The virgin suicides first edition6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() So to be able to have a really nice one, with all the content-it’s a thrill.”īeyond the restored edition of the film itself, the DVD includes new interviews with Coppola, cinematographer Ed Lachman, and Eugenides, actors Kirsten Dunst and Josh Hartnett, and Tavi Gevinson, as well as Lick the Star, a 1998 short film by Coppola that set the tone for the director’s interest in exploring the micro-dramas and heightened emotions of youth. Obviously, it was my first film, and it didn’t have much of a release at the time and there wasn’t a good DVD of it. “I was so excited to be included in their collection, because I love what they do. “It’s really thrilling to me,” Coppola said by phone Tuesday afternoon. On April 24, Criterion Collection will release the Academy Award winner’s macabre directorial feature debut-a dreamily shot, deeply unsettling meditation on loss, voyeurism, and the enduring mysteries of teenage girlhood, centered on the brief lives of the elusive Lisbon sisters and adapted from Jeffrey Eugenides’s 1993 novel-via a special-edition Blu-ray. ![]() The album has been remastered and the box set will include the soundtrack pressed onto 180g red vinyl, a picture disc live album (previously unreleased and exclusive to the. If anyone has the potential to make special-edition DVDs cool again, it’s Sofia Coppola. French band Air ‘s soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film The Virgin Suicides will be reissued as a limited edition five-disc super deluxe edition box set this June. ![]()
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Bliss ling ma6/22/2023 ![]() The narrator of “Los Angeles,” who meets her rich, emotionally absent husband on, shares a mansion with him, her two children, and her one hundred ex-boyfriends: “Aaron. ![]() Both depict a protagonist confronting the fallout of an abusive relationship with a man named Adam, but “Los Angeles” is absurdist and bitingly satirical, while “Oranges” dwells on the mundane in a matter-of-fact tone. The first two stories, “Los Angeles” and “Oranges,” most clearly demonstrate this tendency. ![]() Readers who appreciate the incisive humor, penetrating social critique, and generic mashup of Severance will be delighted by Bliss Montage, Ma’s first collection of short stories, which mixes the absurd and fantastical with moving evocations of the intimate and everyday.īliss Montage’s stories range from the realist (“Oranges,” “Peking Duck”) to the absurdist (“Los Angeles,” “Yeti Lovemaking,” “Tomorrow”) to the gently fantastical (“G,” “Office Hours,” “Returning”), yet the stories read like variations on a theme-alternate (if wildly different) lives that the same person could have lived. Severance received rave reviews upon publication and resurged in public discourse in 2020, when an actual pandemic transformed the world. A tale of a pandemic-induced zombie apocalypse, Severance is also a novel of immigrant experience and a portrait of millennial malaise. ![]() Ling Ma’s 2018 debut novel Severance captured the literary world’s attention with its original blending of genres. ![]() Artificial Condition by Martha Wells6/21/2023 ![]() What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. ![]() A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. It has a dark past-one in which a number of humans were killed. "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure." The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. ![]() It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action-adventure All Systems RedĪrtificial Condition continues The Murderbot Diaries, a science fiction series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. ![]() Chess novella6/21/2023 ![]() Realizing that there’s no guarantee his life will be spared once he gives up that information, Bartok embarks on a cagey game of cat and mouse with Böhm as he continues to be held prisoner in a claustrophobic hotel room where a smuggled book of annotated chess moves serves as his only connection to the outside world. Separated from his wife, he’s arrested and brought to the Hotel Metropol, commandeered as Gestapo headquarters, where the quietly calculating Böhm (Albrecht Schuch) expects Bartok to provide him with the account access codes belonging to his aristocratic clients in exchange for his freedom. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the CDC and local health officials.īut Bartok’s world as he knows it very quickly comes to an abrupt end, with German troops marching into Austria just as he and Anna plan to set sail for America. ![]() The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]() Lahaye jenkins6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Rayford, Abdullah, Naomi, and Chang manage to escape, though Otto stays behind in New Babylon. Rayford and Otto crash a meeting that Global Community Supreme Potentate Nicolae Carpathia holds in his office, telling his officials about the move to Al Hillah and the plan to build up troops in the Jezreel Valley for the final battle to deal with the Jews and believers in both Jerusalem and Petra. ![]() While there, Rayford discovers a believer named Otto Weser, whose underground cell of believers were hiding out in New Babylon from Global Community forces. Rayford Steele, Abdullah Smith, and Naomi Tiberias travel by jet to New Babylon to rescue Chang Wong, their undercover mole looking for a way out. It is the beginning of the final year of the Tribulation, and New Babylon is covered in thick darkness with the fifth Bowl Judgment. ![]() It takes place 6–7 years into the Tribulation, 2 + 1⁄ 2 to 3 + 1⁄ 2 years into the Great Tribulation, and