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Match a Pair of Birds

Laurence King

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Match the male and female pairs of 25 species of birds from around the world in this beautifully...

Runners: Bed & Tabletop: Beautify Your Home with Quick & Easy Designs!

Sue Marsh

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Beautify your home with quick and easy quilted runners for beds and tabletops, or hang them on the...

Zac Clark recommended Black Narcissus (1947) in Movies (curated)

Black Narcissus (1947)

1947 | Classics, Drama, Drama

6.0

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"The most beautiful movie ever made. The face of an aging nun, photographed in an extreme close-up, has the same power and emotional weight as a lush landscape of the matte-painted mountains of India. Powell and Pressburger understand that both the face and the mountains are landscapes, interior and exterior. Erotic tension has never bubbled under the surface of a movie as well as it bubbles here. When it explodes, it is genuinely insane. Only Isabelle Adjani in Possession comes close to matching Kathleen Byron’s portrait of unhinged madness. To watch Black Narcissus is to know the limits of ecstasy."

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Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Léon: The Professional (1994) in Movies

Sep 17, 2020

Léon: The Professional (1994)

1994 | Action, Drama, Mystery

8.9

(38 Ratings)

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How Jean Reno didn't become a household name after his performance in Leon is incredulous to me. Pairing his stellar performance with that of a villainous Gary Oldman and a VERY young Natalie Portman and you have an acting trifecta for the ages. Matching Besson's direction tit for tat allowed this squad to create one of the more memorable movies of its time. Leaving no potential for a follow up, you begin to realize it simply had to be that way. And I believe Besson understood that. You can't replicate the level of excellence this movie achieved and call it a sequel.

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I in Books

Oct 5, 2020

In the summer of 1914, when England went to war with Germany, both the solders and the loved ones they left behind, were certain it would end quickly - by Christmas. Unfortunately, it took over four years for peace to come, and the only small respite both those at home and those away had, were letters to and from their loved ones. In this novel, Heather Webb and Hazel Gaynor bring us a story of just such correspondence. Read more about this lovely book in my review here.
https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2017/09/22/matching-wartime-messages/