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"Criminal" UK, ES and FR, really good. Haven't seen DE yet.

I love Matteo Garrone and how he depicts Italy. Really? He makes me feel like I never want to visit... That's why i like it. It's not what we usually see of Italy. [...] Exactly THIS. I very often go to the cinema just to escape from reality - and for that I have Mission: Impossible or Avengers. Bu...

https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/assets.allenandunwin.com/images/small/9781911547259.jpg Natalia Ginzburg's 'Family Lexicon' Just finished this one and I have mixed feelings. On one hand I loved it. I think it's just amazing the way is written, the story. Everything. On the other hand, I hav...

By far, best film I've seen so far: Matteo Garrone's Dogman LI2JE_xjAaY Again from 2018, but has anyone seen Border? I just stumbled onto it in the last couple of days, but being a Let The Right One In fan, and it having a ridiculously high score on RT (96% fresh), I'm considering checking it out. I...

ricv64 wrote:Dam I saw that hit on Fernando Torres today . drymountin upsetting

Nite guys.

RA, thanks for organising this.

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1462162682l/27415359.jpg I very much prefer reading fiction but I enjoyed this one. I'm very into The Undercover Economist, Freakonomics and so on (I bought this one because I read a review by Tim Harford and then I realised I had already read a while ago "Are you smart...

Dario Fo, Nobel-winning playwright, dies aged 90

Solo tengo un equipo, Tigres de La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León de la Liga MX. Sigo todas las ligas, pero no tengo favoritos. Lo importante es disfrutar del buen fútbol sin importar el equipo. Luego cae uno en el fanatismo y menosprecia lo que hacen los otros equipos solo por ser rivales. Par...

Since we're on this Russian vibe, can I recommend Dostoyevsky's Demons (or The Devils or The Possessed, depending on the translation)? An all time fave of mine. Thanks for the recommendation, I really enjoyed this one. I never gave it a chance after failing to get into The Adolescent after a few tr...

next: http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1389114042l/79787.jpg Haven't read this one yet - I'm going through his non-fiction work atm http://www.laprocure.com/cache/couvertures/9782910686581.jpg http://images.gibertjoseph.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/b/581/9782...