the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Apocalypse’
You know what I always look for in an end-of-the-world movie? Sandra Bernhard as the hero…
trailer break: ‘I’m Still Here’
So, Joaquin Phoenix chucks his acting career in favor of one as a rapper. And Casey Affleck is there to document it. Or is it all a fake?
question of the day: What actors will you watch in anything?
I wonder whether the big draw of *The American* was George Clooney. Are there more folks out there who, like me, would watch Clooney in absolutely anything?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: series six filming started today
Production began today on the 2011 episodes of *Doctor Who,* according to Doctor Who News Page…
WWII in HD (review)
The name is a little misleading. These 10 45-minute episodes aren’t just in HD: they’re in color. Hardly anyone even knew most of this footage existed, and it is amazing to see.
watch it: “Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test”
I love the painterly luminosity to the color here, especially to the skin tones. Just beautiful.
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 3
I love coming across color images from the eras when black-and-white photography and film were so dominant. But what about going further back into the past? How does a sudden look at a time that we’ve only ever seen as monochrome change how you think about it?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 2
Isn’t it amazing to see color photos from a time when we hardly ever see such imagery?
color photos of a black-and-white world, part 1
Our ideas about the past have been so shaped by black-and-white imagery that it almost doesn’t seem real when we’re suddenly confronted by rare color pictures from those era.
trailer break: ‘Buried’
That’s the international trailer. It’s a helluva lot more gripping than the domestic one…
