March 2012
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Afghanistan (1950s / 1960s)
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“Given the images people see on TV, many conclude Afghanistan never made it out of the Middle Ages. But that is not the Afghanistan I remember. I grew up in Kabul in the 1950s and ’60s. Stirred by the fact that news portrayals of the country’s history didn’t mesh with my own memories, I wanted to discover the truth.”
- Mohammad Qayoumi
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
A film by Wes Craven, that was a mega success in the 80s starring Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp and Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger. The power of this movie lies in the fact that this kids get killed while asleep, and sleep cannot be avoided. In so many other horror movies, the victims are nothing more than vapid cattle wandering dumbly up the slaughterhouse chute and calling out: “Is anyone...
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First Nirvana video for “In Bloom” (1990)
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Stand by Me (1986)
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. A movie directed by Rob Reiner, based on the novel “The Body” by Stephen King, the film takes its title from the Ben E. King song of the same name, which plays over the end credits. Starring young Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O’Connell and Corey Feldman, also Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss...
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Construction of the Statue of Liberty
iloveretro:
These pictures were taken by Albert Fernique and are now in the collection of the New York Public Library
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