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Devendra Banhart - Carmensita
Yes, that’s the extremely cute Natalie Portman, Devendra Banhart’s girlfriend.  Is that Jon Lovitz in there as well?
This video comes at a strange time for me.  You see, in the past couple of days I’ve watched The Darjeeling Limited and El [...]

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The concert film, URGH! A Music War, is a great little time capsule of the art rock scene in 1980. Punk had flung open the door to the underground and new-wave, post-punk, synth pop, hardcore and no wave, among others, were ready to burst out onto the world.
The film is shot documentary style, but [...]

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I watched Anatomy of a Murder yesterday and I decided to do a write-up here afterwards. While doing a bit of research on the film, I noticed that a fellow named Saul Bass was responsible for the opening titles of the film. Whoever posted the sequence on youtube decided to feature Saul’s name [...]

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It truly is a shame that the silent era of film is increasingly becoming the domain of film students and critics alone. While most people have no doubt heard of Charlie Chaplin and are at least aware that there was a time when films didn’t have sound, the general public seems to have completely [...]

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Ah, that old familiar Star Trek logo. Looks kind of dated now, doesn’t it? Strange.
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How many Saturday nights I must have spent as a kid staying up “late” to watch the new episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I remember the excitement of the very first episode back in [...]

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