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Herzog at Toronto 2010. (Photo by Ebert) In April at the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Werner Herzog spoke of the 3D film he was making, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." On the night of…
I posted the Beethoven video not long ago and it inspired enthusiastic comments, many of them coming down to: Who is this kid? Under another video online I found a comment, possibly by his mother, saying Jonathan started trying to…
What a poignant fate, to terrorize the globe and yet be forgotten. But we must reserve our sympathy for the terrified humans fleeing in the foreground. Found at Cover Browser, which claims to have 450,000 covers. All my TwitterPages are…
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This must be the only photograph of most of the great hard-boiled crime writers who wrote for Black Mask magazine in the 1930s. In the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight…
In her own handwriting: Internet Scout: Larry J. Kolb, ex-CIA. 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;
Claude Chabrol, who died Sunday, Sept. 12 at 80, was a founder of the New Wave and a giant of French cinema. This interview, which took place during the 1970 New York Film Festival, shows him at midpoint in his…
That's from the box cover of a bootleg DVD. Here are 23 more hilarious examples from I Heart Chaos. Thanks to Andy Ihnatko for the link. var a2a_config = a2a_config || {}; a2a_config.linkname = "Roger Ebert's Journal"; a2a_config.linkurl = "http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/";…
Jason Reitman is not only a gifted director, but a forthright and thoughtful one. After three features ("Thank You for Smoking," "Juno" and "Up in the Air"), he has achieved, at the age of 34, firm standing on the A…
