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• 1966 Film Explores the Making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (and Our High-Tech Future), 06 Nov 2013 in Film&Sci Fi
• Watch After the Ball, the 1897 “Adult” Film by Pioneering Director Georges Méliès (Almost NSFW), 05 Nov 2013 in Film
• Hear Homer’s Iliad Read in the Original Ancient Greek, 04 Nov 2013 in History&Literature
• Watch Goethe’s Haunting Poem, “Der Erlkönig,” Presented in an Artful Sand Animation, 01 Nov 2013 in Music&Poetry
• American Filmmakers in Japanese Ads: Quentin Tarantino Sells Cell Phones, Orson Welles Hawks Whisky, 31 Oct 2013 in Film&Television
• Run Vintage Video Games (From Pac-Man to E.T.) and Software in Your Web Browser, Thanks to Archive.org, 30 Oct 2013 in Archives&Internet Archive&Software&Technology&Video Games
• Watch Very First Film Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Plays: King John, The Tempest, Richard III & More (1899–1936), 30 Oct 2013 in Film&Theatre
• Doodlebug, Christopher Nolan’s First Short: What Came Before The Dark Night, Memento & Inception (1997), 28 Oct 2013 in Film
• Watch Red Shirley, Lou Reed’s Short Documentary on His Fascinating 100-Year-Old Cousin (2010), 28 Oct 2013 in Film&History
• Watch 8 New Video Essays on Wes Anderson’s Films: Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums & More, 25 Oct 2013 in Film
• Download Vintage Film Posters in High-Res: From The Philadelphia Story to Attack of the Crab Monsters, 25 Oct 2013 in Film
• Noam Chomsky Schools 9/11 Truther; Explains the Science of Making Credible Claims, 24 Oct 2013 in Politics&Science
• An Animation of Orson Welles’ Famous Frozen Peas Rant, 22 Oct 2013 in Animation&Television
• The Haircut: A Student Film Starring the Great John Cassavetes (1982), 21 Oct 2013 in Film
• Ingmar Bergman Evaluates His Fellow Filmmakers — The “Affected” Godard, “Infantile” Hitchcock & Sublime Tarkovsky, 18 Oct 2013 in Film
• Apocalypse Now’s “Ride of the Valkyries” Attack: The Anatomy of a Classic Scene, 17 Oct 2013 in Film
• Watch the Very First Trailers for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi (1976–83), 16 Oct 2013 in Film
• How Ridley Scott Turned Footage From the Beginning of The Shining Into the End of Blade Runner, 15 Oct 2013 in Film&Sci Fi
• Who Created the Famous Shower Scene in Psycho? Alfred Hitchcock or the Legendary Designer Saul Bass?, 14 Oct 2013 in Film
• David Lynch Presents the History of Surrealist Film (1987), 11 Oct 2013 in Film
• Free Online: 10 of the Greatest Silent Films of All Time, 10 Oct 2013 in Film
• Crash Course on Literature: Watch John Green’s Fun Introductions to Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye & Other Classics, 09 Oct 2013 in Education&K-12&Literature
• Andy Warhol Creates Album Covers for Jazz Legends Thelonious Monk, Count Basie & Kenny Burrell, 08 Oct 2013 in Art&Music
• Animated Video Explores the Invented Languages of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones & Star Trek, 07 Oct 2013 in Animation&Language Lessons&Literature
• Debussy’s Clair de lune: The Classical Music Visualization with 21 Million Views, 04 Oct 2013 in Music
• The Penultimate Truth About Philip K. Dick: Documentary Explores the Mysterious Universe of PKD, 03 Oct 2013 in Literature&Sci Fi
• Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls: Witty Counsel to Young Ladies of 1865, 02 Oct 2013 in Comedy&Literature
• Stanley Kubrick to Ingmar Bergman: “You Are the Greatest Filmmaker at Work Today” (1960), 01 Oct 2013 in Film&Letters
• Slavoj Žižek’s Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Decodes The Dark Knight and They Live, 30 Sep 2013 in Film&Philosophy
• Hergé Draws Tintin in Vintage Footage (and What Explains the Character’s Enduring Appeal), 27 Sep 2013 in Comics/Cartoons
• Watch Dating Dos and Don’ts: An Old-School Instructional Guide to Teenage Romance (1949), 26 Sep 2013 in Animation&Education&Film&History
• Portraits of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Walter Benjamin & Other Literary Legends by Gisèle Freund, 25 Sep 2013 in Literature&Photography
• Watch The Surreal 1960s Films and Commercials of Jim Henson, 24 Sep 2013 in Animation&Film
