Aneela انیلہ 🇵🇸🍁

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melodrama, noir and south asian cinema enjoyer • avid book reader • pakistani brit • free kashmir • she/her 💫 https://boxd.it/4egr

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Old design of a Penguin edition Wuthering Heights
Bigger than Life thumbnail in the newly added section on the CC
Latticework jaali in the walled city of Lahore
Penguin Classics editions of Middlemarch and The Epic of Gilgamesh
It was the beginning of Buckley's life-long admiration for the Pakistani maestro he called his Elvis and Qawwali — the devotional music of the Sufi mystics that, accordingly to Buckley, Khan "single-handedly transformed (...) from a static antique into a brilliant explosion of light". A lapsed Catholic, Buckley was so enamoured by the beauty and grace of Qawwali that he learnt Urdu so he could understand, and even sing Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's music. During his brief life, Buckley collected over 400 cassettes of Qawwali music and covered Khan's songs during his live performances at Sin-é — a small café in Manhattan's
Anne Hathaway dangling over a boiling pot of water in Ella Enchanted (2004)
Zimmers influence on his former protégé can be heard in the throb of the Thrones theme song (shades of Pirates) and the thunderous brass brammm of its battle scenes (Inception- esque). But Djawadi also cites his Iranian-born father as an inspiration, and suspects that the time signatures of the Game of Thrones and Westworld theme songs (6/8 and 12/8, respectively) were unconsciously derived from Middle Eastern music.
A Reddit post: ‘Bookseller here. You would not believe how well Wuthering Heights sold when the movie came out. I expect to sell a ton of this As an aside, classics are doing very well right now. Gen Z are diving in and picking up a lot of them’
A mid frame closeup of Sinead Cusack as Mrs Thornton
A frame of Richard Armitage in profile as John Thornton and Daniela Denby-Ashe in the background as Margaret Hale during the marriage proposal scene.
Report: Holy Shit, There Still 50 Minutes Left In Movie