A bemused response to some apparently pretty serious factual errors in the discussion by Jeff Sharlet, in his book on "the Family," of the origins of the Steve McQueen movie, "The Blob."
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On the Bel Air Drama Department, part of a Los Angeles Presbyterian congregation that makes near-professional-quality church videos. Many of them are linked from the post; they are well made, and some of them are really funny.
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Interview with Kirk Cameron about his work with the Kendricks (a Christian filmmaking team) on the movie Fireproof.
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This looks like an interesting flick.
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One education blogger's favorite films of great literary works, including Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and some others.
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Gary Lease apparently used to have students watch this as a kind of reflection on the mythmaking process (presumably more or less the same way that McCutcheon talks about using The Life of Brian in his classes).
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Christianity Today interviews the writer of WALL•E (2008) about the connection between his religious beliefs and his movies. It's not exactly a searching interview, but it's an interesting read.
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Another Žižek essay, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real," from 2001. Also on my reading list. Looks more closely at the images of violence and devastation and their role in the popular, post-9/11 imagination.
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This is Žižek's famous 1999 essay, "The Two Sides of Perversion." I'm clipping it because I intend to read it; the bits I've looked at are very good.
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I was subjected to this twice last week, without audio - once on the plane from Houston to San Diego and once on the plane from Las Vegas to Philadelphia. It really irritated me and this review sums up why.
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You have to see this ... it's great, and very strange. Somehow the music really works with the old silent-film footage.
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An interview with the man behind the film version of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." I never knew the movie was funded by the Quaker Oats Co. as part of a product tie-in that never materialized. Stuart describes such arcana as the difficulties of
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"Wattstax" was a concert held at the LA Coliseum in 1972, sponsored by Stax Records, to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Watts riots. It became known as "the Black Woodstock." Tickets were sold for $1 each. Jesse Jackson gave the invocation. Per
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Someone Twittered about this sidesplitting one-minute excerpt from an interview with Guest, who played Nigel Tufnel in Spinal Tap. He describes overhearing a hotel-lobby conversation between a truly dimwitted bass player and his manager and getting the id
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Some really interesting comments from Christopher Guest, the director of This Is Spinal Tap and Best in Show.
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Helvetica is one of the most ubiquitous and distinctively "modern" typefaces. This documentary examines its history, influence, use, and appeal.
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Trailer for the documentary I clipped about (http://snipurl.com/1j34u).
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A documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and "Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass-produced strip-mall world of 21st-century suburbia.
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A
documentary in which a two-man team consisting of a journalist and
"Canada's king of surreal comedy", heavily influenced by James Howard
Kunstler, heads off to document life in the mass-produced strip-mall
world of 21st-century suburbia.
more fromwww.radiantcitymovie.com
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