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From Lynne Jordan, Chicago, IL:
From Lynne Jordan, Chicago, IL:
From Bob Bowman, San Francisco, CA:
It's the player piano roll, the 8-track cartridge, the Apple Newton, the Microsoft Bob (or Microsoft Sidewalk) of its day -- the 1981 RCA SelectaVision Capacitance Electronic Disc! Basically, it looked like a grooved black vinyl LP in a plastic…
View image Here's a sampling of various political/ideological (and generic) readings of Joel and Ethan Coen's "No Country For Old Men." This just gets more and more fascinating to me -- probably because I would not emphasize such an approach…
View image A way of perceiving the world. Critic Richard T. Jameson writes about the Coen brothers' body of work at MSN Movies: There are hundreds of things thrillingly right with "No Country for Old Men," the new film from…
View image Something dark and shapeless approaches in "No Country for Old Men." "Adapted from what is generally considered a minor Cormac McCarthy novel, 'No Country for Old Men' is a very well-made genre exercise, but I can’t understand why…
Q. I have enjoyed reading your views on the digital vs. film issue and was wondering if you had any update on how Dean Goodhill's "Maxivision 48" system has been coming along. Do you know of any directors who are…
Bud Uglly, circa 1998. From '80s graphic design to the early WWW to today's MySpace... (For The Reeler's Totally Unrelated Blog-a-thon.) In the mid- to late-1990s, the heyday of Dan's Gallery of the Grotesque and Justin's Links From the Underground…
View image Johnny Depp as Tim Burton and Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd. "[Director Tim Burton] saw the picture as an homage to old Universal horror flicks ('Frankenstein,' 'The Black Cat'), creepy silent-film melodramas (any number of Lon Chaney spine-tinglers), and…
From Andy Ihnatko, Boston, MA:
