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Los Angeles, the City in Cinema: Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)

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Watch David Bowie’s Final Performance as Ziggy Stardust, Singing “I Got You Babe” with Marianne Faithfull, on The Midnight Special (1973) If you had to choose a living cultural figure to represent nineteen-seventies America, you could do much worse than Burt Sugarman. He made his name as a television impresario with The Midnight Special, which put on NBC’s airwaves performances by everyone from ABBA to AC/DC, REO Speedwagon to Roxy Music, and War to Weather Report. […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/04/watch-david-bowies-final-performance-as-ziggy-stardust-singing-i-got-you-babe-with-marianne-faithfull-on-the-midnight-special-1973.html

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Wes Anderson Goes Sci-Fi in 1950s America: Watch the Trailer for His New Film Asteroid City Wes Anderson has been making feature films for 27 years now, and in that time his work has grown more temporally and geographically specific. Though shot in his native Texas in the late nineteen-nineties, his breakout picture Rushmore seemed to take place in no one part of the United States — and even more strikingly, […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/wes-anderson-goes-sci-fi-in-1950s-america-watch-the-trailer-for-his-new-film-asteroid-city.html

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David Byrne Explains How the “Big Suit” He Wore in Stop Making Sense Was Inspired by Japanese Kabuki Theatre In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, the name of David Byrne’s band was Talking Heads — as the title of their 1982 live album perpetually reminds us. But their overall artistic project arguably had less to do with the head than the body, a proposition memorably underscored in Stop Making Sense, the Jonathan Demme-directed concert film […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/david-byrne-explains-how-the-big-suit-he-wore-in-stop-making-sense-was-inspired-by-japanese-kabuki-theatre.html

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Watch the World’s First Film in Babylonian, The Poor Man of Nippur “Enable subtitles,” says the notification that appears before The Poor Man of Nippur — and you will need them, unless, of course, you happen to hail from the cradle of civilization. The short film is adapted from “a folktale based on a 2,700-year-old poem about a pauper,” says the University of Cambridge’s alumni news, acted […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/watch-the-worlds-first-film-in-babylonian-the-poor-man-of-nippur.html

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Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot It doesn’t take long to learn how to pull a shot of espresso. Search for that phrase on Youtube, and you’ll find hours’ worth of sound instruction, most of it in the form of brief and easily digestible videos. All of them cover the same basic stages of the process: grinding, dosing, tamping, and brewing. […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/understanding-espresso-a-six-part-series-explaining-what-it-takes-to-pull-the-ideal-shot.html

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A Medieval Arabic Manuscript Features the Designs for a “Perpetual Flute” and Other Ingenious Mechanical Devices In the late twelfth and early thirteenth century there lived a mechanically inclined polymath named Badi’ al-Zaman Abu-‘l-‘Izz Ibn Isma’il Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, whom we might prefer simply to call Al-Jazari. A resident of Diyar-Bakir, in modern-day Turkey, he was employed as a court engineer, and indeed, proved to be the finest engineer for which […] https://www.openculture.com/2023/03/a-medieval-arabic-manuscript-features-the-designs-for-a-perpetual-flute.html