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...acknowledged as one of the most important and influential works in the history of film. Its - for its era - avant-garde special effects and visual flourishes not only inspired some of the finest science fiction films of the 20th century, such as Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; the unique aesthetics of the film left its mark on numerous fields of popular culture, from comic books such as Superman to music videos by Madonna...
...Netflix account (you'll need one) and adding movies and TV seasons to my "instant" queue. The queue shows up on the Roku box in mere seconds. To test the gadget, I moldered on the couch in my office for a few days, watching The Office reruns, some old Kubrick and Peckinpah movies and a Jimi Hendrix documentary. It was great...
...Netflix account (you'll need one, which also entitles you to rent-by-mail DVDs) and adding movies and TV seasons to my "instant" queue; they show up on the Roku box almost instantaneously. I moldered on the couch for a few days, watching The Office reruns, some old Kubrick and Peckinpah movies and a Jimi Hendrix documentary. It was great...
...films back then, for all the pioneering imagination shown by Stanley Kubrick's team on 2001, visual effects were fairly primitive, and animated pictures were still hand-drawn. In today's movies, whether "live action" (with lots of computer effects) or animated (virtually all CGI), the machines that make them are the finest toys imaginable. And the people who program those machines use them as extended hands, as part of their brain. Machines are tools that free the creative spirit of the director and the effects mavens...
...Founded over 60 years ago, this festival in the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno is one of the oldest. Thanks to a penchant for the work of auteurs, it has earned a reputation for spotting greatness early on - past audiences were watching films by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee long before anyone knew who they were. But the real draw is what might be the world's most beautiful screening room: the Piazza Grande. Every evening, a massive screen is set up in the Renaissance square and thousands gather to watch a premiere under the stars...