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Denis Villeneuve

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Dune (2021)
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Dune (2021)

Six or seven sentences on Dune. Well... six or seven long, detailed sentences. I can probably hold myself to that. That's what I've been telling myself. Maybe if I force myself to sum up, in just a few lines, my first impressions of Denis Villeneuve'
08 Dec 2021 20 min read
Arrival

A great film about linguistics has arrived...

"There is nothing novel about isolationism," says Dr. Kathryn Bartholomew, professor emeritus of languages and linguistics. "It’s the contrary, hospitality, that surprises and delights us." Can you guess which recent sci-fi film inspired this observation?
18 Sep 2018 1 min read
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

"More Human Than Human." "That is our motto," said Tyrell, head of the android-designing Tyrell Corporation. And so began Blade Runner, a movie in which our human hero, Deckard the Replicant Hunter, began to wonder how human he really was, and in which his targets — ferocious
12 Oct 2017 5 min read
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Arrival (2016)

Reader, I confess: I clicked “unfriend” last month. Several times. Understand, I wasn’t ending friendships. I was respecting them — by refusing to let Facebook’s limitations do them further harm. It troubled me to see conversations we might have enjoyed in person go so horribly awry on social media.
05 Dec 2016 1 min read
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