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I love this sweet grandmother

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This is a dog

Does a dog know how it looks? It knows how another dog looks, certainly. It can tell friends from foes from strangers at a distance, aided greatly by smell. But does it place much importance on appearance? I know a…

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Jones, Jonze, Spike & Co.

Spike Jones - Sabre DanceUploaded by perruche. - Click for more funny videos. Spike Jones - 12Th Street RagUploaded by bhgbjazz. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more. Spike Jones - Indian Love CallUploaded by perruche. - See more…

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The Akira Kurosawa Song

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The Man Who Foretold the Future

By Roger Ebert / March 6th, 1988 Los Angeles, California - A 1982 documentary narrated by the late Orson Welles has become an overnight hit at California video rental stores, where customers are willing to pay up to $6 a…

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Take my hand, I'm a stranger in Paradise

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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…