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• The 15 Best Documentaries Of 2013 | The Playlist
• Abel Ferrara Talks The Return Of 'Ms. 45,' Courting Controversy, His Upcoming Film About Pier Paolo Pasolini & More | The Playlist
• Google Chromecast Packs on 10 More Content Partners, Including Vevo | Variety
• ‘Her’: Spike Jonze Brings His Singular Vision to the Year’s Most Offbeat Romance | Variety
• ‘Pi’ Star Sean Gullette Talks About Making ‘Traitors’ in Morocco and His Sophomore Project | Variety
• Warner Takes Netflix-Style Service for Old Movies to iPads | Variety
• Quentin Tarantino: Hero of the Homevideo Business | Variety
• Disney celebrates longtime animation legends at 90 year anniversary | Variety
• ‘The Hobbit’: Harvey Weinstein Sues Over Profits | Variety
• VOD Service Distrify Partners with Tank Top Movies – The Hollywood Reporter
• Option+Click Everything: 15 OS X Tricks Enabled with the Option Key
• The Best Way to Wrap Your MacBook's Power Cord
• Here's Carl Sagan's original essay on the dangers of climate change
• remedios-varo.kinja.com
• Meet the new ape army from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• Google brings its desktop-style Chrome Apps to the Mac | The Verge
• Watch this: 2013's most popular movies in 7 minutes | The Verge
• Discover The Meaning of Acronyms with Acronymph for iPhone – MacStories
• 5 Things You Should Know: Hoop Dreams Revived for the 2014 Festival | Sundance Institute
• 2014 Sundance Film Festival Announces 20th Anniversary of Hoop Dreams as ‘From the Collection’ Screening | Sundance Institute
• The Melville Variations in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo
• Ozu's Room in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo
• NEW IMAGE COMICS SERIES SOVEREIGNGods, demons,…
• Cartoon Brew Gift Guide 2013 | Cartoon Brew
• The 100 Best Movie Scenes of 2013 – Film.com
• ‘Godzilla’ Japanese Trailer: Give Ken Watanabe a Close-Up | /Film
• Spike Lee's Other Poster Design Bamboozle: Saul Bass – Print Magazine
• The MTA Writes Late Passes For People When Trains Are Delayed
• This Coffeehouse Will Charge You Less If You're Nice, More If You're Not
• New Stills From Lars von Trier’s ‘Nymphomaniac’ Titillate With Visions of Sex and Power – Flavorwire
• Is There a Chance the New ‘Godzilla’ Won’t Be Terrible? – Flavorwire
• You Think It’s Cold Out? NASA Just Found the New Coldest Place on Earth | Smart News
• Angry Nerd: Will The Hobbit Get Smaug Right? | Underwire | Wired.com
• Pink praying mantis disguises itself as a flower – Boing Boing
• Dangerous Minds | Jean-Luc Godard shoots The Rolling Stones in the studio working up ‘Sympathy for the Devil,’ 1968
• Crafts: Game Of Thrones House Sigil Paper Snowflakes | Geekologie
• A Celebration of Mexico: A Revolutionary Film | Library of Congress Blog
• Adam Driver: Boy On Top – NOWNESS
• The 20 Coolest Illustrations from Star Wars Fanzines – Topless Robot – Nerd news, humor and self-loathing.
• Ingmar Bergman Names The Eleven Films He Liked Above All Others (1994) | Open Culture
• Great New Archive Lets You Hear the Sounds of New York City During the Roaring 20s | Open Culture
• How to Deal with a Job You Don’t Like | The Art of Manliness
• Ernst Lubitsch acts in and directs the slapstick silent comedy, SHOE PALACE PINKUS (1916) | The Seventh Art: A Video Magazine About Cinema
• Analysts: Profit Still in Physical Media … For Now | Home Media Magazine
• NPD: Blu-ray Disc Player Sales Up 3% on Black Friday | Home Media Magazine
• WINGS (1927) (Masters of Cinema) Clip – YouTube
• Liv and Ingmar Is an Anecdotal Treasure Chest for Cinephiles – Page 1 – Movies – New York – Village Voice
• 13 Animated Shorts to Make a Splash at Sundance | Animation Magazine
• Make 46 Meals for Under $100 in 4 Hours
• Upcoming Olive Films Releases

The links I found interesting today, while browsing the web:

