Tag: film
Ben Stein And Intelligent Design: Truth Sings The Devolution Blues
1fastdog.
Posted to Media on Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 11:40:52 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In his new movie, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein decides to take a page from the Michael Moore school of film-making in his attempt to debunk evolution and the science community that teaches it. Moore has often been accused of not telling the whole story, and it seems as if Stein has fallen into an even more extreme version of disingenuous documentary film-making than Moore has yet taken.
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Digital photography: love it or hate it?
skeeter1.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Jan 16, 2008 at 10:07:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
I've been shooting photos since Hector was a pup. First up was my dad's old Kodak. I still have it, but they don't make film for it any longer.
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25 More Films For The National Film Register
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sat Dec 29, 2007 at 07:32:34 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Librarian of Congress James Billington notes "that up to half the films produced in this country before 1950 -- and as much as 90 percent of those made before 1920 -- are lost forever." Since 1989, the Library of Congress (LOC) has been doing something about this by supporting an effort to identify, find and preserve American films which have proven to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant. The question put before you is -- are this year's 25 selections to the National Film Registry in keeping with the LOC's stated goals?
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The Greatest War + The Greatest Generation = The Greatest War Flicks?
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 11:31:43 PM EST. RSS.
The title question is answered in the affirmative by Associated Press film critic David Germain who uses the week of the release of Clint Eastwood's film about the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima, Flags Of Our Fathers. While Germain's vote is still out in terms of whether Eastwood's movie is any good, he offers up a list of what he thinks are the "finest" WWII movies ever made. Like every list of this sort, the composition of the list - and the underlying premise that WWII movies are the best war movies ever - is highly debatable.
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For Kazakhs, Borat Is No Laughing Matter.
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 02:22:24 PM EST. RSS.
Every so often a movie will open to public outcry. However, it's not that often that a movie becomes an item on the agenda of a meeting between the US president and a visiting head of state. But, that's the case as Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev meets in the upcoming weeks with President George Bush. One of the things they'll be discussing is the torturously titled Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat, as it will undoubtedly be referred to by critics and moviegoers alike is a comedy, you see. But, it's a comedy the Kazakhs fail to find funny and, boy howdy, have they been upset with Cohen's comic creation.
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