Sorcerer

• Each item is inspired by the creator's personal connection to stories and characters across Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and 20th Century Studios.
• The auction is currently running across 18 countries until Monday October 30, 2023, benefiting Make-A-Wish.
• The life-size piece titled 'Structural Sorcerer — a Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey Sculpture' was commissioned by Disney and designed by ALASKA ALASKA.
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• CINCINNATI, Oct. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Scripps Howard Fund's 2023 "If You Give a Child a Book …" campaign raised a record-breaking $1.2 million during its 8th annual childhood literacy campaign.
• Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and its employees, the communities it serves and Scripps family members.
• "Books shouldn't be a luxury," said Liz Carter, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund.
• The Scripps Howard Fund invested more than $8.1 million in charitable gifts in 2022 for journalism education, childhood literacy and community giving.

• To mark this milestone anniversary, at sunset on Wednesday, September 27th, The Empire State Building's world-famous Tower Lights will shine in Hogwarts House colors of Gryffindor red, Slytherin green, Hufflepuff yellow, and Ravenclaw blue.
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• With the audacity of relative youth on their side, they wanted to bring down the old system and remake Hollywood.
• Released in 1971, the film galvanised audiences, changed the landscape of Hollywood genre realism, and took home five Oscars – including Best Picture.
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Enduring artistic fascination

• Friedkin plays the thriller like something lifted from the French New Wave, say Jean-Pierre Melville’s glorious Le Cercle Rouge of 1970.
• The French Connection was followed by perhaps the most notorious film of the Hollywood 1970s: The Exorcist (1973).
• But there many works from the last 40 years of enduring artistic fascination: the synth-oozing To Live and Die in LA (1985), which sets the template for Michael Mann’s Collateral (2004); Jade, Friedkin’s 1995 attempt to outdo Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct (1992), a perverse pleasure precisely for its manic unevenness; and 2011’s stylised, hyper-violent domestic drama, Killer Joe.
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My personal top five

• I want to close this reflection with my William Friedkin top five, which I’ll be revisiting across the next week: 5.
• Sorcerer (1977) Many commentators on Friedkin’s career regard The Sorcerer as Friedkin’s last great auteur film.
• Cruising (1980) Has Cruising – a film about a serial killer within New York’s homosexual subcultural community - been cancelled?
• The Exorcist (1973) Simply put, the milestone that brought one of the most distinctive artistic visions to a classical possession genre story.
• The film oozes a place and time unlike any other film shot in New York in the 1970s.