10 days ago
philgyford : Scarytree Films - Here Comes Funky Kazoo - My friend Mark's rather nice short film, in which I make a very brief and silent appearance.
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14 days ago
philgyford : Hulu - Metropolitan - Whit Stillman has put his first film, 'Metropolitan', up on Hulu for free viewing. But, like the rest of Hulu, it only works in the US.
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18 days ago
philgyford : Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle) - Guy Debord's film in full on Google Video, with English subtitles.
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gleuschk : Plan 9 From Syracuse - best documentary of 2007?! whatwhat?
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2 month ago
philgyford : Goings On: Online Only: The New Yorker - Syndey Pollack looked for "the ache" in stories. "It is the ache of having one chance at deep love in a lifetime of shallow loves, and losing it too early." Yes, that's it exactly. (via Daring Fireball)
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4 month ago
philgyford : Film Archive - FourDocs - Listen to Britain - Nice short film of images and sounds from wartime Britain (if you sit through the introduction from the Canadian). Terence Davies mentions it in the current 'Sight & Sound'.
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4 month ago
gleuschk : McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - I expect a very similar note after the trustees' meeting this weekend
adamrg : Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail and Discovers That His Bid for Tenure Has Been Denied. - "Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist's tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver."
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5 month ago
nelson : Multiple SIDosis - Oddly experimental and yet totally square video of multitrack recording and splitscreen film.
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5 month ago
nelson : SIDosis on Youtube - save yourself the trouble of downloading this crazy experimental film
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5 month ago
Linkorama : The Truth According To Wikipedia - documentary video
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5 month ago
philgyford : YouTube - Bristol In The 1920s - Lovely old footage of bits of Bristol. Presumably with sound added more recently. (via the Bristol Blogger)
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philgyford : YouTube - Wills's Girls - Interviews with women who used to work at Wills' tobacco factory in Bristol. Lovely, but would have been much better if we could just see the women being interviewed, instead of all the graphics.
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philgyford : We Are The Lambeth Boys - Really, really lovely 1959 documentary by Karel Reisz about young men and women at a London youth club. Fascinating for both similarities and differences to now. Do watch. 49 mins.
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5 month ago
philgyford : Archive Player - FourDocs - O Dreamland - 1953 Lindsay Anderson film about a fun fair in Margate. A bit dreamy, with sound added after the filming; no authorial voice over or interviews. (Click 'Play' button for tiny but full-length screening.)
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8 month ago
adamrg : Burton encourages Poaching... slopes. - Burton puts a bounty on the last four ski slopes that are "skiier only." Sick 'em.
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8 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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9 month ago
plasticbag : It's a classic - the Adam & Joe parody of 'The English Patient' - "God you're gorgeous! Yes, but my heart is like a stone...."
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Ridiculous hysteria and computer illiteracy evident in this trailer for "Untraceable" - From the idea of an untraceable website, through to seeing every keystroke because you've got access to someone's wireless network... Bunk! Bunk I tell you! He hacked into my car's computer! Can you hear me rolling my eyes?
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9 month ago
plasticbag : One of my absolute favourite films of recent years, you have to go and see 'No Country for Old Men' - It sounds like a tedious movie. It's anything but. The thriler-like aspects are astonishing, the attention to detail incredible, the creativity and insight astonishing, the cinematography absurdly good. Must see.
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9 month ago
Greg Storey : Facts and photos from the backlot of Watchmen. - More please.
philgyford : The Backlot (Watchmen) - I was trying not to get my hopes up about the movie, but then I saw this and I'm getting very, very excited. Hopefully this won't all end in tears.
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10 month ago
philgyford : Soundtrack To War - Good 90 minute documentary on what music US troops in Iraq, and Iraqis, listen to and make. Mostly: white troops listen to metal, black troops to rap.
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10 month ago
philgyford : Johnaugust.com » The Hollywood Standard - Recommendation of a book about the technical aspects of writing a film script, how to lay it out, etc. With a few caveats.
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10 month ago
Richard Rutter : Erik Spiekermann at ESAD - 60 minutes of great design nuggets from man himself.
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11 month ago
adamrg : LA Weekly - News - The Life and Death of Jesse James
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