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Screenings: Absolute Wilson and Paper Clips

June 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I was not prepared for the emotional wallop contained in this seemingly simple documentary about Tennessee middle school students studying the Holocaust.

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Tags: film · history · Screenings

Cleaning out my YouTube closet

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I apparently am much too liberal with my YouTube “favorite” button. After clearing out several videos that were really good once, I was left with ten really interesting clips. Here are three of them.

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Tags: film · music

The thing is…

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

As described, muttering under the breath would be less audible than breathing which, in most cases, would be about as loud as silence. If the mutterance were not meant to be heard, I imagine that the mutterer would merely think it.

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Tags: film · ideas · language · music · politics · self

Radar blips: 1 May 2008

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Langford made a show of “humility” over this past weekend by spewing fire and brimstone about the city’s crime rate while wearing a burlap sack over his Nike-insignia’d sport shirt, under a large banner bearing his name.

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Tags: film · food · health · music · politics · self

The Thin Red Line: My dear wife

April 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

My dear wife,

You get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, filth, and noise.

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Tags: film

The Thin Red Line: This great evil

April 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Is this darkness in you, too?

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Tags: film

Walt Disney: Racially Insensitive vs. Racist

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Members of the black community protested that any film version of the Uncle Remus stories was bound to portray black Americans in a servile and negative way. A “vicious piece of hocus pocus,” one group called it.

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Tags: film · history · language

Trained In at Collegeville

April 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Trained In, a 2007 documentary short by Kevin Garrison and Allison Stagg.

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Tags: film

Should the lark cease singing because winter must come? – Ling Po

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

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He is twice guilty who regrets not an unworthy act. – Ling Po

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Tags: film · language

Be your own Warhol

March 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

One of the interactive elements of the Museum’s website is an area where you can learn, step by step, how Warhol designed his trademark silkscreen portraits. You are then given the opportunity to make one yourself, using some pre-selected photographs as your raw material.

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Tags: film