​​🎬✔️ "Nights of Cabiria"
(🇮🇹 "Le notti di Cabiria")
Director: Federico Fellini
Writers: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Countries: Italy 🇮🇹, France 🇫🇷
Year: 1957
Starring: Giulietta Masina, François Périer, Franca Marzi, Amedeo Nazzari ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 94%

​​🎬✔️ "Au Hasard Balthazar"
Director/writer: Robert Bresson
Countries: France 🇫🇷, Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1966
Starring: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, François Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Philippe Asselin, Pierre Klossowski, Nathalie Joyaut ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 86%

​​🎬✔️ "Abel"
Director/writer: Alex van Warmerdam
Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
Year: 1986
Starring: Alex van Warmerdam, Henri Garcin, Olga Zuiderhoek, Annet Malherbe, Loes Luca ...
Genre: comedy

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A well-to-do, shut-in thirty-something faces city life, family secrets and his own quirks when he is finally thrown out by his parents."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Audience score 86%

​​🎬✔️ "Kes"
Director: Ken Loach
Writers: Barry Hines, Ken Loach, Tony Garnett
Country: UK 🇬🇧
Year: 1969
Starring: David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes ...
Genres: drama, family

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A working-class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 100%
- Audience score 91%

​​📖✔️ "Approaches: Drugs and Altered States" | "Approaches: Drugs And Ecstatic Intoxication"
(🇩🇪 "Annäherungen. Drogen und Rausch")
Author: Ernst Jünger
Country: West Germany 🇩🇪
Publication date: 1970
Genres: nonfiction, essay, culturology, philosophy, memoir

Denoscription on Amazon:
"In Approaches: Drugs and Altered States, Ernst Jünger describes his experiences with drugs over the course of his life, ranging from youthful drinking sprees, through experiments with hashish and morphine, to more powerful psychotropic substances like mescaline, peyote, and LSD. Combining elements of memoir and critical reflection on the history of mind-altering substances in society, Approaches attests to Jünger’s belief that drugs can facilitate a deeper spiritual journey into dimensions of human existence that have been eclipsed by the ambient noise of modern life."

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​​🎬✔️ "City Lights"
Director/writer: Charlie Chaplin
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1931
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers ...
Genres: comedy, drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 95%
- Audience score 96%

​​🎵💿 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds
Released: October 20, 2023
Label: Polydor Records
Genres: rock/blues rock

Denoscription on Amazon:
"Hackney Diamonds, the hugely anticipated new album by The Rolling Stones, is released on October 20th on Polydor Records. Following the release of 2016's Grammy Award winning Blue & Lonesome, which featured brilliant versions of blues tracks that helped shape their sound, Hackney Diamonds marks the band’s first studio album of original material since 2005's A Bigger Bang.

Late drummer Charlie Watts features on two tracks, ‘Mess It Up’ and ‘Live By The Sword’. ‘Live By The Sword’ additionally features bass from former Stones bassist Bill Wyman. ‘Sweet Sounds Of Heaven’ featuring vocals from Lady Gaga and keys & piano from Stevie Wonder, ‘Bite My Head Off’ with bass from Paul McCartney, and ‘Get Close’ and ‘Live By The Sword’ with piano from Elton John."

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​​🎬✔️ "Blow-Up"
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Writers: Michelangelo Antonioni, Julio Cortázar, Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond
Countries: UK 🇬🇧, Italy 🇮🇹, USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1966
Starring: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles ...
Genres: drama, mystery, thriller

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 87%
- Audience score 84%

​​📖✔️ "Sweden. Model for Assembly: Villa, Volvo, Dog"
(🇺🇦 "Швеція. Модель для збірки: вілла, «вольво», песик")
Author: Yuliya Yurchuk
Countries: Sweden 🇸🇪, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Publication date: 2022
Genres: nonfiction, travel ...

Denoscription on Book Lion:
"A country you don't hear about in the news, where [people] work four hours a day, eat rotten fish, and are depressed. And Carlson and Greta Thunberg live there. All this is about Sweden; of course, there is not much truth in these words.

Historian Yuliia Yurchuk, who has been living in Sweden for over ten years, will explain in her book what actually makes Swedish life Swedish. She will talk about the housing search (yes, for this, you have to stand in lines) and Swedish design, feminism, fathers on maternity leave, and trust in the state, as well as about lagom and why Swedes love committees so much.

Why is a simple "hello" so difficult for a Swede? Where to buy flower pots in the design of the prince? How do you celebrate Midsummer and Nobel Week, and why does Christmas morning start with oatmeal and Scrooge cartoons? You and I will live a whole year in Sweden, eat cinnamon buns, dance on the solstice day, and find out what Swedish life is like in practice."

