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Assessing Constitutional Performance

Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq

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From London to Libya, from Istanbul to Iceland, there is great interest among comparative...

Bach's Numbers: Compositional Proportion and Significance

Ruth Tatlow

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In eighteenth-century Germany the universal harmony of God's creation and the perfection of its...

Rutger Hauer recommended Position Among The Stars (2010) in Movies (curated)

Position Among The Stars (2010)

2010 | Documentary, History

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"Then there’s another documentary that I saw last time at Sundance, which is called Position Among the Stars. This is a Dutch-Indonesian director who has made a portrait of one family over the course of 12 years in Indonesia. His name is Leonard Retel Helmrich. I talked to him for a few hours on the last day, before he won the award in Sundance, about what he was doing and how he was doing it, because the way in which he conducts his camera is completely different. He said, “I wanted to make a very simple portrait about a very poor family in Indonesia and see if I could find a link to the bigger picture, so to speak, and the alignment of the stars above their head.” And he succeeded. It’s an awesome documentary. It’s just a portrait of a small family, with a universal theme coming out of it at the end."

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Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

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Academy Award® winner Sean Penn leads an all-star cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Wolf Man (1941) in Movies

May 8, 2021

The Wolf Man (1941)

1941 | Horror

8.1

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The first Universal werewolf film to really make an impression doesn't have the same iconic status as either Frankenstein or Dracula, but is still a much more proficient movie in purely technical terms. Larry Talbot is plunged into a world of misery and horror when he returns to his family home in Wales; many visitors to the principality will probably empathise, but his experience is particularly bad when he is bitten by a gypsy and becomes a werewolf.

Solid story, decently structured; the wolf man make-up is honestly not that great, and neither is Chaney's performance, but the rest of the cast is decent and the plot rattles along. Notable as the film which established the 'rules' of lycanthropy as far as mainstream cinema is concerned. As ever, probably more interesting from a historical point of view than as a genuine piece of entertainment, but still a film which has deservedly resonated in the culture.

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Phantom Creeps - Feature Version (1939) in Movies

Oct 21, 2020

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The Phantom Creeps- is a really good horror film.

The Plot: Mad Dr. Zorka uses his arsenal of bizarre inventions to conquer the world in this feature-length version of the serial.

I like when Bela Lugosi plays as a mad scientist. He does a excellent job when plays as a mad scientist.

A 78-minute feature film version of the film, cut down from the serial's original 265 minutes, was released for television showing in 1949. Which is the verison i watched.

The serial contains some similarities with the earlier serial The Vanishing Shadow, such as an invisibility belt and a remote-control robot. Stock footage was used from The Invisible Ray, including scenes of Dr. Zorka finding the meteorite in Africa. As with several Universal serials, some of the stock music came from Frankenstein. The Phantom Creeps' car chase was itself used as stock footage in later serials.

Its a really good film.