Tag: Arts & Culture

Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘The Adventures of Baron Munchausen’: Brilliant, Comical Escapism of the Most Fantastical Kind

September 25, 2022
Arts & CultureBrightFilm & TVTerry GilliamThe Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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PG | 2h 6min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy | 1989 It seems that eccentric director Terry Gilliam has a few things in common with the equally eccentric 18th-century German writer and librarian Rudolf Erich Raspe. One of Raspe’s more surreal novels, “Baron Münchhausen’s Narrative of his Marvelous Travels and Campaigns in Russia,” follows the adventures…

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Cherishing Our Lives: ‘Soap Bubbles’

September 25, 2022
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Do you remember when you were a child, and you wanted to know about everything? Children have a sense of wonderment with the world. They approach it with an innocent curiosity, and they question everything with a sincere interest in understanding the things around them. As we get older, we get stuck in a routine,…

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The North Star (1943)

September 25, 2022
1941Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightcontendEpoch CinemaEpochTVFeature FilmsFilm & TVinvasionnaziOld Time FavoritesUkrainianvillageWatch For Free
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A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: https://www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on…

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This Is the Army (1943)

September 25, 2022
Arts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightclassicDrama & ThrillerEpoch CinemaEpochTVFilm & TVforcesOld Time FavoritesProducershowsoldierWatch For FreeWWI
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A soldier wounded in World War I becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: https://www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the “Save” button below the video to…

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Theater Review: ‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’

September 24, 2022
"Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski"Arts & CultureBrightClark YoungDerek GoldmanJan KarskiLife & TraditionPerforming Arts
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NEW YORK—Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor Jan Karski (David Strathairn) may have thought of himself as “an insignificant little man,” but as “Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski” makes clear, he was far more. Written by Clark Young and Derek Goldman, who also doubles as the director, this one-person show at the Polonsky Shakespeare…

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Film Review: ‘Escape from Kabul’: Grim Reality of the Afghan Withdrawal        

September 24, 2022
"Escape From Kabul"American Withdrawal from AfghanistanArts & CultureBrightFilm & TVJamie RobertsTaliban
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TV-MA | Documentary | 1hr 18min | 2022 Anyone one still believes there was any degree of planning ahead of the American military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan will be disillusioned by this documentary. There are indeed those stomach-churning images of desperate Afghans falling from planes as they lifted-off from Kabul airport, but viewers will also get…

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Rewind, Review and Re-Rate: ‘Karamay’: Communist Officials Saved Themselves as Children Died

September 24, 2022
"Karamay"Arts & CultureBrightFilm & TVFriendship HallLife & TraditionXinjiang ProvinceXu Xin
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13+ | 5h 56min | Documentary | March 28, 2010 Even before the Uyghur genocide currently underway, Xinjiang was the site of terrible human suffering. On Dec. 8, 1994, 323 people died when fire broke out in the crowded Friendship Hall, where school children were entertaining visiting officials. The city’s Communist Party cadres escaped with…

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A Tribute to the Sages: Raphael’s Frescoes in the Stanza della Segnatura

September 24, 2022
A School of AthensAmerican EssenceArts & CultureArts & TraditionBrightLife & TraditionRaphaelStanza della Segnatura
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Raphael’s feelings were undoubtedly mixed as he received his first commission from the powerful patron of the arts, Pope Julius II. At 25 years of age, Raffaello Sanzio was known throughout Italy as a rapidly rising star artist. Now he had been chosen to fresco four rooms in the Apostolic Palace, the pope’s official residence….

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The Painted Hills (1951)

September 24, 2022
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An intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy’s life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: https://www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films * Click the…

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Vengeance Valley (1951)

September 24, 2022
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The sons of a Colorado cattle baron, one biological and the other adopted, resent one another and fight for control of their father’s cattle empire. Credit: Public Domain Movies – BUY Jan 6 DVD: https://www.epochtv.shop/product-page/dvd-the-real-story-of-january-6, Promo Code “EpochTV” for 20% off. – Feature Films: Cinema collection: http://epochcinema.com Epoch Original content: http://epochoriginal.com Feature Films: https://www.theepochtimes.com/featured-films *…

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