If you like Leo Tolstoy, Helen Mirren or Christopher Plummer, you will love this movie. And even if you don’t like any of them, you will enjoy seeing how flower children first blossomed on Tolstoy’s farm and not a farm in Woodstock. Pre-order The Last Station on Amazon.
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Tags: Christopher Plummer, Film, film review, flower child, Helen Mirren, Leo Tolstoy, The Last Station, Tolstoy, Woodstock
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Inspiring heart-felt film detailing the challenges faced by Temple Grandin, a woman with autism, growing up in the 1970s. I was impressed by the light that was shed on the beef industry, appreciated the humorous dialogue between the characters, and was truly swept away by Danes’s convincing performance. Buy the DVD or Temple Grandin’s...
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Tags: 1970s, autism, beef, Claire Danes, Film, film review, hbo, Temple Grandin
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A plethora of stars in a Shakespearean classic. It’s Hamlet gone dark.
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Tags: BBC, Film, film review, Hamlet, Shakespeare
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*SPOILER ALERT* The Da Vinci Code “Why’s he doing that to himself? Looks painful.” “Well, at least they won’t bother with the sequel.” Angels and Demons *Snoring* Inglourious Basterds “Mmm. They spelled it wrong. I just noticed that.” “Wait, did they just shoot him? Wasn’t that Hitler? I thought that was Hitler.” “When did...
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Tags: 2012, Angels & Demons, Avatar, Da Vinci Code, Inglourious Basterds, NASA, sequel, spoiler, The Crazies, the hurt locker, Wolf Man, Writing
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“Battleship Potemkin… is that the one where Steven Seagal is the Navy SEAL disguised as a cook?”
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Tags: Dear Undergrad, Writing
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1derful Seconds from J.D. Amato on Vimeo. Filmmakers see the world differently than most. It’s their gift. Judging by his work, J.D. Amato‘s world is colorful and tightly edited. It’s surreal and fanciful but based in reality. (Note: Even the cover to his mix-tape is bright!) Give him a small space, limited characters (see:...
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Tags: 1derful Seconds, alarm clock, Big Sky, Birdhouse in Your Soul, Cellular Welkin, Chapter Project, Chilly Down, colorful, craigslist, Danger Don Rogers, David Bowie, Decollage, director, Gum Drops, Hering illusion, Hermann Grid, Hi Hi Hello, Hot Sugar, Illinois, Inverse Video, jd amato, Kevin Bewersdorf, Labyrinth, Les Balayeurs Du Desert, M83, Michael Jackson, mix tape, Nektar, Ninja High School, Oingo Boingo, Optical illusion illusions, post-racial Jackson, Red Doyle, Rick Wakeman, Robot Quest, Shake It Off, short films, Sir Lancelot and the Black Knight, Take This Up in Fisticuffs, That's Life, The Beggar and the Marionette (Loutky), The Face of YouTube, The Kinks, The Shooting Death Of..., They Might Be Giants, Tinted, Tisch, TRS-80, Uncle Monsterface, We Close Our Eyes, What Do You Want From Me Now, Wilmette
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In our world, only two types of people exist: 1) Those who take the “Which Freaks & Geeks Character Are You?” quiz and pray for Bill Haverchuck; and 2) Those who have no idea who Bill Haverchuck is. Needless to say, we prefer to hang out with the first type. We also suggest a...
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Tags: 5 Years Time, Adventureland, Benjamin Gibbard, Bill Haverchuck, Bon Iver, Brenton Wood, Brother Ali, Carolina, Common Rotation, Custom Concern, Doo Right, dreams, Everyday, Flobots, Forest Whitaker, Freaks and Geeks, geeks, Human Highway, Ice Dogs, Ingrid Michaelson, Judd Apatow, Kate Micucci, Knocked Up, Little Brother, Love Love Love, Man Man, Martin Starr, Met, Michael Jackson, Mike Doughty, Modest Mouse, Move On, Noah and the Whale, Novelists, On My Block, Oogum Boogum, Out the Door, Party Down, pipe, Queen Sheba, Russian literature, Scarface, Serge Gainsbourg, Skinny Love, Spoon, Stand Up, The Girl is Mine, The Mountain Goats, The National, The Sound, The Underdog, Treats, Vetiver, With My Trumpet in My Hand, Writing W/ Rifles, You and I, You've Done It Again Virginia
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Like any normal person, I dig through the TED archives when I can’t fall asleep at night. (Readers, you heard it here first: when you don’t have a television in your bedroom, video apps are the next best thing.) Which is how I stumbled upon this inspirational gem circa 5 or 6 in the...
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Tags: 500 Days of Summer, Alain de Botton, Architecture of Happiness, How Proust Can Change Your Life, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, TED, TED Talks
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Upon first glance, it’s hard not to compare Jenny Deller to Al Gore. (Although, let’s face it, Jenny Deller is much better looking.) In Future Weather, Jenny’s first feature film, the main character finds the effects of global warming so terrifying that she sets out to try to stop it. Moreover, like Vice President...
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Tags: competition, daughters, environment, Find Your Voice, Future Weather, global warming, Jenny Deller, maps, Maps & Legends, Michael Chabon, Mothers, Netflix, postcards, Writing
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It was love at first sight when we first heard Jenny Deller, the writer/director of Future Weather, speak at an Ignite Philly event. Out of all of the awesome (literally, all of them) Ignite Philly presentations, the Future Weather team – Jenny Deller and Kristin Fairweather – made this shy girl go up and...
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Tags: Al Gore, composting, EL Konigsburg, environment, Future Weather, Harriet the Spy, IgnitePhilly, Inconvenient Truth, Jenny Deller, young-adult fiction
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