Most Interesting Rap Releases of 2021
A list of all the most interesting Rap Album Releases of 2021.
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Notable Electronic Releases of 2021
This is a list of noteworthy electronic album releases of 2021.
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The Gunfighter – ★★★★
The 1950 US Western film The Gunfighter directed by Henry King is a great early example of the deconstruction of Wild West heroism. Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) stars in the main role as infamous gunslinger Jimmy Ringo growing older and wishing to leave his lifestyle behind and just settle down and reunite with
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Arca Releases Four New Albums
Venezuelan experimental electronic music producer Arca released her new albums Kick ii, Kick iii, Kick iiii and Kick iiiii continuing the series she started with her excellent Kick i album from 2020.
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The Battle of Algiers – ★★★★½
The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film by Gillo Pontecorvo. It depicts the fight of rebels against the French government in Algeria’s capital during the Algerian War that took place between 1954-1962. It was shot in the city and features a newsreel look in black and white with documentary-style editing to heighten
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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse – ★★★★½
Hearts of Darkness is a US documentary film about the chaotic and wild production of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 cinematic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. It was mainly shot and narrated by Coppola’s wife Eleanor and later edited and finished by George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr who premiered it at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The footage
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Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 Heures – ★★★★½
This interview is another meaningful addition to the original Shoah project by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann that was released in 2001. It features the eye witness account of Yehuda Lerner, a Jewish prisoner of the Sobibor extermination camp during World War II that participated in a revolt, which enabled him to flee from the camp
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Un Vivant Qui Passe (A Visitor from the Living) – ★★★★
In 1979, Claude Lanzmann interviewed Maurice Rossel as part of his Shoah documentary project, who was an official of the International Red Cross during the Second World War. Rossel is known for his visit of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp and erroneously reporting that the living conditions of the Jewish prisoners there were almost normal and life in the camp
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Shoah: Four Sisters – ★★★★★
French documentary film director Claude Lanzman’s last released work before his death in 2018 features previously unreleased interviews with four women from different European countries who survived the holocaust. The accounts were part of the original Shoah project that was released in 1985 but in Lanzman’s opinion seemed to be stories of their own that
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John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection – ★★★★½
This 2018 documentary film by French director Julien Faraut is set at the final of the 1984 French Open between John McEnroe and Ivan Lendl at a time when McEnroe was the world’s top-ranked player. Vogue called it the best film about tennis that was ever made and it really makes for an very interesting
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