“35mm is a short film about cinema itself. We picked 35 of our favorite movies and tried to simplify them as far as possible. The outcome is a 2 minute journey through the history of film.” This is fairly brilliant. I could spend all day picking out certain films.
If you haven’t been keeping up with your malaria reading lately maybe you would be interested to learn that the disease is responsible for half of all human deaths since the Stone Age or that it is also responsible for the invention of the term “Abracadabra.” Without malaria we may never have had Harry Potter. [...]
Playing stylishly might not be more important than winning. But teams that play stylishly make the game worth watching, and thus assume an importance that can’t be reflected by wins and losses. During the era of Cruyff and total football, the Dutch played as stylishly as anyone in the world. Over the last few seasons, [...]
“In late 1979, as the opening of The Empire Strikes Back was quickly racing toward us, I came up with the idea of doing a telephone line people could call for information about the movie. For the first five months of 1980, people could call a special 800 number (800/521-1980, the date the film was [...]
“There is one line in ‘Zero Hour!’ where a stewardess says, completely seriously, ‘The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn’t have fish for dinner,’ ” Mr. Abrahams said. “That was the essence of the movie. We just [...]
It’s the greatest line in a great movie full of them, and I didn’t know until just know that Harrison Ford ad-libbed the line “I know”, which of course, was a response to Princess Leia saying “I love you” in Empire Strikes Back. Not surprisingly Ford and director Irvin Kershner had to fight with George [...]
Frederick Douglass is one of my all-time favorite American heroes. Whatever pejorative you want to use to describe him, he was a man. He was the man of the abolition movement. But throw his life into a comedy sketch starring Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle and Zooey Deschanel and I’m sold.
Seriously. There’s no other way to comprehend this decision. Texas schoolchildren will be required to learn that the words “separation of church and state” aren’t in the Constitution and evaluate whether the United Nations undermines U.S. sovereignty under new social studies curriculum. In final votes late Friday, conservatives on the State Board of Education strengthened [...]
There’s evidence to suggest that 40 years later, the shooting at Ohio’s Kent State, wasn’t the result of nervous guardsman, but instead, they were ordered to shoot upon the crowd. If true, this significantly changes the event and those participating. The Ohio National Guardsmen who fired on students and antiwar protesters at Kent State University [...]
Amazing. From The Telegraph: A charity has announced plans to retrieve the wreckage of a rare World War II fighter plane buried under sand and waves on a UK beach. The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) are looking for support. “One of the most important WWII finds in recent history”, its location has [...]
