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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
And Bencio Del Toro is either Shemp or Larry, I can't tell which. But it's apparently not bullshit, despite how it sounds. And now, 44 years after Godard predicted it during the end titles of Weekend, this IS the end of cinema:
Casting Announcement
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Lindsay Anderson and Larry David—Separated at Birth? My theory that everything in real life occurred in the fictional universe of Seinfeld first took a strange turn the other night as I watched Lindsay Anderson’s 1968 youthful-rebellion classic If ... with Malcolm McDowell.After the scene in which McDowell and ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Pleasure DomeMax Ophuls’ camera never had time to stand still in 1952’s ‘Le Plaisir’In his 1952 French feature, Le Plaisir, director Max Ophuls stitches together three stories by Guy de Maupassant to form an elegiac secular altarpiece dedicated to a kind of Heraclitan notion of life as always in flux and ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Since Lucasfilm requested the pulling of Harry "Ain't It Cool" Knowles' review from the famous geek website, Knowles' long wail of outrage isn't going to be up until Friday. So good thing that HollywoodNewsroom.com posted it, then. For the time being, the text is up here, but they can't embargo the gist ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The Silent Film Festival this weekend at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco is covered in this week's Metroactive.com, but here's even more to whet the appetite of golden-era fans:The Silent Enemy (July 13, 1:10 pm) Only six members of the Ojibway Indian band seen in this film had ever seen ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
They show up on time and don't get drunk on the job. In honor of WALL-E, here's a selection of some of the many robot bands on the Internet. It apparently is an old tradition, as witness some badly filmed footage of a 1950s French robot band playing a Richie ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Just in time for the June 27 opening of WALL-E, Richard von Busack caught up with director Andrew Stanton and talked to him about his newest cinematic baby.PIXAR’S Emeryville campus is inviting from the first look. In the parking lot, workers were emerging from their Priuses, carrying acoustic musical instruments ...
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Separated at Birth? Innocently seeking a cheap, no-redeeming-qualities evening in front of the TV, I innocently rented something called The List from Netflix. I thought I was getting the new erotic thriller starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman about a sex club whose rich and powerful members are recorded on ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
On the Move at 01SJBy Michael S. GantIF NOTHING ELSE, 01SJ has been good for my health—it encourages getting up and out in downtown San Jose. Think of it as the Wii of digital-arts festivals.My Friday amble was accompanied by a series of subversive koans posted on light poles—“Reality can ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
A First Look at 01Sj By Gary Singh/Photos by Felipe Buitrago DURING THE opening ceremonies for the 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge, Luis Valdez made an appearance and wowed the crowd with a Mayan performance justifying Robert Graham's Quetzalcoatl statue in Plaza de ...
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