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12 votes
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The Peasants | Official trailer
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Movie review: What Ridley Scott's 'Napoleon' gets wrong about war
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Looking for recommendations of Bronze Age historical fiction
Basically what it says in the thread title- any recommendations are welcome.
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Killers of the Flower Moon | Official trailer
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Amor Towles' A Gentleman in Moscow is chock-full of worldly musings. Have you read it and what is your take on it?
Here are a few of my favorite examples: "Long had he believed that a gentleman should turn to a mirror with a sense of distrust. For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be...
Here are a few of my favorite examples:
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"Long had he believed that a gentleman should turn to a mirror with a sense of distrust. For rather than being tools of self-discovery, mirrors tended to be tools of self-deceit." p. 36
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"For if a room that exists under the governance, authority, and intent of others seems smaller than it is, then a room that exists in secret can, regardless of its dimensions, seem as vast as one cares to imagine." p. 64
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"After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we've just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration - and our unwavering determination to withhold opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour." pg. 120-121
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Glória | Official trailer
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Killers of the Flower Moon | Official teaser trailer
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Join the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon’s postmodern epic Gravity’s Rainbow at fifty
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SISU | Trailer
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Amsterdam | Official trailer
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See How They Run | Official trailer
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Persuasion | Official trailer
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The Northman | Official trailer
8 votes -
Chernobyl | Official trailer
14 votes