LMP - The Fodor Quartet
Here's the collected blog posts I did about the first piece of the Lazarus Music Project : Josephus Fodor's String Quartet No.1, Op.11...
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Matt Juliano
- Aug 8
- 23 min
A Big Housecleaning - "Yojimbo" (1961) and "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964)
Part 1 of a series on film Westerns, starting with A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and the film it is a direct remake of, Yojimbo (1961)
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Matt Juliano
- Jul 21
- 39 min
Wonder Woman: A Deep Dive into Her Character and Her Comics
A deep dive into one of my favorite comic book heroes: Wonder Woman. A close look at this kind of overlooked icon, her character, her meani
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Matt Juliano
- Jun 25
- 18 min
No muckle on the spule-bane - "The Bride of Lammermoor"
A look at Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel "The Bride of Lammermoor" and some comparisons with the opera it inspired "Lucia di Lammermoor"
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Matt Juliano
- Jun 7
- 16 min
Completely Enveloped in an Atmosphere - Orlando Ballet's "Casanova"
A review and analysis of Orlando Ballet's 2024 US premier of the ballet "Casanova" by Kenneth Tindall, Kerry Muzzey, and Ian Kelly.
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Matt Juliano
- Apr 30
- 18 min
"The White Buffalo" (1977) - Impaled on a Sharpened Stake
A look at the Moby Dick adjacent but largely forgotten film "The White Buffalo" and all the really interesting ways it's not very good.
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Matt Juliano
- Apr 28
- 17 min
Remorse and Bitter Tears - Opera Orlando's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor."
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Matt Juliano
- Apr 23
- 10 min
Moby Dick: Tokyo Drift - The 2017 Graphic Novel
Part 3 of my series on Moby Dick and its adaptations, looking at Christophe Chaboute's 2017 graphic novel.
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Matt Juliano
- Apr 15
- 18 min
2 Moby 2 Dick - "Moby Dick" (1956)
Part 2 of a series on Moby Dick, looking at the 1956 film starring Gregory Peck. Spoilers: It's pretty good.
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Matt Juliano
- Apr 1
- 28 min
Into the Choppa - A Tour of the "Predator" Films
A tour of the Predator films. (Well, 4 of them, plus the B-movie bonus "Without Warning.")
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Matt Juliano
- Mar 25
- 22 min
A Dip into the "Language" of Comics
A dive into the medium specific techniques and "language" of comic books.
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Matt Juliano
- Feb 27
- 13 min
Waiting for a Denouement - "Anna Karenina"
A dive into Leo Tolstoy's 1878 masterpiece "Anna Karenina."
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Matt Juliano
- Feb 4
- 16 min
Painting Her Own Reality - Opera Orlando's "Frida"
A look at Opera Orlando's 2024 performance of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's 1991 opera "Frida" about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 11
- 7 min
William Wordsworth: Education of a Prophet* (Flashback)
Flashback to a college essay I wrote circa 2000 about William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
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Matt Juliano
- Jan 7
- 17 min
"Moby Dick" - Pelagic Horror and Nihilism
Part 1 of a series on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick," looking at style, structure, and the themes of proto-cosmic horror and nihilism.
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 29, 2023
- 13 min
A Year of Dracula, Part 3 - Dracula 1931 and 1992
A look at the two Dracula films "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "Dracula" (1931), focused on their adaptational choices.
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 23, 2023
- 20 min
A Year of Dracula, Part 2 - "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" (2023)
A deep dive into the 2023 film "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," a fantastic horror movie adaptation of "Dracula" that, sadly, bombed.
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Matt Juliano
- Dec 17, 2023
- 14 min
A Year of Dracula, Part 1 - The Novel (+ Ballet)
Part 1 of a look at Dracula in media, starting with Bram Stoker's 1897 novel and Michael Pink's 1996 ballet.
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Matt Juliano
- Nov 18, 2023
- 18 min
R.F. Kuang, Criticism, and Metatext - Part 2 - "Babel" and "Yellowface"
The second in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.
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Matt Juliano
- Nov 17, 2023
- 13 min
R.F. Kuang, Criticism, and Metatext - Part 1 - "Babel" and "Yellowface"
The first in a two-part look at R.F. Kuang's novels Babel and Yellowface and the ways they reflect on each other.
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