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Raiders of the Lost Ark

question of the day: Who sent the mysterious package to the University of Chicago addressed to Indiana Jones?

Fri, Dec 14, 2012
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Is it some sort of interactive art project or game? Is it a marketing thing? How could someone do something so incredibly full of awesome and then just give it away anonymously?

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question of the day: What is your perfect movie?

Thu, Sep 27, 2012
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And what makes a perfect movie perfect for you?

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question of the day: Who is the “great American filmmaker”?

Fri, Sep 14, 2012
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Steven Spielberg might be my choice…

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question of the day: What visual motif or imagery must you always look away from onscreen?

Tue, Jul 24, 2012
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Blood? Corpses? Bugs? Bones? Guts? Guns? Maybe it’s something other people don’t find particularly disgusting or unwatchable…

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question of the day: What movie(s) do you wish you could forget… just so you could experience them again for the first time?

Thu, Mar 08, 2012
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Just as we’ve all films we wish we’d never seen, so there are films we wish we would could come to fresh and unaware so that we could feel that first sense of discovery again…

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question of the day: What is your favorite iconic still image from filmdom?

Fri, Mar 02, 2012
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Obviously I’m not talking about an image that is actually motionless necessarily, but an image that implies stillness, one that the director lingers on, perhaps to create a sense of the sinister or the suspenseful…

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question of the day: What’s your favorite movie ending?

Tue, Feb 21, 2012
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I might have to go with the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with the ark being packed away into a warehouse, presumably never to be seen again…

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watch it: “Raiding the Lost Ark”

Tue, Feb 14, 2012
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Holy moly, is this an amazing piece of work!

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I am reliably informed…

Thu, Jan 12, 2012
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…that FlickFilosopher.com does not perform well on a keyword seach for big yellow storage.

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)

Wed, Oct 26, 2011
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A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch.

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