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A Complete Unknown 2024
This movie worked out great for me. Back in the sixties, you could listen to a spectrum of music on the radio. Popular music of the era included Joan Baez, Peter, Paul & Mary, Judy Collins, Simon and Garfunkel and other folk singers. I travelled with some Wichita friends up to Des Moines to hear Bob Dylan play. Before the intermission he played all his guitar standards we were used to; after the intermission he returned to the stage with his…
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Wheel of Ashes 1968
10 years before this movie was released, a junior in high school, I spent weekends at the new coffeehouse downtown and read some “beat” poetry. My favorite:
I wish I had a mother/ I feel just like kicking her in the teeth/ but no, she’s in New York looking for my father/ who’s really in Africa hunting polar bears/ god, how I wish my father would come home and cut the grass before the tide comes in/ god how I…Translated from by -
Even the Rain 2010
Three dimensions: the movie, the production and crew filming the film, societal upheaval during the production. A wonderful construct and realized with a vengeance. Poetic. Symbolic imagery spanning four centuries, the gold of Columbus contrasted with the value of water in the modern world, religious zeal with corporate greed. A triumph! Memorable acting, fluid direction. Amazing.
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