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WATCH: How A World Champion Masturbator Spends His Day (NSFW)

Posted 12.22.2011

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WARNING: Some links contain pictures of explicit, NSFW content. World champion masturbator Masanobu Sato isn't shy. He's pleasured himself in f...

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On The Artist, The Lure of Nostalgia, and Ten Silent Movies Worth Talking Up

John Farr | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Metropolis, The Academy Awards, King Kong, The Artist, Margin Call, Battleship Potemkin, Martin Scorsese, The New York Times, G.W. Pabst, Best Movies on DVD, Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Silent Film, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Silent Movie, Hugo, Thirteen/WNET, Louise Brooks, F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, Ernst Lubitsch, A.O. Scott, City Lights, Fritz Lang, Hollywood, Entertainment News
John Farr

Just when you start believing there's no hope for anything daring and original coming out of Movieland, something gets released that surprises you. The Artist is one such movie -- and what's new about it is that it's old.

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Our Cinematic History Is At Stake: Film Archives And Apocalypse In 0's And 1's

Vivian Norris | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Eclai, Metropolis, Film Preservation Digital Film, Film Archives vs. Digital, Anthology Film Archives, Cinemateque De France, Digital, Archives, Digital-Film, Film Preservation, Kodak, Film History, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News
Vivian Norris

What would it take to wipe out a digital archive? What would it mean when all of our archives of film, books, everything stored in digital form is wiped out during intense solar storm electro-magnetic activity?

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Weekend Agenda: 'Metropolis' Jams Out, CycLAvia & More!

| Katie Bain | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Metropolis, BAM Festival 2011, Los Angeles Weekend to Do List, Giorgio Moroder?S Metropolis, Esotouric, Los Angeles Opera, Cyclavia, Los Angeles Central Library, Ulture Collide Festival, I Am Vegetable, Gold Diggers & Snake Handlers, BAM Fest 2011, Cinefamily, Revenge of the LA Opera Costume Shop, Fritz Lang, Los Angeles Weekend Agenda, Los Angeles News

This weekend we’ve got indie music on the Eastside, craft beer on the Westside and the eighties era update of a 1927 film classic in between. Whethe...

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New York Ordered to Release Student Test Data With Teachers' Names Attached

The Wall Street Journal | Lisa Fleisher | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: The Wall Street Journal, New York City Schools, Standardized Test Scores, Metropolis, Teacher Evaluations, United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, Standardized Testing, New York Schools, New York City, New York, Education News

By Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school ...

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PHOTOS: Architecture Of The Future?

Adel Zakout | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Metropolis, Art Meets Science, Urban Planning, Futurism, Paper Architecture, Design, Visionary Architecture, Architecture, Film, Utopia, Superstudio, Archigram, Slidepollajax, Future Cities, Fritz Lang, Arts News
Adel Zakout

The 1926 sci-fi masterpiece Metropolis by Fritz Lang opens with a stunning sequence of machinery in motion, followed by an anonymous workers' crowd de...

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Street Art: A Window to a City's Soul

Dylan Kendall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolis, Living, Art, Los Angeles, Street Art, Culture, Poverty, Los Angeles Art, Hackers, Arts News
Dylan Kendall

Around the world artists give voice to those who want to create change in their cities. Los Angeles is home to an army of influential artists, yet it is also home to third-world poverty.

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Am I Dreaming, or Is Christopher Nolan's Inception Overrated?

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ellen Page, Guy Pearce, Metropolis, Science Fiction Movies, Christopher Nolan, Michael Caine, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Batman:the Dark Knight, Memento, Science Fiction, Marion Cotillard, Inception, Heath Ledger, Leonardo Dicaprio, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News
John Farr

One interesting aspect of waiting to see certain Hollywood blockbusters on DVD is that you hear a lot in advance from the people who plunk down the bi...

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In Superman's Hometown, A Bitter Labor Dispute

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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METROPOLIS, Ill. — With a Mayberry-meets-Disney charm, this southern Illinois town has enthusiastically claimed Superman as its favorite son. A...

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Best DVDs of 2010: Silent Film

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thomas Gladysz

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ABC's Amanpour Refuses to Ask Honeywell CEO About Locked Out Workers

Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolis, Abc, Honeywell, Obama, Illiinois, David Cote, This Week, Christine Amanpour, Christiane Amanpour, Media News
Mike Elk

The case of the Metropolis plant lockout confirms what many of us already know: when journalists stop caring about worker's struggles, the natural result is that politicians like President Obama don't need to care either.

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WATCH: BLOG WATCH> Suki Chan: Sleep Walk, Sleep Talk On Daily Serving

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Multimedia, Metropolis, Video, Hong Kong, Art Exhibits, Daily Serving, Artists, Suki Chan, Exhibitions, New Art Exchange, London, Blog Watch, Arts News

A city as large and as densely populated as London is sure to be brimming with such varied experiences. There are the stories of those who have been t...

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Remembering H.A.V. Bulleid, Author and Pioneering Film Historian

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: H.a.V. Bulleid, Books, Metropolis, Famous Library Films, Silent Film, Movies, Fritz Lang, Kevin Brownlow, Film History, Books News
Thomas Gladysz

Famous Library Films offers contemporary readers an uncommon perspective: one can read about silent film through the eyes of someone who came of age during the silent era.

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Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast V1:N14: Metropolis

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lost Classic, Violence, Action-Adventure, Film, Justice, Repression, Emotion, Activism, Metropolis, Drama, Film Restoration, Movies, Social Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Explosions, Art, Love, Fritz Lang, Cinefantastique, Cinefantastique Podcast, Cfq, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

In Volume 1, Episode 14 of the Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast, Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski visit the...

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Rob Carter's Metropolis (VIDEO): Pop-Up Graphics Offer Startling View Of Urban Expansion

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolis, Stop Motion Paper Animation, Metropolis Film, Urban Expansion, Rob Carter Metropolis, Rob Carter, Urban Planning, Charlotte North Carolina, Urban Development, Film, Video, Green News

Rob Carter's stop-motion paper animation film, Metropolis, moves like a pop-up book on speed. The nine-minute film chronicles the urban expansion of C...

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Paul Kahan on The Interview Show

Mark Bazer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mark Bazer

Paul Kahan, executive chef for Avec, Big Star, Blackbird and the Publican, stopped by The Interview Show to discuss his career, restaurants and more.

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Top 10 Futuristic Films With Cautionary Tales

TakePart.com | Gina Telaroli | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Metropolis, Films With Message, Farenheit 451, V for Vendetta, Brazil, Children of Men, Thx 1138, The Giving Life, Dystopian Films, The Matrix, Code 46, Future Films, A Clockwork Orange, Bladerunner, Healthy Living News

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