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≡ Category: History, Life | ≅ 1 Comment
During the past decade, Tony Judt emerged as one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He’s combative, often controversial (especially when talking about Israel), and sometimes disliked. But he’s taken seriously. And many have had nothing but sheer praise for his master work, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. The NYU historian had built up a [...]
≡ Category: History, Theatre | ≅ 1 Comment
March 15th. It translates to the Ides of March on the Roman Calendar. And it’s the date when Julius Caesar was famously assassinated in 44 B.C. To mark the occasion (today is the Ides of March), we bring you a dramatic, six-minute clip of the assassination scene from the film version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, directed [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
This weekend, The Guardian film critic and select filmmakers listed their favorite movie scenes of all time. It starts with the iconic shower scene from Hitchcock’s Psycho (above). No surprise there. And then what? The very long car chase from The French Connection, Robet DeNiro’s talking to the mirror scene in Taxi Driver, the memorable last minutes of [...]
≡ Category: Twitter | ≅ Leave a Comment
Guaranteed to make you smarter, or your money back. You can follow us on Twitter here. (Or become a Facebook fan.) Here they go: RT @BoingBoing: Most beautiful bookstore – Buenos Aires’s LibrerÃa El Ateneo Grand Splendid http://bit.ly/c5iapa RT @Alyssa_Milano: Two new MIT classes focus on helping #Haiti: http://is.gd/aa43H (via @brainpicker) RT @guardianculture: “Solar” by Ian McEwan [...]
≡ Category: Art | ≅ 6 Comments
My old home town in time lapse video. Thanks Ian for the excellent find. Have a good weekend all.
≡ Category: Religion | ≅ 7 Comments
Christopher Hitchens — he’s an irritant to the left (a big defender of the bungled Iraq war) and to the right (an atheist who wrote the controversial bestseller God is Not Great). He’s an equal opportunity polemicist. Now, in the April edition of Vanity Fair, he’s back. This time, he’s deconstructing the Ten Commandments and offering his [...]
≡ Category: Sci Fi, Theatre | ≅ Leave a Comment
The Twilight Zone aired between 1959 and 1964, and it became one of America’s iconic television shows. Although the program ended long ago, the show lives on today … on the radio. Airing on 200 stations across the US, Twilight Zone Radio dramatizes Rod Serling’s classic scripts for today’s radio audiences. And it does it [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Note: Some language is NOT safe for work… Klik hier om het video filmpje te bekijken This past weekend, François Alaux and Herve de Crecy’s 17 minute film, Logorama, won the Oscar for the best Short Film (Animated). The plot comes basically boils down to this: “In a world made up entirely of trademarks and brand names, [...]
≡ Category: Art, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Fans of avant-garde art, take note. UbuWeb hosts a vast archive of online avant-garde media, and they’ve been doing it since 1996. Â The site features a large mp3 sound archive, alongside an extensive film/video collection where you’ll find some vintage clips. Take these items for example: Four American Composers: Philip Glass – Peter Greenaway’s documentary [...]
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