Image of the Month
FILMS — JUNE 2023
(Hitchcock 1935) The 39 Steps
(Cavalcanti 1947) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
(Hellings 2007) MidSomer Murders: Ep.56 ― Death and Dust
(DeBlois & Sanders 2010) How to Train Your Dragon
(Tsutsumi & Oh 2022) Oni: Thunder God’s Tale: Ep.1 ― Onari’s Kushi Power
(Gorrie 1976) The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Ford 1941) How Green Was My Valley
(Oshii 1996) Ghost in the Shell [攻殻機動隊]
(Frow 2019) MidSomer Murders: Ep.119 ― Drawing Dead
First-time listening for June 2023
26567. (Christoph Graupner) Concerto for Viola d’Amore, Flute & Orchestra, BWV.725
26568. (Stan Rogers) From Coffee House to Concert Hall
26569. (10,000 Maniacs) Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982–1983
26570. (Split Enz) Mental Notes
26571. (Dead South) The Ocean Went Mad and We Were to Blame
26572. (Pietro Mascagni) Isabeau [complete opera; d. Rapallo; Pobbe, Ciliento, Assandri]
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READING — JUNE 2023
25173. (Abdi Nazemian) Like a Love Story
25174. (John Thorley) Athenian Democracy
25175. (Matthew Edgeworth, et al) The Stratigraphic Basis of the Anthropocene Event
. . . . . [article]
(Stephen Leacock) Too Much College, or, Education Eating Up Life:
. . . . 25176. [2] (Stephen Leacock) Education Eating Up Life [article]
. . . . 25177. (Stephen Leacock) The Machine at Work [article]
. . . . 25178. (Stephen Leacock) What Good Is Latin? [article]
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Image of the Month — Along the north shore of Lake Superior
FILMS — May 2023
(Browning 1930) Outside the Law
(Altieri 1992) Batman, the Animated Series: Ep.1 ― On Leather Wings
(Mankiewicz 1972) Sleuth
(Friend 1987) Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Ep.9 ― 4.50 from Paddington
(Petit 1989) Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: Ep.10 ― A Caribbean Mystery
(Negulesco 1944) The Mask of Dimitrios
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First-time listening for May 2023
26545. (Stan Rogers) Northwest Passage
26546. (Dead South) Good Company
26547. (Etta James) Blues from the Big Apple
26548. (Stan Rogers) Fogerty’s Cove
26549. (Kate & Anna McGarrigle) Entre la jeunesse et la sagesse
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READING — MAY 2023
25143. (Jean-Paul Gagnon & Emily Beausoleil) West By Not West: Comparative
. . . . . Democratic Theory is Constellational [article]
25144. (Damon Knight) The Other Foot [novel version; short story version read at 14153]
25145. (Frederic Charles Schaffer & Jean-Paul Gagnon) The Hegemonic Concept of
. . . . . Democracy has Dissolved, What Happens Now? [article]
(Stephanie Dalley ‑ed. & –tr.) Myths From Mesopotamia:
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Image of the Month — In the Hoggar, middle of the Sahara
FILMS — APRIL 2023
(Jennings 2007) Son of Rambow
(Fleischer 1952) The Happy Time
(Forbes 1966) The Wrong Box
(Mazin 2023) The Last of Us: Ep.1 ― When You’re Lost in the Darkness
(Matalas 2023) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.29 ― Võx
(Shin 1986) The Transformers: The Movie
(Matalas 2023) Star Trek: Picard: Ep.30 ― The Last Generation
(Curtiz 1954) The Egyptian
(Smith 2003) MidSomer Murders: Ep.27 — A Tale of Two Hamlets
(Gaghan 2020) Dolittle