P.J. O.Rourke on "what happened to the future?"

Quoted: In the 1950s, Disneyland thrilled visitors with its imaginative House of the Future. Now Disney has opened a new House, with a new vision of future domesticity. Our correspondent looks in—and finds that what’s to come will be tough on the stomach, relentlessly beige, and, in every sense, subprime.

A terrific article in Columbia College Today on how "The Fifties" replaced "the 50's". Insightful quotations from the early 70's about the displacement of "beat" images from our post-war history.

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The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent ‘whistlers' produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?.
Awarded Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.
Awarded Best Experimental Film at Tirana International Film Festival 2007.

IMDb entry on USSR film from 1972 based on Stanislaw Lem's novel.

Quoted: Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. With Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments, Discussions, Taglines, Trailers, Posters, Fan Sites

Josh Levin review in Slate with the kind of a closer you only get to use once a decade.

Quoted: This was the worst movie I've ever seen, so bad that I hesitate to label it a "movie" and thus reflect shame upon the entire medium of film. Friedberg and Seltzer do not practice the same craft as P.T. Anderson, David Cronenberg, Michael Bay, Kevin Costner, the Zucker Brothers, the Wayans Brothers, Uwe Boll, any dad who takes shaky home movies on a camping trip, or a bear who turns on a video camera by accident while trying to eat it. They are not filmmakers. They are evildoers, charlatans, symbols of Western civilization's decline

Great old films showing up in the Internet Archive. Thanks, Chris!

This time it's The New Yorker's turn.

The original Fleischer brothers' cartoons, 60 of them, restored from the original negatives. Amazing!

Quoted: Amazon.com: Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Vol. 1: DVD: Popeye the Sailor by Popeye the Sailor

If you only see ONE website today - THIS IS THE ONE!
Not just 3 or 4 emotions - but ALL the emotions!

Grindhouse trailers with commentary from big directors. A fan's dream.