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The Shining – Review by Paul Mayersberg [Sight & Sound]

The Shining reminds us how far the cinema has come and how much it has stayed the same. It shines bits of an enigmatic film future which in the last image turns out to be a still from the past. There is no immutable order of experience when the past becomes a picture of what might have been.

CITY OF SADNESS: WINDOW ON CHINA

Review of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s movie “A City of Sadness” (1989), written by Yann Tobin for the French magazine Positif in 1990

What We Learned From.. The Battle of Adrianople

In 378 Goth cavalry stormed a Roman force at Adrianople (present-day Edirne, Turkey). According to 4th century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus, the Goths inflicted “enormous losses” on the legionaries, moving St. Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, to bemoan “the end of all humanity.”

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