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The haunting scene that makes Taxi Driver a true classic

The haunting scene that makes Taxi Driver a true classic

🚀 Read this trending post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Known for its shocking moments of violence and groundbreaking visual approach, Taxi Driver is packed with unforgettable scenes that go beyond Bickle's famous scene in the mirror. In particular, there's another, shorter scene that's really the film's most significant moment of visual specificity; Displaying a distinctly European sensibility in what is ultimately a very American drama, as well as encapsulating the insular gloom that runs throughout.Reject with a differenceA third of the way through the film, at the conclusion of the first act, the film…
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Artificial intelligence analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and American museums | art

Artificial intelligence analysis casts doubt on Van Eyck paintings in Italian and American museums | art

💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Jan van Eyck,Italy,Philadelphia,Belgium,Art and design,AI (artificial intelligence),Culture,Europe,US news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: An analysis of two paintings in museums in the United States and Italy by the 15th-century Flemish artist Jan van Eyck raised a profound question: What if van Eyck had not been?Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata, the name given to the nearly identical, unsigned paintings that hang in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Turin, represent two of a small number of surviving works by one of the…
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Never mind the lit brethren: Infinite Jest is a true classic in 30| David Foster Wallace

Never mind the lit brethren: Infinite Jest is a true classic in 30| David Foster Wallace

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: David Foster Wallace,Books,Fiction,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: II'm not what you would consider Infinite Jest's target demographic. The novel's reputation precedes it as a notorious book that few finish, and those who do tend to belong to a certain breed of college-age young men who talk to you, a sect of pedantic, misunderstood young men for whom, over the course of 30 years, "Infinite Jest" has become a rite of passage, much as "Little Women" or "Pride and Prejudice" might do for aspiring literary young women.Most…
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Water Memory Review – A very funny look at sisters fighting for the love of their dead mother | platform

Water Memory Review – A very funny look at sisters fighting for the love of their dead mother | platform

🚀 Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Culture,Theatre ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: TThe three adult sisters in Sheelagh Stevenson's Olivier Award-winning comedy have something in common. After their mother's death forces them to live together, they each struggle with the need of a child. But they are divided about what they need or who they need.What Teresa, the eldest, needs is respect for her devotion, especially as the primary caregiver in her mother's final days of dementia. Played by Victoria Brazier, tough and fragile, she is trapped in a story of martyrdom, a woman…
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Mandy, Indiana: Urgh Review – The dirty, crushing, cathartic attack on injustice is the first great album of the year | music

Mandy, Indiana: Urgh Review – The dirty, crushing, cathartic attack on injustice is the first great album of the year | music

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Experimental music,Culture,Indie 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: MAndy, Indiana are not a band that tends to make life easy for themselves. They wanted to record their debut album, 2023's I've Saw a Road, in a Peak District cave known as Devil's Arse, although budget constraints meant they had to settle for a day in the Wookey Hole caves in Somerset. Manchester/Berlin-based four-piece Urgh's new album was written in what they call an "intense residency in a strange studio house" near Leeds; At the time, singer Valentine Caulfield and…
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TV tonight: the return of scintillating Scottish comedy | TV and radio

TV tonight: the return of scintillating Scottish comedy | TV and radio

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television & radio,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: dinosaur10pm on BBC ThreeThis exciting Scottish comedy follows an autistic woman in her 30s, Nina (Ashley Story), who pursues her paleontology dreams. Eight months have passed and Nina has been asked to stay on the Isle of Wight, but will she say yes just to avoid seeing her patiently waiting love interest for Lee? She talks to her sister Evie (Kat Rooney) who wants her to return to Glasgow just to watch The Real Housewives together again. Human resourcesThe Great…
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‘Changing things is not very French’: how Claire Taboret’s stained-glass windows shed new light on Notre-Dame | Notre Dame

‘Changing things is not very French’: how Claire Taboret’s stained-glass windows shed new light on Notre-Dame | Notre Dame

💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Notre Dame,France,Art,World news,Europe,Art and design,Paris,Culture,Museums 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: CLear Tabouret can draw a clear line between before and after Notre Dame. Before she was chosen from among more than 100 artists to design six new stained-glass windows for the cathedral — which reopened in 2024, five years after it nearly burned down — Taboret had a select group of admirers (one of them the French businessman and art collector François Pinault), but she was not a household name.That has changed – for better and for…
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“Gruffalo Granny is Coming to Stay”: New Story Coming in September | Children’s books: 7 and under

“Gruffalo Granny is Coming to Stay”: New Story Coming in September | Children’s books: 7 and under

💥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Children's books: 7 and under,Publishing,Books,UK news,Children and teenagers,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Gruffalo family is set to expand after the publisher of the popular children's story announced a long-awaited third book about the beloved monster.Macmillan has announced that the new tale, Gruffalo Granny, will be published on September 10.The third installment comes more than 20 years after author Julia Donaldson's previous foray into the deep dark woods with 2004's The Gruffalo's Child, a sequel to the best-selling 1999 original The Gruffalo.News that Donaldson would revisit the…
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‘It’s going to be a huge party’: Bad Bunny prepares for the Super Bowl stage as Trump skips the event | music

‘It’s going to be a huge party’: Bad Bunny prepares for the Super Bowl stage as Trump skips the event | music

🚀 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Super Bowl LX,Bad Bunny,Super Bowl,Culture,US news,US sports,NFL 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Just one week after taking home the Grammy for Album of the Year, Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny will take part in the most-watched U.S. concert of the year when he performs at the Super Bowl on Sunday.The artist born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio received the Academy of Music's highest honor for 2025's Debí Tirar Más Fotos, a politically oriented record infused with Puerto Rican music and culture. The album became the first Spanish-language act to…
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Aacta Awards 2026: Bring Her Back and Jacob Elordi’s horror film wins big at Australian Film and Television Awards | Acta Awards

Aacta Awards 2026: Bring Her Back and Jacob Elordi’s horror film wins big at Australian Film and Television Awards | Acta Awards

✨ Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Aacta awards,Australian film,Culture,Awards and prizes,Film,Television,Television & radio,Australian television,Jacob Elordi 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bring Her Back dominated the 2026 Aacta (Australian Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, winning 10 out of 16 nominations, while Jacob Elordi continued the recent awards buzz by taking home Best Lead Actor for his performance in The Narrow Road to the Deep North.Danny and Michael Filippo's horror-thriller "Bring Her Back," about an evil foster mother, emerged as the night's top-earning film with 10 wins. This represents a major achievement for the…
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