Mar 18

Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune: The filmmaker on his breakout documentary, about one of the greatest movies never made

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Interview: Frank Pavich, Director of Jodorowsky’s Dune


by Charlotte Anderson Some 10 years before David Lynch’s 1984 adaptation of the popular science fiction novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert, Chilean-French filmmaker (and icon) Alejandro Jodorowsky was already penning his own screenplay. His goal was ambitious: to create a philosophically minded, aesthetically…

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Jan 27

Snowpiercer: The Escape: The French sci-fi graphic novel, whose film adaption will soon release in the US, finally gets its English translation 30 years later

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Snowpiercer: The Escape


The 1982 French sci-fi comic “Le Transperceneige” would have remained in obscurity had film director Bong Joon-Ho not walked into a comic book shop in Seoul and devoured all three volumes in the store. Nobody could blame him. Within the black-and-white illustrations, a…

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Sep 07

Link About It: This Week’s Picks : Cardboard boombox, Ai Weiwei selfies, Greg Packer’s ban and more in our look at the web this week

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Link About It: This Week's Picks


1. Selfie Jackpot While we laugh, cry and shake our heads in the midst of the selfie craze, a famed Instagram account featuring loads of ridiculous self-portraits is keeping the mania alive. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei—who is also active in the world of…

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