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A Stanley Kubrick season starts this month on UK TV channel More4, with a series of his films screening between the 15th and 25th of July.
Channel 4 Creative Services have created this excellent TV spot to promote the season, which is a one shot recreation of The Shining set, shot from Kubrick’s point of view:

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A new interview series hosted by Elvis Mitchell is about to start airing on TCM in the US.

It is called Under the Influence and features Mitchell speaking to various luminaries from the film world about how classic film has influenced their lives.
Most notably it features the last interview Sydney Pollack gave before his untimely death [...]

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This is another viral video of games designer Matt Harding - who travelled the world and shot footage of himself and others dancing in various places across the globe.

This is the third video of his to become a huge viral hit and already has 529,142 views on YouTube.
> Matt’s official site with more about him [...]

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Slate have come up with an ingenious video that somehow manages to compress the 2008 Democratic Primary into 8 minutes:

> Check out Slate’s previous video comparing Hilary Clinton to Tracy Flick from the 1999 movie ‘Election’
> Find out more about the 2008 Democratic Primary at Wikipedia
> More video at Slate

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Here is video of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling giving the commencement speech at Harvard last week:

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is out later this year on November 21st.
> Official site for the Harvard Commencement speeches
> Find out more about J.K. Rowling at Wikipedia
> Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at the [...]

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