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¤ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ⇓ [1920]
A 1920 silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film used stylized sets, […]
♦ ‘Gadjo Dilo’ ↓ [1998]
In this comedy-drama, Stephane (Romain Duris), a young man from France («Payo loco» = ‘The Crazy Stranger’), travels to Romania on a mission; his father has recently passed away, and since the old man’s favorite singer was an unrecorded gypsy vocalist from Romania, he has […]
Born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, Fatih Akin has taken Istanbul to his heart like a native. The title of this film refers to the fact that the city, placed at the point where Asia and Europe meet, has always been as open to the East as it is to the West. It […]
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 […]
1914 – 1997 «Death smells… I mean death has a special smell; over and above the smell of cyanide, cordite, blood, carrion or burned flesh. It is a gray smell: stops the heart and cuts off the breath. The smell of empty bodies, the smell of field hospitals and gangrene…» [The Private Asshole] «I […]
→http://www.online-literature.com/hh-munro/← 1870 – 1916 ¤ The Open Window ⇐
The Open Window is a short story about Frampton Nuttel. Mr. Nuttel heads out to the countryside to calm his nervous condition, he takes along with him a handful of introduction letters his sister had given him. Mr. Nuttel visits the home of Mrs. […]
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♥ The Tell-tale Heart
A wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to […]
Herman Melville [1819 – 1891]
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Fancy reading this sad Tale of Wall Street? → ⇒
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties…
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•→ G.K. Chesterton in Sight & Sound ← [1874 – 1936]
¤ The Oracle of the Dog →
[included in Gerald Durrell‘s 1990 anthology «Best Dog Stories»]→
The Oracle of the Dog story is what is known as a locked-room puzzle. A murder is committed with out a […]
[1883 – 1963]
← The Use of Force
A physician is summoned to make a house call on a family with whom he has had no prior contact. He quickly sizes up the situation: the household is poor but clean; the patient is a female child whose parents are nervously concerned, […]
♦ Man From The South ⇐ 1916 – 1990
The narrator of this famous story is never named, but I always presumed him to be an […]
[1847 – 1912]
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•→ http://esl-bits.net/ESL.English.Learning.Audiobooks ⇐
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Originally released in 1922 as Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie Des Grauens, director F.W. Murnau‘s chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker’s Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror […]
¤ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, a supporter of women’s rights and an advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted […]
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” [1854 – 1900] “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” ♥ The Happy Prince ←
There is a statue of a gold prince in the middle of a really unhappy town. Then a swallow comes to sit on the statues plinth. Then the swallow sees the happy […]
Effervescent saxophonist Louis Jordan was one of the chief architects and prime progenitors of the R&B idiom. His pioneering use of jumping shuffle rhythms in a small combo context was copied far and wide during the 1940s . . . A heart attack silenced this visionary in 1975, but not before he acted […]
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