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Gold from the Stone: New and Selected Poems

Lemn Sissay

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Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and...

The Pianist (2002)

8.6 (19 Ratings) Rate It

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In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's...

The Couch Trip (1988)

6.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) is a patient at a mental institution who gets an unexpected shot at freedom...

Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

8.4 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back...

Gary Giddins recommended The Third Man (1949) in Movies (curated)

The Third Man (1949)

1949 | Thriller

8.0

(9 Ratings)

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"“In what ca-TEG-ory would you put Mr. James Joyce?” Or, for that matter, this film? Among other things, I’d call it the best gangster picture ever made. Orson Welles got the most mileage from it (including a radio spin-off that recast the swinish Harry Lime as a good-natured rogue), a renown I find difficult to fathom, given the superb ensemble work by Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli, Bernard Lee, Wilfred Hyde-White, and a doctor who pronounces his name VINK-el. Carol Reed’s direction makes the most of every incident, and the whole package is tied up with one of the best musical scores ever."

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Ali Abbasi recommended The Road (La Strada) (1954) in Movies (curated)

The Road (La Strada) (1954)

1954 | International, Classics, Drama

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"I don’t want to say much about La strada other than that it’s the reason why I am here. When you watch this movie, no matter who you are, you get the sense that this is something special that couldn’t have been made for television or heard as a radio play. It’s not Alain Resnais, it’s very accessible, and yet it has cinematic purity. This is a mark of how depressing the movie business has gotten—we don’t make these kinds of movies anymore, movies where there’s just a natural consensus that they’re good. Where you don’t have to wait for critics to say so, because everybody can feel it."

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