Whenever movies get ranked and organized into lists (the five greatest screwball comedies! the 10 best films of 2007! the 100 greatest movies of all time!), those lists, almost by design, are meant to be fought with, argued over, and competed with. In the Internet era, you don’t even have to argue in a vacuum — you just concoct, and publish, your own list. The whole noisy debate that gets triggered by movie lists is a big part of why they’re fun, and maybe why they matter the little bit that they do. It’s also why they tend to evaporate from memory.
- 8/8/2012
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Voting is currently underway on the Sight & Sound poll for the greatest film ever made, which takes place every ten years, and is generally seen as one of the most definitive of such polls. And one film that's near-certain to place in the top ten, given that it's been there in every poll since 1982 (and placed second in 2002) is Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo." The film was relatively poorly received on release, and indeed, remained unseen for twenty years, one of the five films to which Hitchcock bought back the rights to leave to his daughter (the so-called Five Lost Hitchcocks, which also include "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "Rope" and "The Trouble With Harry"). But since its re-release in 1984, the film has grown into the great director's most acclaimed masterpiece, and is now one of the most examined, deconstructed and written about films in the history of the medium.
- 5/9/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
While writing some articles for MoreHorror.com and enjoying a little quiet time Wednesday morning, a 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook the earth approximately six miles southeast of San Juan Bautista, California at 12:51 a.m. The quake was definitely felt here in Monterey where More Horror is based and the shaking was medium and lasted for a few seconds.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey website the quake's epicenter was 5.2 miles deep. The earthquake was reportedly followed by nine smaller aftershocks ranging from 1.2 to 3.4, all in the same region of the San Andreas Fault.
The jolt follows a 4.1 magnitude quake that shook the region of the Seven Trees area close to San Jose on Jan. 7 as well as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake five miles northeast of San Martin on Jan. 9.
For more details about this and other earthquakes, visit: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/121-37.html
Source:San Jose Mercury News and Usgs.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey website the quake's epicenter was 5.2 miles deep. The earthquake was reportedly followed by nine smaller aftershocks ranging from 1.2 to 3.4, all in the same region of the San Andreas Fault.
The jolt follows a 4.1 magnitude quake that shook the region of the Seven Trees area close to San Jose on Jan. 7 as well as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake five miles northeast of San Martin on Jan. 9.
For more details about this and other earthquakes, visit: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/121-37.html
Source:San Jose Mercury News and Usgs.
- 1/12/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Like their counterparts nationwide, the ethnically specific theatres of the San Francisco Bay Area are trying to ride out the economic downturn. But such theatres also face special challenges: to stage work that "serves as a bridge to other cultures," as Traveling Jewish Theatre artistic director Aaron Davidman puts it; to find enough actors of the appropriate ethnicity; and to cultivate diverse audiences. While more-mainstream theatres may grapple with the same issues, for companies dedicated to exploring a particular culture and working largely with artists from that culture, they're ever-present. The culturally and aesthetically diverse Bay Area theatre scene is also well-known for its spirit of cooperation -- fostered in large part by the local service organization Theatre Bay Area -- and some theatres co-produce with other companies regularly, sharing costs, talent, and audiences. The area's growing number of ethnic theatres ranges from midsize companies that produce a full season...
- 3/13/2009
- by Jean Schiffman
- backstage.com
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