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Jia Zhangke Speaks Out: The Chinese Director's Texts on Film

Jia Zhangke

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Jia Zhangke Speaks Out is a collection of writings by China's most acclaimed film director, Jia...

Paddle Against the Flow: Lessons on Life from Doers, Creators, and Culture-Shakers

Huck Magazine

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Nas on language, Cat Power on looking inward, Spike Jonze on loving what you do and Kim Gordon on...

Who, the What, and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Sidekicks of History

Matt Lamothe

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In the bestselling tradition of The Where, the Why, and the How, this offbeat illustrated history...

Butch Vig recommended Murmur by REM in Music (curated)

Murmur by REM

1983 | Rock

8.5

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"Murmur is the album that launched 10,000 indie bands. It had a vibe and a sound unlike anything that was out there. I'm a huge R.E.M. fan and I like a lot of their records but this one was something completely different and unique. It had a sixties sorta influence, the lyrics were elliptical - you really couldn't make out at all what Michael Stipe was singing. There's always touch and mystery and beautiful harmonies; there are churning guitars; it's psychedelic - all these things make it kinda hard to pin point what exactly the record sounds like. I don't know how they managed to pull it off. When I listen to this record I realise that this doesn't sound like any record ever. It really has its own sound. I don't think it had any commercial success but everybody who is a serious musician loved this record."

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Jeremy Workman recommended Green for Danger (1947) in Movies (curated)

Green for Danger (1947)

1947 | Classics, Drama, Mystery

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"Years ago, during those quaint days of DVD-by-mail rental, I made a dork pact with one of my friends that for several weeks straight we’d only watch films in the Criterion Collection. Additionally, they had to be films we didn’t know much about. The experience was a total revelation. There were so many amazing films that I discovered during those weeks that made me really rethink a lot of what I thought I knew about the history of cinema. Films like Ballad of a Soldier, Death of a Cyclist, René Clair comedies like À nous la liberté or Le million, American indie landmarks like Symbiopschycotaxiplasm and the stunning Ermanno Olmi pair from the early 60s Il posto and I fidanzati. But the one from this period that I always recommend to friends is Green for Danger, a delightful British murder mystery that I had never heard of."

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