ph: Hadar Pitchon
Saturday, June 23, 2012
First Line: Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Mr Utterson, the lawyer, was a man with a severe expression that was never brightened by a smile.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
First Lines: Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas
It was winter - that is, about the second week in November - and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and thundering among our tall trees and ivied chimneys - a very dark night, and a very cheerful fire blazing, a pleasant mixture of good round coal and spluttering dry wood, in a genuine old fireplace, in a sombre old room.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Freedomland (2006)
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Ambitious, but predictable and partially overacted crime mystery emphasizing the psychological and political aspects of the story.
First Lines: Walter Scott - Ivanhoe
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the River Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.
Monday, June 18, 2012
New Stuff: Annette Peacock
Newly reissued and on The Wire's 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (while no one was listening) list.