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Emma Kansiz
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March 20, 2020July 27, 2020 the moon is a mirror suspended over the sea Somewhere between the real world and fairyland, where the actual and …
Continue reading “Lunar Lore: A Poetic, Aesthetic, and Historical Glance at the Night Sky”
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Emma Kansiz
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March 11, 2020May 26, 2020 There is a spiritual and folkloric subtext behind all this. A kind of Paganesque nod to the days of myths …
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Emma Kansiz
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February 27, 2020July 27, 2020 Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is considered one of the best dystopian novels of the 20th century and its brimming with …
Continue reading “A Heartening Reminder on Living With Eyes Wide Open Courtesy of Fahrenheit 451”
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Emma Kansiz
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February 8, 2020 “What day did the lord create Spinal Tap and couldn’t he have rested on that day, too?” High camp meets …
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Emma Kansiz
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January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 Works of art are of an infinite loneliness – Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet, Rainier Maria Rilke’s …
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Emma Kansiz
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January 9, 2020February 6, 2020 Documentaries fulfill two key roles: they simultaneously inform and entertain and if you think the two are mutually exclusive concepts …
Continue reading “A Journey Through the 100+ Best Documentaries of All Time”
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Emma Kansiz
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December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 My Own Private Idaho is a dreamtime dreamscape, punctuated by tense bouts of nightmare: a reverie suspended between hustling, remembering, …
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Emma Kansiz
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December 19, 2019May 26, 2020 Repo Man dances on the edge of extremes: it pokes at consumer culture without being proselytizing, it is nonchalant without …
Continue reading “The Peculiar, Uninhibited Wisdom of Repo Man”
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Emma Kansiz
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December 15, 2019July 27, 2020 Kahlil Gibran’s book of wisdom, The Prophet is a lyrical examination of the elements of human life: truth, faith, beauty, …
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Emma Kansiz
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December 15, 2019January 11, 2020 Let’s get dystopian! The ever-melancholy Blade Runner demands your attention, sartorialists. The majesty of the film is how costume designer …
Continue reading “A Dystopian Muse For the Rest of Us: The Intoxicating Style of Blade Runner”
