Author: Issa Adalia
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This week on film: Insomnia, pitching, and interview clippings about movies
I watched the 2002 clip of Chris Nolan interviewing Al Pacino and it was really fascinating getting a picture of (oof I am typing this accidentally in my Romanian keyboard and everything is red), okay, fixed it… anyway, a picture of a noob kid interviewing a master. (Oh and this time, early period, Nolan just…
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Rewatching ‘Prince Caspian’ as a lifelong Narnia fan and for the first time as an adult (Spoilers)
(from October 4, 2020) Today my brother and I just finished watching it (first time for him) and I was watching it fully with a more mature comprehension for the first time. We are watching the Narnia movies as we finish reading each book (I read aloud to him), and we were able to recall…
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Autumn in Armenia, 2024
I have been wanting to go into nature for a long time. I longed to get lost in a forest or stare at a high mountain from afar… Blame it on the poets I’ve read or musicians I’ve listened to – those who went into the refuge of secluded mountainsides or plains to find themselves.…
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Christopher Nolan: Time, Obsession, Synesthesia (maybe), and other topics
I used to write about bands, TV shows, characters, and so on. And now I’m surprised, because here I am, writing about a film director. I wasn’t counting on it to be Christopher Nolan – I even avoided considering him as my fave director since he’s so mainstream lol…
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The magic of rereading Lord of the Rings
Here is a history of my reading Lord of the Rings and an inventory of the new things I’ve been gleaning out of it. I came to read it first as a teenager and am now reading it as a graduate student, and my understanding of it has grown deeper like the rings of a…
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Reflections on Celebrimbor as a fallen artist
Celebrimbor stuck out to me as a character I heavily empathised with during the second season of Rings of Power, which surprised me because I was annoyed by him and his hubris during the first season.
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Attempts of taking pictures like HONY
(a very old draft I unexpectedly found from my old blog on Feb. 20, 2015!) I took some photos on the way to a dinner with some Filipino-German friends the night before the World Cup Finals, and it is interesting to see a country distant from some historical event’s location the afternoon before it will…
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A reflection on watching Richard Strauss’ “Eine Alpensinfonie”
(originally posted in April 2020 and shared by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra FB page) Going to see an orchestra play live has always excited me ever since I saw my first full orchestra in Armenia four years ago. This is because, despite hearing classical music since I was in my mother’s womb – my…
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Is Blogging Dead? (and – welcome back!)
Hey guys! It’s been over a year since I last wrote on my blog. I think, unfortunately, my old blog posts on this site got lost due to my inactivity (but you can still see parts of it on the Way Back Machine 😭). But I think this is a better way for my blogging…