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Entertainment

CelebrityWatch: Al Gore

If you studiously avoided all news coming out of Utah last month, you may have missed the fact that Al Gore has emerged a movie star. An Inc...

Feb 10, 2006
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Film

The Sound Of Movies

To continue on the movie-themed posts, I have always been enthralled by the powerful impact of sound and music in film.  While a studen...

Jan 25, 2006
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Film

If Sundance had a long tail

When it comes to indie films, there’s Sundance, and then there’s channel101. Billing itself as "The Unavoidable Future of E...

Jan 24, 2006
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Entertainment

Your Own Private Sundance

Sundance shorts area available online for the first time, with such gems as “Robin’s First Date” and “Gopher Broke.&...

Jan 24, 2006
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Design

Computer-generated films come of age

MOMA opens an exhibit on Pixar; The Economist surveys the state of CG animation.

Dec 14, 2005
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Business

MemeWatch: Evil Search Engines

Bruno Giussani and John Battelle swap Evil Search Engine Scenarios.

Dec 13, 2005
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Entertainment

The Narnia Wars

Gazillions of words have written this past month about one of my boyhood heroes C S Lewis, in the run-up to the release of The Lion, The Wit...

Dec 6, 2005
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Entertainment

Tuva or Bust

While studying computer music in the late 1980s, one of my classmates brought a tape into CCRMA, Stanford’s Center for Computer Resear...

Dec 4, 2005
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Entertainment

LA Times: Hollywood is losing race with zeitgeist

The era of mass movie-going is over, says the L.A. Times. Hollywood is “in a losing race with the zeitgeist.”

Nov 22, 2005
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