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Poirot - Peril at End House

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to...

Rembrandt

Typex, Gerrit de Jager and Gert Jan Pos

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Follow the entire painting career of Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in...

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Caitlin Davies

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In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her...

Guillermo Del Toro recommended Vampyr (1932) in Movies (curated)

Vampyr (1932)

1932 | Horror

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"Sheer terror and sheer poetry, but both stem from distinctive medieval traditions. Häxan is the filmic equivalent of a hellish engraving by Bruegel or a painting by Bosch. It’s a strangely titillating record of sin and perversity that is as full of dread as it is of desire and atheistic conviction, and a condemnation of superstition that is morbidly in love with its subject. Vampyr is, strictly speaking, a memento mori, a stern reminder of death as the threshold of spiritual liberation. Like any memento mori, the film enthrones the right morbid imagery (skull, scythe, white limbo) in order to maximize the impact of the beautiful, almost intangible images that conclude it. If only Criterion had acquired my commentary track—sigh—from the UK edition."

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