Eight Below, The Magnificent Seven and Shall We Dance?. What do these titles have in common? They are all films were first developed by Japanese filmmakers and later remade for American audiences. In the 1983 movie, Nankyoku Monogatari or Antarctica, two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while onContinue reading “Japanese Film Collection”
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Happy Birthday William York Tindall
According to The Writer’s Almanac, today is the birthday of literary critic and James Joyce scholar William York Tindall, born in Williamstown, Vermont (1903). He was a literature student when he discovered James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922) while traveling in Paris. He became obsessed with Joyce, and read all of his works. When he returnedContinue reading “Happy Birthday William York Tindall”