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Partly to blame for 'Mehsampur', 'The Gold-Laden Sheep & The Sacred Mountain' and 'Aiz Maka Falea Tuka' | Bafta Breakthrough 2021

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This is what the #Portuguese accent of Goa sounded like, particularly among the educated classes during the colonial period. The speaker is Dr Manohar Sardessai, a renowned Goan poet widely regarded as one of the greatest literary figures in Konkani, the Goan language.
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Cinema's self-awareness to stay a recording medium will define its dynamic with synthetic images.
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Biography of a Button Pusher
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Blaming movies/games for horrific real world crimes parallels conspiracy theories: both feel truthy, impossible to disprove, pleasantly totalizing, capable of producing soft and well-defined scapegoats. Societies with far fewer crimes produce far more disturbing media.
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Obliteration Made with @AskVenice Language: Pali
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In Checkmate (1926), a figure holds a gun to their temple on a chessboard floor beside a tilted king. The title suggests a grim final move in a game already lost. The work signals Magritte’s growing use of polished technique to explore unsettling imagery. #artbots #magritte
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"La cocina es el lenguaje en el que una sociedad expresa inconscientemente sus preferencias y contradicciones" (Claude Lévi-Strauss) Food, 1992
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Borges on the world as dream:
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Sábado. “Sobre los hombros de otros”, descendiente, curado por Lars von Trier. De Munch, pasando por Dreyer, Holsøe, Hill, a Watkins, Strinderberg, Vigeland, o los cimientos, los hombros que sostienen el cine, la vida de von Trier; su inicio, pero también, de algún modo el fin.
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Canetti’s Invisible Crowds at work in fragmented audiences.
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El Futuro -decía Canetti- "es siempre falso, sufre demasiado nuestra influencia".
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वैशाली में 17 साल की लड़की पर आईं मां काली को देखने के लिए उमड़ी भारी भीड़!
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A group of Rājpūts worshipping the Goddess Durgā.
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interpretation has flattened everything. hate it in film criticism, dullest form of writing. static1.squarespace.com/stat…
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interpretation has flattened everything. hate it in film criticism, dullest form of writing. static1.squarespace.com/stat…
me concur... The New Critic's Disease taste101.substack.com/p/the-…
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me concur... The New Critic's Disease taste101.substack.com/p/the-…
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“If the team needs it, I would rest all the games. No player is bigger than the country. I’m just happy to do whatever it takes for the team to do well.” - World Chess Champion Gukesh D
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