Top 10 Movies: #7 Eternal Sunshine (Reconstructivist Art)
I’m re-running my post on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind to commemorate the fact that it’s not only an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art, it is also movie #7 on my personal top 10...
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Top 10 Movies:#8 Star Wars (Reconstructivist Art)
I realize may lose geek points for placing Star Wars this low –my only defense is that we have seven absolutely stellar pieces of film yet to go after this… George Lucas’ Star Wars...
Top 10 Movies: #9 – The Breakfast Club
I’m revealing my Generation X origins with my pick for 9th best movie, 1985’s The Breakfast Club. Without letting director John Hughes off the hook for “crimes” such as the casual racism and sexism...
Top 10 Movies: #10 – Airplane!
Starting the list from the bottom, my tenth favorite movie is the purest comedy on the list, and my personal pick for the funniest movie ever, the absurdist 1980 Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker farce Airplane! A broad...
Reconstructivist Art: Sgt. Pepper
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as an example of Reconstructivist Art A ground-breaking psychedelic concept album by the legendary rock band, the Beatles, near their peak of their critical and commercial...
Reconstructivist Art: The Warriors
The Warriors (1979) by Walter Hill and David Shaber as an example of Reconstructivist Art A cult classic movie, The Warriors traces the adventures of a multiracial New York street gang battling to make...
Reconstructivist Art: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Acclaimed Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón (later to win a Best Director Oscar for Gravity) returned to his native country in...
Reconstructivist Art: Man of La Mancha
Man of La Mancha (1965) by Wasserman, Leigh and Darion as an example of Reconstructivist Art The ground-breaking and seminal seventeenth-century Spanish novel Don Quixote attracted a number of prior attempts at theatrical adaptation,...
Reconstructivist Art: The Neverending Story
Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story (1979) as an example of Reconstructivist Art Michael Ende’s international bestseller found an audience among children and adults alike, due to its psychologically rich exploration of a hero whose...
Alt Classical – The Innovators
This week brings a new installment of my series on alt-classical music –music that combines the instrumentation, elegance and sophistication of classical music with the vitality of newer and more modern approaches to music....
Top 10 Best Independent Songs of 2014
Here’s the new music I found most exciting this year. Much of it was from the free record samplers they distribute on Amazon (one of the web’s best kept secrets, full length anthology albums,...
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