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...suppose Maddin could make his movies anywhere. But no one else could make them. A crazy-smart mix of avant- and retro-garde, they address big topics (corporate greed, national identity, pre-adolescent lust, family betrayal) in a style that suggests an antique silent film rescued from a dump heap - on Mars. The film stock is scratched, the actors declaim in bombastic gestures, the canned music hits overly ominous chords, and the printed intertitles often read like the mutterings of obsession ("Force!" "Must escape!" "What if???"). If this sounds off-putting, jump back on, because Maddin's films - from Tales...
According to data published by Princeton Professor Robert Socolow in Scientific American, seven billion tons of CO2, the most important and abundant greenhouse gas, are emitted worldwide each year. At the current rate of emissions growth, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere will double pre-industrial levels by 2056—likely with catastrophic effects, the beginnings of which we may be seeing now in the form of polar ice caps that expand less every winter and thaw further every summer...
...chaos commence. Like the customers ready to break into a Wal-Mart warehouse the morning of a pre-Christmas sale, a horde of North American film lovers have avidly awaited the opening of the 31st Toronto International Film Festival. Yesterday, the doors finally opened. You have 10 days, cinema shoppers, to see as many of the festival's 349 films as possible. The winner gets nothing but bragging rights for the next year. On your mark...
...list of the most influential shows misses the point of how people watch TV in the cable age: they watch networks--HGTV, ESPN, Nickelodeon--as much as they do shows. MTV, in the pre--Real World era, was the first network to teach viewers to watch this way. Quick-cut and compressed, music videos were not just a new way of selling music; they changed TV series (the pitch for Miami Vice was simply "MTV cops") and influenced movies (graduating directors like Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry). The best clips from MTV's all-video '80s heyday--from...
...both sides have a stake in not getting bloodied in a fight whose winner is a forgone conclusion. Such sword-rattling gestures as a larger military power's conducting "naval exercises" in the waters off the coast of a weaker foe are based on just this kind of pre-emptive reminder of strength...