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Joe Wright recommended Blue Velvet (1986) in Movies (curated)

 
Blue Velvet (1986)
Blue Velvet (1986)
1986 | Drama, Mystery
8.9 (7 Ratings)
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"What year was Blue Velvet? It was ’86, wasn’t it? So I was 15 when it came out and my parents were away for the summer, and they’d left me in the house alone. I got hold of a VHS copy of Blue Velvet, and I started watching it, and I couldn’t stop, and I got to the end of it, and rewound it, and played it again and again, 16 times over. And I watched it at least twice a day, every day, for that entire summer. You can see perhaps why obsessive behavior scares me. And it just blew my mind. I knew that cinema could be poetic, but I never had before understood that it could be poetic in that way, in such a raw and visceral way. And again, scared the living crap out of me. So there seems to be a theme running through here."

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KQuinlan (15 KP) rated Shantaram in Books

May 24, 2017  
Shantaram
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
2
6.7 (3 Ratings)
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I loved the general storyline. The places he went, the things he saw, the people he met. (0 more)
Unfortunately, over 3/4 of this book is simply him talking about how great he is, or how much everyone loved him, or trying to be unsuccessfully poetic. I had to skim most of it because he was driving me crazy! (0 more)
This book could have been half as long and twice as enjoyable.