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Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy
Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments
Link Content For Users on the Move
What is a book, really? For that matter, what is an article, a record, or a movie? For each of these, I have a very clear picture in my mind…

July 13 2011, 2:35am | Comments
Tumblr Mr. Bottin, you have deserved your drink

June 25 2011, 5:15am | 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 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
Link Kubrick on 2001
You begin with an artifact left on earth four million years ago by extraterrestrial explorers who observed the behavior of the man-apes of the time and decided to influence their…

November 19 2010, 3:29am | Comments
Link Ten movies that never should have been made—and…
Late last year, a lavish and limited-edition volume was published to honor a masterpiece that never was and never will be: Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon. At 2,974 pages and 23.8 pounds,…

June 28 2010, 2:05am | Comments
Link 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished
Thousands of movies are made every year, and have been almost all the way back to when we first figured out how to make them. We love the theater experience…

June 10 2010, 9:07am | Comments
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May 3 2010, 9:42am | Comments
Link Avatar and the Flight from Reality
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s…

March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

February 21 2010, 10:25pm | Comments
Flickr Tron Mosh

February 10 2010, 1:38pm | Comments
Tumblr Tron Mosh

February 10 2010, 1:38pm | Comments
Link When Will White People Stop Making Movies Like…
Critics have called alien epic Avatar a version of Dances With Wolves because it's about a white guy going native and becoming a great leader. But Avatar is just the…

December 23 2009, 3:24am | Comments
Link Monsters and the Moral Imagination
Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release…

October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments
Link 'Back to the Futures' Finally Compared
In the years between Back to the Future and Back to the Future II, Michael J. Fox visibly aged and the actress playing his girlfriend was replaced by Elizabeth Shue.…

July 27 2009, 6:10pm | Comments
Link three frames
Three frames is all you need

June 29 2009, 5:01pm | Comments

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