Audrey Hepburn
Tra i lettori di libri, inoltre, una quota consistente dichiara di aver letto al massimo tre libri nell’ultimo anno (45,6 per cento), mentre i lettori che hanno letto almeno un libro al mese sono il 13,8 per cento, una quota decisamente più contenuta. L’analisi in serie storica mostra una tendenza all’aumento della quota di lettori e un parallelo aumento dei lettori che hanno letto 12 o più libri nel corso dell’anno, anche se l’ultimo anno registra una contrazione.
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La cosa interessante dei grafici dell’ISTAT è che la zona dove si leggono più libri in Italia è quella culturalmente meno “italiana” (come direbbe Stanis), vale a dire la provincia di Bolzano. (via nipresa) |
365 Film Challenge
#25 — Viktor und Viktoria (1933) ★★★★☆
yes. that’s the original.
(Source: taniadoeslittle)
Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.
To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.
The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.
Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.
The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.
I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.
For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:
I’m finishing up my final grad school application and in my Letter of Intent, basically my personal statement, I explain why I decided to pursue Cinema Studies, and why Classical Hollywood and the Studio Era specifically.
This question is easy to answer but hard to articulate. I know what I felt, but I’m not sure how I can explain it to the admissions board in less than 500 words.
Back in the fall of my second year, back in September 2008, my first screening in my Film History class was Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. It dawned on me that, while I was raised on musicals like Singin’ in the Rain and The Wizard of Oz, the first movie that made me think about how much there really was to Classic Hollywood was Sunset Blvd. It was the very first screening in my very first class once I had been granted admission into the program officially. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the shock, awe and elation I felt at the end of that screening.
I’d had this feeling before after seeing movies, but this time was different. It was an epiphany where I realized that I got this feeling from Classical Hollywood movies almost exclusively and I couldn’t wait to see more and learn more about them.
What movies have made you feel this way? Classics or no, I just feel like remembering these powerful connections to movies can be really therapeutic sometimes. I’d love to hear about them if you’re had any!
In the meantime, wish me luck with this final application - I can’t wait to get back to writing once I have the time again! Miss you Tumblr (and Twitter) fam
Sunset Boulevard was “The movie that started it all for me” as well: if you haven’t, you MUST see it, reader. Whoever you are.
