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The Mouse Goes Green
“In a bid to cash in on the appetite for so-called green entertainment, Walt Disney Co. launched Disneynature, a new film label that will focus on live-action documentary films starring the Earth and...
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Bullitt Chase Geocoded
For the notably nostalgic, witness the truth behind SF’s most famous/geographically fanciful chase scene ever, as Steve McQueen’s ’68 Mustang route is juxtaposed against a “map”. Beginning in Potrero,...
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The Balcony is Closed
Roger Ebert fondly looks back at the end of the long-running ‘At the Movies’ show. One thing we never did, apart from an occasional special show, was depart from the format: Two critics debating the...
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Beautiful Movie Posters
Smashing Magazine has culled different decades of movie history to showcase this wonderful collection of movie posters. Fifty beautiful movie posters.[thnx designobserver] Posted in Art &...
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Hand-Drawn Animation Lives
In The Age Of Pixar, it is thrilling to report that Hand-Drawn Animation Hangs On. A hardy group of artists is keeping up the laborious old technique of animation using pencil drawings, creating...
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Nobody’s Fool
Lee Tracy in 1940, photographed by George Hurrell Lee Tracy 1898 – 1968 Actor, unapologetic bad boy, notorious drunk, tax evader, resolute bachelor, academy award nominee, (The Best Man) and...
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The Poetry of Crime
Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies” is a ravishing dream of violent gangster life in the thirties— not a tough, funny, and, finally, tragic dream like “Bonnie and Clyde” but a flowing, velvety fantasia...
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Overheard
Leslie Howard, in the Studio, 1934. Photo: Edward Steichen Leslie Howard (1893 – 1943) diffident Hollywood actor, author, director, producer, sympathizer for the Allied war effort in World War II....
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