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“Man in a Blizzard,” by Jamie Stuart
This film deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. (1) Because of its wonderful quality. (2) Because of its role as homage. It is directly inspired by Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic “Man With a Movie Camera.” (3) Because it represents an almost unbelievable technical proficiency. It was filmed...
Even sleep can't offer me a reprieve
Recently I’ve been dreaming with the women of my life. Or more accurately, having dreams of conversations with the women of my life. Those I’ve met once and shared a moment with, childhood friends who are no longer in touch, lost loves, and those I’m closest to right now. Usually the conversations start off pretty well as we recall our best moment(s) together. Things only take a...
Even sleep can't offer me a reprieve
Recently I’ve been dreaming with the women of my life. Or more accurately, having dreams of conversations with the women of my life. Those I’ve met once and shared a moment with, childhood friends who are no longer in touch, lost loves, and those I’m closest to right now. Usually the conversations start off pretty well as we recall our best moment(s) together. Things only take a...
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“Man in a Blizzard,” by Jamie Stuart
This film deserves to win the Academy Award for best live-action short subject. (1) Because of its wonderful quality. (2) Because of its role as homage. It is directly inspired by Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent classic “Man With a Movie Camera.” (3) Because it represents an almost unbelievable technical proficiency. It was filmed...
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“When I met Jorge, one of the first things he said was, ‘I donʼt make music videos…I make films.’ And that essentially became my maxim from that point forward,” - Director Kahlil Joseph
Here Joseph talks to NOWNESS about the creative influences that were formative to the project.
Oshun (The Model) who appears in Jorge’s character’s dreams: “Using Oshun...
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Jon Stewart's Advocacy Role in 9/11 First... →
…Though the scale of the impact of Mr. Stewart’s telecast on public policy may not measure up to the roles that Mr. Murrow and Mr. Cronkite played, Mr. Thompson said, the comparison is legitimate because the law almost surely would not have moved forward without him. “He so pithily articulated the argument that once it was made, it was really hard to do anything...
Stream The Fall, the new iPad written, recorded and produced album from the Gorillaz
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via annafelicia:
… luckily for me, I’m a bit smarter than I am emotionally damaged.
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"We are at a party that doesn't love us."
ahuntersheart:
I am haunted by the truth of this.
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Time Doesn’t Stand Still trailer via NOWNESS
“There’s a universal language that we were trying to explore,” explains director Asa Mader of the spare French dialogue and intimate choreographed gestures. Choreographer Benjamin Millepied here plays opposite French actress Léa Seydoux in a series of vignettes that serve as a window on their characters’ courtship. The pair’s...
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He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the...
– A Great Deliverance, Elizabeth George (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Happy Birthday to my father, wherever the spirits...
A sinister kid is a kid who Runs to meet his Maker A drop dead sprint from the day he’s born Straight into his Maker’s arms And that’s me, that’s me The boy with the broken halo That’s me, that’s me The devil won’t let me be
- Black Keys, “Sinister Kid”
As much as I keep trying to justify living as my father did for most of...
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