ph: Cuneyt Akeroglu
Saturday, July 5, 2014
First Lines: Guy de Maupassant - Bel Ami
Taking the change for his five-franc piece from the woman behind the till, Duroy left the restaurant.
Friday, July 4, 2014
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, the Dark Knight must return to defend Gotham City against the enigmatic jewel thief Catwoman and the ruthless mercenary Bane as the city teeters on the brink of complete annihilation.
Highly accomplished attempt (on all levels) to top off the previous The Dark Knight on an almost epic scale - it nearly succeeds.
Maltin***: "With more humor and grace notes but just as many story detours as the previous film, this one offers juicy moments to Caine, Hathaway, and a new straight-arrow cop character well played by Gordon-Levitt. Still a bit self-serious but roundly entertaining, with a highly satisfying finale."
Thursday, July 3, 2014
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First Lines: Emile Zola - Germinal
Out on the open plain, ink-dark night, a lone man was following the highway from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of paved road that cut directly across the field of beet.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
First Lines: Honore de Balzac - The Human Comedy
Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, toward the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a small town where travellers along that road are in the habit of resting.
New Stuff: Morton Subotnik
Early electronic music was made using wave generators and tape-manipulated sounds. Subotnick was among the first composers to work with electronic instrument designer Don Bucla.
