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fromwww.theguardian.com
8 hours ago

Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye

Pope Leo XIV's American engagement with film and the arts signals culturally liberal leadership, empathy for migrants, and a renewed role for beauty.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

"A House of Dynamite"

As a teenager, I was stupefied by On the Beach (1959), the cinematic portrayal of Nevil Shute's 1957 novel about the extermination of human life in Australia as a lethal radioactive cloud drifts from the Northern Hemisphere (where it was generated by a cataclysmic nuclear war) to the South Pacific. Next came Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964), still the most powerful dramatization of nuclear war's utter madness.
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