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From their site:
UbuWeb: The YouTube of the Avant-Garde: UbuWeb has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film & video holdings to on-demand streaming formats à la YouTube, which means that you can view everything right in your browser without platform-specific software or insanely huge downloads. We offer over 300 films & videos from artists [...]
Over the last month or so I have been scouring the [[Internet Archive]] for pubic domain films. Below are 31 of the 38 movies I bookmarked in del.icio.us that are currently available at Internet Archive (del.icio.us seems to be balking the feed after 31 entries for some reason). To see all 38 go here. The [...]
In the early 90s (probably 1993), I went to the Directors Guild of America to see a [[Peter Sellers]] retrospective. I was not a huge Sellers fan at that point. I had seen him a couple of times on the Muppet Show, and mainly associated him with the [[Pink Panther]] series. It was [...]
I just finished an IM chat with Shannon, the Web 2.0 poster student who has been nothing short of mind blowing as I trace the connections she is making with these tools in all sorts of mediums, realms, and spaces. As much as I need to go to bed, I will not until I [...]
Screenshot from the screwball comedy His Girl Friday, a film which is freely available though the Internet Archive
I watched [[His Girl Friday]] for the first time this evening and it was quite impressive -I am still recovering from the barrage of piercing dialogue shot at me, as if with a machine gun, for over an [...]
This post started out as a comment on my favorite blog these days, The Tattered Coat. Matt, the proprietor of said blog, has one of the most intelligent, entertaining, and interactive blogs going. After a long hiatus to finish his dissertation, Tattered Matt is back at it and as good as ever. Lately he [...]
Living in a small city with little, if nothing, happening has some untold benefits. Especially when you have access to an eclectic film library at your workplace. So, in an attempt to start chronciling one of my passions, I offer up the following list of films I have seen over the past week:
[[Planet of [...]
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