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"Starting on Wednesday, Film Forum is offering a double feature of the literal Dylan, made up of “Don’t Look Back” (1967), by D. A. Pennebaker, and “The Other Side of the Mirror,” Murray Lerner’s compendium of Newport Folk Festival concert footage from the early 1960s. Both films highlight the mischievous, mercurial aspects of Mr. Dylan’s personality, while also providing undeniable proof of his musical prowess and incidental proof that he was, indeed, a young man once."

Bob Dylan film

"George Lucas is generally credited with pushing the envelope in film making technology. Besides computer animation, Lucas helped pioneer the use of motion capture technology. Well if Lucas were going to film Star Wars today he might just be using both open source software and hardware to do so! Chris Church and his partners in Dynamic Perception are making motion capture and time lapse technology available to everyone via open source. Their Open MoCo project not only makes software to run cameras and equipment available under an open source license, but they also publish the specs for the hardware under an open source license as well."

Open Source film

"Legendary Pictures, which joined Warner Brothers in backing “The Dark Knight” and “300,” took a big step toward assembling what may be its next blockbuster franchise: the company said on Tuesday that Sam Raimi had agreed to direct a movie based on the World of Warcraft online game and fantasy universe."

OB NP World of Warcraft games film

"Compare any 10 minutes of the movie with 10 minutes of any cable-news channel, and you’ll soon be asking: Exactly who are the adults in our country and who are the cartoon characters?"

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