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SWEET HOME
Season 1
Korea, 2020

Directors
Jang Young-woo
Lee Eung-bok
Park So-hyun

Writers/Creators
Kim Hyung-min
Kim Kan-bi
Park So-jeong
Hong So-ri
Hwang Young-chan

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POLICE PYTHON 357
Alain Corneau
France, 1976

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Jon Fosse
A SHINING
[KVITLEIK]

Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls

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Anonymous 4
MIRACLES OF SANT'IAGO
Medieval Chant & Polyphony for St. James from the Codex Calixtinus

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Cakes and Ale

This is not so strange when you reflect that from the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

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Nathan Oliveira
SEATED MAN WITH A DOG (1957)

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HARD TO BE A GOD
Aleksey German
Russia, 2013

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Fleet Foxes
FLEET FOXES

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
Cakes and Ale

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

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Paul Wonner
THE GLIDER (1957)

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SALEM'S LOT
Tobe Hooper
USA, 1979

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Hypnotic Clambake
SQUARE DANCE MESSIAH

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Bester Quartet
METAMORPHOSES

H. L. MENCKEN
The Smart Set - December 1921 Edition

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

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Diego Rivera
NIGHT OF THE RICH (1928)

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DESPAIR
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany-France, 1978

WILSON MIZNER

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

Daily Painting

Joan Eardley

JULY FIELDS (1959)

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KISMET
William Dieterle
USA, 1944

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MIRAGE
Edward Dymtryk
USA, 1965

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Duran Duran

RIO

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Duran Duran

SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER

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Francesco Cavalli
GIASONE (1649)

René Jacobs

Agnès Mellon, Bernard Delétré, Catherine Dubosc, Dominique Visse, Gianpaolo Fagotto, Gloria Banditelli, Guy de Mey, Harry van der Kamp, Michael Chance, Michael Schopper, Concerto Vocale

WALLACE STEVENS
"Sunday Morning I"

We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or old dependency of day and night,
Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Deers walk upon our mountains, and the quail
Whistle about us their spontaneous cries;
Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness;
And, in the isolation of the sky,
At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make
Ambiguous undulations as they sink,
Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Daily Painting

Jean Dubuffet
BEDOUIN ON A DONKEY (1948)

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CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

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KAALA PAANI
Amit Golani and Sameer Saxena
India, 2023

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

SONATAS AND RONDOS

Mikhail Pletnev

NICK DRAKE
"Saturday Sun"

Saturday sun came early one morning
In a sky so clear and blue
Saturday sun came without warning
So no one knew what to do

Saturday sun brought people and faces
That didn’t seem much in their day
But when I remembered those people and places
They were really too good in their way

In their way
In their way
Saturday sun won’t come and see me today

Think about stories with reason and rhyme
Circling through your brain
And think about people in their season and time
Returning again and again

And again
And again
But Saturday’s sun has turned to Sunday’s rain

So Sunday sat in the Saturday sun
And wept for a day gone by

Daily Painting

Gustave Boulanger
LA DANSE GUERRIERE (1875)

One of four created for the Foyer de la Danse, Opéra Garnier, Paris.

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KAALA PAANI
Amit Golani and Sameer Saxena
India, 2023

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John Corigliano

STRING QUARTET

SNAPSHOT: CIRCA 1909
A BLACK NOVEMBER TURKEY

Jefferson Friedman
STRING QUARTET NO. 2

Corigliano Quartet

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Oswaldo Guayasamín

HOMENAGE A TANIA NO. 2 (1969) 

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CRIMES OF THE HEART
Bruce Beresford
USA, 1986

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Frank Oz
USA, 1986

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George Frideric Handel
OPERA ARIAS

Nathalie Stutzmann

Roy Goodman
The Hanover Band

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Kay Lyons
PENDULUM SUN (2022)

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KING AND COUNTRY
Joseph Losey
UK, 1964

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CAST A DARK SHADOW
Lewis Gilbert
UK, 1955

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Frode Haltli
PASSING IMAGES

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Hsin-Yao Tseng
OUTSIDE OF STUDIO (2011)

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MOON GARDEN
Ryan Stevens Harris
USA, 2022

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Georgi Gospodinov
TIME SHELTER

Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel

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Eurythmics
1984 - FOR THE LOVE OF BIG BROTHER

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The 20th Century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

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John Bellany
MALE AND FEMALE FIGURES, CHAINED (1968)

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A FOREIGN AFFAIR

Billy Wilder

USA, 1948

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Iron and Wine
THE SHEPHERD'S DOG

LEONARD BERNSTEIN

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

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Milton Avery
HARPO MARX PLAYING THE HARP (1944)

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PHANTOM BOY

Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol

Belgium/France, 2015

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9 TO 5
Colin Higgins
USA, 1980

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George Frideric Handel
LE CANTATE PER IL MARCHESE RUSPOLI
Italian Cantatas Volume 2

Emanuela Galli, Roberta Invernizzi

Fabio Bonizzoni
La Risonanza

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Ferdinand Hodler
AUTUMN TREES (1892)

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THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
Richard Boleslawski
USA, 1936

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Dinah Washington
THE SWINGIN' MISS "D"

With Quincy Jones and His Orchestra

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Fritz Bultman
M OVER W (1961)