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MUSINGS: library@esplanade There’s a lot of hype now about Japanese anime, like D-Grey Man, Hellgirl and so on. You can probably rattle off a longer list than me, but what about Japanese films? Do you still remember the horror hit of 1998, The Ring by Hideo Nakata, and scenes of the creepy long haired woman [...]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, Gharibeye Koochak) Directed by: Bahram Beizai Starring: Susan Taslimi, Parviz Pourhosseini, Adnan Afravian Year: 1990 Call No.: Other 791.4372 BAS Location: Film Village, library@esplanade It is the Iran-Iraq War. Bombs from an Iraqi air raid rain down on a small village in Khuzestan, Southern Iran. Hiding in [...]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade Beach Party Directed by William Asher Starring: Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello Year: 1964 Call No.: AV English 791.4372 BEA-[ART] Location: Film Village, library@esplanade Part of film studies includes the examination of film narratives. Film narratives do not merely tell stories. Within each film narrative is the weaving of [...]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade From Here to Eternity Directed by Fred Zinneman Starring: Burt Lancaster, Mongomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra Year: 1953 Call No.: AV English 791.4372 FRO-[ART] Location: Film Village, library@esplanade In 1953, when acclaimed director Fred Zinneman’s From Home to Eternity of (High Noon fame) was released, the film went on [...]

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MUSINGS IN THE KEY OF E . Selections from library@esplanade Lulu In Hollywood Louise Brooks, with introduction by Kenneth Tynan Minnesota, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Call No.: English 791.43028092 BRO -ART Available at library@esplanade Click here for item availability. Think ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the first things that come to your mind would probably [...]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade Big Night Directed by Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott Call No.: 791.4372 BIG Two Italian brothers, Primo and Secondo, have opened a restaurant in America, thinking that their selection of authentic Italian food will attract hordes of big American eaters to their restaurant. They soon come to realise that making money in [...]

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MUSINGS . library@esplanade Tampopo (Dandelion) Directed and written by Juzo Itami Call No.: AV 791.4372 TAM -[ART] With his cowboy hat and Clint Eastwood-like swagger, Goro (Tsutomu Yamazaki) makes a fitting lead character for Juzo Itami’s critically-acclaimed ‘noodle western’, Tampopo. The film follows the trucker as he attempts to transform Tampopo (Nobuko Miyamoto), a widowed [...]

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MUSINGS . Selections from library@esplanade Girl Groups: Fabulous Females That Rocked The World John Clemente Iola, Wis: Krause Publications, 2000. Call No.: English 782.42164 CLE -ART Available at library@esplanade Click here for item availability. Words cannot describe how much I love Sixties music. While I like my share of The Beatles and Rolling Stones, when [...]

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MUSINGS . Selections from library@esplanade [HBeditor: This article was first published in the High Browse Print issue The (Un)Usual Suspects September - November 2006, focusing on the theme of mystery.] L.A. Confidential (Dir. by Curtis Hanson, 1997) Based on the novel by James Ellroy “L.A. Confidential” published in 1990 Call No.: 791.4372 LA -[ART] Click [...]

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