• The problem with any new video format is that while there are indeed releases to get excited about, the releases of catalog titles can sometimes be a slow trickle. While Blu-ray weighed in early with a good showing for the works of such filmmakers as Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese, we are only now getting the first titles from such luminaries ( Read more... )

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Being away for the weekend, I have been avoiding all the nonsense that has been going on the past few days (it feels strangely empowering to do so) but I should mention that I have indeed come across some interesting observations on the current political landscape, however, such as this vivid image from gislebertus, which is worth repeating:I can't wait to ( Read more... )

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Your result for The Sublime Philosophical Crap Test...
R-A-R

You scored 44% Non-Reductionism, 67% Epistemological Absolutism, and 22% Moral Objectivism!


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Phones are operating normally again.Wow... the film recording of Shaft is much more different from the Stax album than I had expected. While I had of course heard the music in the film, the movie's audio track is in pinched monaural sound, and so the subtleties of the differences weren't immediately apparent. They often have a rather raw sound in ( Read more... )

VOICES IN THE ETHER

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This is a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot Le Fou. It was shot in widescreen and color, which was a big break from Godard's usual flat, black and white norm; it plays with various genres (there's even a scene in which Belmondo and Anna Karina break into song). In one of the movie's many cameos of prominent Hollywood filmmakers, Jean ( Read more... )

Meanwhile, completely at random...

" ... actually, the flesh eating is a myth.
Zombies merely mangle, mutilate and occasionally wear human flesh,
so there's no reason to be frightened ... "

The above quote is by Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and it is on my e-mail signature, my LJ formatting, on my profile on MySpace. It is not a motto, per se. Interestingly, the meaning is something that is rarely commented upon, but when it is, more often than not because the reader interprets it too literally. For example, I just ( Read more... )