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The Daily Video: Political Campaigns on the Big Screen

With Barack Obama choosing Joe Biden as his Democratic running mate for President, here is a short history of US politics on the big screen from BACKSTAGEonline.

> Find out more about 2008 Presidential Election at Wikipedia
> The Candidate and Bulworth at the IMDb

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The Daily Video: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñárritu & Guillermo Del Toro

Charlie Rose hosted a very interesting roundtable discussion in 2006 with Mexican directors Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Guillermo Del Toro.

They discussed their respective films from that year (Children of Men, Babel and Pan’s Labyrinth) as well as their careers and friendships.

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The Daily Video: Rain of Madness trailer and clips

The UK release of Hollywood spoof Tropic Thunder is just a month away.

If you aren’t familar with the film, the premise involves a group of highly paid actors (played by Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jnr and Jack Black) shooting a Vietnam movie (like Apocaplypse Now), only to find that they really are in a genuine war zone.

Here is the faux trailer for the mockumentary Rain of Madness, which is a film-within-a-film parody done in the style of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.

It will be available as a US only iTunes download on the 26th August, but here are some clips via YouTube:

> Tropic Thunder at the IMDb
> More about the film at Wikipedia
> Official Rain of Madness site

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The Daily Video: Reel Geezers review Man on Wire

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The Daily Video: Anchorman vs 300 Mashup

An amusing mashup of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and 300 by YouTube user Grantly Pantyy.

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The Daily Video: The Swimmer

To mark the extraordinary feats of Michael Phelps at the Olympics, here is the theatrical trailer to the Burt Lancaster film The Swimmer from 1968.

> The Swimmer at the IMDb
> Burt Lancaster at Wikipedia
> Roger Ebert’s review of the film

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The Daily Video: Baracky II

Barack Obama‘s presidential campaign meets Rocky II.

> The Empire Strikes Barack (previous viral video about the Democratic primary campaign)
> More about the 2008 presidential campaign at Wikipedia

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The Daily Video: The Dark Knight (Kids Version)

[Link via b3ta courtesy of Matt]

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The Daily Video: Meetin’ WA by Jean-Luc Godard

A 26 minute short film about Woody Allen by Jean-Luc Godard from 1986.


Meetin’ WA (1986)
by Tomsutpen
[Link via SPOUTblog]
> Woody Allen at the IMDb
> Find out more about Jean-Luc Godard at Wikipedia
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The Daily Video: Alfred Hitchcock cameos

Director Alfred Hitchcock was famous for cameo appearences in his own films.

Here are a selection:

> Alfred Hitchcock at the IMDb
> Find out more about Alfred Hitchcock at Wikipedia
> Senses of Cinema essay on Hitchcock by Ken Mogg
> The Hitchcock/Truffauat Tapes (an essential listen)

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The Daily Video: Steve Martin & Jerry Seinfeld on The Charlie Rose Show

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The Daily Video: Star Wars according to a 3 year old

This video of a 3 year old discussing the plot of Star Wars has had over 8 million views on YouTube since it was uploaded in February .

> Fist of Blog – The blog where it all started
> Find out more about Star Wars at Wikipedia

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The Daily Video: Francis Ford Coppola on Technology

Aside from creating films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola has always been passionate about technology and film preservation, as this clip from the TV documentary Memory and Imagination (1990) shows:

> Francis Ford Coppola at Wikipedia
> Memory and Imagination at the IMDb
> Michael Lawrence Films at YouTube

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The Daily Video: Paris Hilton responds to McCain campaign ad

You may have seen the rather tacky ad the John McCain camp issued recently, equating Barack Obama to a Paris Hilton-style celebrity unfit for the US Presidency.

Well, now Paris and the folks at FunnyOrDie have hit back with this response:

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

> Barack Obama and John McCain YouTube channels
> More on the 2008 US presidential election at Wikipedia

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The Daily Video: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

This is the 43-minute ‘tragicomic musical’ created by Joss Whedon, exclusively for distribution on the web.

According to Wikipedia:

It tells the story of Dr. Horrible (Billy), an aspiring supervillain, Captain Hammer, his nemesis, and Penny, their mutual love interest.

The movie was written by writer/director Joss Whedon, his brothers Zack Whedon (a television writer) and Jed Whedon (a composer), and Jed’s fiancée, actress Maurissa Tancharoen.

The writing team penned the musical during the WGA writers’ strike.

The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.

It is available on US iTunes store and the video site Hulu – normally two places UK viewers can’t access for copyright reasons.

However the above video appears to be working.

[Link via Adam Bowie]

> Official Dr. Horrible site
> Listen to our 2006 interview with Joss Whedon about Firefly
> Find out more about Joss Whedon at Wikipedia
> IMDb entry for Joss Whedon
> Discover more about Firefly at Wikipedia – the TV series that led to Serenity
> Whedonesque – Extensive fansite

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The Daily Video: Woody Allen on The Dick Cavett Show

This is an interesting appearence by Woody Allen on The Dick Cavett Show from 1971.

What’s nice is that both of them take questions from the audience and have an easy rapport with one another.

> Woody Allen at the IMDb
> Dick Cavett’s blog at the New York Times

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The Daily Video: Michael Mann’s Heat (with Ducks)

Imagine Michael Mann‘s 1995 thriller Heat with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro recast using characters from Disney’s Ducktales.

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The Daily Video: Matt Damon’s impression of Matthew McConaughey

Matt Damon does a great impression of his old friend Matthew McConaughy, as this Letterman appearance from last year demonstrates.

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The Daily Video: Legless Kung Fu

This is a clip from a 2001 film called The Ghost (also known as ‘Code of the Dragon’ in some countries) which was a forgettable action film about a Chinese soldier going undercover in America as an Asian Internet bride.

For reasons best known to themselves Michael Madsen and Brad Dourif were in it.

However, it involves this soon-to-be-a-viral-classic clip of a guy with no legs beating up some thugs (the bad German dubbing makes it even more surreal).

[Link via Digg]