• Frida Kahlo Writes a Personal Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe After O’Keeffe’s Nervous Breakdown (1933), 23 Sep 2013 in Art&Letters
• William S. Burroughs Explains What Artists & Creative Thinkers Do for Humanity: From Galileo to Cézanne and James Joyce, 20 Sep 2013 in Art
• Vladimir Nabokov’s Delightful Butterfly Drawings, 19 Sep 2013 in Art&Literature&Science
• David Lynch Lists His Favorite Films & Directors, Including Fellini, Wilder, Tati & Hitchcock, 18 Sep 2013 in Film
• The Art of Handwriting as Practiced by Famous Artists: Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning & More, 17 Sep 2013 in Art&History
• F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Handwritten Manuscripts for The Great Gatsby, This Side of Paradise & More, 16 Sep 2013 in Literature
• Dark Side of the Rainbow: Pink Floyd Meets The Wizard of Oz in One of the Earliest Mash-Ups, 13 Sep 2013 in Film&Music
• The Curious History of Punctuation: Author Reveals the Beginnings of the #, ¶, ☞, and More, 12 Sep 2013 in English Language&History
• Radical Thinkers: 5 Videos Profile Max Horkheimer, Alain Badiou & Other Radical Theorists, 11 Sep 2013 in Philosophy
• A Journey into the Mind of P: A Cinematic Look at Thomas Pynchon, 10 Sep 2013 in Books
• The Pleasure Garden, Alfred Hitchcock’s Very First Feature Film (1925), 09 Sep 2013 in Film
• The 10 Greatest Films of All Time According to 846 Film Critics, 07 Sep 2013 in Film
• Watch The Amazing 1912 Animation of Stop-Motion Pioneer Ladislas Starevich, Starring Dead Bugs, 05 Sep 2013 in Animation&Film
• Hear 38 Versions of “September Song,” from James Brown, Lou Reed, Sarah Vaughan and Others, 04 Sep 2013 in Music
• Read 113 Pages of Charles Bukowski’s FBI File From 1968, 02 Sep 2013 in History&Literature
• Watch Big Time, the Concert Film Capturing Tom Waits on His Best Tour Ever (1988), 30 Aug 2013 in Film&Music
• Raymond Chandler Denounces Strangers on a Train in Sharply-Worded Letter to Alfred Hitchcock, 29 Aug 2013 in Film&Letters
• “Glory to the Conquerors of the Universe!”: Propaganda Posters from the Soviet Space Race (1958–1963), 28 Aug 2013 in Art&Design&History
• The Tale of the Fox: Watch Ladislas Starevich’s Animation of Goethe’s Great German Folktale (1937), 27 Aug 2013 in Animation&Film
• Did Hollywood Movies Studios “Collaborate” with Hitler During WW II? Historian Makes the Case, 26 Aug 2013 in History
• “Notes from a Dirty Old Man”: Charles Bukowski’s Lost Cartoons from the 60s and 70s, 23 Aug 2013 in Art&Poetry
• Vladimir Nabokov Creates a Hand-Drawn Map of James Joyce’s Ulysses, 22 Aug 2013 in Literature&Maps
• Dick Cavett’s Wide-Ranging TV Interview with Ingmar Bergman and Lead Actress Bibi Andersson (1971), 21 Aug 2013 in Film&Television
• Quentin Tarantino Lists the 12 Greatest Films of All Time: From Taxi Driver to The Bad News Bears, 20 Aug 2013 in Film
• Revisit Futuria Fantasia: The Science Fiction Fanzine That Ray Bradbury Published as a Teenager, 19 Aug 2013 in Sci Fi
• Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, and Anne Enright Give Ten Candid Pieces of Writing Advice Each, 16 Aug 2013 in Literature&Writing
• A Poet in Cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky Reveals the Director’s Deep Thoughts on Filmmaking and Life, 15 Aug 2013 in Film
• The Getty Puts 4600 Art Images Into the Public Domain (and There’s More to Come), 14 Aug 2013 in Art&Museums
• Listen to Charles Bukowski Poems Being Read by Bukowski Himself & the Great Tom Waits, 13 Aug 2013 in Poetry
• Watch Werner Herzog’s From One Second to the Next, an Eye-Opening Film Reveals the Dangers of Texting While Driving, 12 Aug 2013 in Film
• Watch the Original Audition Tapes for Breaking Bad Before the Final Season Debuts, 09 Aug 2013 in Television
• Master of Light: A Close Look at the Paintings of Johannes Vermeer Narrated by Meryl Streep, 08 Aug 2013 in Art&Film
• A Trip to the Moon (and Five Other Free Films) by Georges Méliès, the Father of Special Effects, 07 Aug 2013 in Film
• Andy Warhol Shoots “Screen Tests” of Nico, Bob Dylan & Salvador Dalí, 06 Aug 2013 in Art&Film
• Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online, 05 Aug 2013 in Art&Museums
