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"Pop in 1929’s The Love Parade and watch the movie musical being invented. These pre-Code movies are sophisticated in a way that musicals weren’t again until Cabaret in the 1970s. (Although none of them holds up quite as well as Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight, which is screaming out for a Criterion reissue.)"

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Bill Condon recommended One Hour with You (1932) in Movies (curated)

One Hour with You (1932)

1932 | Comedy, Musical, Romance

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Scarfolk Annual 197* in Books

Mar 8, 2020

The Scarfolk Annual 197*

Richard Littler | 2019 | Horror, Humor & Comedy

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Deeply twisted parody/satire manages to be unpleasantly disturbing and consistently funny throughout. You kind of have to be familiar with the conceit of Scarfolk - a 'lost' town in the north of England, trapped in the 1970s and run as a brutally right-wing totalitarian dystopia - to get the joke here, but the recreation of the sort of useless filler that made up the bulk of children's annuals in the 1970s is brilliantly done. The inventiveness and attention to detail is consistently impressive, and most of the jokes connect - there's a combination of silliness, savage political satire, and League of Gentlemen style macabreness that certainly won't be to all tastes. Gets the balance between horror and humour just about right; very funny, but also undeniably disturbing.

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New York Subway Graffiti

Tod Lange

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Ride back in time on the colorful New York City subway line of the 1970s to 1990s; the graffiti...

The Rhino Records Story: The Revenge of the Music Nerds

Harold Bronson

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In the 1970s in the backroom of a record store, Harold Bronson and Richard Foos were making...

1989: the Berlin Wall: My Part in its Downfall

Peter Millar

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Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s...

Ibram X. Kendi recommended Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Books (curated)

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment

James Forman, Jr | 2017 | History & Politics, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences

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"Just as Metzl explains how seemingly pro-white policies are killing whites, Forman explains how blacks themselves abetted the mass incarceration of other blacks, beginning in the 1970s. Amid rising crime rates, black mayors, judges, prosecutors and police chiefs embraced tough-on-crime policies that they promoted as pro-black with tragic consequences for black America."

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Ibram X. Kendi recommended Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative of Black Power in America in Books (curated)

"As racial capitalism deprives black communities of resources, assimilationists ignore or gentrify these same spaces in the name of ‘development’ and ‘integration.’ To be antiracist is not only to promote equity among racial groups, but also among their spaces, something the black power movement of the 1960s and 1970s understood well, as Joseph’s chronicle makes clear."

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