Films on literature, music, art, history, society and more. Top up your ideas! The films in the Academy media library form the core of the site effort to nudge folk towards 'being cultured.' In our eyes 'being cultured' just means knowing a bit more about how the world works, how human beings work together best, what it means to be a worthwhile person in a general as well as a particular sense. There is no creed on offer. It's not a religion. There are no absolute answers. But quite a few folk have done it before us so we need to look back as well as we can and use their experience. We need to read their books and look at what they created. The astonishing resource of easily available films like these on your smartphone or screen means that getting cultured is open to millions whereas before it was only a tiny minority of folk 'born lucky' at the top of society you might say who had the chance. They didn't always take it! Make sure you do.. Get going!
Inferno part 3 (Cantos 23 – 34) 3/9 In Canto 31 they meet the giants, wonderfully drawn by Botticelli. From a distance at first they seem like the towers of a castle. One of these is Nimrod who used his strength unwisely to build the tower of Babel. This resulted in the many languages humans speak which allows them to argue and quarrel with each other instead of finding a common tongue. Typically Dante just presents the situation with no comment other than making it clear how the miscreants suffer eternally. Canto 33 begins with the harrowing tale of Ugolino and his sons and finally in 34 the two, Dante and Virgil, escape from Hell in an extraordinary scene 'and behold again the stars'. AM107SB20 2020 dur: 2hrs 23 mins