89 results for 1950
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Meet the Writers - Agnes Poirier
20 October 2018
Poirier’s latest book, ‘Left Bank: Art, Passion and the rebirth of Paris 1940-1950’, covers everything from German occupation during the Second World War, through liberation to the birth of existentialism and the Fourth…
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The Cinema Show - First films
8 January 2016
We look back at the debut films of some of cinema's most distinctive voices, taking a retrospective close-up of the journey to becoming an auteur. Those featured include Michelangelo Antonioni's ‘Story of a Love Affair’ …
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The Monocle Weekly - Herman Koch, Philip Curtis, Jakob Søndergård Pedersen and Aimee Hartley
25 September 2016
Dutch writer Herman Koch discusses darkness, comedy and his new book ‘Dear Mr M’, we speak to map experts Philip Curtis and Jakob Søndergård Pedersen about their new project ‘War Map: Pictorial Conflict Maps 1900-1950’ and…
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The Cinema Show - Noir
12 February 2016
Spurred on by the paranoia of an America at war and the arrival of European film-makers in Hollywood, pulpy detective pot-boilers took on a genre of their own in the 1940s – and the classic film noir was born. Author and…
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The Monocle Daily, episode 694
3 July 2014
Aviation analyst Chris Yates explains how to combat the threat to air travel by Al-Qaeda's newly-revealed bomb-making techniques, former CIA intelligence analyst Aki Peritz explains the media campaign by ISIS in Iraq, and…