• ‘La Dolce Vita’: The Sour Cherry On Top of an Amazing Year For Movies
• Atrocity, Art, And Miyazaki's THE WIND RISES | Twitch
• Martin Scorsese suggests possible retirement from directing | Film | theguardian.com
• www.latimes.com
• Richard Brody's Best of 2013 Will Delight Cinephiles. His Worst-of Will Enrage Them. | Criticwire
• The Ten Best Shots of the Year | Keyframe – Explore the world of film.
• David Thomson's Top 5 Moments that Made the Movies in 2013 | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire
• Terry Gilliam on Why 'The Zero Theorem' is the Most 'Extreme' Film He's Made and Where He's at With 'Don Quixote' | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire
• www.latimes.com
• Walt Disney Animation Studios turns 90 in colorful fashion – latimes.com
• New York City Launches Nation's Largest Free Public Wi-Fi Network
• Comparing Marvel’s remastered ‘Miracleman’ to Eclipse original | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
• The Best Comic Book Cover Artists of 2013: Part Three
• Castro — High Fidelity Podcasts on the App Store on iTunes
• 59. The Night Porter | CRITERION AFFECTION
• carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com
• Touki bouki: Mambéty and Modernity – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• Grey Gardens: Staunch Characters – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• GKIDS Celebrates 5-Year Anniversary with NYC Retrospective | Cartoon Brew
• Four-part 'Rosemary's Baby' miniseries is coming to NBC | The Verge
• Make Your Own Cardboard Christmas Tree | GeekDad
• The Angels' Share (2012) – from instantwatcher.com
• Paradise: Faith (2012) – from instantwatcher.com
• Sightseers (2012) – from instantwatcher.com
• Futurama: Season 10 (2013) – from instantwatcher.com
• Berberian Sound Studio (2012) – from instantwatcher.com
• GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies… (2012) – from instantwatcher.com
• The 13 Best Science and Technology Books of 2013 | Brain Pickings
• Ralph Bakshi’s “Christmas in Tattertown”: 25 Years Later | Cartoon Brew
• Hollywood Classics inks Miramax deal | News | Screen
• The 7 Best Uses for Tumblr
• Netflix U.S. broadband speeds well behind many other countries | BGR
• ’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘Her,’ ‘Gravity’ Get Online Film Critics Society Noms | Variety
• Criterion Corner: Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Takes Cinephiles to Parts Unknown – Film.com
• Director Offers No Eulogies for ‘The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford’ – Film.com
• Cage aux Folles director Édouard Molinaro dies | Film | theguardian.com
• Cinema Paradiso: the little movie that could | Film | theguardian.com
• From Smaug to the Clangers: a brief history of dragons | Film | The Guardian
• The 10 best films of 2013, No 9 – I Wish | Film | theguardian.com
• Nordling Recaps BNAT 15! – Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
• Looking Back: Vittorio De Sica's 'Terminal Station' | Movie Mezzanine
• The year in documentaries: 2013 was about playing with form / The Dissolve
• The year in animation: 2013 shows a maturing field with a long way to go / The Dissolve
• The sentimental, cynical, undying charm of A Christmas Story / The Dissolve
• General Della Rovere / The Dissolve
• The Best Movies of 2013: Richard Brody : The New Yorker
• THE WIND RISES AND CINEMATIC MORALISM | Badass Digest
• www.nytimes.com
• Is the Wachowskis' Jupiter Ascending the Space Opera of our Dreams?
• GKIDS Announces 5-Year Anniversary Festival | Animation Magazine
• The Secret Truth of Mary Poppins | Home Media Magazine

The links I found interesting today, while browsing the web:

