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Business Insider- 20 modern classics

Donnie Darko (2001)

8.1 (64 Ratings) Rate It

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Donnie Darko is a psychological science fiction and drama written and directed by Richard Kelly. ...

Science Fiction Drama Horror Themes

Bowling For Columbine (2002)

6.9 (15 Ratings) Rate It

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“Bowling for Columbine” is an alternately humorous and horrifying film about the United States....

City Of God (2002)

8.3 (16 Ratings) Rate It

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The streets of the world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, are a place where...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

8.6 (33 Ratings) Rate It

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Joel and Clementine find themselves drawn to each other, without knowing that, in the past, they...

Science fiction Romantic comedy Romcom Dramedy Memory

Super Size Me (2004)

7.0 (18 Ratings) Rate It

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-Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist...

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Isle of Skye

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8.5 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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SET YOUR PRICES, BUY, SELL, BUILD, AND MAKE CHOICES BECAUSE ONLY ONE CLAN CHIEFTAIN WILL WIN Five...

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Raiders of the North Sea

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Avg: 9.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Raiders of the North Sea is set in the central years of the Viking Age. As Viking warriors, players...

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Istanbul: Digital Edition

Games

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The official digital adaptation of one of the best board games in history – Istanbul. Istanbul...

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Twilight Struggle

Games

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The #1 rated strategy board game gets its first expansion! Twilight Struggle: Turn Zero is a new...

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Through the Ages

Games

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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The official adaptation of Vlaada Chvátil’s strategy classic, the second best board game ever...

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Amy Leigh (23 KP) rated Bridgerton in TV

Jan 13, 2021

Bridgerton

2020 | Drama, Romance

10

9.4

(17 Ratings)

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Simon Bassett - The Duke of Hastings - pretty sure I'm in love! (2 more)

Everything!

The music is amazing! I love how they turned modern day songs into classical tracks.

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Kelly Moran recommended Years Past Matter by Krallice in Music (curated)

Years Past Matter by Krallice

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"This record is a hallmark of contemporary metal that fuses second-wave black metal with compositional techniques borrowed from modern classical music, including atonality and post-minimalist repetition. There’s also a unique sense of atmosphere and space in the production that harkens to post-rock and post-metal bands."

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Tom Cohen recommended The Catcher in the Rye in Books (curated)

"“I read it when I was 14 on holiday with my family in the south of France. I just remember it was the first thing that I read that sounded as disillusioned as I felt at the time. Everyone else had been either quite grand or classical, and this was the first of the modern American writer genre that I’d read.”"

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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) shared own list

Oct 19, 2017

"Minimalist music" has its own largely rigid definition in modern classical music (a genre that Steve Reich, Philip Glass and La Monte Young have contributed to), but Cool Hunting has highlighted how contemporary artists are taking these compositional techniques and applying them in their own music across all genres—be it ambient, pop, folk or electronic.

What do you make of these reductionist albums?

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The most surprising aspect of the album Ecce Homo is knowing what enigmatic London-based producer...

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Art of War in Books

Jul 29, 2017

The Art of War

Sun Tzu | 2011 | History & Politics

10

8.2

(9 Ratings)

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A classic, still relevant for today

As a Chinese student, and having studied classical Chinese, Sunzi 孙子 is one of the fathers of Chinese history - his importance is incomparable and should be highlighted in modern times. The art of war is still relevant to all aspects of current governance and strategy. Just a quick mention though - it is pronounced "Soon za" not "San su".

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Colin Newman recommended Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part in Music (curated)

Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part

1984 | Classical, Experimental

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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"People who didn’t live through that period or weren’t old enough to know what was going on somehow imagine that there was this fantastic post-punk thing going on. That’s all made up in hindsight. Really, everything was pop of the most plastic kind. And a lot of it was quite terrible. Though I did like Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” which came out in 1984. There was a real thing in the early-to-mid ’80s about modern classical music; there was a lot of that stuff around, and those were the more interesting things. If you know Tabula Rasa and know anything about the music that I’ve been involved with, you might struggle to find how I would connect with that kind of music. But it’s not really experimental music. It’s very emotional. It doesn’t have the form of a song but it’s not far from the world that Eno was exploring with his Ambient series."

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Jonathan Donahue recommended Inside The Kremlin by Ravi Shankar in Music (curated)

"I chose a live album because you can hear where East meets West. It's obvious Ravi's known for his traditional music with Indian instruments. But with Inside The Kremlin he has the strings going. He's got a very orchestrated formality to mix in with his own Indian-tempered scale melodies. You can also hear the giant strings very clearly, so for me this is heaven. You've got the Indian modality mixed in with classical music. It's part of where we learned to orchestrate - where you can hear the sitars, for instance. It didn't take long for us to think, hey, this is how you put a cool guitar, strings or oboe piece together! Before that - and the same happened on Ocean Rain by Echo & The Bunnymen - it was the first time in a long time that we began to suss out this orchestration thing; it's not rocket science! I know the composers seem like they're physicists but if we can just take the melodies we can already play on the guitar and we put them on these classical instruments, that's orchestration, isn't it? We didn't have to be Mozart to do this. But in my case, this is where I began to figure some of these things out, certainly with Ocean Rain and Ravi Shankar. When I was in The Flaming Lips making the In A Priest Driven Ambulance album, it was very similar in that there was a guitar melody, but there were also strings doing it. That led to the beginnings of the orchestration in Mercury Rev as well as Flaming Lips. Listen to Ravi Shankar, and then listen to modern Bollywood - that's the Western or Hollywood side of Eastern music."

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Yannis Philippakis recommended Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich in Music (curated)

Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich

1998 | Classical

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"I picked Steve Reich because I think it changed the parameters of how I thought about music. At the time I was 17, playing in The Edmund Fitzgerald and I hadn't really ever been aware of modern classical or minimalism and it inspired me and also reinforced stuff that I intuitively liked in music, such as points of sounds and structural emphasis. The band Youthmovies introduced me to Reich - they had a quite formative effect on me in a sense that, up until then, I still listened to music in a tribal way, as in I had to identify with whatever subculture was going on, so I listened to Skinny Puppy and really plunged my identity into that, for example. I was in that teenage phase of tying up your fashion and your self identity with music. They also played me Gwen Stefani, Missy Elliott and Stars Of The Lid and they showed me that you didn't have to only identify with one tribe - they broke that way of thinking down. So that record was really important. And on a more simplistic level, it's just stunning. It's the kind of record you can listen to in any environment, unbound by context - it induces a trance-like state. It's a particularly good record to listen to when you're on the Underground, it's soothing - the perfect soundtrack to seeing thousands of people walking past you. He's one of my top five favourite musicians of all time."

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Business Insider- 20 modern classics

Donnie Darko (2001)

Bowling For Columbine (2002)

City Of God (2002)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

Super Size Me (2004)

and 15 other items

Modern Classic Board Games turned into Apps

Isle of Skye

Raiders of the North Sea

Istanbul: Digital Edition

Twilight Struggle

Through the Ages

and 14 other items