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The Hand: An Anti-Totalitarian Animation, Banned for Two Decades & Now Considered One of the Greatest Animations (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFAoLHXou4s For obvi­ous rea­sons, most art pro­duced under oppres­sive regimes comes off as painstak­ing­ly inof­fen­sive. For equal­ly obvi­ous rea­sons, the rare works that crit­i­cize the regime tend to do so rather oblique­ly. This was­n’t so much the case with The Hand,...

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Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR2uKGdHsCE Haru­ki Murakami’s hit nov­el 1Q84 fea­tures a mem­o­rable scene in a taxi­cab on a grid­locked free­way whose radio is play­ing Leoš Janáček’s Sin­foni­et­ta. “It is, as the book sug­gests, tru­ly the worst pos­si­ble music for a traf­fic jam,” writes Sam Ander­son...

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The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWOFxyQI9D8 The video above from YouTu­ber Alex Day includes clips from about 500 movies, and you’ve almost cer­tain­ly seen more than a few of them. Bat­tle­ship Potemkin, Dum­bo, Rear Win­dow, Dr. No, The God­fa­ther, E. T. the Extra-Ter­res­tri­al, Top Gun, Brave­heart, Glad­i­a­tor, Incep­tion: we’re not talk­ing about obscu­ri­ties here. Whether...

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