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The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them)
Duck Hunt by Wes Anderson and Second Life by David Lynch may be my two favorites.
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Michel Gondry's latest movie stars Jack Black and Mos Def as video store clerks who recreate classic movies after accidentally erasing all the tapes.
My Kid Could Paint That (Trailer)
"In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso.""
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in a data-driven world- infographics are the new art
"Intro from the movie Stanger than Fiction. "
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"In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview."
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Lessons of "Simpsons" marketing: Clip and save
"These, in other words, are the “lessons� you can apply to your film or brand. I’m revealing them to you now! Are you ready? Here goes! You heard it here first!"
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My Adventures Into The Mouth Of The 7-Eleven Kwik-E-Mart
"Here we have an army of Indian and Pakistani workers who, for years, have attempted to beat down the 'Thank you, come again' stereotype, and who are now being forced . . . to dress as Apu, the most blatant of all convenience store cliches."
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A Rat With a Whisk and a Dream
All about the culinary realism in Pixar's Ratatouille.
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Voices from the New American Schoolhouse (trailer)
"The film chronicles life and learning at the Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro, MD which practices an undiluted form of freedom and democracy that turns mainstream education theory on its head."
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Did pirates really say "arrrr"?
"Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s." I'm crushed.
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Human Joysticks (NewsBreaker Live interactive cinema game)
"The debut of interactive crowd gaming in movie theaters. Captured opening weekend of Spider Man 3 in Los Angeles. Created by SS+K in collaboration with Brand Experience Lab for msnbc.com."
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"Unexpected films find success with DVD rentals, sales while box office, award winners fall flat"
10 of the Strangest (non-porn) Sex Scenes
Including woman on duck action from Howard the Duck. (Somewhat NSFW)
David Lynch on Product Placement
Tell us how you really feel David.
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"The "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in Pulp Fiction portrayed using nothing but typography. By Jarratt Moody."
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Petrol lit with a cigarette? Only in the movies
Once again science comes through with answers to the big questions.
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Hollywood to immortalise pop frauds
Universal is making a Milli Vanilli movie. Thank goodness.
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Brands Produce Their Own Shows
"More marketers are creating their own TV shows in the hopes of endearing viewers to the brands behind them."
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Couldn't agree more. Where else are you going to see a BMX slow dance?
"'If you want to send a message' in Hollywood, the saying goes, 'call Western Union.' Don't tell that to entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll. With 11 Oscar nominations for cause-driven work . . he's proving that it pays to be pointed."
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Anil Dash on Michael Richards: "Michael Richards lost his shit for the same reason white people always get mad when black people talk at the movies."
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One of the women from the feminist scene explains how the whole thing went down.
"I have found so many easy ways to get any type of media instantly that I decided I would share this with everyone else."
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And if You Liked the Movie, a Netflix Contest May Reward You Handsomely
Netflix is offering $1 million prize for improving their collaborative filtering by at least 10 percent.
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Judging your friends by their Netflix lists
Netflix "has taught us to think of our rental historyâ€â€all these discrete occasions of media ingestion scattered over the weeks and yearsâ€â€as a single, continuous, cohesive experience."
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"What does the new film that follows Zinedine Zidane through the course of a match tell us about the player?"
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Fantastic article about the making of the original Willy Wonka. Actually turns out that Quaker Oats funded the whole film with the hope of promoting a Wonka bar they never released.
"Since word of mouth helps good movies while punishing weaker ones, it may result in a new Hollywood emphasis on playability  a film's intrinsic quality  instead of marketability . . . "
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"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface . . . as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
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The "Snakes on a Plane" Problem
The tragedy of the best titled movie in the history of film
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Little guys could take Hollywood out of the picture
"For Hollywood, the solution is not in expanding distribution into new digital channels but in rethinking its entire business model for content creation."
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Wikipedia entry on the guy who's been living in Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988. Reportedly he's the person Tom Hanks modeled his character in The Terminal after.
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Hacking Netflix Interviews Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Really interesting interview with the CEO of Netflix. I especially like what he says in response to a question about a referral program. Turns out when offered a financial benefit, no one really referred any more than normal.
