin, 1966]
From 1983, 10.30 On a Summer Night is Richard Jobson‘s own adaption of texts from the passionate novel by French author Marguerite Duras (1914 – 1996), the story of a […]
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