​​🎬✔️ "Halloween"
Director: John Carpenter
Writers: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1978
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes (Loomis), P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers ...
Genres: horror, thriller

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 96%
- Audience score 89%

​​🎬✔️ "The Northerners"
(🇳🇱 "De Noorderlingen")
Director: Alex van Warmerdam
Writers: Alex van Warmerdam, Aat Ceelen
Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
Year: 1992
Starring: Jack Wouterse, Annet Malherbe, Rudolf Lucieer, Loes Wouterson, Leonard Lucieer, Alex van Warmerdam ...
Genres: comedy, drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"During the summer of 1960, the idiosyncratic residents of a one-street Dutch suburb collide in intertwining stories of desire and frustration."

Ratings
IMDb: 7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Audience score 85%

​​📖✔️ "Whatever"
(🇫🇷 "Extension du domaine de la lutte")
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Country: France 🇫🇷
Publication date: 1994
Genres: fiction, roman à thèse (thesis novel)

Denoscription on Goodreads:
"Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny, and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a day and writes weird animal stories in his spare time.

Houellebecq's debut novel is painfully realistic portrayal of the vanishing freedom of a world governed by science and by the empty rituals of daily life."

​​🎬✔️ "Paris, Texas"
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Sam Shepard, L. M. Kit Carson
Countries: West Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷, UK 🇬🇧, USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1984
Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson ...
Genres: drama, road movie

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family."

Ratings
IMDb: 8.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
- Tomatometer 94%
- Audience score 93%

​​🎬✔️ "Scenes from a Marriage" (TV version)
(🇸🇪 "Scener ur ett äktenskap")
Director/writer: Ingmar Bergman
Country: Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1973
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan."

​​🎬✔️ "Saraband"
Director/writer: Ingmar Bergman
Countries: Sweden 🇸🇪, Denmark 🇩🇰, Norway 🇳🇴, Italy 🇮🇹, Finland 🇫🇮, Germany 🇩🇪, Austria 🇦🇹
Year: 2003
Starring: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt, Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter."

​​🎬✔️ "Raven's End"
(🇸🇪 "Kvarteret Korpen")
Director/writer: Bo Widerberg
Country: Sweden 🇸🇪
Year: 1963
Starring: Thommy Berggren, Keve Hjelm, Emy Storm ...
Genre: drama

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An aspiring young writer lives in a bleak working class block in the late 1930s."

​​🎬✔️ "Leaving Las Vegas"
Director: Mike Figgis
Writers: John O'Brien, Mike Figgis
Country: USA 🇺🇸
Year: 1995
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue ...
Genre: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera."

​​🎵💿 Aphex Twin - On (EP)
Released: Nov 15, 1993
Label: Warp
Genres: electronic, IDM, techno

Denoscription on Amazon:
"Aphex Twin's On EP is clearly one of Richard James's most successful works, both artistically and chartwise (hitting the low 30s on the British charts--not bad for a rabid experimentalist). His first major release in the U.S., the weirdly club-friendly yet organic noscript track is composed of (in order of appearance) four pleasant, reverberating piano notes played in succession; a cascade of ascending and descending keyboard notes that quickly approximate a waterfall; the sound of actual water itself in form of a rainstorm; synth washes for ambient coloring; skittering sequencer rhythm notes; an antique Suicide-style beat box that sounds as if powered by steam; and a deliciously distorted, bass-heavy, repeated squeal noise that serves as the focal point of the entire piece. It's pretty neat, enough so that it's one of James's essential recordings."

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​​🎬✔️ "The Dress"
(🇳🇱 "De jurk")
Director/writer: Alex van Warmerdam
Country: Netherlands 🇳🇱
Year: 1996
Starring: Henri Garcin, Alex van Warmerdam, Ariane Schluter, Rijk de Gooyer, Elisabeth Hoijtink, Ricky Koole, Olga Zuiderhoek, Eric van der Donk ...
Genre: comedy, drama, thriller

Denoscription on IMDb:
"An artist, a school girl, a maid, a train conductor and a business executive are drawn into a great wheel of misfortune as all their lives are touched by the existence of one very particular summer dress."

​​🎬✔️ "Happy Together"
(🇨🇳 春光乍洩 | Chun gwong cha sit)
Director/writer: Wong Kar-wai
Countries: Hong Kong 🇭🇰, Argentina 🇦🇷
Year: 1997
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai ...
Genres: drama, romance

Denoscription on IMDb:
"A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions."