Mirror in the Sky: Savoring Art to Soothe Our Spirit

🌑 Apocalypse Now (1979) takes the #30 spot on the Top 100. Francis Ford Coppola's war epic captures the chaos of Vietnam and the madness of empire.

Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent upriver to find and assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a decorated officer who has gone dangerously off the map.

What follows are some of cinema’s most unforgettable scenes: helicopters blasting Wagner, soldiers surfing mid-firefight, Brando’s shadow-drenched whispers of “the horror… the horror.”

Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Coppola reimagines its journey upriver in the jungles of Vietnam, where war itself becomes a metaphor for moral and psychological collapse.

That enduring power is why it sits so high on the Top 100 list. It's still crackling with relevance and artistry more than 45 years later.

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With pick number 24 on the Top 100, we step into the small, fictional town of Winesburg, Ohio—a place where everyone hides something tender beneath the surface. Through a series of interconnected stories, Sherwood Anderson paints a haunting portrait of ordinary people aching to be understood.

At the center stands George Willard, a young reporter collecting the fragments of his neighbors’ lives—lonely souls like Wing Biddlebaum, whose trembling hands hide a tragic past; Doctor Reefy, who writes truths on scraps of paper he’ll never show; and Alice Hindman, who waits year after year for love that will never return.

Each story reveals what Anderson called the “grotesques”—people warped not by malice, but by the quiet suffocation of dreams deferred.

Winesburg, Ohio was revolutionary, not just for its influence on writers like Hemingway and Faulkner, but for how it invited readers to look inward. Anderson gave language to the quiet longings that unite us all, revealing that the small, unspoken aches of ordinary life are what make us most human. In doing so, he built a bridge between solitude and connection—the very space Mirror in the Sky was born to explore.

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With pick number 33 on the Top 100, we spend time with Amy Winehouse's Back to Black. Built on heartbreak, sharp wit, and vintage Motown textures, the album plays like a confessional whispered through a haze of eyeliner and late-night honesty.

Back to Black remains one of the most emotionally candid albums ever made—an unforgettable blend of craft, rawness, and truth. Perfect for Mirror in the Sky, where we explore how these iconic works help us make sense of being human.

Join us for a night of reflection, connection, and conversation as we honor the brilliance—and the ache—behind Amy’s most enduring work.

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