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"The autobiographical essays in this collection cover faith and family, booze, men, and self-love. They’re full of the small moments in Lamott’s life, the observations that make you laugh really hard and make you bawl really fast—two of my favorite activities. She talks about how the most popular prayers are ‘Help me, help me, help me’ and ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ I’ve read all her work, and she continually surprises me and speaks to me. One of the lines from this book that I love is: ‘All you can do is show up for someone in crisis. Your there-ness…can be life giving, because often everyone else is in hiding.’ That’s just killer."

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Yannis Philippakis recommended Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists in Music (curated)

"A compilation from South Africa in the 80s of Soweto sound at the time. My mum's from SA and she had it on double cassette and would play it in the car as she drove me to school. It's full of unashamed joy and has a kind of cheesiness to it that I love. There's an innocence to the songs, which is interesting because you can sense the strange American influence in SA music at the time - which is similarly mirroring some current musical trends from abroad. You can hear Prince, a bit of Michael Jackson and American pop, but retranslated through musicians and equipment that they had access to at the time. It's a killer compilation."

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Strange Days (1995)

6.8 (9 Ratings) Rate It

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Former policeman Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes) has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale...

Blink (1994)

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Blinded at the abusive hands of her mother as a young girl, Emma Brody (Madeleine Stowe) is now a...

David Koechner recommended Man Bites Dog (1992) in Movies (curated)

Man Bites Dog (1992)

1992 | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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"Man Bites Dog is a Belgian film in 1992. It’s about a film crew that starts following a serial killer around, and he’s charming and disarming and delightful, and he kills people with this film crew never interceding. The first time you see it, you’re like, “Wait a minute,” and you laugh a few times, and the second time, you laugh the whole time. It’s a bleak, dark comedy, but my god, it’s so funny. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It was before the onslaught of reality television, but it makes a perfect comment on it now. It had subtitles and I still loved it. I laughed so hard."

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William Friedkin recommended Le samouraï (1967) in Movies (curated)

Le samouraï (1967)

1967 | Crime, Film-Noir

8.8

(8 Ratings)

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"The ultimate existential gangster film. Hypnotic, detailed, ritualistic, it has influenced  films like John Woo’s The Killer and the more recent Drive. Alain Delon  gives his most memorable performance as an ice-cold assassin above such mundane  concerns as moral conscience. Though violent in its subject matter, Jean-Pierre  Melville’s film is also cool, meticulously lit, and classically framed. It  operates in a kind of dream state. It’s the opposite of the fevered emotional style of  most gangster films. The pauses and silences help make it the visual equivalent of Harold  Pinter’s dialogue. This is my favorite Melville film, and the extras are among  Criterion’s finest, including an interview with John Woo and one with Melville himself."

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