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Leonard Cohen recommended Collected Poems in Books (curated)

 
Collected Poems
Collected Poems
Federico Garcia Lorca | 2002 | Fiction & Poetry
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"I was fifteen when I began to read Federico Garcia Lorca. His poems perhaps have had the greatest influence on my texts. He summoned up a world where I felt at home. His images were sensual and mysterious: ‘throw a fist full of ants to the sun.’ I wanted to be able to write something like that as well. A few years ago I wrote a musical adaptation of Lorca’s ‘Little Viennese Waltz.’ Then I noticed what a complex writer he was: it took me more than a hundred hours just to translate the poem. Lorca is one of those rare poets with whom you can stay in love for life."

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Joe Dante recommended Rosemary's Baby (1968) in Movies (curated)

 
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
1968 | Classics, Horror, Mystery
8.3 (34 Ratings)
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"You know, I’d have to give a shout out to Rosemary’s Baby, which is not only a great horror film, but probably the most faithful adaptation of a book that I’ve ever seen on screen. The realistic ambience of New York in the ’60s is so palpable that it makes all of the horror tropes seem much more believable. We have a heroine we can identify with, and are the people around her all witches, or is she imagining it? Once again, there’s always a psychological component to a really good horror film. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a film better directed than Rosemary’s Baby."

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Ali Abbasi recommended Naked Lunch (1991) in Movies (curated)

 
Naked Lunch (1991)
Naked Lunch (1991)
1991 | Documentary, Drama, Horror
8.4 (5 Ratings)
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"I love William S. Burroughs, and if anybody could do an adaptation of his work, it’s Cronenberg, who made this movie very true to the book. But the movie makes sense, and the book really doesn’t for me—the moment you think it’s starting to make sense, you lose it again. The movie is very cheap and kitschy at certain points yet very sophisticated at others. Naked Lunch is one of the few movies to depict hallucinations that are actually very close to how they really are. It’s not like when you see something like Inception, where the dream sequences are just the Hollywood idea of what a dream could be."

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Jpb (34 KP) rated Uncharted (2022) in Movies

May 11, 2022  
Uncharted (2022)
Uncharted (2022)
2022 | Action, Adventure
8
7.1 (14 Ratings)
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Goofy, action packed, easy to follow (0 more)
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Good video adaptation
It's fast-paced, flashy, and fun, but it could have been so much more.
There's nothing particularly surprising or original about the unfolding story in Uncharted. You'll see most of the double-crosses coming, either because they're telegraphed or simply as something you know in your gut because that's how movies like this work. An array of flashy action set pieces mix in with all of that. Even if you know how they're going to go in the end, they still make for a fun watch.
Uncharted is alright. It's far from perfect, but still a good Sunday afternoon movie
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) in Movies

Jun 16, 2020 (Updated Jun 16, 2020)  
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977)
1977 | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
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6.4 (7 Ratings)
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Interesting if not entirely successful adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic piece of Gothic SF. Michael York get washed up on Burt Lancaster's private island and discovers he's been doing genetic experiments on animals, trying to instil human characteristics into them. Well-mounted, and with decent performances from most of the cast, even if it's never quite as thought-provoking or disturbing as you'd probably like it to be, while most of Barbara Carrera's scenes feel like they've been grafted on from a different film, not entirely comfortably (an attempt at a twist ending involving her character was abandoned when Michael York refused to film it on taste and decency grounds).

The film-makers seem to have noticed the theoretical issues with the plot of the book - the main character has no real agency and is merely an onlooker - and fixed this by introducing a subplot in which Moreau experiments on him, thus setting up a reasonably elegant action-adventury sort of climax complete with happy ending. This does put the film rather at odds with Wells, though, and gets in the way of exploring the book's actual themes - its somewhat problematic subtexts about social control and the different sort of uplift attempted by the British Empire are still there if you look for them, seemingly by accident. Enough of the book's imagery and ideas survive to make this worthwhile viewing and probably the most rewarding adaptation, but really - read the novel as well.