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...else: a thinking man's filmmaker. A diehard existentialist, Cronenberg has infused philosophy into his films over the years; some critics even called his 1986 blockbuster The Fly an inspired allegory for the AIDS epidemic. And if anyone still doubted his high-culture credibility, now Cronenberg is tackling the medium of Mozart...
Also in attendance was Rod Smith, a former star wide receiver for the Denver Broncos who has worked on the "Financial Football" program with Visa and ESPN since 2006. Smith commended the idea of teaching something as important as financial literacy through a fun medium like football...
...where to lead the camera and the audience may be in decline, but the second-unit guys and stuntmen and CGI wizards are at the top of their game. It's not the highest form of the seventh art, but it is one of the original definitions of the medium to make cinema kinetic, to make movies move...
...things a low- or medium-budget filmmaker can do is experiment," Corman said in an interview with Leonard Maltin in the late 90s, "can take chances such as we did - in such a zany idea as Death Race - because you're not gambling that much money. If you're making a $100 million picture ... you,re going to be fairly conservative as to what you do. But if you're making a picture, say, in today's market for a million dollars, or when we made Death Race which I think was about $300,000, we can afford to, essentially...
...When the medium finished Ehmke's reading, she offered a blanket disclaimer: Bear in mind, she told him, that all of this can change because you have free will. Ehmke thinks there's a lesson there. "What worries me most is when politicians talk about their sense of destiny. I don't think there's some great Book of Life that foretells all things, and people--especially politicians--who think there is one tend to want to write that book themselves...