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‘F for Fake’
Orson Welles asks ‘What is reality?’ in dazzling masterpiece of oddball art cinema. “If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real.” —Elmyr de Hory If you’ve seen Orson Welles’ late period quasi-documentary F for Fake, then you know…
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Slaughterhouse-Five: 22-year-old POW Kurt Vonnegut writes home about the War
Kurt Vonnegut was a 22-year-old Private serving in the U.S. Army, when he was captured at the Battle of the Bulge, in December 1944. Together with his fellow POWs, he was marched to a work camp in Dresden, named “Slaughterhouse Five.” In this letter home, Vonnegut detailed these events and those of the infamous bombing in February 1945, that was to inspire his best-selling novel.
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Fantastic Polish movie posters of well-known American films
I’m really digging these Polish movie posters of American films… especially the one for Rosemary’s Baby which is pictured above. I found a few of them perplexing, though. Like the one for Terms of Endearment. I get that it’s a mom and daughter talking on the phone, but I’m not sure it gets its message across all that clearly. And the Dirty Dancing poster. That one misses the dartboard entirely!