Very interesting.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120301103756.htm
Friday, March 2, 2012
Lytro Camera Lets You Pick What's Blurry And What's Not
Cool new technology. Reinvention of camera.
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http://allthingsd.com/20120229/radical-camera-lets-you-pick-whats-blurry-and-whats-not/
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http://allthingsd.com/20120229/radical-camera-lets-you-pick-whats-blurry-and-whats-not/
Silent Souls
Road movies take many forms, and "Silent Souls" is the road movie as metaphysical memory and meditation. This profound and immensely touching film in only 75 perfect minutes achieves the profundity of an epic. I read the description (two friends from the ancient Merjan tribe in Russia take a funeral trip involving the wife of one) and wasn't much interested; it sounded like ethnography without impact. Yet not often have I been more deeply touched.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
The Artist
Is it possible to forget that "The Artist" is a silent film in black and white, and simply focus on it as a movie? No? That's what people seem to zero in on. They cannot imagine themselves seeing such a thing. At a sneak preview screening here, a few audience members actually walked out, saying they didn't like silent films. I was reminded of the time a reader called me to ask about an Ingmar Bergman film. "I think it's the best film of the year," I said. "Oh," she said, "that doesn't sound like anything we'd like to see."Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
We Need to Talk about Kevin
It must be something like this to have a nervous breakdown. We find ourselves inside the mind of a woman whose psychopathic son has driven her over the edge. This is not entirely his fault. We gather she didn't want to get pregnant, isn't sure why she's married, is a mother who tries to mask hostility with superficial kindness. If she had her way, she would put her life on rewind and start all over again — maybe even as somebody else, since she's not very fond of herself.Continue Reading on RogerEbert.com
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