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• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

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• Metafilter Alan Moore's Masks: A Face to Face Alan Moore and David Lloyd designed it 30 years ago. The V for Vendetta mask appropriated by Occupy protesters the world over. The Guardian recently asked Alan what…

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• Link Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion

  Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and…

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• Tumblr iwdrm: “On the other side of the screen, it all looks so...

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• Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe…

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• Link Being Human (Blame it on Andy)

  Being human offers homo sapiens variety, or some elasticity, in social life, though sociologists claim that people’s personalities disappear with no one else around. Imagining this evacuation, I see a…

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• Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Tumblr Mr. Bottin, you have deserved your drink

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• Link On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Wikipedia Experiments in the Revival of Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a 1940 motion picture which documents Soviet research into the resuscitation of clinically dead organisms. It is available from the Prelinger…

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• Link Are Artists Liars?

  Shortly before his death, Marlon Brando was working on a series of instructional videos about acting, to be called “Lying for a Living”. On the surviving footage, Brando can be…

  June 2 2011, 3:55am | Comments

• Link Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Link Gif art without the glitch

  I admit it. I'm a junkie for animated gifs. The animated gif has a deservedly mixed reputation. It's a vestige of the early web, a grainy reminder of badly animated…

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• Link Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If,…

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• Link F/X PORN: David Foster Wallace

  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who…

  January 18 2011, 4:57am | Comments

• Tumblr Shooting the MGM lion, 1924

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