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Monte Hellman recommended The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) in Movies (curated)

 
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
1973 | Drama, Fantasy
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"I’ve probably seen this film more than any other. Nestor Almendros turned me on to it when I was looking for a DP to shoot Iguana. He recommended Luis Cuadrados, but I soon discovered he’d died of a brain tumor, having shot Spirit while 95 percent blind. He had his assistant describe the sets to him, then told him where to place the lights, and the intensity of each. The film itself is one of the greatest homages to movies ever made, but it’s also a poignant study of that traumatic moment in everyone’s childhood when you discover the reality of death."

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Erica Jong recommended Memories of a Catholic Girlhood in Books (curated)

 
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthy | 2011 | Biography, Religion
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"The nonfictional account of Mary McCarthy's idyllic childhood, cut short by the death of her parents. McCarthy was orphaned by the influenza epidemic that followed WWI; both of her parents died in a flash. She was then raised by her grandparents in Seattle. The wonderful thing she does in the book is to tell what happened, and then to write about what might have happened. It takes 'memoir' to a whole other level. It gives you a shot of adrenaline; it makes you ask yourself, 'What was the transformational moment in my life when my story really begins?'"

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