• Woody Allen Lists the Greatest Films of All Time: Includes Classics by Bergman, Truffaut & Fellini, 02 Aug 2013 in Film
• The Masterful Polaroid Pictures Taken by Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, 01 Aug 2013 in Film&Photography
• Martin Scorsese Reveals His 12 Favorite Movies, 31 Jul 2013 in Film
• Stanley Kubrick’s List of Top 10 Films: The First and Only List He Ever Created, 30 Jul 2013 in Film
• When William S. Burroughs Joined Scientology (and His 1971 Book Denouncing It), 29 Jul 2013 in Literature&Psychology&Religion
• The General, “Perhaps the Greatest Film Ever Made,” and 20 Other Buster Keaton Classics Free Online, 26 Jul 2013 in Film
• Read Fanny Hill, the 18th-Century Erotic Novel That Went to the Supreme Court in the 20th Century, 24 Jul 2013 in Literature
• Henry Rollins: Education is the Cure to “Disaster Capitalism”, 23 Jul 2013 in Current Affairs&Education&Politics
• Bill Murray Reads Great Poetry by Billy Collins, Cole Porter, and Sarah Manguso, 22 Jul 2013 in Poetry
• Watch 25 Alfred Hitchcock Trailers, Exciting Films in Their Own Right, 19 Jul 2013 in Film
• Gertrude Stein Sends a “Review” of The Great Gatsby to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925), 18 Jul 2013 in Literature
• David Foster Wallace’s Love of Language Revealed by the Books in His Personal Library, 17 Jul 2013 in English Language&Literature
• Better Living Through Buckminster Fuller’s Utopian Designs: Revisit the Dymaxion Car, House, and Map, 16 Jul 2013 in Design&Technology
• World-Renowned Graphic Designer Milton Glaser Has a Laugh on Old Jews Telling Jokes, 15 Jul 2013 in Comedy
• Two Scenes from Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, Recreated in Lego, 11 Jul 2013 in Film
• Three Great Films Starring Charlie Chaplin, the True Icon of Silent Comedy, 10 Jul 2013 in Comedy&Film
• Four American Composers: Peter Greenaway on John Cage, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, and Robert Ashley (1983), 09 Jul 2013 in Film&Music&Television
• George Orwell Explains How to Make a Proper Cup of Tea, 08 Jul 2013 in Food & Drink&Literature
• Charles Bukowski Sets His Amusing Conditions for Giving a Poetry Reading (1971), 06 Jul 2013 in Poetry
• The Relativity Series Features 24 Free Plays About Great Scientists and Scientific Endeavors, 04 Jul 2013 in Radio&Science
• Hearsay of the Soul: A 5‑Channel Video Installation by Celebrated German Filmmaker Werner Herzog, 03 Jul 2013 in Art
• Jump Start Your Creative Process with Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” Deck of Cards (1975), 02 Jul 2013 in Art&Creativity&Music&Random
• Watch “The Secret Tournament” & “The Rematch,” Terry Gilliam’s Star-Studded Soccer Ads for Nike, 01 Jul 2013 in Film&Sports&Television
• Jean-Luc Godard’s Debut, Opération béton (1955) — a Construction Documentary, 28 Jun 2013 in Film
• Wes Anderson’s First Short Film: The Black-and-White, Jazz-Scored Bottle Rocket (1992), 27 Jun 2013 in Film
• The World’s Best Commercials from 2012–2013 Named at Cannes, 26 Jun 2013 in Television
• Watch Monty Python’s “Summarize Proust Competition” on the 100th Anniversary of Swann’s Way, 25 Jun 2013 in Comedy&Literature&Television
• Japanese Movie Posters of 10 David Lynch Films, 24 Jun 2013 in Film
• “Notebook on Cities and Culture,” a Worldwide In-Depth Interview Podcast, Kickstarting Now, 23 Jun 2013 in Podcasts
• How to Make a Mummy — Demonstrated by The Getty Museum, 21 Jun 2013 in History
• Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online, 21 Jun 2013 in Film
• The Late James Gandolfini, Star of The Sopranos, Appears on Inside the Actors Studio (2004), 19 Jun 2013 in Life&Television
• Watch Dreams That Money Can Buy, a Surrealist Film by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Fernand Léger & Hans Richter, 19 Jun 2013 in Art&Film
• The Art of Punk, MOCA’s Series of Punk Documentaries, Begins with Black Flag: Watch It Online, 18 Jun 2013 in Art&Music
• Hear Charlton Heston Read Ernest Hemingway’s Classic Story, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, 17 Jun 2013 in Literature
• The Faces of Great Physicists on International Currency, 14 Jun 2013 in Economics&Physics
