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A good find by the folks at BoingBoing: Dementia 13, Francis Ford Coppola’s slasher/thriller from 1963, can be downloaded for free over at Archive.org (which is where you can also download a nice version of Orwell’s 1984).You can watch an embedded version below, or download an AVI file here. Here’s the gist of the plot: [...]
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Joerg, one of our readers, wrote us rather joyfully and declared: “Today I found the site of my dreams: Supposedly most of the greatest new documentaries can be watched online” and they’re “financed by ads.” The site is called SnagFilms, and indeed, it finds “the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time [...]
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Now featured in The YouTube Screening Room: Jake Polonsky’s School of Life. “The film may be set in an elementary school, but it tells a poignantly ironic story that any adult will relate to. School of Life won the 2004 British Independent Film Award for Best Short.” A higher quality version can be watched here. [...]
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A contribution (which we always welcome) from one of our readers in Romania:
“The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière created the first publicly shown movies, the first documentaries and, with this 50-second film shot at a Provence railway station, the first horror picture. It is said that as Paris audiences watched the train [...]
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As mentioned this weekend, YouTube has rolled out its new Screening Room, which will make available a steady stream of short independent films for free. The initial lineup includes the 2006 academy award-winning animated film, The Danish Poet, directed by Torill Kove and narrated by Liv Ullmann. Within the Screening Room itself, YouTube doesn’t provide [...]
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YouTube just launched its new “Screening Room,” and there’s a good chance that the Sundance Film Festival will never quite be the same again.
The Screening Room presents high quality, independent films to YouTube users and promises to roll out four new films every two weeks. Given YouTube’s immense reach, these indies will immediately find a [...]
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It’s not exactly the same as watching a film on the silver screen. But you get what you pay for. Below, we have Frank Capra’s 1939 classic, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring Jimmy Stewart and Claude Rains. For those who cling to the hope that democracies can rid themselves of corruption and special [...]
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In 2006, documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Control Room) made a wish at the TED conference (see below) — for world peace. For Noujaim, peace starts with cultural exchange, with getting to know one another. And since we all can’t travel, another way to achieve this is through film and its ability to “take you into [...]
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On the American home front, the Iraq war has entered its apathetic phase. The war continues to grind on, but the mission gets far less news ink than before, and the debate over the war’s merits and tactics rarely gets hashed back through. That’s perhaps because many have decided to mentally park the issue until [...]
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The folks at Apple have rolled out an intriguing new podcast that takes you inside the world of moviemaking. The Set to Screen Series (get it on iTunes here) follows Baz Luhrmann, the Oscar-nominated director (Moulin Rouge! and William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet) as he works on a new film. And every three weeks, from now through October, [...]
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One of the things they promised us in the heyday of the 1990s Internet boom was the end of television and a brave new world of high quality video online, on demand. Well, we’re still waiting. Youtube is great for short clips, but not designed for the technical (or legal) challenge of serving up whole [...]
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Released in 1922, the German Expressionist film, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, offers a chilling adaption of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (get free audiobook of Stoker’s work here). The film was made by F. W. Murnau and stars Max Schreck. Watch it below. (Or buy a copy here).
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David Lynch fans, here you go. Below (and added to our YouTube playlist), we have Lynch’s anti-littering public service announcement that has a fairly high creepiness factor. He’s actually not new to the world of commercials. This site collects Lynch’s previous commercial work, starting with his 1988 series of Calvin Klein Obsession ads that played [...]
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Some of you may know GreenCine as a highbrow video-rental company, one that serves as an alternative to Netflix and Blockbuster. But the best thing about Greencine is its blog, maintained by David Hudson and updated several times a day. A thoughful and unpretentious collection of reviews, interviews, festivals and other worthwhile online film discussions, [...]
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“Tarantino’s Mind,” an award winning short film from Brazil, decodes the filmography of Quentin Tarantino, drawing connections most Tarantino fans might not have drawn themselves. Acting in the film is Seu Jorge, a great Brazilian musician (check this album out) who has gained recent fame in the US. The clip runs a good ten minutes. [...]
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Great poster collection of Oscar winning films, from 1927 to this week. Check it out here.
via Kottke.org
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What would it look like if you stuck today’s stars in Hitchcock’s classic films? Vanity Fair tried to figure it out.
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1964. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott. The Trailer. Action:
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Very funny. And he’s spot on…
(P.S. It’s added to our YouTube playlist.)
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The Iowa caucus is finally and mercifully upon us. And right in time, filmmaker Michael Moore has offered an analysis of the Democratic field of candidates. There’s much here that I don’t particularly agree with here, but Moore makes two large claims that strike me as being fundamentally (and regretfully) true:
The “Democratic front-runners are a [...]
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Back in October, Ridley Scott released a final and definitive director’s cut of Blade Runner, presenting to audiences the film that he would have made if studio execs hadn’t meddled with things. A short two months later, the final cut is now out on DVD. It was released yesterday, barely in time for the holidays. [...]
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Francis Ford Coppola, the director who brought us The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, has released his first film in a decade. Based on a novella by Mircea Eliade, a Romanian thinker principally known for his work on the history of religion, “Youth Without Youth” features Tim Roth playing the role of Dominic Matei, an [...]
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Empire Online has published its list of the 50 best indie films. Skewed towards action/crime films, the list won’t appeal to all. But there are some indisputably amazing movies of the list. We’ve posted the top 10 below. But somehow I think the better ones are actually lower down on the list — for example, [...]
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The film that spoke to a generation of alienated youth during the 1960s is now 40 years old (and actually looking much tamer than it first did). To mark the occasion, a 40th anniversary collector’s edition DVD has been released, filled with a good amount of extra materials. Also, Fresh Air broadcasted a show last [...]
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The filmmakers who brought you Fargo, Barton Fink, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? have released their latest film based on a novel by Cormac McCarthy. No Country for Old Men is, as The New Yorker puts it, “a return to the dark, simmering days of their best work, in Blood Simple and Miller’s Crossing,” [...]
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Of all the scenes that Hitchcock shot, this is the most well known. The iconic shower scene (1960), which runs about 2 minutes, took six days to film, used around 75 camera angles, and 50 cuts. After shooting this sequence, Janet Leigh apparently forever kept her showers to a minimum and, while showering, locked all [...]
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What do you get here? We’ve posted below a 7+ minute clip from Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning film on the Vietnam War from 1979. It features the famous “Ride of the Valkyries” scene. It’s worth a look, but I would actually recommend watching this longer, 18 minute clip here, which includes the Valkyries scene [...]
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It’s hard to imagine The Godfather, the iconic 1972 film, without Marlon Brando. But that’s almost how it turned out.
During casting, Paramount executives originally pushed for Laurence Olivier. But when he couldn’t take the film, and when the director, Francis Ford Coppola, asked them to consider Brando, they initially responded: “Marlon Brando will never appear [...]
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A.O. Scott (The New York Times) calls it “One of the most remarkable experiments in the history of cinema.” Roger Ebert says it “is on my list of the ten greatest films of all time.” The film is 49 UP, and it airs tonight on PBS.
The film is the seventh film in a long-running series [...]
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I’ve heard this joke many times before on audio, but never seen it on video. Here it goes. The Moose Joke apparently from 1965.
