David Arthur Smithers
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A remarkably funny and spirited introduction to the immigrant suburbs of Paris. French culture is nothing but enriched by the presence of immigrants, as is any nation which puts effort into tolerance and openness. Such output from a nineteen year old author, at the time, reminds me of the brilliance of Jane Austen.
Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow: A Novel
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A 66 page essay, first published in 1940, describing the two paths of Germany, the fatal one of the Nazi conquests or one which describes, in many ways, the European Union of the present era. The essay describes Germany as departing from its' greatness, and the reluctant necessity of France and Great Britain to stop Germany's course. The essay looks kindly on the great values of all three nations and of the virtues of the Empire of Great Britain.
This war
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A playground is a jungle where real hurts can last well into adulthood. The film elicited memories of my childhood in small town Iowa, in the early 60s. Race, sibling relationships, teacher authority play roles and contemporary culture prejudices filter in from the adult world, in the childhood aural environment.
Playground
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This film has the feel of real history of the American West. All the true to life allegories are there, of the ending of the frontier, the role of the land, urban and modern culture, and much more.
Phil is a modern Natty Bumpo, who is more James Fenimore Cooper than Fenimore's caricature of the Anglo-Saxon hero.
The Power of the Dog
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This important and unexplored movie subject, with a loot less sappy tone, could have made a fair-to-good movie, a great work of art.
Five Feet Apart
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A Filipino-American's "Heart of Darkness", this novel is truth in many wrappers of omnipotent and possibly questionable narrators ;of layers of story on story. Is the story better than any possible historiography and, especially, fragmentary documentary history? I think so.
Insurrecto: A Novel
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