• The live-action Kiki's Delivery Service trailer fails to deliver
• Courts Deny Chimpanzee Personhood Claims — But They'll Be Back – Wired Science
• seanax.com » Videophiled Classic: Investigations of ‘A Citizen Above Suspicion’ and ‘Generale Della Rovere’
• Dangerous Minds | Ingmar Bergman’s soap commercials
• 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' review: too much of a good thing | The Verge
• The Best Comic Books of 2013, Part One
• Super Punch: Lenticular Aliens poster
• Comic-Con International 2014 Preregistration Update 2 | Comic-Con International: San Diego
• The Rattle of Armor, the Softness of Flesh: Bresson’s LANCELOT DU LAC | Jonathan Rosenbaum
• NASHVILLE | Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Butt-Numb-A-Thon 15 Recap | Badass Digest
• THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG Movie Review: Ugh | Badass Digest
• Tortilla Swaddle Blanket Turns Your Baby Into A Burrito
• No Man's Sky trailer offers glimpse of vast sci-fi wonderland – Boing Boing
• On the structure of Rocky movies – Boing Boing
• Flavorwire’s Official David Bowie Holiday Gift Guide – Flavorwire
• "Rule One: No Complacency": Inside The Early Years of Pixar
• There is a class of animals that never grow old
• Short documentary turns folks into personifications of their nightmares
• Show Old Man Winter Who's Boss With a Winter Emergency Kit
• Pranksters Convince Alcoholic Friend He's Been in a Coma for 10 Years
• Search Your iPhone's Email Quicker with These Keywords
• 9 Fun Facts That Are Total Lies
• The Best Book I Read This Year – The Editors – The Atlantic
• carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com
• carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com
• 'Sesame Street: Lord of the Crumbs', A Cute 'Lord Of The Rings' Parody
• Why 'The Hobbit' Shows Us Its Time To Let Trilogies Go | UPROXX
• Page not found | The Seventh Art: A Video Magazine About Cinema
• World Cinema Project: Recalled to Life – From the Current – The Criterion Collection
• AWARD SEASON UPDATE: "Wind Rises" wins NY and Boston Critics Best; "Ernest & Celestine" captures L.A. Critics | Animation Scoop
• Cool Tools – Cool Tools 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Mark’s Picks
• The 13 Best Children’s, Illustrated, and Picture Books of 2013 | Brain Pickings
• George Orwell, Feminist: The Beloved Author on Gender Equality in Work and Housework | Brain Pickings
• Behind the scenes with Hello Games' No Man's Sky | Polygon
• Apple briefly sells—then removes—Sharp 4K display ahead of Mac Pro launch | Ars Technica
• Pinswift: A Powerful Pinboard Client for iOS 7 – MacStories
• Sony Planning 4K Blitz at CES | Home Media Magazine
• Mary Poppins Blu-ray: 50th Anniversary Edition
• The Blue Angel Blu-ray: Kino Classics 2-Disc Ultimate Edition
• How to Write Movies in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo
• How to slim down your inbox | Macworld
• To celebrate the 25th anniversary of… – Twilight Time DVD Label | Facebook
• IMP Awards Update: New posters for Nymphomaniac, Big Bad Wolves
• Edouard Molinaro, director of 'La Cage Aux Folles,' dies at 85 – latimes.com
• Is Laika's Creative Loop Real or Imaginary? | Animation Scoop

The links I found interesting today, while browsing the web:

• Super Punch
• Why Smaug Still Matters
• Let It Full-Bleed | TechCrunch
• Remove Duplicate Rows in a Google Spreadsheet With This Script
• Sherlock returns to London in new trailer | The Verge
• Cinematic Retrospective 2013 in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo
• Catherine Deneuve accepts lifetime achievement award with cool aplomb | Film | theguardian.com
• Review: 'The Punk Singer' A Passionate Portrait Of Bikini Kill Singer & Riot Grrrl Founder Kathleen Hanna | The Playlist
• The Pulp Fiction Archive: The Cheap, Thrilling Stories That Entertained a Generation of Readers (1896-1946) | Open Culture
• A Comprehensive List of the Top Tools in Documentary Filmmaking « No Film School
• www.latimes.com
• sam's myth
• www.nytimes.com
• Candy Cane Cookies | Paleo Parents
• Special 'Mary Poppins' discs add historical context – latimes.com
• ‘Marvels & Monsters’ exhibit explores comics’ portrayal of Asians | Hero Complex – movies, comics, pop culture – Los Angeles Times
• The Journeys of Martin Scorsese in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo
• Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty wins best film at European Film Awards | News | Screen
• Daily | Edouard Molinaro, 1928 – 2013 | Keyframe – Explore the world of film.
• Howard Hawks Wants To Know – Hollywood Elsewhere
• A Dialogue about Abbas Kiarostami’s SHIRIN | Jonathan Rosenbaum

The links I found interesting today, while browsing the web:

