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≡ Category: Film, History | ≅ 3 Comments
A quick fyi: Yoko Ono has posted on YouTube a 70 minute documentary that revisits John and Yoko’s famous 1969 Bed-Ins, which amounted to a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. The film will remain online until midnight (New York time) on Sunday August 14th. Below the jump you can find Yoko’s letter to viewers [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art, Comedy, Film | ≅ 2 Comments
Put aside 14 minutes and Terry Gilliam, the legendary Monty Python animator, will show you how to make your own cutout animations. Gilliam started out his career as an animator, then moved to England and joined up with Monty Python’s Flying Circus. For years, he worked as the group’s animator, creating the opening credits and distinctive buffers [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 3 Comments
During the 1940s, Warner Brothers bought the rights to Robert Lindner’s book, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath, and began turning it into a film. A partial script was written, and a 23-year old Marlon Brando was asked to do a five-minute screen test in 1947. For whatever reason, the studio [...]
≡ Category: Current Affairs, Religion | ≅ 6 Comments
During the 1970s, Francis A. Schaeffer, an evangelical theologian, wrote and narrated How Should We Then Live?, a ten-part film series that traced the history of Western culture and thought. Lots of art and philosophy were put on display. But the real narrative focused on something a little different — the history of humanity’s lapse from [...]
≡ Category: Film, Video - Science | ≅ 3 Comments
The Planet of the Apes film franchise began back in 1968, and it enjoyed a good run during the 1970s. Now Hollywood hopes to reboot the series with the release of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a new film starring James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow and Andy Serkis. You don’t need to watch the film [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
For the past two years, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been orbiting the Moon, gathering data that will help astronauts prepare for long-duration expeditions to the lunar surface, and eventually push further into the “infinite frontier of space.” (Read more about the big picture plan here.) As part of this mission, the LRO has traveled approximately 50 [...]
Ben Canales took a trip to Crater Lake to shoot the stars, sacrificing money and personal relationships along the way. But he’s not complaining. The results are just painfully pretty…
≡ Category: Music | ≅ 1 Comment
Johann Pachelbel (1653 – 1706) wrote his Canon in D major in the late 17th century, then it disappeared for a good 300 years. It didn’t mount a comeback until Arthur Fiedler first recorded the Canon in 1940, and until the Jean-François Paillard Chamber Orchestra popularized the piece with two famous recordings (listen here). Now [...]
≡ Category: Film, Literature, Poetry | ≅ 2 Comments
Around here we subscribe to the theory that there’s no such thing as too much Orson Welles. A few weeks ago, we gave you Welles narrating Plato’s Cave Allegory, and before that the short animated parable/film Freedom River, and the list goes on. Now, we present The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a 1977 experimental [...]
≡ Category: Film | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1980, Stanley Kubrick shot The Shining, the classic horror film based on Stephen King’s novel. During production, the director allowed his daughter Vivian, then 17 years old, to shoot a documentary called Making The Shining, which lets you spend 33 minutes being a fly on the wall. The film originally aired on the BBC [...]
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