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L' enfant 26 reviews
Jérémie Renier, Déborah François
Sony Pictures, 2006
Quietly Affecting
+ The Other Half
+ L'Enfant
This film sneaks up on you. About half-way through I put it aside and never got back to it, and would have been perfectly happy returning it unfinished. But then I discovered I had another day, so finished watching it, and by the final scene I was crying with Bruno and Sonia.
Sure, when the ...
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Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas) 30 reviews
Soren Kierkegaard
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2006
Fear and Trembling
+ I'll try to simplify, with Kierkegaard, it might be possible.
+ FAITH IS A MEME
+ Fear and Trembling
+ Provocative but flawed
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Lonesome Jim14 reviews
Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler
Ifc, 2006
Casey Affleck: no longer at the kiddies' table on Thanskgiving.
+ hillarious
Stay with me here. It's Thanksgiving afternoon. Momma Affleck has just brought out the turkey. Ben is sitting to the right of ole Papa Affleck and they're talking 'Good Will Hunting' Oscar winnings, Jennifer Garner, and all-things Matt Damon. Down at the end of the table sits one Casey Affleck at ...
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Person Pitch 26 reviews
Panda Bear
Paw Tracks, 2007
One of the best albums of the 2000s thus far
+ almost spiritual.......
+ tight
+ perfect pitch
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The Brothers Karamazov 111 reviews
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
+ The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
+ A Literary Masterpiece
+ Bothers Karamazov
+ Dark and Beautiful
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Destroyer's Rubies24 reviews
Destroyer
Merge Records, 2006
Cheers to the last CD
+ The light went on when I read the lyrics
+ Groundbreaking Album
+ Unique
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Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)832 reviews
Joseph Heller
Simon & Schuster, 1999
Lighthearted and comical, yet dark and meaningful
+ 25 words or less
+ Incredible
+ Great Characters Living With Death
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Lost in Translation 1915 reviews
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Universal Studios, 2004
more than 500 give it a one star?
+ Beautiful Feeling of Disconnection
+ In my top 5 movies of all time.
+ Outstanding film
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City of God304 reviews
Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele
Miramax Films, 2004
See it now! Don't wait.
+ Thought-propvoking plot. Good acting from non-professional actors = Best movie from Brazil so far
+ Graphic but amazing.
+ City of God was Incredible
+ Perfection
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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea427 reviews
Neutral Milk Hotel
Merge Records, 1998
Thank you, Mr. Mangum
+ One of my favorite albums of all time
+ GAOAT
+ Magnum's opus
+ A Classic of the Elephant 6 Collective
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Boys and Girls in America57 reviews
The Hold Steady
Vagrant Records, 2006
a classic now
+ Finally, The Hold Steady Stops Sucking!
+ Kissing and telling after a bad trip
+ great album
+ Great album
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Things Fall Apart533 reviews
Chinua Achebe
Penguin, 2006
What makes fiction important
+ Things Fall Apart
+ Terrific
I know this is the classic debate of all time when it comes to literature: Is it about beautifully written prose (THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, incidentally, is a good example of this problem) or does it tell a compelling story? (yet the prose itself is not its strong point).
It seems that many ...
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Apologies to the Queen Mary73 reviews
Wolf Parade
Subpop, 2005
Fantastic CD by excellent band!
+ Great album
+ Enjoyable, quirky indie rock
+ Bandwagon jumping never sounded so good
+ Good Tunes
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Amores Perros200 reviews
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Lions Gate, 2001
Griping...
+ Preceded "Crash"
Movie is set on mean, crowded and polluted streets of modern Mexico City. The film explores the lives of 3 sets of characters and weaves the plot among them.
"Octavio and Susana" - Octavio who lives with his Mother, his violent brother, his brother's sister and their infant in a small crowded ...
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Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)1 review
Sherwood Anderson
Oxford University Press, USA, 1999
Lives lost in the dark.
Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" tells the story of lives lost in the dark. The citizens of Anderson's fictional Winesburg all harbor mysterious secrets and are internally conflicted. In a series of vignettes that do not follow a chronological timeframe, tragic lives full of lonliness, longing ...
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Funeral390 reviews
Arcade Fire
Merge Records, 2004
David Bowie sparks an Internet Fire.
+ Funeral
+ Crazy but very GOOD!!!
+ another great find by merge
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Things Fall Apart533 reviews
Chinua Achebe
Penguin, 2006
What makes fiction important
+ Things Fall Apart
+ Terrific
I know this is the classic debate of all time when it comes to literature: Is it about beautifully written prose (THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE, incidentally, is a good example of this problem) or does it tell a compelling story? (yet the prose itself is not its strong point).
It seems that many ...
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Apologies to the Queen Mary73 reviews
Wolf Parade
Subpop, 2005
Fantastic CD by excellent band!
+ Great album
+ Enjoyable, quirky indie rock
+ Bandwagon jumping never sounded so good
+ Good Tunes
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Lost in Translation1915 reviews
Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray
Universal Studios, 2004
more than 500 give it a one star?
+ Beautiful Feeling of Disconnection
+ In my top 5 movies of all time.
+ Outstanding film
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Amores Perros200 reviews
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Lions Gate, 2001
Griping...
+ Preceded "Crash"
Movie is set on mean, crowded and polluted streets of modern Mexico City. The film explores the lives of 3 sets of characters and weaves the plot among them.
"Octavio and Susana" - Octavio who lives with his Mother, his violent brother, his brother's sister and their infant in a small crowded ...
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