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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Review: Bold and Brash

May 16th, 2024

Review by Jason Gorber.There will be plenty of hyperbole flung about in celebration of this film with the joy and abandon of an ape playfully lobbing his poop at an appreciative audience.Yet like the scatological simian show at your local zoo, there may be those that fixate on the repellent parts of the display, annoyed perhaps by the fact, they may claim, that this latest Apes film feels like a previously enjoyed meal - something familiar, sure, but no longer sustaining after passing through...

Doctor Who - The Mythmakers 1965

February 13th, 2023

In late 1965 Doctor Who featured a four part story about the end of the Trojan War. All four episodes are lost, though the audio track survives intact, along with a selection of photos and video snippets. In spite of that The myth makers, by Donald Cotton, is widely regarded as a highlight of Doctor Who’s early years. My aim here is to highlight how it plays on prior models. One target is Homer, of course, but it also plays on the 1956 Hollywood epic Helen of Troy starring Rossana Podestà,...

Tomas Vu: The Man Who Fell to Earth 76 22

June 4th, 2022

The Boiler in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opened during the pandemic in 2020 as an extension of the ELM Foundation’s programming, and invites contemporary artists to create installations and exhibitions in its space, previously run by Pierogi Gallery from 2009–2015. The current show, The Man Who Fell to Earth 76|22, by artist Tomas Vu, is his first solo show in New York since 2008. The raw industrial space exudes an extraterrestrial feeling, perfect for a show whose title recalls David Bowie’s cen...

The Bob Dylan connection in ‘The Big Lebowski’

May 24th, 2022

As the City of Angels rises out of the desert and pans into view during the opening sequence of the Coen brothers’ masterpiece The Big Lebowski, we hear a conversational ode of sorts to ‘The Dude’. Within that opening stanza, in tones incongruous with the gaudy glow of the desert metropolis, Sam Elliot’s timeless timbre drawls out the following: "Sometimes there’s a man, well, he’s the man for his time and place, he fits right in there."  Throughout their career the oddball brothers of ...

Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s

April 16th, 2022

Home Lists 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s 7 Cheesy But Endearing Sci-Fi Movies From The 1960s By Kristy Ambrose Published 1 day ago     Good practical effects tend to age much better than bad CGI, as evidenced by these cheesy yet endearing sci-fi movies from the swinging sixties. The 1960s was an interesting time in the world of movies. Special effects were starting to advance, with creative ...

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Filippo Fimiani, Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques - PhilPapers

April 14th, 2022

Just a Mess. Définitions Analogies Dialectiques Filippo Fimiani Parigi, Francia: Mimesis (2021) Authors Filippo Fimiani Università degli Studi di Salerno Abstract The paper leans on a movie cult from the 1960s, Blow-Up (1966) by Michelangelo Antonioni, of which a famous sequence is often mentioned, the one in which the protagonist, the photographer Thomas (considered here as a "conceptual character"), repeatedly enlarged the photographs he made in a park, in order ...

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Julian Barnes: Flaubert at Two Hundred

December 8th, 2021

Beginnings In the early 1960s my maternal grandparents were living in what estate agents call a chalet bungalow on the outskirts of Beaconsfield. The house was a new build in a sloping half-acre of woodland. My highly practical grandfather cleared an area of trees halfway down the slope, laid a concrete base and built a summer house, which he painted light blue. I can’t remember any furniture except for some kind of daybed, on which Grandma would take a siesta in the summer. A musty smel...

CubeSat becomes first craft to fly with ESA's standardized "space brain"

August 2nd, 2021

ESA has flown a CubeSat with the agency's standardized "brain" that will be used on all future European space missions. On June 26, the OPS-SAT space lab went into Earth orbit with a computer running the European Ground System – Common Core (EGS-CC) software that will be common to all European space missions from 2025. In the early days of the 1960s, each spacecraft, unless it was part of a series with a high failure rate, was essentially a one-off. This meant that space engine...

Experimental Cinema of Neelon Crawford

June 23rd, 2021

Working primarily with a hand-wound 16mm Bolex, Neelon Crawford made a series of experimental films from 1968 through 1980. Shot in the US, the United Kingdom, and South America, the films explored light and movement in a variety of landscapes. Crawford manipulated the image through film stocks, filters, frame rates, double- and triple-exposures, animation, editing, and printing, at times adding soundtracks to imagery that ranged from observational to abstract.Crawford’s films were featured i...

Smoking Banana Peels to Get High Was Briefly a Thing

June 21st, 2021

In the 1960s, many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood them as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources, or the "aboveground press": network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines. The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthful unrest, but with certain assumptions, especially that violent protest was never justifiable but the Vietnam War was. (This would change somewhat after 1968.) At the same time, these outlets ...

Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s (person) by ravy - Everything2.com

July 10th, 2020

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s (person) See all of Celebrity Deaths in the 1960s, no other writeups in this node. (person) by ravy Fri Mar 28 2003 at 1:16:48 Unusual, unnatural or untimely deaths of random celebrities between 1960 and 1969. Homicides, suicides, overdoses, accidents and any sort of death before the (arbitrarily chosen) age of 50. The focus is on actors, directors and other movie-related people, although singers, musi...