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Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi: A Guide for Directors and Performers
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In Staging Scenes from the Operas of Donizetti and Verdi, veteran opera director William Ferrara...
How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls: Design and Build Walls, Bridges and Follies Without Mortar
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How to Build Dry-Stacked Stone Walls shows how to build a wall using the traditional method of dry...
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Staging the Trials of Modernism: Testimony and the British Modern Literary Consciousness
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In Staging the Trials of Modernism, Dale Barleben explores the interactions among literature,...
Milleen (47 KP) rated The Last Mile (Amos Decker #2) in Books
Nov 14, 2018
This is a sequel to ‘Memory Man’ but I do think readers could pick up the background easily. The story follows an FBI task force investigator, Amos Decker, a man who can forget nothing due to an injury as an American Football player. Melvin Mars is a man on death row who needs to dig deep into his past to find out the truth behind his incarceration. It’s a very American thriller with some very staged dialogue, lots of guns and criminology but I really enjoyed the idea of a man blessed and cursed with perfect recall. A tale of twists and turns that kept me reading.
A Number
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With her finger as always on the pulse of our deepest concerns, in "A Number", Caryl Churchill turns...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies
Feb 12, 2018
Troubled Civil War veteran Tom Cruise goes off to Japan to train their new modern-style army just after the Meiji restoration; winds up being allowed to become a samurai despite not quite meeting the minimum height requirement.
Clearly wants to be a lavish Dances With Wolves-style epic drama; works well enough as a historical adventure with some well-staged action sequences, but not quite as moving or powerful as it would really like. Every Japanese person I know who's seen this movie seems to think it's supposed to be a hilarious deadpan comedy. Someone should tell Cruise it's bad manners to organise a kamikaze charge and not die alongside everyone else.
Clearly wants to be a lavish Dances With Wolves-style epic drama; works well enough as a historical adventure with some well-staged action sequences, but not quite as moving or powerful as it would really like. Every Japanese person I know who's seen this movie seems to think it's supposed to be a hilarious deadpan comedy. Someone should tell Cruise it's bad manners to organise a kamikaze charge and not die alongside everyone else.