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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 crawling […]

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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 the fields away from the carnage, ten-year-old […]

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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 the cultural, social, political, and economic conditions […]

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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 to score at the Academy Awards, claiming […]

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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
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Think ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the first things that come to your mind would probably be shiny bobbed hair and flapper outfits. […]

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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 America, the Land […]

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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 ramen cafe owner into […]

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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
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Words cannot describe how much I love Sixties music. While I like my share of The Beatles and Rolling Stones, when it comes to tight harmonies and […]

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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]
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Curtis Hanson’s […]

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