Engineer's Daughter

biosphere 2 round-up

Biosphere 2 remains a fascinating experiment in sustainability, and there have been a number of worthy examinations of the project in the media recently:

• Matt Wolf's documentary Spaceship Earth details the history of how Biosphere 2 came to be.
• Michael Fox reviewed the doc for KQED Arts
• Avery Trufelman covered Biosphere 2 on her excellent podcast series about failed utopias, Nice Try! As with anything Trufelman produces the entire series is well worth your time too.
• Rebecca Reider was featured prominently on Trufelman's podcast; check out her book Dreaming the Biosphere: The Theater of All Possibilities
• And last but not least, the official Biosphere 2 website.

matokie mix 08.02.20

mix

input august 2020

Books

Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847 -1947 - Norman Lebrecht

Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language - David Shariatmadari

1919: Poems - Eve L. Ewing

Recollections of My Nonexistence - Rebecca Solnit

 

Movies

Da 5 Bloods - Spike Lee

Parasite - Bong Joon Ho

Fast Color - Julia Hart

My Twentieth Century - Ildikó Enyedi

Iron Man - Jon Favreau

The Witches - Nicolas Roeg

Palm Springs - Max Barbakow

The Farewell - Lulu Wang

Starstruck - Gillian Armstrong

Moana - Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall, Chris Williams

Roma - Alfonso Cuarón

Father of My Children - Mia Hansen-Løve

Goodbye First Love - Mia Hansen-Løve

Things to Come - Mia Hansen-Løve

Booksmart - Olivia Wilde

First Reformed - Paul Schrader

Ratatouille - Brad Bird, Jan Pinkava

Nightcrawler - Dan Gilroy

The Salesman - Asghar Farhadi

Rifiki - Wanuri Kahiu

Black Is King - Beyoncé, Jenn Nkiru, Blitz the Ambassador, Jake Nava

Pan's Labyrinth - Guillermo Del Toro

The Dead Zone - David Cronenberg

Sun Don't Shine - Amy Seimetz

 

Streaming

The Baby-Sitters Club

The Last Dance

Hannibal

One Day at a Time

Atlanta

Bob's Burgers

Fauda

 

Virtual Theater

One Room at Weston Playhouse

The Keep Going Song at Actors Theatre of Louisville

The Jacksonian at The New Group