Category: Reviews
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Haunted by Humans: A Review of The Book Thief
Read more: Haunted by Humans: A Review of The Book ThiefThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak Knopf Books for Young Readers March 14, 2006 550 pages “Here’s a small fact – you are going to die.” That’s how Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (2006) starts. With this line, Zusak immediately sets the tone for the rest of the novel, a grim story set in…
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From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can Be
Read more: From Sound to Screen – How Good Music Videos Can BeMusic videos can be works of art in and of themselves. They are a director’s interpretation of a piece of music, and depending on the kind of song he or she is working with and their own creative capability, that visual rendering can lead to some fascinating results. A good music video can give…
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Recent Ouija: Lamenting Between Artifice and Reality
Read more: Recent Ouija: Lamenting Between Artifice and RealityAlthough the majestic works of Henri Matisse have been luring numerous visitors to the Stedelijk Museum, it is its basement that confirms the experimental and contemporary course that the museum has set out to follow when Beatrix Ruf took up position as director last November. Titled Recent Ouija, the exhibition of the works of Ed…
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It’s Not the End of the World – The Sublime On a Small Scale
Read more: It’s Not the End of the World – The Sublime On a Small ScaleHow does one track down the sublime? It is not moldy lemons that I am referring to here (haha do you get it??) (sorry), but that feeling of your organs permeating through your skin, of your stomach turning into an abyss and swallowing the rest of you up whole. I remember a few years ago…
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Highlander – There Is Only One
Read more: Highlander – There Is Only OneEveryone has fond memories of a lot of films from their childhood that raise those films above and beyond everything they see afterwards. For many, those films are products from the masterminds at Disney, or the work of directors like Spielberg. Then there are the more obscure titles that just happened to be in the…
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