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Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism: A Global Biographical History

Ulrich L. Lehner

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Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores, for the first time, how Catholic women in Europe used...

Beyond the Chains of Illusion: My Encounter with Marx and Freud

Erich Fromm

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First published in 1962 Beyond the Chains of Illusion is Fromm's landmark book about Marx and Freud....

Garth Davis recommended My Name Is Joe (Mein Name ist Joe) (1999) in Movies (curated)

My Name Is Joe (Mein Name ist Joe) (1999)

1999 | Drama, Romance

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"Maybe My Name Is Joe, to mix it up a bit. At the time when I saw this, I was just wanting to get into filmmaking and I was really fascinated by Ken Loach — and Mike Leigh — because, again, they were social realist films. Loach is more politically based. My Name Is Joe was just such a moving film and it basically portrayed a portrait of a man that basically didn’t have a choice in the choices he made because of his political situation, and then, just how that wasn’t really enough. It was a really tragic, moving film. I just love that film."

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Hugh Bonneville recommended Being There (1979) in Movies (curated)

Being There (1979)

1979 | Comedy, Drama

8.3

(3 Ratings)

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"I think it’s because it is about a truly simple character in a truly extraordinary situation, and the way that simplicity can be misconstrued as genius and vice versa. I just think it’s a beautiful, beautiful performance [from Peter Sellers]. I think it’s his finest performance. But apart from that… well, I adore Shirley MacLaine in it. I think it’s beautifully cast, [and] I think it’s richly evocative as a gentle satire on the way that political gurus can function. I just think it’s enchanting, and I think it’s an often neglected film. And I can’t find it on DVD or download and I’m really fed up with that."

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Amy Tan recommended Midnight's Children in Books (curated)

Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

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"This novel is cited by many of my author friends as the best in the English language. I, too, am awed by its beauty and intelligence, so much so that I sometimes feel I should stop writing. (I won’t.) The narrator of this story has been bestowed with telepathic powers by virtue of the time of his birth. This proves useful in recounting his life, which is coincidentally wrapped around historical events in India. Rushdie injects much political criticism of the powers that came to be, and this trait in his writing recalls for me George Orwell’s treatise on why we write: politics has much to do with it."

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Peter G. (247 KP) rated South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) in Movies

Sep 4, 2019

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)

1999 | Animation, Comedy, Musical

7.3

(19 Ratings)

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Political and Correctness were the two words far from writers Parker & Stone when they created this feature length satirically biting look at life through the eyes of Cartman and his friends.
Cursing is the topic on the menu and Canada is to blame (isn't it always) and the profanity on show here although extreme and extended is no different to the controversial hit show of the same.
It's incredibly and consistently funny and I can see how it would appeal to some, just not this reviewer as the humour on show just was not the kind that amuses me, and differs from the, in my opinion, far superior Team America.