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Daily Archives: February 6, 2025
Documentary Review: “Bonnie Blue: James Cotton’s Life in the Blues”
The bluesman James Cotton was the son of a sharecropping Mississippi Baptist preacher and a mother who played the harmonica. And when they died when he was quite young, he picked up his mother’s harmonica and used it to play … Continue reading
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Tagged blues, documentary-review, james-cotton, music, Reviews, rock
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Classic Film Review: The Sexual Sensory Overload of “Black Narcissus” (1947)
Long regarded as “the most beautiful film ever shot in color,” Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s “Black Narcissus” remains a feast for the eyes, one unspoiled by the knowlege that most every dazzling image put on the screen was manipulated, … Continue reading
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Tagged british-empire, classic-film, deborah-kerr, film, india, michael-powell, movie-review, sabu, sexual-repression
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