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HBO’s Too Big to Fail
I think HBO can probably do this better than anyone else. And it’s the first “must see” I’ve come across on HBO since The Wire. Opening the Vault on the Financial Crisis
What great fun this will be
The “Life in a Day” trailer. Perhaps we’re all filmmakers now, but let’s give the editors a lot of the credit here.
The movie is about this, but the story is about that
What’s the big idea? Using a seemingly random single event as the vehicle for telling a more important story. That’s how Sidney Lumet, who died this week, described Dog Day Afternoon. In many ways, he says, the movie is about coming out, a transexual looking for the courage to be…
How much of your brain are you using?
Exploring the power of medication – something more than a couple of Harpoons, anyway – Limitless appears to be a film about releasing potential. How far do we go?
Friday film clip
I posted some music earlier. Thought the least I could do was post a film clip too. (It’s Friday, hey!) Something came up with Dean, and I went searching for Sean Connery as Bond. (“Of course you are,” he said to Ms. Galore, I think.) Nothing from the Bond series…