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With utter predictability, the recent Lancet study (.pdf file) proclaiming that America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq has resulted in nearly 655,000 Iraqi deaths, has now become a political football. Though certainly well-intentioned, this infallibly researched and thoroughly peer-reviewed study and the reaction it has engendered still shows that when it comes to death, torture, [...]

As someone who was also drawn to experimental filmmaking, and made his own super-8 and 16mm films at one time, I have some thoughts on Soth’s “rejection” of experimental film as “ponderous and pretentious,” as well as the larger issue about photographers turning to filmmaking.

Saw this over at Kottke: a list compiled by film critic Jim Emerson entitled “102 Movies You Must See Before You Die”. Emerson’s criteria for the list is that these are “the movies you just kind of figure everybody ought to have seen in order to have any sort of informed discussion about movies.” I [...]