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The Academy was unafraid to award the best picture Oscar to the widely recognized most deserving film. That's refreshing.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead at 46

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What art says about the past

I sometimes think I have spent years unlearning what I learned earlier in my life. For instance, it was not George A. Custer who was attacked at the Little Bighorn. It was Custer--in a bad career move--who attacked the Indians. Much more important, slavery was not a benign institution in which mostly benevolent whites ( Read more... )

Animator Hayao Miyazaki to retire from making feature films -- I list this first because finding out this news really saddened me. His last film hit Ann Arbor this summer but I didn't get a chance to see it. I'll have to make an effort to see it now. For those who have not seen any of his work, please do see Spirited Away & Howl's Moving Castle. ( Read more... )

Most of the Cabal (all but Jeff) went to see The Bling Ring, at the behest of Jamie ( Read more... )

My dad & I were watching portions of The Godfather last night (he flips through channels rather frequently). The film was being broadcast by AMC, which advertised itself with clips of presumed viewers. One of these claimed to have watched a particular movie more than a hundred times ( Read more... )

flinx relates a passage about tap dancing in the 1840s, to which I directed him to the film Bamboozled.

Then, at iMDb, I come to an article wherein Spike Lee, the director of the above, does in real life what he castigates in that very film.

As my friend Serita would say, shut the noise.

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My dad is watching Rocky Horror. Whether this is in honor of Halloween, I've no idea.

(Oh, it's my copy.)

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