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Lorenzo Semple, 84, has been a screenwriter for more than 50 years; his credits include "Papillion," "The Parallax View" and "Three Days of the Condor." Marcia Nasatir, 81, is a longtime agent and production executive, was the first female VP of production at United Artists, and produced films like "The Big Chill" and "Hamburger Hill." Together, they are the "
Reel Geezers," offering irresistible film reviews on YouTube. To wit:
Superbad,
Iron Man,
Sex and the City,
Lars and the Real Girl,
No Country for Old Men,
There Will Be Blood.
posted to MetaFilter by jbickers
at 3:35 AM on June 11, 2008
(27 comments)
The video of German electrofunkmeister Michael Fakesch's
On the Floor (via Daily Motion) might make getting to sleep difficult.
But it's awesome, and the guy sounds like a younger, angrier Prince.
posted to MetaFilter by bwg
at 6:10 AM on May 5, 2008
(9 comments)
Dear God
is a global project for people around the world to share their innermost hopes - and fears - through prayer. Some photos NSFW.
posted to MetaFilter by ColdChef
at 9:25 PM on April 13, 2008
(39 comments)
Book recommendations for introductions to feminist thinking.
posted to Ask Metafilter by thatwhichfalls
at 3:23 AM on March 10, 2008
(22 comments)
How much would it cost to translate a large, highly technical computer book into Farsi (Persian)? What method would be best to accomplish this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by thewalrus
at 11:08 PM on March 8, 2008
(7 comments)
"
SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide." There is also a
Windows version. Or check out the
camera feeds without installing a screensaver (
here are the feeds from Axis network cameras, for example).
[Via.]
posted to MetaFilter by milquetoast
at 9:49 AM on February 23, 2008
(31 comments)
Word Into Image: Writers on Screenwriting {youtube}William Goldman (
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) (
1 2 3)
Robert Towne (
Chinatown) (
1 2 3)
Carl Foreman (
High Noon) (
1 2 3)
Neil Simon (
The Odd Couple) (
1 2 3)
Paul Mazursky (
An Unmarried Woman) (
1 2 3)
Eleanor Perry (
The Swimmer) (
1 2 3)
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs
at 7:48 AM on February 22, 2008
(9 comments)
I really enjoyed
this NYT article on sound design in No Country For Old Men. Does anyone have any links/references to any similar articles about sound design in other films, past or present? Ideally they'd be a little longer and more detailed than the NYT piece, but I'd rather not read a book on this (unless it's brilliant!)
posted to Ask Metafilter by caek
at 4:47 AM on February 20, 2008
(10 comments)
"Trotsky lived on after Stalin, and to some extent is still alive today, not because young people want the world he wanted: a phantasm that not even he could define. What they want is
to be him."
posted to MetaFilter by Firas
at 8:21 PM on November 11, 2007
(75 comments)
Jason's incredible day
is the most moving blog entry I've read this year, if not ever. It's going in my bookmarks under "amazing stories that can move me to tears."
posted to MetaFilter by mathowie
at 9:12 PM on April 12, 2001
(20 comments)
Can you recommend books, movies, or essays with good portrayals of friendships or people's social circles?
posted to Ask Metafilter by salvia
at 9:01 PM on January 27, 2008
(30 comments)
The South: from King of the Hill to Real Life™ and beyond. Help me sort out some questions I have on the nature of the South!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Lockeownzj00
at 5:25 PM on January 1, 2008
(46 comments)
How can I keep up with television spread memes without watching (much) tv?
posted to Ask Metafilter by yohko
at 1:47 PM on October 24, 2007
(18 comments)
What are some good resources to call upon for developing a structured approach to viewing films in following a personal interest in film studies?
posted to Ask Metafilter by troybob
at 10:06 AM on June 18, 2005
(13 comments)
Who's written fiction within the last 5-10 years, that deals realistically with the experience of American people under 40?
posted to Ask Metafilter by toomuchkatherine
at 3:04 PM on December 14, 2007
(26 comments)
How do I start a magazine?
posted to Ask Metafilter by divabat
at 1:01 AM on August 8, 2007
(12 comments)
One Last Nazi Cumshot for the Road or
Kissing Kate Winslet.
there's more.
posted to MetaFilter by geos
at 1:05 PM on June 6, 2007
(35 comments)
Some people seem to hold different expectations of me than they do of others. I used to think it was in my imagination, but lately a few of my friends confirmed that they've noticed it too. How can I make this stop? I need to be allowed to be human. Just because I'm a strong woman, doesn't mean I want to always HAVE to be.
posted to Ask Metafilter by miss lynnster
at 10:36 PM on May 14, 2007
(58 comments)
One dark and stormy Sunday morning, I heard a gospel song about a woman in the Lockerbie plane crash on the radio...
posted to Ask Metafilter by RandlePatrickMcMurphy
at 12:36 PM on April 24, 2007
(6 comments)
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? (pdf)
We assemble a dataset on technology adoption in 1000 BC, 0 AD, and 1500 AD for the predecessors to today’s nation states. We find that this very old history of technology adoption is surprisingly significant for today’s national development outcomes. Although our strongest results are for 1500 A.D., we find that even technology as old as 1000 BC matters in some plausible specifications. (
via)
posted to MetaFilter by Kwantsar
at 10:57 PM on February 26, 2007
(53 comments)
Sometimes AskMe takes you in a surprising direction, and
this thread is one of those times: a college student asks if he should take advantage of a contraband answer key to check his graded homework, and the community is nearly unanimous in its ethical condemnation of the practice. That is, until a
philosophy professor and professional ethicist
answers to the contrary. Probably not sidebar-worthy, but a neat example of how an issue that seems at first to be black-and-white bleeds a little gray once the experts join the fray.
posted to MetaTalk by Saucy Intruder
at 12:32 PM on September 25, 2006
(39 comments)
What is the History of English Language Capitalization?
posted to Ask Metafilter by freebird
at 9:41 AM on December 27, 2005
(35 comments)
Physics for Future Presidents
is a class taught at UC Berkeley by Physics professor Richard Muller. It's a class specifically for non-physics majors and teaches the real world results of the sometimes impenetrable math involved in university physics.
After every lecture, you should come away with the feeling that what was just covered is important for every world leader to know. I just sat through the entire hour and 13 minute
nukes lecture and was riveted.
posted to MetaFilter by quite unimportant
at 6:06 PM on November 7, 2006
(26 comments)
Does anyone recall a post about an odd, violent mythology that had supposedly sprouted up amongst under-privilaged latino children in florida? The mythology involved angels and demons and how they affected gang violence and the like. I believe it was posted two years or so ago but I can't find it for the life of me.
posted to MetaTalk by es_de_bah
at 5:46 PM on November 1, 2006
(35 comments)
Audio Comedy; looking for new comics I may not have heard of and some downloadable comedy on the web (along the lines of Hicks, Sadowitz, Lee and Herring et al). As always,
posted to Ask Metafilter by Gratishades
at 3:37 AM on September 20, 2006
(17 comments)
This song is called mathowie's community blog, and it's about mathowie, and the community blog, but mathowie's community blog is not the name of the community blog, that's just the name of the song.
-
lyrical brilliance by It's Raining Florence Henderson, with extra bits of artistic license taken in the studio.
- Arlo-esque lead vocals by
French Fry, aka Alex Millard, aka my brother.
posted to MeFi Music by cortex
at 10:40 PM on September 3, 2006
(83 comments)
I have a multi-pronged question about the soup-to-nuts process of movies getting onto cable television and actors getting their residual checks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by blueberry
at 5:51 PM on April 20, 2006
(3 comments)
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