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Disney Uber-Sells Depp's Jack Sparrow
Disney has "registered the trademark for Johnny Depp’s pirate character, Jack Sparrow, in a tsunami of categories, including bikinis and bolo ties and badminton sets, licorice and lemonade and leg warmers, bagels and bowling balls and BBQ mits!"
What Netflix Could Teach Hollywood
Five million families now have a Netflix account, making it one of the most impressive companies around. So why do so many people think it's doomed?
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The evolution of the NetFlix envelope
A look at the changes the NetFlix envelope has gone through in seven years.
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From a Small Stream, a Gusher of Movie Facts
"In the retail business, that is the equivalent of excellent shelf frontage, or, in television, of having a single-digit channel number rather than being relegated to Channel 284 on the cable lineup."
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Zidane Un Portrait du 21e Siecle
A movie that follows only Zidane through one Real Madrid game.
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102 Movies You Must See Before...
A list of "the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies."
Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed
Interesting for what did and didn't make the list.
Thank You For Smoking opening main titles
Very nicely designed opening title sequence for the movie Thank You For Smoking.
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Font Spotting the Thank You for Smoking Titles
Typographica IDs almost all the fonts in the titles of Thank You for Smoking.
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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Soderbergh does a DVD-theater release combo
A red carpet will roll out Thursday night in front of Parkersburg, W.Va.'s historic Smoot Theater for the official premiere of a movie that, according to backers, represents the future of the film industry.
Coudal Partner's 12 minute short film.
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Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach's Guide.
"What follows is the best strategy my staff and I have come up with to limit Teen Wolf's effectiveness on the court."
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HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software
Nice and easy instructions from Mark Pilgrim
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His 'Secret' Movie Trailer Is No Secret Anymore
NYTimes covers Robert Ryang's remixed Shining trailer
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Ever wonder what would happen if The Shining was just a little more cheerful?
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Most people will, at some point, have played "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", the game that challenges you to link the prolific film star to any other in five steps. But Bacon's own thoughts on the game will finally be published next month in a new book.
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An interactive gallery of movie title sequences designed by Saul Bass
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"et's see: Flown into New York? Check. Booked at the Regency with outrageous demands? Check. Waited on hand and flipper with lavish room service? Check."
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McSweeney's: "There Are Plenty of Mohicans"
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"When the Marx Brothers were about to make a movie called "A Night in Casablanca," there were threats of legal action from the Warner Brothers, who, five years before, had made a picture called, simply, "Casablanca""
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"The secretive research group that helps run the movie business."
The inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
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Directors Reveal Their Top 10 Lists
Everyone loves a list - even film directors. But what do their Top 10s say about their personalities?
How did Mad Hot Ballroom survive the copyright cartel?
"Answer: by limiting music that played in classrooms, haggling over clearance fees, and cutting out a scene."
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"No matter how much you loved "Napoleon Dynamite", Vote For Pedro shirts aren't cool anymore."
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Whatever happened to the five kids in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"?
"As far as the actors go, we're happy to report they all escaped the chocolate factory unscathed."
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Can woman live on Mickey D’s alone?
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Huffington Post interview with Errol Morris where he gives a shoutout to Banksy
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The worst best friends in Hollywood.
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NYTimes: "To geek out on something means to immerse yourself in its details to an extent that is distinctly abnormal - and to have a good time doing it."
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Half-Assed Erotic Film Classics.
McSweeney's: "Debbie Does Amarillo"
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5 Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting
If this were about three years ago Fear and Loathing would easily make this list.
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"Star Wars" Spawned a Galaxy of Technologies
George Lucas is responsible for the tecchnology behind Pixar and Avid
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Coming soon to a theater near you: actual start times for feature presentations.
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SPIEGEL Interview with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg
Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds."
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A fantastic resource for all those random Vin Diesel fact fanatics
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How did you get your f*&%ing awesome job?
An interview with Incredibles' director Brad Bird
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Sweep the Leg and Wake the Gimp
The Johnny Lawrence Story. Answering all your questions about the Johnny Lawrence connections between Karate Kid and Just One of the Guys.
