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Multiplicity: The New Science of Personality

Rita Carter

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In MULTIPLICITY, Rita Carter - award-winning science writer and international speaker - offers a new...

A Less Boring History of the World

Dave Rear

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Refreshes the parts other history books can't reach...A bit ropy on the Renaissance? In the dark...

How We Played: Games from Childhood Past

Caroline Goodfellow

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Games make up a huge part of childhood, and memories of specific games stay with us throughout our...

Sean Lennon recommended The Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra in Music (curated)

The Inner Mounting Flame by Mahavishnu Orchestra

1971 | Instrumental, Jazz, Rock

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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"My first memory of jamming with Mark Ronson was sitting and trying to figure out a song called 'You Know, You Know' from this album. We were just having a bit of fun, but we played that song for two hours straight. Of all the Mahavishnu records this is the least produced, there's only five of them if you include the violin player. This record really changed my life, it opened my brain musically. I found this through Bitches Brew [on which Mahavishnu Orchestra's John McGlaughlin plays guitar]. I'd read the Miles Davis autobiography Miles while I was in high school. I didn't know anything about his music, I'd just read the book because it was there, but it got me into listening to jazz, and once I'd started listening to Bitches Brew every day, that got me into listening to Mahavishnu. It was a direct line of following the breadcrumbs of who played on what album you get into all sorts of stuff, a spiderweb of musicians."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Memento (2000) in Movies

Sep 12, 2020

Memento (2000)

2000 | Mystery, Thriller

8.4

(51 Ratings)

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30-year old Christopher Nolan sets out a statement of intent for his future career with an intricately-crafted spin on a genre movie that will leave your brain in a knot. Guy Pearce plays Leonard, a man hunting his wife's murderer - inconvenienced only by his inability to form memories, which forces him to rely on notes he leaves for himself to know where he is and what he's doing in.

One is inevitably left agog at the deftness with which the two main strands of the film (one running forwards, the other in reverse chronology) are woven together, and also by the way the film still manages to be coherent the first time you watch it, even without recourse to aide memoires and flowcharts of your own. But the intellectual depth of the film is also hugely impressive, dealing with issues of memory, self-deception, existentialism and solipsism. Proves that Nolan doesn't need a huge budget and rafts of big-name stars to produce a brilliant movie.