Daylight Saving Time – How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver – Transcript
09/03/2020
Daylight saving time doesn’t actually benefit anyone. Strangely, it’s still a thing!
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PETE DAVIDSON: SMD (2016) – FULL TRANSCRIPT
04/03/2020
Filled with unfiltered, brutally honest anecdotes, Davidson proves in his first Comedy Central stand-up special that even at 22, he and his friends have had some high times and heavy experiences.
Protected: Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead [Full Text]
01/03/2020
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PETE DAVIDSON: ALIVE FROM NEW YORK (2020) – FULL TRANSCRIPT
01/03/2020
In “Alive from New York” Pete Davidson talks about all the things that have made him famous in the last several years: his relationship with Ariana Grande, his work on SNL, becoming the BDE Ur-text. He talks about Lorne Michaels and doing a lot of drugs, and he tells stories about his father, a firefighter who died on 9/11.
Amanda Seales: I Be Knowin’ (2019) – Transcript
27/02/2020
Comedian Amanda Seales presents her stand-up debut: I Be Knowin’. In this hour-long HBO special, Amanda shares from her memories of romance in high school up to what it means to be a 30-year-old black woman in America today.
JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL (2019) – SCRIPT
24/02/2020
Dialogues full transcript of the movie Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Spanish Flu: A Warning from History
23/02/2020
In 1918, celebrations marking the end of the First World War were cut short by the onslaught of a devastating disease — the 1918-19 influenza pandemic.
On the Value of Scepticism by Bertrand Russell
23/02/2020
I wish to propose for the reader’s favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive.
Stewart Lee: Carpet Remnant World (2012) – Full Transcript
12/02/2020
(’70s GERMAN ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to enter the Carpet Remnant World of Stewart Lee! (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) That was a
Stewart Lee: Content Provider (2018) – Transcript
10/02/2020
Stewart Lee’s meta comedy is of a self-aware Metropolitan Liberal Elite in which he talks about, amongst other things, the thin line between Brexit and Trump, S&M (unrelated), people under forty, Deacon Blue’s mix of soulful singer-songwriter sensibilities, an accurate impersonation of Russell Howard, and Burnham-On-Crouch, all against a backdrop of Casper David Friedrich’s 1818 German masterpiece Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog.
Habeas Corpus
09/02/2020
The term “habeas corpus” originates from Latin, translating literally to “you shall have the body.” At its core, habeas corpus is a fundamental legal principle safeguarding individual freedom against arbitrary and lawless state action.
Pretty Poison (1968) – Review by Pauline Kael
07/02/2020
When I discovered that Pretty Poison had opened without advance publicity or screenings, I rushed to see it, because a movie that makes the movie companies so nervous they’re afraid to show it to the critics stands an awfully good chance of being an interesting movie. Mediocrity and stupidity certainly don’t scare them; talent does.
Weekend (1967) – Review by Pauline Kael
07/02/2020
Only the title of Jean-Luc Godard’s new film is casual and innocent; Weekend is the most powerful mystical movie since The Seventh Seal and Fires on the Plain and passages of Kurosawa. We are hardly aware of the magnitude of the author-director’s conception until after we are caught up in the comedy of horror, which keeps going further and becoming more nearly inescapable, like Journey to the End of the Night.
“All Quiet on the Western Front” Perfectly Transmits the Experience of War
07/02/2020
Richard Church, himself a novelist and poet who had fought in World War I, believed that Erich Maria Remarque’s remarkable little novel allowed the reader to truly understand the horrifying and brutalizing experience of those who fought in the Great War
Why War Books Are Popular
07/02/2020
Sir Herbert Read was a British art historian, poet, and critic. His book of poetry, Naked Warriors (1919), reflected his own experiences in World War I. In the following viewpoint, written as a review of a half-dozen war books, he discusses why, ten years after the end of the war, people had so much interest in war literature.
Erich Maria Remarque: What All Quiet on the Western Front Means
06/02/2020
When Remarque’s English publisher sent an advance copy of the novel to Sir Ian Hamilton, a British general, Hamilton wrote a letter to the publisher thanking him and telling him how true he felt the book was and how deeply it had touched him. The publisher forwarded the letter to Remarque, who responded with the letter below.
The Shining (1980) – Review by Richard Schickel
05/02/2020
By taking a book by an author who is at the center of the craze for the supernatural, and turning it into a refusal of and subtle comment on that loopy cultural phenomenon, Kubrick has made a movie that will have to be reckoned with on the highest level
La Chinoise: A Minority Movie – Review by Pauline Kael
04/02/2020
Jean-Luc Godard’s “La Chinoise” is a satire of new political youth, but a satire from within, based on observation, and a satire that loves its targets more than it loves anything else — that, perhaps, can see beauty and hope only in its targets.
Sara Pascoe: LadsLadsLads (2019) – Full Transcript
02/02/2020
Exploring love, sex and doing both alone, Sara shares her wisdom and positivity, and overshares about her imaginary brother Stephen.
Croatia, 1941-1945: The Road to a Forgotten Genocide
01/02/2020
The greatest genocide during World War II, in proportion to a nation’s population, took place, not in Nazi Germany but in the Nazi-created puppet state of Croatia. There, in the years 1941-1945, some 750,000 Serbs, 60,000 Jews and 26,000 Gypsies— men, women and children—perished in a gigantic holocaust.
Il Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde – Saggio introduttivo di Vieri Razzini
29/01/2020
Nati dalla fantasia degli scrittori e fatti vivere nelle pagine di un libro, certi personaggi della letteratura hanno un destino singolare: col passar del tempo assurgono all’altezza di caratteri universali e, tralasciata del tutto la loro matrice artistica, cominciano a vivere una vita propria e imbarazzantemente perenne, fino ad entrare nel linguaggio di tutti i giorni.