• Haven asks: Can you solve one curse with a complementary curse?
• Heaven's Gate | Film | The Observer
• Review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, A Hell Of A Ride | Twitch
• 'The Great Beauty' Wins Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor & More At European Film Awards | The Playlist
• French Director Edouard Molinaro Dies at 85 – The Hollywood Reporter
• 'La Cage aux Folles' Director Edouard Molinaro Dead at 85 – TheWrap
• Daily | THE GREAT BEAUTY Tops the European Film Awards 2013 | Keyframe – Explore the world of film.
• MovingPictureBlog: R.I.P. Edouard Molinaro (1928-2013)
• Cinephilia and Beyond • Mark Bristol’s concept and storyboard art for “The…
• European Film Awards: 'The Great Beauty' Takes Top Prize – The Hollywood Reporter
• European Film Awards Winners: 'The Great Beauty' Takes Top Prize – TheWrap
• Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘The Great Beauty’ Wins Top Prize at European Film Awards | Variety
• The Life and Times of David Chen: My Very First Video Essay: an Analysis of The Fountain
• Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia | Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Yé-Yé Girls of '60s French Pop – Boing Boing
• Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013 – Boing Boing
• Vintage Polish film and theater posters – Boing Boing
• Human rights for animals? – Boing Boing
• Tuki: new webcomic from Jeff "Bone" Smith – Boing Boing
• 'The Walking Dead' mid-season finale review – Boing Boing
• Better way to eat mandarin oranges – Boing Boing
• The Essence of Cinema: Exploring Richard Linklater's Relationship with Film & Time « No Film School
• Reelhouse offers expanded bonus materials for digital Warner Bros. movies
• How get the most out of Google’s apps and services when using an iPad — Tech News and Analysis
• Tolkien gesture – scientist maps climate of Lord of the Rings | Environment | theguardian.com
• Martin Freeman: from Slough to Smaug – then back to Sherlock | Culture | The Guardian
• Review: The Hobbit improves in every way with the thrilling Desolation Of Smaug
• Whisky, Wikipedia and Pixar: the advent of holiday calendars for adults | Life and style | theguardian.com
• Cinema Paradiso: contribute to our readers' panel | Film | theguardian.com
• Terry Gilliam: 'I had a big row with John Cleese about tinned peaches' | Film | The Observer
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – review | Peter Bradshaw | Film | theguardian.com
• Can Appropriate Artist Credit Co-exist With Tumblr And Buzzfeed?
• Watch: The Year In Film 2013 In 7 Minutes | The Playlist
• A Disney artist imagines Wicked as an animated film
• Self-Styled Siren: Lost and Found: American Treasures from the New Zealand Film Archive
• Daily | THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG | Keyframe – Explore the world of film.
• 'A Century Ago': Academy offering screening of films from 1913 – latimes.com
• Wolf Is Year’s Best Film. Easily. No Debate. Shut Up. – Hollywood Elsewhere
• Page Not Found – The Film Experience
• 25 Critically Acclaimed 2013 Films On Netflix Instant | Movie Mezzanine
• Cinephilia and Beyond • One of the best original screenplays ever written:…
• Cinephilia and Beyond • “I went to film school. I did screenwriting…
• Excessive Use of the Force | Jonathan Rosenbaum
• WHY HULK WROTE A BOOK ON SCREENWRITING | Badass Digest
• Archive of Warren Publishing's Comics-Code-beating transgressive magazines – Boing Boing
• What we really feel when we feel "cold" – Boing Boing
• What Nelson Mandela's life tells us about the legitimacy of "democratic nations" – Boing Boing
• Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013 | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• Taking Breaks–You're Doing It Wrong | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
• Incredible Photos From An Urban Explorer's Journeys To The Forbidden Parts Of The City | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
• 34 Posters Celebrate Braun Design In The 1960s | Co.Design | business + design
• moviemorlocks.com – Unpure Chabrol
• Observations on film art : Hitchcock again: 3.9 steps to s-u-s-p-e-n-s-e
• Kathleen Hanna Up Front: On THE PUNK SINGER | Press Play
• seanax.com » Videophiled: Eight Blu-ray Debuts from the Vaults of 20th Century Fox
• Some Came Running: My favorite film of 2013
• The Big Checklist: 2013’s Movies To See (August – December) / The Dissolve
• The Big Checklist: 2013’s Movies To See (January – July) / The Dissolve
• The Good and Evil Guide to Parenting « The Hooded Utilitarian
• Climate study reveals that Tolkien's land of Mordor is a lot like Los Angeles | The Verge
• Stained Glass-Style Posters for Your Favorite ’80s Movies – Flavorwire
• 10 Awesome Holiday Gifts For the Music Geek in Your Life – Flavorwire
• Thought-Provoking Nude Photos That Challenge Conventional Ideas About Attractiveness [NSFW] – Flavorwire
• The 10 Most Overrated Albums of 2013 – Flavorwire
• Use Amazon Permalinks to Keep Your Gift Requests Short and Sweet | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
• Film Meets Art: Christopher Nolan, Mike Leigh, Ken Loach Discuss Painters That Inspired Their Work « No Film School
• Deja View: More Busch Circus Sketches
• Director's cut of The Dark Crystal
• Upcoming Carlotta Films Releases

