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Michelangelo Antonioni with Monica Vitti at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960; Antonioni was awarded a special jury prize for "L'Avventura" at the Festival.

Sunday Musings: On Michelangelo Antonioni and his masterful indifference

15 Mar 2026

7 min read

'Seven Decades' offers a blend of vivid first-hand experience and science while 'The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life' is light-hearted. There is a lot more on offer in both books.

Staying alive! Inside the quest for longevity

03 Jan 2026

8 min read

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'When you sell a man a book...': Notes from a lifetime of reading

13 Sep 2025

6 min read

American director Francis Ford Coppola, center, carries his daughter Sofia, 8, through the crowd after the formal presentation of his film “Apocalypse Now” at the Cannes International Film Festival in France on May 19, 1979. His son Gian Carlo, 15, and his wife Ellie are left.

On Francis Ford Coppola's operas, chamber pieces and Trump's Godfather resemblances

12 Jul 2025

6 min read

Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) and Paper Moon (1973) stand out amidst the Hollywood dross.

Surviving Childhood: The Last Picture Show and four other unforgettable 'coming-of-age' films

21 Apr 2025

7 min read

The Power of Three: Interrogating Russian history

The Power of Three: Interrogating Russian history

25 Oct 2024

9 min read

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