Articles Tagged with #hollywood
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Have the Monks Stopped Meditating?
Trailer for the new Werner Herzog documentary about the internet, Lo And Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, in which monks are found to tweet.
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A Geographical Theory of Westeros
The world of Game of Thrones is heavily based on historical events. Is the geography itself a modified take on the British Isles?
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Bruce Lee Tutorial in Quickness
How to move your hands very fast, from a bonus clip from I Am Bruce Lee, the 2012 documentary about the legendary martial arts master.
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Dead Ahead
As the landscape unfolds, an unlucky driver keeps arriving in horror movie scenes.
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Holorama
Jeff Desom creates dioramas of famous movie scenes, then populates them with holograms from the films.
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At the Movies
This Was No Accident
Forty years after Jaws, why the very first blockbuster should be considered art—and how it helped one man to survive.
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Idiot Box
Brush With Greatness
The TV trope where one character sees another character naked allows audiences to be pervy without taking responsibility. Only The Simpsons gets it right.
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Law & Order
Hit Job
An unusual DEA raid on one of LA’s most reputable medical marijuana dispensaries reveals the bewildering conflict between state and federal drug laws.
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Novelists in Restaurants Eating Food
Union Square Sports Bar
An adventure of food and drink in San Francisco naturally expands to include Ornette Coleman, Mexican wedding cookies, and a pet monkey admiring the ocean.
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Mad Women
My Date With Don Draper
The TV series Mad Men is set to begin its final season. Finally we’ll know how many women—and how much Proust—it takes to make Don Draper happy.
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Dispatches
The Accidental Actor
Stumbling onto a movie set in Los Angeles—and then staying there for as long as humanly possible—offers lessons in acting and reality.