Day 6 Mike Nichols: Do I go with Working Girl, Postcards from the Edge or the one with the talking dolphin? I’ll just go with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? even though watching it is a harrowing experience.

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2019-11-06

Day 23 South America: Black Orpheus (1959) recasts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in Rio de Janeiro. The movie’s soundtrack, which featured music by Luiz Bonfá and Antônio Carlos Jobim, sparked an international craze for bossa nova.

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2019-09-23

Day 16 Italy (2): In Italy in the early 1970s there was a boom in movies based on Boccaccio’s work and life. The best is Pasolini’s Decameron, which is set in the same Medieval era the stories were written in. Ribald or raunchy? It’s a bit of both.

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2019-09-16