The Essential Man
This is required reading as far as I’m concerned. You may want to load up the print version to avoid clicking through each of the seven pages. Related links: Roger Ebert’s response “The best interview...
View ArticleRoger Ebert gets his voice back
Well, kind of, thanks to a company that custom builds text-to-speech voices. Ebert’s new voice is compiled from his vast accumulated archive of reviews and commentary tracks. CereProc didn’t need to...
View ArticleIt will prove invincible
Only today did I come across this letter by Philip K. Dick, published in the excellent Letters of Note last September, addressed to the production company for Blade Runner. He loved how the film was...
View ArticleFilms for the Student of Philosophy
I just discovered that the Open Culture weblog has created an addendum to Matt Whitlock’s Essential Movies for a Student of Philosophy list that’s been hanging out in my bookmarks for a couple months....
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Chantal Akerman vs. Hulu
From Hyperallergic: The film world received dreadful news this week when it was discovered that the famed Belgian filmmaker and pioneer of modern feminist cinema Chantal Akerman had died. She is well...
View ArticleThe Red Drum Getaway
A Hitchcock mashup where Kubrick is the villain. “Jimmy was having a rather beautiful day until he bumped into Jack and things got weird.” Link
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