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If Filmmakers Directed The Super Bowl (SlateV).

This is massively fantastic. And just perfect pairings:

Tarantino: A whole bunch of Super Bowls, with focus not on plot but on violence.

David Lynch: Giants-Pats (too bizarre for actual words and images).

Wes Anderson: Steelers-Cardinals (sentimental).

Jean-Luc Godard: Super Bowl I, Packers-Chiefs (unabashed love the extreme end of American culture).

Werner Herzog: Bears-Pats (most ferocious walloping, football red in tooth and claw).

UPDATE: my further suggestions:

Steven Spielberg: Jets-Colts (1969)

Alfred Hitchcock: Cowboys-Bills I (1993)

Spike Lee: Ravens-Giants (2000)

Judd Apatow: Redskins-Dolphins (1983)

its difficult to say which segment is most brilliant, but it must go to werner’s unedited reapplied talk about a different sort of bear.

The Race to Save Film Classics

garagestudio:

Martin Scorsese is not just the most avid cinephile, but also a passionate film preservationist. Three years ago Scorsese started the World Cinema Foundation to rescue neglected films from various corners of the world. And a year ago The Auteurs was bestowed with the honor of being a distribution partner for the foundation and offers four of the restored films for free in an online cinema. This growing interest and urgency in saving film has recently been covered by CNN.com’s The Screening Room in their article “Scorsese and friends race to save film classics from destruction”:

“Film preservation is always an uphill battle. There’s never enough time,” Scorsese said at Cannes last year.

“One has to think of history in the past 3,000 years, how much literature was lost. So, whatever we can do now, we’re going to save something.”

On a Scorsese related note be sure to check out our Martin Scorsese Mini-Retrospective: Music & Redemption.

unhappyhipsters:

Everyone always leaves.

(Dwell, April 2009)

verymarykate1:

Episode 2. Moving day. I designed all the jewelry in this.

bahgle line i love very much. also check out episode 3.

after a weekend of drunken angel, high and low, hidden fortress, i’m a bit in awe of toshiro mifune. and maybe a bit enamored.

buthowwillsheknow:

Boerum Place and Atlantic Avenue, Traffic

ah, memories. red brick wall is not nearly as fascinating, let me tell you.

final scene of pygmalion (1938) with leslie howard as higgins and wendy hillier as eliza. howard always annoyed me as sad-eyed ashley wilkes - i mean, who would ever chose him instead of rhett, please. but as higgins, i just love him…the character was always made so much less appealing to me because of rex harrison’s performance. with howard, i realize the difficulty of not wanting to give into the higgins more when watching mr howard here - if i were transformed eliza i would never leave 10 wimpole street - freddy sucks anyway. i love the expression on his face when she comes back in at the very end. love it.

missingmuffine:

Dushi - today and tomorrow

azizisbored:

The CW’s ‘OMG Moment of the Year’ from One Tree Hill

I can’t recommend enough that you take 30 seconds and watch this. This is maybe the hardest I laughed since I saw the end of the midriff episode of Curb.

i continue to love this.