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Characteristically playing with the boundaries of the chosen genre and toying with the audience’s expectations, the Coen brothers created a refreshing and highly enjoyable hybrid of dark comedy and thriller, a neo-noir 98-minute roller-coaster ride through the desolate, snow-covered landscapes of Minnesota and the peculiar people that inhabit them, exploring and illuminating the dark corners of the human psyche and juxtaposing them against the humanity, humor and kindness stumbled upon in the mundane and ordinary. Brutally violent but charmingly idiosyncratic, dominantly murky but simultaneously hopeful and upbeat, Fargo is one of those special films that deserve to be revisited every once in a while, and as one of the best works of the Coen brothers, it’s at the same time among the best films America has presented to the world in the past couple of decades.

‘Fargo’: The Unforgettable Dark Comedy that Set the Coen Brothers Up as a Recognizable Voice in American Cinema

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Solyaris, 1972, Andrei Tarkovsky

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“In patriarchal culture, all males learn a role that restricts and confines. When race and class enter the picture, along with patriarchy, then black males endure the worst impositions of gendered masculine patriarchal identity.” — Bell Hooks

“The film lays bare the corrupting and contaminating terrain of masculinity — its toxicities, its brutalities, its unrelenting banality… The depth and texture of [Chiron’s] life was stolen by the insistence of homophobia and the mask of an almost suffocating masculinity.” — LaLi Mohamed

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Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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This Old Dog - Mac DeMarco

Mac DeMarco just seems like a lovable, shaggy dog, I’m not even 100% sure why. His whole vibe just seems so pure and good natured. He’s got that wide grin, friendly and slightly mischievous, that easy going attitude, a style that seems old fashioned and unpretentious, and he always seems to be having a good time. But he’s a man who is definitely concerned with the passage time, it is a common thread in his songs, and even though he seems like a puppy, he sees himself as an old dog. That’s ok though, he’s an old dog that doesn’t need in any new tricks, because he is never going to forget about the people he loves, and the good times he’s had. That is some pure pooch loyalty.

‘This Old Dog’ is a romantic 60′s acoustic ode to love and good times. It sounds so effortless and laid back, it’s a light breeze cooling the sweat on your forehead as you lay by a stream. It’s a song you feel like you’ve heard before, maybe being strummed out by some figure partially illuminated by the flames of a beach bonfire as you stroll passed on a mild late night; maybe you think you heard it as a child, coming out scratchy and worn from your father’s turntable; maybe it was on a mixtape from a college crush. It’s timeless in the manner of the Beatles or the Kinks, but it’s also out soon on DeMarco’s new album named for this song. Contributed by @bargematt

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Little Men (2016) Directed by Ira Sachs

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Carl Sagan on how we got the ‘Pale Blue Dot’

Carl Sagan died 20 years ago today. In this archival 1994 Science Friday interview, Sagan discusses his book The Pale Blue Dot and how Voyager captured the iconic photograph.