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Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... I try and get James McTeigue to tell me what the Wachowskis are working on, his next project on Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven), the Superman and Magneto rumors, what’s on the Ninja Assassin DVD/Blu-ray, could Hugo Weaving be in his Edgar Allen Poe movie, his thoughts on Star Wars (he was second unit director on Episode Two), extended edition DVDs, and a whole lot more!...
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Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | yesterday
... (1973 - Juan Lopez Moctezuma) - The overall hallucinatory feel of this particular adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather" is foreshadowed right at the outset by blue and red titles. It's as if we're experiencing someone's actual hallucinations. The film has some great visuals and that off kilter feeling remains for much of it, but it loses a...
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medinnovationblog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghosts upon the floor. Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849 As we look forward to the December health care debate, it is important to remember other issues – other burning embers – besides health care smolder on the Senate floor and must be dealt with. These embers could flare up, complicate,...
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Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Die, Monster, Die! was produced by Samuel Z. Arkoff for AIP (American International Picture) and directed by horror film veteran Daniel Haller. Haller started his career as an art director and production designer and he worked with AIP for many years before he began directing films for the company. Haller’s early work with Roger Corman is especially noteworthy since he helped give Corman’s Edgar...
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Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
... for his short stories. Influenced by everyone from Eastern philosophers to GK Chesterton and Edgar Allen Poe, his stories are a curious mixture of the gothic and the intellectual. A lot of his stories explore secret worlds, or secret identities, and that always intrigued me. More importantly, he’s Argentine, and my father is from Argentina, so I’ve always felt a strange...
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Dream of the Unified Media (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yesterday I got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Edgar Allen Poe exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art, courtesy of Maryland Citizens for the Arts.The exhibit's curator, Doreen Bolger, walked us around the gallery, describing not just the significance of the art included, but explaining the motivations behind the entire construction of the exhibit. It's a gorgeous setting, with the perfect...
