One of the most frequently invoked arguments in discussions of the recent creative renaissance of television has been the idea that television has somehow replaced film. The notion that the two media
Photo: Joel Simon/Getty Images Dear Polly, I’m in my late 20s. I live with a great boyfriend in a great city and have a great job in a field I am passionate about. I have a good relationship with my f
I'm standing on the roof of a building in the middle of the night. Below me, framed in bright lights, a man is being beaten to death. The sounds are hard to make out, but he screams as officers surrou
Jane Campion was the first woman to win a Palme d'Or and only the second ever to be nominated for the best director Oscar. So it comes as a surprise that her latest gig, as president of the Cannes fil
Power down When is the last time you powered down. All the way down. Not asleep. Not in airplane mode but ON | OFF . Try it with me now. Take your phone out, if you’re not already futzing with it, and
Flickr/Eneas de Troya Ever feel like you’re just not getting enough done? Advertisement Advertisement Know how many days a week you’re actually productive? People work an average of 45 hours a week; t
IF YOUR JOB involves scamming people, Mike Davis might be the last person you’d want to target. Mike breaks things apart for a living. He’s paid by companies to find security flaws in the electronics
Wednesday, Apr 23 2014 click to flip through (3) AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File DA Gascon discusses kill-switches during a 2013 press conference in New York. smartphone theft Alex had a gnawing, uneas
On a cold night in January, George R.R. Martin sits inside the Jean Cocteau Cinema, a revival theater that he owns in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he has lived since 1979. The Cinema had been showing the first three seasons of HBO’s megahit series Game of Thrones , which is based on Martin’s…
Paper books were supposed to be dead by now. For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. Ikea even redesigned a bookshelf to hold something
Share on Facebook Spring 2014 Marc Forster Paranoia Strikes Deep Marc Forster revisits Alan J. Pakula’s ’70s-era conspiracy film, The Parallax View , and finds it as creepy today as when it was made.
B efore I even started working on True Detective , I made a point of telling Nic Pizzolatto, the creator, that one of my priorities as director was to defend craft despite the constraints on my time a
Spring 2014 Picturing Life David O. Russell loves observing the quirky, unpredictable rhythms of human behavior. It's no wonder that in films like American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook and The Figh
Maybe you saw the trailer for Short Term 12 , where someone called it "a shining example of what cinema is all about." That was me, and I was not overstating the film's quality. Destin Daniel Cretton
For many fans, the appeal of HBO’s Game of Thrones lies somewhere in the balancing act between epic battles, political intrigue, character-driven dialogue, sexposition , and the over-arching idea of v
As the centenary of the first world war approaches, our children will hear an awful lot of stories about glorious Australian battlefield victories, dignified defeats, superhuman courage and sacrifice.
For the look of the film, Johnson turned to director of photography Steve Yedlin and production designer Ed Verreaux. The film is set in the near future – a choice that allowed Johnson to thread the n
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Even in my most religious moments, I have never been able to take the idea of hell seriously. Prevailing Christian theology asks us to believe that an all-powerful, all-knowing being would do what no
"Do short films have monetary value?" Filmmaker Robin Schmidt, who after many short films and music videos recently completed his first feature film , digs in and offers some intriguing observations i
Spoiler alert: this column discusses details of the current drama True Detective , although no more than in an average film review. It relates specifically to "tonight's episode" (if you're watching o
In 1748, the British politician and aristocrat John Montagu, the 4 th Earl of Sandwich, used a lot of his free time for playing cards. One of the problems he had was that he greatly enjoyed eating a s
I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. Creative individuals are remarkable for their ability to adapt to almost any situation and to make do with whatever is at…
MSNBC’s Katie Phang Says E. Jean Carroll’s 2nd Defamation Win Stamps Donald Trump as a ‘Proven Liar’ (Video) “Trust me, in the court of public opinion – with the potential jury pool – they know he’s a
Riff The Brilliant, Unnerving Meta-Marketing of ‘The Lego Movie’ Credit... Illustration by Tom Gauld Princess Leia and Harry Potter are dining in the eat-in kitchen of their midcentury modern home, su
If an idea is the seed of strategy, experience is the seed of an idea. But can there be qualitative differences in experience? Yes, research has shown that the reason time seems to speed up as you get
Jessica Lahey When I signed on to teach English at a core virtues school, I had no idea what I was in for. I nodded and smiled in my interview when the Headmaster explained the virtues curriculum, and
Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent. Published in Human Parts · 23 min read · Feb 24, 2014 -- Illustrations : Leah Goran I t’s hard to write about b
Teachers are technically hired to teach content—math, science, English, history. But over the course of a normal school day, we teach so much more. I’ve enforced dress codes because I want my students
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