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"When I first heard Ariel Pink, I was very homesick for LA and was kind of depressed and miserable in the Midwest, which I love, I should add. It had nothing to with the Midwest: it was just the circumstances. This record was one of many things that reminded me that I needed to come back home to LA. There was something about the sound, the love for moving around, both physically and within the music, the sense that you could go wherever you wanted to go in terms of melodies and harmonies. I totally related to the freedom, the crazy characters that are in the songs. I had started recording and I found myself really interested in his passion for building characters in songs. I love his music to this day because he does that so well. Again, it was important for me at a particular time and it continues to be."

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BookInspector (124 KP) rated The Thursday Murder Club in Books

Sep 24, 2020

I could not really pick one protagonist in this novel, this story is told from multiple perspectives, unpicking many lives. We do kind of have these two “camps” here. The first one would be Elisabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, and the second one would be the police officers working on the case: Donna and Chris. I really loved how the characters were developed throughout the pages. Elisabeth seems so strong and she is leading the investigate gang, but really she is worried and scared because of her frail husband. Joyce has a difficult relationship with her daughter and a very strange love life going on. Donna feels like she failed in life by moving to this God’s forgotten town, and Chris is lonely, getting fat and unhappy. We not only get to know our leading characters but the ones that got killed as well. All the characters are beautiful, amusing and absorbing personalities, and I was so happy to meet them.

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Danny Boyle recommended Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants) (1987) in Movies (curated)

Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants) (1987)

1987 | International, Drama

(0 Ratings)

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"Louis Malle is one of the great, underrated French directors. That’s the best film I’ve ever seen about children. It’s a very, very adult film so of course you have to take the kids very seriously. What is it they say? ‘Kids are father to the man,’ or something like that. What you are is what you were, really. It’s one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen; one of the saddest, most moving, genuine films ever. As a director I’ve done kids films — Slumdog has kids, and, I made a film called Millions — and it’s not easy to get kids to be good. You work hard at it. What is really difficult is to get every kid to be in the same film at the same time and I watch that film and every kid — and there’s a lot of kids in it, it takes place at a school — they’re all in the same film at the same time."

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Judy (2019) in Movies

Oct 9, 2019 (Updated Oct 9, 2019)

Judy (2019)

2019 | Biography, Drama, Musical

6.7

(16 Ratings)

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Biopic of the legendary actress and singer is pretty much exactly the film you'd expect, which may be an issue. Another one of those movies depicting an icon in their later years, struggling for happiness, reappraising their life - it's not unlike Stan and Ollie, and the two films do share a character (though played by different actors).

Full-on give-me-an-Oscar performance by Zellweger, and as a piece of impersonation it's very impressive; perhaps it works so well because Garland was one of those people so hollowed out by the demands of the entertainment business and their own talent that they only really had any kind of identity when they were performing. Consistently tragic, as you would expect - I ended up feeling quite angry on Garland's behalf, which I didn't expect, and there are some unexpectedly moving moments. Well put together and nicely played, it covers all the basics but doesn't really excel in any department.