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Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey

Mark Webber

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Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One....

Transforming Public Services by Design: Re-Orienting Policies, Organizations, and Services Around People

Sabine Junginger

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For policy makers and policy implementers, design challenges abound. Every design challenge presents...

Social and Political Theatre in 21st-Century Britain: Staging Crisis

Enoch Brater, Vicky Angelaki and Mark Taylor-Batty

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In a context of financial crisis that has often produced a feeling of identity crisis for the...

Robert Eggers recommended Mary Poppins (1964) in Movies (curated)

Mary Poppins (1964)

1964 | Classics, Comedy, Family

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"Another movie that takes place in the Edwardian era, but in the country where Edward was actually reigning. It was an important movie for me as a kid and it continued to be something that I revisited again because it’s just good. Good storytelling, quite beautiful. You’ve got to love the matte paintings of the London rooftops. You’ve got to love a movie where a witch is your nanny. Obviously, no challenge to Dick van Dyke’s Australian Cockney accent, but his performance in that movie is really incredible. He is such a good physical comedian and when they’re in the chalk painting — which is also just lovely, the live action mix and the animation — he often has the same dance choreography as Julie Andrews. And he interprets it incredibly differently. It’s not that he can’t do them, it’s that he’s interpreting them in a different way, for humor, with his body type and so cleverly. It’s a movie where kids have power. They understand some things that their Edwardian dad doesn’t. And we use a Mary Poppins-esque weathervane shot in The Lighthouse. And then also, as much as it is a very, very satisfying narrative, the movie’s not without mystery. What is Mary Poppins’ backstory? What is her relationship with Bert? She creeps me out. Like when her reflection in the mirror keeps singing after her. The way she’s a little bit austere with the children and then the next minute she’s super cuddly, it is a little creepy. And then it just isn’t her, but when the kids get lost in East London, and there’s the dogs barking, and the old beggar woman who’s like, “Come here, children” or whatever. That was incredibly terrifying as a child."

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