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“Freezer Burn” (2007), or, “I’ll wait right here for you to catch up with me”

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I’m working on a blog entry about the Old Town Ale House (“Chicago’s Best Dive Bar”–Tribune), its owner Tobi Mitchell, her husband Bruce Cameron Elliott, and their daughter Grace Littlefeather Elliott. I looked up to see my caregiver, Flora Doronila, uncommonly wrapped up in something she was watching on her iPad. “He is in love with a very young girl, Mr. Ebert. He freezes himself until she can grow older.”

SnagFilms.com descibes this film by Charles Hood: “Virgil is a thirty-year-old scientist developing technology to permanently preserve human organs for transplant. However, his obsession with his work takes a toll on his marriage. Virgil’s only distraction is Emma, a fourteen-year-old student in his wife’s high school art class. His sanity hangs in the balance as he struggles to suppress his taboo attraction to the girl. Virgil decides to use his experimental technology to freeze himself in order to align his age with the young girl’s. But his plan doesn’t turn out the way he’d hoped resulting in unexpected consequences for all involved. A fantastic sci-fi comedy, a perfect hybrid between Tom Hanks “Big” and Kevin Spacey’s “American Beauty.”

Go here for SnagFilms.

✔ “Two thumbs up” — Doronila.

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Zuppke of Illinois: A football coach

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Bob Zuppke
7/02/1879 – 12/22/1957
University of Illinois football coach, 1913 – 1941
National titles 1914, 1919, 1923 and 1927
Big Ten Championships 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927 and 1928
Inventor of the huddle
Inventor of the flea flicker
Coach of George Halas
Coach of Red Grange
“Freshmen, my advice is, don’t drink the linement.”

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“The Perfect High,” by Shel Silverstein

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Bob Gibson loved to do this.

NRA battles ban on gun sales for those currently committing mass murder

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NRA Fights Legislation That Would Ban Gun Sales To Those Currently On Killing Sprees

“Letter to Bijou” (2013), a 30 min musical short about a boy whose dad doesn’t support his art

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Winner of the Independent Spirit Award of the 2011 Boston Independent Film Festival.

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Embedded from SnagFilms.com, a site offering fiction and documentary films which are all streamable, free and legal. Includes National Geographic docs.

SnahFilms writes:

A musical-visual dialog, a story driven by lost love between youth and adulthood. The trail of becoming full at the expense of a family’s love. The trouble to make the son improve on the father at the expense of both.

In layered metaphor LETTER TO BIJOU follows a young man whose father refuses to support his artistic ambitions. Broken by his own failures and sacrifices he forces his son to choose between the home and people he loves and the person he’s striving to be.

All learn quickly that you can never go back. But can the past, present and future be reconciled?

“In the Morning,” a short fim inspired by Edward Hopper

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This is a short film by Krishna Shenoi, one of my Far-Flung Corespondents, who is a first year student in a design school in India. He was a guest at Ebertfest 2010.

The first day of spring

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The eve of the birth of the great horse Secretariat, as recounted by William Nack, his bigrapher:

The story of Grandpa Joe and
Secretariat.

I was never, however, as sentimental about Yo-Yos as I later became about movies and Yo-Yos –as this earlier blog entry makes clear

Pogo’s lament on Earth Day

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The portrait of a projectionist

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Portrait of a projectionist from Philip Bloom on Vimeo.

A film by Philip Bloom. A story being mirrored all over the world.

Thanks for the suggestion to Bill Stamets.

It’s hard to believe it’s been 12 years, Gene. I miss you.

Roger Ebert

January 26, 1946 – February 20, 1999

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