Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, talks about on Barack Obama‘s grasp of technology issues in his campaign for president.
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Is is just me or does this seem a little symbolic?
> Joe the Plumber at WIkipedia
> Get the latest polls on the US election at Electoral Vote
This montage of synced-up footage from all three US presidential debates suggests that they were a bit similar.
Mad Men is my favourite TV show of the last year, but it is also nice to see that actor Jon Hamm is not above spoofing the super-smooth ad man he plays on the show, in this recent SNL sketch.
> Find out more about Mad Men at AMC
> Jon Hamm at the IMDb
It is one of the quirks of film history that the man who made Citizen Kane ended up appearing in the 1986 animated film Transformers: The Movie.
> Transformers The Movie at the IMDb
> Find out more about Orson Welles at WIkipedia
> The infamous outtakes from the peas advert with Orson Welles
Young @ Heart is a new documentary released in the UK today about an elderly singing group in America who cover rock classics from The Clash, Nirvana and Talking Heads.
The trailer is above but check out this version on Coldplay‘s Fix You:
> Find a cinema near you showing Young @ Heart via Google Movies
> Official site for the Young@Heart chorus
> Young @ Heart at the IMDb
The full video of the 3rd presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain from C-Span.
> Official site for the debates
> More on the election at C-Span
See more Hayden Panettiere videos at Funny or Die
George Stroumboulopoulos of CBC‘s The Hour interviews James Cameron about his career and they also discuss his upcoming film Avatar.
The Reel Geezers (aka Lorenzo Semple Jnr and Marcia Nasatir) have an interesting chat about various political movies.
The line sure to provoke debate is when Lorenzo says:
Frank Capra is basically a facist.
Hmmm.
> Check out more videos of The Reel Geezers on YouTube
> Lorenzo Semple Jnr and Marcia Nasatir at the IMDb
The full video of the 2nd presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain from C-Span.
> Official site for the debates
> More on the election at C-Span
In this scene from The Killers, maverick actor and director John Cassavettes punches future US president Ronald Regan.
> The Killers at the IMDb
> Find out more about John Cassavettes and Ronald Regan at Wikipedia
Watch out for the monkey driving the car (pause at 0.36) and the security bulldog (0.52), which is possibly one of my favourite Aardman characters ever.
> Aardman YouTube channel
> Find out more about Creature Comforts at Wikipedia
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The Daily Video: Head of Skate
Matt Damon’s fears of a ‘really bad Disney movie’ have been turned into this spoof trailer.
One of the most startling scenes from The Parallax View.
> The Parallax View at the IMDb
> Find out more about this sequence at DVD Talk
Francois Truffaut pays tribute to Alfred Hitchcock at an AFI bash in 1979.
> Listen to the Hitchcock-Truffaut tapes
> Senses of Cinema profile on Truffaut
> Find out more about Hitchcock at Wikipedia
Director Ridley Scott gives a Searchlab Lecture courtesy of Fox Searchlight in which he talks in depth about about his career and films.
I think it is from 2003, and you can watch the other three parts below:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
> Ridley Scott at the IMDb
> More Fox Searchlab Lectures
Lethal Weapon 2 was released in the UK on this day (September 15th) back in 1989.
For some reason it has always stuck in my head as a date to remember and I’m not sure why exactly.
1989 was a special year for me as it was when I first got into seeing films in a big way – even now I can remember quite clearly what was released that year – and when I saw the trailer for this sequel it seemed to embody the excitment and magic of going to cinema.
Perhaps part of why I remember the release so well is that it was a 15 certificate and I regret not sneaking in as a 12 year old, but I just didn’t have the courage to try (even though I had already done so before then).
> Lethal Weapon 2 at the IMDb
> Find out more about the films of 1989 at Wikipedia
Claudette Colbert was born on this date in 1903, so above is an AFI tribute to her work as an actress.
> Find out more about Claudette Colbert at Wikipedia
> It Happened One Night at the IMDb
This is the 1980 short documentary directed by Les Blank which shows director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed his 1978 film Gates of Heaven.
> Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe at the IMDb
> Find out more about Werner Herzog and Errol Morris at Wikipedia
A sweded version of John Carpenter‘s The Thing.
> The Thing at the IMDb
> More sweded films
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was recently at the Republican National Convention.
The great Al Matthews describes his no nonsense approach to weapons on the set of Aliens:
> Find out more about Al Matthews at Wikipedia
> Official site for Al
> Aliens at the IMDb
Jack Nicholson being interviewed on a golf course by Gary Garver of The Howard Stern Show.
> Jack Nicholson at the IMDb
> Gary Garver’s official website
> The Howard Stern Show at Wikipedia
A candid interview (in two parts) with Richard Burton from 1977, in which he discusses his alcoholism and acting career.
> Richard Burton at the IMDb
> Find out more about Richard Burton at Wikipedia
Liquid Generation have done this compilation of 25 gruesome horror movie deaths. Can you name them all?
(Warning: You may not want to eat whilst watching some of these)
[Link via Digg]
> Discuss more horror movie deaths at Movie Forums
> Cracked with a list of bad horror films you should see
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: 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
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
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
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
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: 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).
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