From 2017:
Read the whole thing here.I’ve decided to play the game that’s currently going around the web and post a list of my favorite films released in each year of my life to date….
Lookback: sixty-one years, sixty-eight films
Archives for May 2021
Almanac: F. Scott Fitzgerald on a heat wave
“In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Just because: Marian Anderson sings Schubert’s “Ave Maria”
Marian Anderson sings Schubert’s “Ave Maria” on The Ed Sullivan Show. This episode was originally telecast live by CBS on April 13, 1952:
(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
Almanac: Somerset Maugham on the power of music
“Music is queer. Its power seems unrelated to the other affections of man, so that a person who is elsewise perfectly commonplace may have for it an extreme and delicate sensitiveness.”
Somerset Maugham, The Narrow Margin