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a completely different flight: Flight 93. The Movie (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This fine A&E reenactment of one slice of the confusing events of September 11, 2001 succeeds in showing the combination of ad hoc citizen response and highly professional management that greeted the high-speed unfolding of those incomprehensible events. (more…)

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too hungry for it all: Educating Rita (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| 2 Comments »

This jewel of a film ought to be seen by all who teach, learn, or wish they were doing either.

Julie Walters turns in the Oscar-nominated performance of a lifetime as an Open University working-class student turning up at Michael Caine’s (also Oscar nominated) Oxford rooms for tutoring in literature.

The results are hilarious but – more important – deeply revealing of the pretensions on both sides of the class gap that separates these two stars of this low-budget 1983 production. (more…)

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‘Something relatively devastating’: United 93 (Widescreen Edition)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

The lives of the crew and passengers of United Flight 93 were extinguished when the Boeing 757 in which they were traveling plowed into Pennsylvania farmland on September 11, 2001. United 93 pays them apt tribute. (more…)

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Is there a Christian mind?: Books and Culture. A Christian Review

Posted in denkschrift, reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

One of American evangelicalism’s sympathetic critics once asked whether there is such a thing as a Christian mind. For all sorts of reasons—some more than justified—questioners, skeptics, and malnourished pilgrims have produced negative responses to the query.

But perhaps things are better than all that. (more…)

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Great ROI: Matthew Bishop, Essential Economics (Economist Essentials)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 22, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This badly named but invaluable book is vintage Economist style, method, and theory. If it is not what its title leads one to believe, this is pardonable on the grounds that it is perhaps better than that. (more…)

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Pain heals. Chicks love scars. Glory … lasts forever: The Replacements (DVD)

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 21, 2007| Leave a Comment »

This outrageously corny 2000 flick manages to provide good laughs and some adrenaline, thanks to the on-field hits and the stormin’ music. (more…)

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little music: Schubert: The Complete Impromptus

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on August 10, 2007| 1 Comment »

Franz Schubert’s piano impromptus are not big music.

Not only are the pieces relatively brief, but the absence of instruments other than solo piano and the evasion of bombast by Schubert altogether make these compositions small music.

But small is beautiful. (more…)

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one of the great kick-offs: Mendelssohn – Elijah / G. Jones, J. Baker, Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Frühbeck de Burgos

Posted in reseña, tagged , on August 8, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Mendelssohn’s Elijah has been loved, hated, belted out by innumerable church and community choirs, performed with white-tie panache, and more often than not simply ignored. It’s a difficult work to categorize and even more challenging to review helpfully, since it often appears to be several works in one. (more…)

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low-hanging fruit: Serge Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4/Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini

Posted in reseña, tagged , , on August 4, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s music for piano and orchestra is easy to love. Its lyrical romanticism and connections with successors that lead even to jazz piano tend to be accessible to contemporary listeners. It is some of the most stirring music ever written, though it does not earn the respect of work written by canonical masters of the genre like Mozart and Beethoven. (more…)

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when men sing: The Overtones, In Harmony with the King (www.OvertonesQuartet.com)

Posted in reseña, tagged on July 31, 2007| 1 Comment »

Male voices, when they work well together, are a marvel.

This is as true of England’s soccer stadiums as it is of a tightly knit gospel quartet. It’s hard to say whether the four men of Overtones have ever been near a soccer stadium, but the odds are long.

No matter. What they do, they do very, very well.
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