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All of Hitchcock's cameos

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834 Tom O'Bedlam reminds me that it was Coleridge who coined the phrase "the willing suspension of disbelief." What follows is a 1977 experimental film by Larry Jordan, using animated engravings…

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Why, you...I oughta slap yer face!

Glove, Actually - An Ode to Cinema's Greatest Slaps from Jeff Smith on Vimeo. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/"; a2a_config.num_services = 8;

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Yankee Doodle Dandy: Born on the Fourth of July

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Zuppke of Illinois: A football coach

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…

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Woody Allen meets Jean-Luc Godard

An excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Life Itself: Woody Allen thought of Bergman as a genius. He told me the American cinema had produced only one genius, Orson Welles. "Godard is supposed to be a genius," he told me dubiously…