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Meteo360 HD+

Weather and Navigation

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"Augmented Virtual Reality" mode to see the weather on your location (using GPS) and check also...

AppLaser HD

Utilities and Social Networking

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AppLaser HD: ? Read QRCodes and barcodes. ? Make your own QRCode easily with your custom text. ...

i-Boating:Norway GPS Nautical / Marine Charts & Maps

Navigation and Travel

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This App offers access to Norway offline nautical charts, lake & river navigation maps for fishing,...

Christopher Hobbs recommended The Leopard (1963) in Movies (curated)

The Leopard (1963)

1963 | International, Classics, Drama

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"This is proof that despite the difficulties it is possible to make a wonderful film from a wonderful but very long book, in this case Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s The Leopard, which describes the dissolution of the great Sicilian ruling families during the 1860s. Set in the magnificent and sometimes crumbling palaces of Palermo and the arid Sicilian summer countryside, the film shows us the privileged but largely pointless lifestyle of the ruling elite, threatened by political change and their own inertia. One shot in the film encapsulates the message: when the central family arrives at their country estate exhausted from the grueling journey there, they enter the local church and sit in their family pew, along the length of the nave. The camera tracks across their faces, exhausted and gray with dust. The reference is unmistakable; they resemble those mummified bodies held in catacombs under the Capuchin monastery of Palermo, held upright in endless rows, many still in their nineteenth-, even eighteenth-century clothes, rotting and collapsing, covered in the dust of centuries. It is a beautiful example of how much can be said in a single camera shot when used by a master."

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