Lessons learned from Just One of the Guys
Including some serious revelations about up-to-now unknown connections between Just One of the Guys and Karate Kid. Conspiracy?
They're In on the Joke: Hollywood's Funniest Clique
A look at how Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Co. are changing the way movies are made by keeping the whole process insular.
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A day in the life of Darth Vader
Everything you were afraid to ask about "Mulholland Drive"
Salon.com: "Revised and updated: The scary cowboy! The mysterious box! All that sex! We answer all your questions about David Lynch's latest outrage -- the weirdest movie of the year."
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Video rental style
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Remix Aesthetic in Moulin Rouge and Kill Bill
A fairly interseting essay which speaks to the postmodern remix aesthetic in Moulin Rouge and Kill Bill
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Berry gets worst actress Razzie
Halle Berry thanked the makers of Catwoman for "putting me in a God-awful movie" when she turned up to collect her worst actress Razzie award.
The contents of the ever famous Oscar gift bag
N.J. to hit Blockbuster with fraud lawsuit?
New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey sued Blockbuster Inc. Friday, claiming the video rental chain is deceiving customers with its new 'No More Late Fees' rental policy.
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Although I'm not a huge fan of the movie, there are some funny lines. Now you can play with them yourself at home.
Zemeckis: Chairman of the Hoverboard
Snopes.com on the hoverboard in Back to the Future II
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Will the Real Michael Moore Ever Re-emerge?
An open letter from Ralph Nader to Michael Moore
Guide to Determine If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.
My favorite is "you are Nicholas Cage"
Blockbuster dropping late fees as of Jan. 1
Blockbuster Inc. announced Tuesday it is abolishing late fees on all its video tapes, DVDs and video games as of Jan. 1.
Cheesiest lines in movie history
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National Board of Review of Motion Pictures releases its 2004 awards
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When Every Child Is Good Enough
NYTimes uses The Incredibles to understand the divide in education
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'I've won the indie film lottery'
Zach Braff has graduated from star of Scrubs to writer and director of his own hit film. He tells Patrick Barkham how luck, persistence and a note to Natalie Portman made his celluloid dreams come true
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Marc Perkel Rantz is distributing it on his website for free
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Truth Stranger Than 'Strangelove'
Dr. Strangelove was quite accurate
Do-It-Yourself Star Wars Props
Some people have a lot of free time
Puppet oral sex goes against grain for US censors
"our characters are made of wood and have no genitalia. If the puppets did to each other what we show them doing, all they'd get is splinters."
Woody Allen on the 2004 Election
"I don't find politics profound enough to deal with it as an artist"
An Open Letter to the Rental Video Sitting on Top of My Television
Poor Jeepers Creepers II
Instructions for properly blogging the heart
Ebert writes about Russ Meyer, the king of soft-core porn who recently died
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More movie reviews and information than I know what to do with
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Cigarette commercials directed by the likes of David Lynch, Robert Altman and Roman Polanski
What Spike Lee and Alan Keyes have in common
The Godfather horse head prop pillow
I want one
Quentin Tarantino blog: Is it real?
The Boys From 'South Park' Go to War
Talking about Team America
Talking to the cast of Office Space
The story of IMDB
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Gallo's new billboard for Brown Bunny
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Shock therapy not used in movie downloading
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Movie Downloading Spurred by Broadband
Harry Potter a product of neoliberal capitalism?
Aristophanes: the Michael Moore of his day
"War is bad, hootchie-kootchie is good."
Theatre owner invites Republicans to anti-Bush movie
Everything you ever needed to know about Mullholland Drive
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Chicago Bears' cornerback Charles 'Peanut' Tillman gives his movie reviews
Friendster Profiles Turned Into Film Promotions
More info on Anchorman fakesters
Michael Moore.com : War Room: Fahrenheit 911 Facts -- Notes Sources
Salon.com: French flock to 'Fahrenheit'; critics balk
Finally some critics saying that as a film, this really isn't any good
Archos deserves more respect than they get
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Wired 12.07: I, Robocop (Will Smith interview)
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Online amateur movie reviews predict box office success
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