• The Greatness of Charles Darwin Explained with Rap Music, 13 Jun 2013 in Biology&Music
• 250,000 Artworks from 250 Museums, Now Viewable for Free at the Redesigned Google Art Project, 12 Jun 2013 in Art&Museums&Technology
• The National Gallery Makes 25,000 Images of Artwork Freely Available Online, 11 Jun 2013 in Art&Music&Technology
• David Byrne’s Graduation Speech Offers Troubling and Encouraging Advice for Students in the Arts, 10 Jun 2013 in Art&Education&Graduation Speech&Music
• Samuel L. Jackson Does a Dramatic Breaking Bad Monologue for Alzheimer’s Charity, 07 Jun 2013 in Television
• The Outspoken Ayn Rand Interviewed by Mike Wallace (1959), 06 Jun 2013 in Philosophy&Television
• The Philosophy of Nietzsche: An Introduction by Alain de Botton, 05 Jun 2013 in Philosophy
• Alfred Hitchcock Talks with Dick Cavett About Sabotage, Foreign Correspondent & Laxatives (1972), 03 Jun 2013 in Film&Television
• Carl Jung’s Fascinating 1957 Letter on UFOs, 31 May 2013 in Psychology
• Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #4, Visualized by the Great Music Animation Machine, 30 May 2013 in Music
• Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, Visualized in a Computer Animation, 29 May 2013 in Animation&Music
• Black Coffee: Documentary Covers the History, Politics & Economics of the “Most Widely Taken Legal Drug”, 28 May 2013 in Food & Drink&Television
• Hear the Little-Known Version of the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” With Experimental Cellist Arthur Russell, 27 May 2013 in Music
• Watch Another Green World, a Hypnotic Portrait of Brian Eno (2010), 24 May 2013 in Art&Music&Television
• Helen Keller Speaks About Her Greatest Regret — Never Mastering Speech, 23 May 2013 in History
• Modern Artists Show How the Ancient Greeks & Romans Made Coins, Vases & Artisanal Glass, 22 May 2013 in Art&History
• Hear Kurt Vonnegut’s Very First Public Reading from Breakfast of Champions (1970), 21 May 2013 in Audio Books&Literature
• Watch Picasso Create Entire Paintings in Magnificent Time-Lapse Film (1956), 20 May 2013 in Art&Film
• Photographer Revisits Abandoned Movie Sets for Star Wars and Other Classic Films in North Africa, 17 May 2013 in Film&Photography
• Haruki Murakami Translates The Great Gatsby, the Novel That Influenced Him Most, 16 May 2013 in Literature
• Ten Buildings That Changed America: Watch the Debut Episode from the New PBS Series, 15 May 2013 in Architecture&History&Television
• Henry Miller Talks Writing and the Expat Life with Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, and Others (1969), 14 May 2013 in Literature
• The Genius of Brian Eno On Display in 80 Minute Q&A: Talks Art, iPad Apps, ABBA, & More, 13 May 2013 in Art&Music
• Freiheit, George Lucas’ Short Student Film About a Fatal Run from Communism (1966), 10 May 2013 in Film
• Five Cultural Tours of Los Angeles, 09 May 2013 in Travel
• Growing Up John Waters: The Oddball Filmmaker Catalogues His Many Formative Rebellions (1993), 07 May 2013 in Film
• Revisit Martin Scorsese’s Hand-Drawn Storyboards for Taxi Driver, 06 May 2013 in Film
• Leonard Bernstein Conducts Beethoven’s 9th in a Classic 1979 Performance, 04 May 2013 in iPad&iPhone&Music
• Watch D.O.A., Rudolph Maté’s “Innovative and Downright Twisted” Noir Film (1950), 03 May 2013 in Film
• Listen to Recordings of Allen Ginsberg & Other Poets on Phone-a-Poem, the 1970s Poetry Hotline, 02 May 2013 in Harvard&Poetry
• Obey the Giant: Short Film Presents the True Story of Shepard Fairey’s First Act of Street Art, 01 May 2013 in Art&Film
• Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Animated in Two Minutes, 30 Apr 2013 in Animation&Literature
• No Women Need Apply: A Disheartening 1938 Rejection Letter from Disney Animation, 29 Apr 2013 in Animation
• Woody Allen Amuses Himself by Giving Untruthful Answers in Unaired 1971 TV Interview, 26 Apr 2013 in Comedy&Film&Television
• David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity, 25 Apr 2013 in Creativity&Film&Psychology
• Inside Breaking Bad: Watch Conan O’Brien’s Extended Interview with the Show’s Cast and Creator, 24 Apr 2013 in Television