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Calypso Heat Wave (1957) features Maya Angelou as Miss Calypso doing two song and dance numbers. Curse you, Netflix, why do you fail me? I must see this completely white-bread, sanitized movie about the origins of Calypso. Here’s a good review of the movie. Also, it turns out that Alan Arkin once played in the folk trio [...] Well done 20-minute short about the origin of the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz. Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man from Brandon McCormick on Vimeo. Based on the backstory of one of the most beloved childrenʼs novels of all time comes the extraordinary love story between a simple woodsman and a beautiful maiden. Not [...] It’s time to start planning some kids activities for the summer. Tampa Theatre hosts a kids film camp throughout the summer. You can sign up for different ages, different classes and different times. Check out their web page for complete details. “At Tampa Theatre Film Camp, students will create live action and stop motion animation movies [...] El Traspatio (The Backyard) is Mexico’s submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Picture 2009. Here’s the LA Times review from December of last year. “Reporting from Mexico City — To say the topic of screenwriter Sabina Berman’s latest movie is bleak would be an understatement. So would labeling the decision to film in Mexico’s deadliest [...] AMC has started posting some complete B-Movies online. Here, for example, is John Carpenter’s completely awesome Dark Star (1974). Wikipedia tells us – “Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an 80% fresh rating, with the following consensus: “A loopy 2001 satire, Dark Star may not be the most consistent sci-fi comedy, but its portrayal of human eccentricity [...] I’m a super-fan of the Planet of the Apes franchise, and last year I was excited to hear that a re-boot was in the works. The new version was to start with the ape rebellion rather than the astronauts time-traveling to an ape future. I just learned today that the re-boot, tentatively titled Caesar, is [...] I wish more movies were made in Florida. It seems like such a perfect place for year-round shoots. Why don’t more movies shoot here? Oh, yeah. The Lege cut the incentive program from $25 million to $5 million in February 2008. Let’s see, what were we getting for that $25 million? “Figures show the entertainment industry [...] Really? “A British film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American audiences, according to its producer.” On the one hand this ties in perfectly with my dim view of American intelligence, but on the other hand it IS a British bio-pic, which makes me [...] Here is the original 2005 short. 9 by Shane Acker All of the clips from the forthcoming, full-length version produced by Tim Burton are pretty stunning. Opens in one week! The Story of Marjoe (1972) via Wikipedia - “Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, [...] Tampa I Am visits the Britton 8 and reports that it is now a “dollar” theater (actually a $2 theater) and, in addition to the traditional Hollywood fare, also shows Bollywood movies. Tampabay.com has more of the story. “The Britton 8 quietly reopened last week with second-run movies for $2 and concessions that sell candy, popcorn and [...] Recently I wondered whatever happened to Woody Allen’s son. Today I learned that David Bowie’s son (who was Zowie Bowie as an infant, but long ago resorted to the more mundane, non-rockstar handle Duncan Jones) is the director of Moon, starring Sam Rockwell. Tampa Heights blog points to this list of Friday night movies at Cafe Hey. Schedule: Rent it! Strange Culture (2007) “The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz’s 911 call deemed Kurtz’s art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected “bioterrorist” as dozens of federal agents [...] Here’s a lovely re-mix using Alice as its source material. “The music video for my song ‘Alice’, an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Alice In Wonderland’.” Here is the trippier, and more highly recommended version at YooouuuTuuube, a page that takes YouTube videos and art-ifies them. Story and drawings by Chris Ware, music by Andrew Bird, animation by John Kuramoto for This American Life. Quimby The Mouse from This American Life on Vimeo. Larger version here. “A video put together by Chris Ware for our spring 2009 event “This American Life — Live!” — in which Ira Glass hosts an actual episode of the [...] A little bit of Japanese surrealism from Takashi Taniguchi. Mr. Ando of the Woods Now that I think about it, I think I’d rather see Up than Wolverine. Here’s a clip introducing Doug Dug the talking dog. (After seeing the movie I learned that it’s Dug the dog, not “Doug.”) Tampa Theatre summer schedule of classic [...] Nanocrowd is an interesting experiment in movie recommendation. “Our approach is new and different. We write magical search algorithms that interpret comments people like you have written about movies. No editors. No movie critics. We analyze the millions of viewer comments from all over the Web to gain exciting insights into what movies are really [...] Don’t forget, the Gasparilla International Film Festival is only four days away, Feb. 26-March 7. [...] Who knew? Nigeria has the third largest film industry in the world. Here’s the Wikipedia entry on Nollywood. One of the best television series ever made (imho), The Prisoner, is now online at AMC TV. Here is episode one – The Arrival. “The Prisoner, created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein, follows a former British Secret agent who is held captive in “the Village” by mysterious authorities who want to know why he has resigned [...] It’s hard to beat Gonks Go Beat (1965) for some British proto-psychedelia. The movie is essentially 16 early British rock, and ballad songs played out in the outlandish worlds of Ballad Isle and Beatland. The music, sets, and unabashed absurdity make this my Bohemian pick of the night. In this clip on YouTube alien Wilco Roger [...] The Bull Gator points to this AP article about theaters showing the BCS National Championship in 3D. You can search for participating theaters here. The closest one to me is: Carmike- Royal Palm 20 Three more are here: Rave Avenue 16 Bettie Page had more fame in the late 1980s and 1990s than in her 1950s heyday. She perfectly captured the retro-cad nostalgia embraced by hipsters learning to love bachelor pad music of the era, a sort of easy-listening avante-garde best represented in the music of Esquivel, and recaptured in the 90s by acts like Combustible [...] This is how Planet of the Apes started. Soon there will be a plague that wipes out all dogs and cats, then people will start adopting monkeys as pets, then apes as servants. Soon, it will be a madhouse! Monkey waiter serves saki. Phil Leigh is a Tampa-area blogger who focuses on Digital Media (Inside Digital Media). He’s done a lot of great interviews with people involved, directly and indirectly, with digital media. His most recent podcast interview is with Shelly Palmer, author of Television Disrupted. This interview focuses more on Amazon Web Services and cloud computing. But, [...] This NYC cop decides to tackle a cyclist riding in a Critical Mass event. Tourist captures it on digital video, posts it for all to see. There was a Critical Mass event the same night in Tampa. I’m down for the count with a fever, and not the good kind, like when you kiss me. Ugh.
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