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Building the Supermarine Spitfire: Speed in the Skies

Mark L. Chambers

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On 5 March 1936 Spitfire-prototype K5054 took to the air on its first flight. Eighty years later...

Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt

Salima Ikram

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Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This...

Imperial Japanese Navy Aircraft Carriers, 1921-45

Mark Stille and Tony Bryan

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The Imperial Japanese Navy was a pioneer in naval aviation, having commissioned the world's first...

Will Oldham recommended Solaris (1972) in Movies (curated)

Solaris (1972)

1972 | Sci-Fi

8.4

(5 Ratings)

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"Why not check out a double-cassette VHS of a Russian sci-fi movie from the library in Bloomington, Indiana, in the summer of 1992? Had never heard of it, nor of Tarkovsky. I was checking out a movie every day, based on what narrow selection the library had on her shelves. I was not prepared for how bent my mind became through the experience of watching this movie. That summer, in addition to watching a movie every evening, I was working on the construction of songs with regularity for the first time in my life. Solaris restructured my consciousness for a moment and helped lead me to believe that the past = the present = the future. I’ve never seen the American remake, and, even though Soderbergh is so good, I think I never will."

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Zac Clark recommended All That Heaven Allows (1955) in Movies (curated)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

1955 | Classics, Drama, Romance

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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"In preparation for my Christmas film, White Reindeer, I watched this movie and wrote down a description of every single shot, including each camera move and change in blocking. Not only is Heaven Sirk’s most fully realized, subversive takedown of suburban hypocrisy, it’s also the best Christmas movie of all time, and such a marvel of style and camera direction that you barely notice how intricate its construction is until you force yourself to examine it. Sirk said that, in cinema, “motion is emotion,” and that ethos reaches its zenith in the zoom in on Jane Wyman’s reflection in a television screen. This is nothing less than the greatest dolly movie in cinema history. If anyone ever tells you irony and sincerity can’t coexist, tell them they are painfully, tragically wrong."

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