Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Cinematic Doppelgangers: Surprising Similarities in Film Stills

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If you are already way over the excitement of Google Similar Images, may we recommend The Inevitable, a 2007 film installation project by New York video artist and programmer Kurt Ralske which used custom software to search through movies, looking for frame-by-frame similarities in shape, and leading to some unexpected matches. The results different films were run across six synchronized video monitors, the stills freezing when they converge at ...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

10 Essential Russian Films

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A box set containing three early works from Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov arrives on Blu-ray (with two films on DVD) today from Cinema Guild. The masterworks include the poetic Whispering Pages (using Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as its main inspiration), the aural Stone, and a surreal retelling of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, 1990's Save and Protect. Sokurov has had a prolific career, admired by everyone from Susan Sontag to Darren ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

The 5 Most Ironic Scenes of Utter Destruction

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Friday, February 22, 2013

If Famous Albums Were Retitled With Brutal Honesty

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

If Holiday Cards Were Allowed to Kick Ass

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

5 Ways High School Really Does Suck (According to Science)

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

4 International Incidents Caused By Drunk Boris Yeltsin

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From 1991 to 1999, Boris Yeltsin was the first democratically elected President of Russia, leading the way for reforms, rekindling relationships with the West ...Reuters via The Age... and generally hitting the hooch harder than Ulysses S. Grant and Ernest Hemingway's reanimated corpses sewn together like some kind of pickled, two-headed Frankenstein's monster. Throughout his presidency, Yeltsin's tippling habit thrilled world leaders in such exotic ...
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