at the end of the novel the day of the Glorious Appearing. It was on The New York Times Best Seller List for 20 weeks. Armageddon: The Cosmic Battle of the Ages is the 11th novel in the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is unique in bridging the gap between the theory and the practice of programming distributed computing systems. The parallel structure of the chapters in both part one (theory) and part two (practice) enable the reader not only to compare the different theories but also to see clearly how a programming language supports a theoretical model. The book then presents programming languages that follow the theoretical models already described, including Pict, SALSA, and JoCaml. The major theories of concurrent computation-including the π-calculus, the actor model, the join calculus, and mobile ambients-are explained with a focus on how they help design and reason about distributed and mobile computing systems. Starting from the premise that understanding the foundations of concurrent programming is key to developing distributed computing systems, this book first presents the fundamental theories of concurrent computing and then introduces the programming languages that help develop distributed computing systems at a high level of abstraction. ![]() An introduction to fundamental theories of concurrent computation and associated programming languages for developing distributed and mobile computing systems. ![]() The new path swami kriyananda6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Through his music he channeled higher states of consciousness and helped innumerable listeners to attune themselves too. He was a trained musician and composed over 400 songs (solos, instrumentals, choir, chants, etc). ![]() Books such as the Essence of Bhagavad Gita, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Revelations of Christ and The New Path (Swami Kriyananda’s autobiography on his time with the Guru) have been his noteworthy contributions in highlighting some of his Master’s most important work. These books are revised and expanded commentaries on Yogananda’s teachings. Swami Kriyananda was a prolific writer with his work spanning more than 150 books. ![]() He met his Guru in 1948 when he was only 22 and dedicated the next six decades of his life to sharing the teachings of Sanatan Dharma and Kriya Yoga, until his passing in 2013. One of Paramhansa Yogananda’s foremost disciples, Swami Kriyananda was the founder of the Ananda. ![]() Vagabonding by Rolf Potts6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() He shows that if Charlie Sheen would have cleaned toilets for seven months, he could have made his dream a reality and have had enough money to start his adventure. Rolf Potts makes a brilliant calculation in his book Vagabonding. We see travel as some kind ultra-luxurious recurring dream that is only reserved for the ultra-privileged. This scene, to me, very much captures the essence of how the western world sees long-term travelling. ![]() “I think if I can make a bundle of cash before I’m thirty and I can get out of this racket, and I’ll be able to ride my motorcycle across China”. In this movie, Charlie Sheen a very promising talent in the stock market told his girlfriend about his dreams and why he is hustling on Wall Street so much. One of my favourite movies of all time is Oliver Stone’s Wall Street with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen. ![]() Willie and joe by bill mauldin6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() It's almost full." And in another, Willie tells a medic: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. In another, the two are about to jump a down-in-the-mouth German soldier walking by with a bottle of liquor. ![]() In one drawing, soldiers are marching, bone-weary. From 1940 to 1945, the laconic pair of unshaven, slump-shouldered soldiers slogged their way through battle-scarred Europe, surviving the enemy and the elements while sarcastically mocking everything from their orders to their equipment and even their allies. With Willie and Joe, Mauldin became the voice of the World War II infantryman. It showed a grieving Abraham Lincoln, his hands covering his face, at the Lincoln Memorial. It was at the Chicago Sun-Times where Mauldin drew one of his most famous cartoons, published after President Kennedy's assassination. Mauldin was one of the pre-eminent editorial cartoonists of the 20th century, writing and drawing 16 books. "It's really good that he's not suffering anymore," he said. Mauldin died at a nursing home of complications from Alzheimer's disease, including pneumonia, said Andy Mauldin, one of his seven sons. ![]() Brown by kevin young6/19/2023 ![]() Unlike any other form of art, poetry is able to express the inexpressible. Poems to read now to better understand the black experience in America ![]() And to celebrate the laureates who give voice to our community. Any one of these would be perfect poems to read right now to better understand the lived experience of African Americans. Here you will find voices from many generations of writers, including some who are creating brilliant work today. Our correspondent Abbie Martin Greenbaum has gathered a list of some of the best inspiring, most popular and most iconic poems written by leading Black and African American poets about the Black experience in America. ![]() There are several ways to do that effectively. And many of us who are Black are in search of solace, inspiration and reminders of our heritage and the legacy of our forbearers. As a nation, we remain in a moment when many people continue to earnestly try to learn more about how Black people experience life in America. ![]() |