I love Scandinavian cinema. Directors Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Tier has made Scandinavian storytelling so instantaneously recognizable. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first of three novels in the Millennium Trilogy by Swedish crime novelist and journalist, Stieg Larsson. “A disgraced journalist is enlisted to solve the cryptic 1960s murder of a [...]

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“Everything that’s built crumbles in time: buildings, cultures, fortunes, and lives,” says Lipman. “The detritus of civilization tells us no less about our current epoch than an archeological dig speaks to history. The urban ruin is particularly compelling because it speaks of the recent past, and reminds us that our own lives and creations will [...]

Sweet Charity is a musical based on Federico Fellini’s screenplay for Nights of Cabiria. The original Broadway production was directed and choreographed by the great Bob Fosse. I couldn’t embed the video. Here’s the link. Sweet Charity