Happy belated Valentine's Day, hope your V-day was a special one. I personally don't see why we can't celebrate love and romance any time of the year. Well, I was on my way home from the gym today and was listening to Classical MPR when host Lynne Warfel's Love at the Movies came on which …
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2016 Oscar Nominations: The Good, the Bad and the WTF
Normally I'm excited for Oscar nominations, but this year it was overshadowed by a couple of things that happen around the same time. Just before I went to bed last night I heard news of terrorist attacks in my homeland Jakarta in multiple locations. One of the first bombs that went off was so close …
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Music Break: Ennio Morricone’s The Mission – Gabriel’s Oboe
I've been wanting to feature this haunting score for a while now, and since Easter was just a few days ago, I thought it'd be fitting to feature it this week. Ennio Morricone is one of my favorite composers of all time, with Cinema Paradiso being one of my favorite scores ever. There's something so …
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Music Break: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
I'm not feeling too well today so naturally I turn to lush, gorgeous music to make me feel better and this one just immediately came to mind. In fact, as I said in my Cinema Paradiso review, I had fallen in love with Ennio Morricone's soundtrack long before I finally saw the film. Of course …
Rental Pick: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
I saw Cinema Paradiso a few months ago during our monthly gals' movie nite, but haven't got a chance to write a review on it. Since I just watched Nine recently which share a 'cinema italiano' theme, why not do the review back to back (the Nine review will be up tomorrow). But the the …
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