December 2009
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“Robin often made pleas for Criterion to put out his favorite films, and Leo...”
– Robin Wood: 1931–2009 - From the Current - A gifted film historian and scholar. Blessings on Mr. Wood’s family.
I’d never heard of Make Way for Tomorrow, so naturally I googled it. From Wikipedia:
Orson Welles reportedly said of the film, “It would make a stone cry,” and...
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Monkeys attack Chinese master with martial arts →
maniacalrage:
From MSN New Zealand:
A Chinese monkey trainer who trained his animals to do martial arts reportedly got the shock of his life when his proteges suddenly turned on him.
File under: Should have seen it coming. (via Kevin Pang)
AHAHAHAHAHA monkeys AHAHAHAHA kung-fu AHAHAHAHA! I don’t often reblog, but this is too good to be true.
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“Yet the truth is, Broussard’s financial freedom had cut him off from all...”
– Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem | Magazine - It’s not about what other people are doing and outdoing them, it’s about doing something you love and making it great. Broussard clearly thought he had to outdo everybody to make something great, so he spent all his time...
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“Call Sony and tell them to make it work,” Orson demanded, slamming his...”
– Orson Welles and His Brief Passionate Betacam Love Affair - Orson Welles - Gizmodo -How can you not love this guy? A fascinating story about one of the greatest artists America has ever seen.
Props to Mike (acharmercoiling) for the link.
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DVDs - French Innovation at Cinema’s Dawn - ... →
Kino has released a DVD boxset of early French Gaumont films, Gaumont Treasures (1897–1913).
As extreme as the plotting may be, “The Child of Paris” achieves an openness and airiness (most strikingly, when the action moves to Nice from Paris) that anticipates the expansive humanism of Renoir and Truffaut. Perret did not invent the feature form (which began to appear in 1912), but it could be said...
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Philip K. Dick’s Defense of Video Games < Columns... →
Solid article on the validity of video games as an art form. In my own opinion, we’re still in the nickelodeon phase of gaming, but games like Uncharted are showing us the Hollywood-style storytelling potential of games, while games like Passage are showing us something new that defies correlation or analogy. I think like film, there will be more than enough room for both styles of...
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Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars:... →
If you’re someone who’s under the age of like 20, who says his least favorite film in the series is The Empire Strikes Back because it was the most boringest one, then I suggest you shut this review off right now before I carefully explain how much of a f***ing idiot you are.
This is the most thorough teardown of The Phantom Menace I’ve ever seen. Everything is spot-on, and not...
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“It’s ironic because it is precisely the hardcore Nintendo fan who is most...”
– Column: Nintendo is Lazy and You Don’t Care - Wii feature - at IGN : I couldn’t help but agree with Matt Casamassina’s article about Nintendo’s apparent disregard for making all their games truly exemplary. I caught my first whiff of “why-not?” suspicion when...
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“I wouldn’t emphasize the mental illness so strongly. Sure, in My Son, My...”
– A Documentary is Just a Feature Film In Disguise: An Interview with Werner Herzog : This is quintessential Herzog. He went and met the madman that was the central character in his film. You’ve got to respect a man that so frequently deals with insanity. Of course, he would characterize...
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“Jonze had never written a movie script before, but to him this seemed no...”
– Spike Jonze Will Eat You Up: Movies + TV: GQ : And another choice quote: “It goes back to the whole testing-numbers thing, like, ‘We’ve got to get this many people to like this character’ and ‘this many people to think this’ and ‘this many people to feel this.’ I’ve never made a movie like...
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A Few Moments in Reflection
Tonight I found myself in reflection on the decade that will soon come to a close on December 31, 2009.
The faces that were once everyday are now old friends. All of us have become these strange creatures, adults. Some are married. Some have children. Some of their names are hard to remember now.
I was going into my junior year of high school in 2000. Band practice. Tennis practice. Football...
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Continuity: A Flash Puzzle Platformer →
A puzzle game that involves rearranging the play window itself. Super cool idea.