The links I found interesting today, while browsing the web:

• Video: Is This Cinerama? | Keyframe – Explore the world of film.
• A look inside Beorn's House – The Hobbit Blog
• f ron
• StudioCanal Details Leon and The Piano
• Tom Scocca Gives Smarm its Due – the candler blog
• Apple selling Sharp 4K monitor ahead of Mac Pro launch | Macworld
• Shout! Factory – Have you checked out the Shout! Kids… | Facebook
• Listen to DJ Earworm's Annual Mashup of the Year's Biggest Hits
• artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
• carpetbagger.blogs.nytimes.com
• www.nytimes.com
• Joe Keatinge's Comics & Stories
• Am I wrong or is this Barry Windsor-Smith panel… • Joe Keatinge's Comics & Stories
• Work in progress – F | Davis
• Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of Barbara Stanwyck on Notebook | MUBI
• 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' a Thrilling Middle Episode of Middle-Earth (REVIEW AND ROUNDUP) | Thompson on Hollywood
• • View topic – Arrow Films
• Is Peter Jackson bringing his earliest movies to blu-ray next year? | Hobbit Movie News and Rumors | TheOneRing.net™
• Belle De Jour (1967) [400×600] : MoviePosterPorn
• Measles: 2013 US cases triple.
• Watch: Errol Morris Explains to Indiewire Why Donald Rumsfeld Was the 'Strangest Interview' He's Ever Done | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire
• In Memory of Nelson Mandela, Watch These Films About the South African Revolutionary For Free On SnagFilms | Filmmakers, Film Industry, Film Festivals, Awards & Movie Reviews | Indiewire
• Nashville: BD Review | DVDFile
• Mr. Spock Explains Futuristic Home Theater Technology « High-Def Digest: The Bonus View High-Def Digest: The Bonus View
• Lady Gaga & The Muppets' Holiday… (2013) – from instantwatcher.com
• Transformers Prime Beast Hunters… (2013) – from instantwatcher.com
• Why Writers Love New York City (and Then Leave It) – Marie-Helene Westgate – The Atlantic
• Earth to Hollywood: People Will Pay to See a Female Superhero Film – Kathryn Funkhouser – The Atlantic
• How the "Sneeze Guard" Changed Buffet Tables Forever | Food & Think
• Winter storm Cleon, record lows: US weather map today is completely insane.
• Ten Films Shortlisted for Visual Effects Oscar | Cartoon Brew
• Bryan Singer Is Teasing X-Men – Apocalypse For 2016
• How to Pull an All-Nighter: Tips from the Special Forces | The Art of Manliness
• How to Recreate the Title Sequences from 3 Hollywood Films Using (Primarily) After Effects « No Film School
• The Future of Ultra-HD: A Recent SMPTE Meeting Update « No Film School
• Dangerous Minds | William Klein’s gorgeous ‘Broadway by Night’: Pop art meets Nouvelle Vague, 1958
• Dark Roasted Blend: Cinerama: "The Next Big Thing That Was"
• Bryan Singer announces that 'X-Men: Apocalypse' is coming in 2016 | The Verge
• The Value of Content — I. M. H. O. — Medium
• Gift Set Frenzy | Home Media Magazine
• Academy Selects Ten Visual Effects Oscar Finalists
• Sundance 2014. Competition Lineup on Notebook | MUBI
• The Great Snark-Smarm War Has Begun | Criticwire
• RIP Nelson Rolihlahla "Madiba" Mandela. July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013 | Shadow and Act
• Ten Visual Effects Movies Made It to Oscar Shortlist, More Got Robbed | Thompson on Hollywood
• Now That You've Seen '12 Years A Slave', Check Out 'Burn!' | Shadow and Act
• Raise My Hands – A Tribute to Nelson Mandela in 35 MM – A GROUP FOR CINEPHILES! on Vimeo