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Take my hand, I'm a stranger in Paradise

Two hand models. The top video has been posted as a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the lower one. The Creepy Hand Model: Ellen Sirot with Michaela Watkins from Michaela Watkins My TwitterPages are linked at the right. var a2a_config = a2a_config…

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John Prine: A concert in Ireland

I've already posted a lot of John Prine, but I had never seen these particular videos before. The high-quality sound and picture are explained because they're from a concert he did for Irish television. Prine is the best poet-songwriter of…

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Manuel de Oliveira is 102: A tribute

The first three scenes from "A Talking Picture" (2003) The complete film is streaming on Netflix Instant, which introduces it: "A beautiful history professor (Leonor da Silveira) and her 8-year-old daughter embark on a Mediterranean cruise from Lisbon to Bombay.…

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Why is film criticism important?

This is an excerpt from a 90-minute interview conducted in 2005 by the TV Academy's official Archive of American Television. The following year, after cancer surgery, I would lose the ability to speak. It was filmed on the fourth balcony…

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"Rosebud" was a rather tawdry device

Can you spot props from the movie? Before scrutinizing this frame from the film, you should watch the scene. Embedding has been disabled, but go here to view the ending of "Citizen Kane. Here are my Great Movies review of…

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Public Edition #5

This is a special free sample of the Newsletter members receive weekly. It contains content gathered from several past issues and reflects the diversity of what you'll find inside the Ebert Club. For Roger's invitation to the Club, go HERE.…

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Pauline Kael's favorite film: "Menilmontant"

Maggie: What was your favorite movie in your entire life? Pauline: In my entire life? Well, there's a French movie that probably you've never heard of that I like best... Maggie: And what was the French movie? Pauline: "Menilmontant," a…

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My master thinks this is art

These are photographs of dogs by Tim Flach, collected in a London exhibition at Osborne Samuel Ltd, . at 23a Bruton Street. The web page explains: Dogs is Tim Flach's follow-up to the successful Equus, applying the same wildly creative…

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e. e. cummings talks dirty (nsfw)

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The financial crisis explained (nsfw)

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