ARCHIVE:
Summer Movies
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The Universal Translator
How Hollywood represents foreign speech: a video slide show.
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The Silence of the Silents
A heroic wiki project to identify lost and orphaned films.
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The Best Movies Never Made
Orson Welles as Christ, Paul McCartney as Frodo, Al Pacino as Noriega, and seven other near-misses.
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Remember Dick Tracy?
It had Warren Beatty. Al Pacino. Madonna. Songs by Sondheim.
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The Real Deal
The unjustly unheralded Michael Winterbottom blurs the line between fiction and documentary.
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The Genius of Jackie Chan
He's a cinematic artist on par with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
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Go See Breathless
Godard's debut reinvented the movies, and it's never looked better.
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"That Was Way Too Close!"
Wonderfully absurd escapes from mortal danger in the original G.I. Joe cartoon.
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Why Don't Movies Ever Blow Up the Bay Bridge?
A history of destroying national landmarks on film.
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Minor Threat
Why are we so fascinated with horror movies about homicidal children?
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Best Weekend Never
Why journalists don't account for inflation when they report box office records.
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The King of All Formulas
The incredible true story of the man who invented the Hollywood schlock machine.
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The Blockbusters of China
Chinese people watch good movies in which people shoot one another with crossbows, not the miserable art-house fare that gets exported.
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Brad Bird, Animation Auteur
How the director of Ratatouille became the Stanley Kubrick of animation.
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Wait Till Next Year
Not impressed with this summer's blockbusters? Check out what's on tap for summer 2008.
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