Mark Isham's trumpet in "Quiz Show" (Robert Redford) casts doubt on the Ralph Fiennes character.
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Another bit from Mark Isham's soundtrack "Life as a House" (Irwin Winkler).
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A bit from Mark Isham's soundtrack "Life as a House" (Irwin Winkler).
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As a Belgian, I can confirm that good chocolate needs a pinch of salt. Without it, the taste becomes too sweet and you get chocolate for children.
That same lesson applies to film music: limit it to one “register” and the result will be pompous, simplistic, overly sentimental etc. Good music happens when the composer finds the right balance.
In “Life as A House”, a life-affirming movie about a man with inoperable cancer who wants to patch up things with his ex-wife and estranged son, film composer Mark Isham consistently finds the right tone.
He does it as well here as he did in “Quiz Show” (Robert Redford) where he surrounded the Ralph Fiennes character with doubt and thus made a huge contribution to that fine film.
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Has anybody seen Melania near that courtroom? Or Ivanka?
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Each time The Donald receives somebody in jail, he needs to stand up. Like this.
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Got some golf planned this weekend, Donnie?
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Jail time offers The Donald a unique opportunity to color-coordinate the fake tan with his clothes. No more red ties!
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To make the humiliation complete, I want to fly a paper airplane into the Trump Tower.
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If The Donald gets locked up, I want to see Louis Theroux' weird weekend with him!
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Showers are a special thing in prison. Example: the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer incurred lethal head wounds in an unsupervised shower. What happens when an inmate in Rikers wears diapers?
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Jamie does Donald.
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Paris Hilton must be pissed. The Donald, entering jail, will generate more attention than she did, leaving it.
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Finished the latest book of the Jewish history professor Noah Harari, “Sapiens part 3”.
His unique contribution is that he explains how civilisations are shaped by their underlying “narrative”.
Example: the Roman Empire became so big and dominant because the Romans held some common beliefs that proved to be highly successful.
The same holds for our world. Example: money has become “fiat money” no longer covered by exchangeable gold. The economy would crash today if we no longer shared that belief in paper legal tenders.
You can read thick books of Harari but he made his views popular by having comic books made that summarise his ideas.
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An excerpt from Laurence Rees' TV series "The Nazis - A Warning from History".
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Laurence Rees’ 6-part series on German fascism, narrated by actor Samuel West, dates from the late nineties but is as thrilling today as it was then.
Based on the work of Ian Kershaw, a professor of modern history who published a biography of Hitler, “The Nazis - A Warning from History” tackles this huge subject by addressing 6 specific questions in 50-minutes episodes.
The BBC approach is very visible here: unique access to privileged witnesses - SS officers who worked directly for Hitler etc.
The conclusion is eminently clear: the traditional excuse that the German people “didn’t know” what was happening is a complete lie.
You see people coming up with the flimsiest excuses for their criminal behaviour. Some of them are still proud of what they did. A Lithuanian who assisted the Einsatzgruppen, when asked how he could shoot hundreds of children, answers: “You pull the trigger and they fall to the ground. That’s all it is.”
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Jan Kaczmarek's Oscar-winning soundtrack for "Finding Neverland" (Marc Forster).
(If a 10-year old kid understands the value of this music, everybody should be able to get it...)
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