David Mamet’s “Lost Masterpieces of Pornography” w/ Kristen Bell, Ed O’Neill & Ricky Jay from David Mamet
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I’ve never forgotten this show, but feared it was lost forever. Now it’s turned up on YouTube. How well I remember the day we taped this special! I couldn’t get anything to work. Maybe this is historical evidence of why I’ve never gotten along with video games. Gene Siskel’s comic timing is flawless here, and I make a great Oliver Hardy. Stay tuned while we play “Wheel of Fortune” via low-tech VHS tape.
What delights me is, those are the real actors. They must be complely sick of Dreaded Hotel Room Interviews.
Between Two Ferns: Oscar Buzz Edition Part 1 from Zach Galifianakis
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The famed Alloy Orchestra of Cambridge, Mass., performed their original compositions to a group of “Wild and Weird” early silent shorts on April 27 at Ebertfest. This is a sample of the program, with titles by Ken Winokur. Check their web site to see when they’re coming to your area.
These are The Platters Featuring Monroe Powell, live in concert on 8/27/2010 at the Acorn Theater in Three Oaks. Michigan. Monroe Powell is last of the survivors who sang lead with the earlier group. He’s on the left above; the others are Kenni Jaye, Inez Zak and Don Gloudé. (photo: Ebert)
You have to reflect that some of the dancers in this video have been doing The Twist for almost 50 years. That’s why they’re so good at it.
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For four years, Gene Siskel and I produced an annual Video Gift Guide. These taping sessions were endless, chaotic and exhausting. Our poor producer, Larry Dieckhaus, said he would have rather negotiated the Cuban Missile Crisis. Gene and I fought over everything. It was all the more hilarious because of our forced jollity.
I think you can see some cracks in the ho, ho, ho spirit here. We almost drew blood in a disagreement over a toy train. We each made our own film with a toy PixelVision camera. We slugged it out with an early video game.
These precious videos recently surfaced after years of being thought lost. I watched them. I laughed, I cried, and during the video boxing match I kissed my ass goodbye.
A note of thanks to TheAisleSeatCom, the user on You Tube who uploaded all these videos.
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Jonathan a year ago:
A story about the Chandler Symphony concert.
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Moyers devotes a full program to the way “intelligent design” is being used as a a Horse to smuggle religious fundamentalism into pubic schools. Included here, viewable separately, are his sessions with intellectual Susan Jacoby and with Zack Kopplin, who when he was a Louisiana high school student enlisted the support of Nobel Prize winners in his campaign to draw attention to the practice.
Here’s a link to Kopplin’s segment, and a full transcript on the issue.
My related blog entry, Win Ben Stein’s Mind.
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“House” is new in the Criterion Collection, so I figured it might be good. I looked at the trailer. This is the trailer. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: Having not seen the film and working only from the trailer, explain WTF this movie is about.
My TwitterPages are linked in the right column.
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My reader Tim O’Neill reminds me: “Today, December 28, marks the 115th Anniversary of the birth of cinema. The Lumiere Brothers presented the first public screening of motion pictures at the Salon Indien du Grand Cafe in Paris. This was the beginning of one of the great art forms of the 20th Century. Unfortunately, the 21st Century will be remembered as the death of film.”
I don’t believe it will mark the death of film, but certainly it will mark the birth of new forms of cinema.
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Official website of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
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Timelapse video by Jeff Desom, on Press Play via Indiewire. Click here for more information. Thanks for the link to Michael Mirasol.
Here is my Great Movies review of the film.
A Cosmological Fantasia from BDH – Burrell Durrant Hifle on Vimeo.
For more about this animation, go here to Discover magazine.
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Nobody else makes documentaries about the cinema like Martin Scorsese. Here is his first 20 minutes on Kazan. For the complete hour, click on the link below the video.
Watch the full episode. See more American Masters.
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“Battleship Potemkim,” one of the basic masterpieces, has never before approached this clarity. When Kino says “frame by frame” that’s literally what they mean. This is detailed close work.
My Great Movies review.
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View the trailers. If “none available,” click through to the Amazon VOD page.
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