Screening Tampa

Now at re/creating tampa

2009-04-07T02:46:49Z

It turns out I don’t really have the time to maintain multiple pages, so I’m combining everything into re/creating tampa. See you there!

Khoda

2009-02-22T18:21:52Z

It took two years and 6,000 paintings to make this animated short.

Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi on Vimeo.

Find out more about Khoda and the artist Reza Dolatabadi here.

Congratulations to Mike Myers – Razzie winner 2009

2009-02-22T16:56:55Z

The winners of the Golden Raspberry Awards have been announced. This year’s big winner for craptasticness is Mike Myers and his big steaming pile – The Love Guru.

Paris Hilton won both worst actress for her performance in The Hottie & the Nottie, and worst supporting actress for her role in Repo! The Genetic Opera.

Gasparilla International Film Festival

2009-02-22T15:40:06Z

Don’t forget, the Gasparilla International Film Festival is only four days away, Feb. 26-March 7.

Here is the schedule.

Here are some videos to whet your appetite.

This year’s festival has already sold out it’s opening night reception and is expecting 10,000 people to attend.

Guard Dog by Bill Plympton

2009-02-20T17:05:03Z

Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips

“Bill Plympton’s Oscar-nominated short leads us into the twisted mind of an overprotective bulldog. Though released in 2004, this cartoon has never been online in full before, so this is a rare treat for online audiences and fans of great short films.”

Spaced

2009-02-20T03:39:06Z

Spaced is great. Modern day London bohemians (or, I now pronounce, the LoBo’s) hang out, stay minimally employeed, and pursue odd whimsy’s. Directed by the director of Shaun of the Dead, and co-starring Simon Pegg.

You can watch episode one here at YouTube. Embedding has been disabled.

Canadian Films Online

2009-01-31T14:55:25Z

The National Film Board of Canada has put all of the material it’s funded online. Don’t let the fact that these are “foreign” film scare you away. There’s a lot of awesome stuff here. I’m particularly fond of the short animation collection.

The Big Snit (1985)

Dying in Obscurity

2009-01-31T14:30:22Z

Neatorama has Five A-Listers Who Died in Obscurity.

Theda Bara

“Back in the silent movie era, Theda Bara was one of the biggest stars there was. She was kind of the Cher of her day, as far as fashion went – she wore extremely risque stuff that hardly covered anything. Some of it is eye-popping even by today’s standards. But by the ’20s, Theda was on her way out. She was sick of being typecast as the vamp character, but couldn’t really get any work otherwise. She couldn’t find a publisher to sell her memoirs to; she sold her life story to Columbia Pictures but they never made it. In 1954, she was diagnosed with cancer and died the next year, pretty much forgotten by the industry. Sadly, most of her work is lost to the ages – a 1937 fire at some Fox storage vaults in New Jersey destroyed all but three of her films, and even then, sometimes only seconds of the film have been saved.”

Top 10 Movie Presidents

2009-04-07T02:08:27Z

Movie Moron has their list of top ten movie presidents.

But, no Lincoln.

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D. W. Griffith’s stiff and dated 1930 Abraham Lincoln with Walter Huston in the eponymous role.

Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009

2009-04-07T02:11:38Z

“Where am I?”

“In the Village.”

“What do you want?”

“Information.”

“Whose side are you on?”

“That would be telling…. We want information. Information! INFORMATION!”

“You won’t get it.”

“By hook or by crook, we will.”

“Who are you?”

“The new Number Two.”

“Who is Number One?”

“You are Number Six.”

“I am not a number — I am a free man!”

(Laughter)

I just watched the whole Prisoner series again a couple of years ago. Truly a trailblazing effort.

UPDATE: This quote from Zack Handlen’s obit at the AV Club aptly sums up why I love The Prisoner so much.

“At its heart, The Prisoner is about the ways in which society seeks to crush and compromise the individual, to force people into blind acceptance so that the trains run on time, the clocks are always set, and faces are forever smiling. Out of all his movie and TV work, it’s here that McGoohan’s fury finds its true purpose. His is the passion of anyone who’s ever been told to fit in, to quiet down, to agree more, to listen less, to know one’s place, to never question it. For once, we aren’t the target of his anger, we share it. For all the outcasts, here is someone who wouldn’t compromise how nicely he was asked to.”