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20 Brilliant Filmmakers on Why They Make Movies – Flavorwire

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20 Brilliant Filmmakers on Why They Make Movies. November 12, 2012. A couple of weeks back, we combed through our favorite quotes and offered up a few words from some of our favorite musicians about why they do what they do. That post was so well liked that we decided to seek out similar thoughts from some of our favorite moviemakers, to find out what drives them, what motivates them, and what pushes them to create. The best are collected after the jump; feel free to add your own in the comments.

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Classic Books Annotated by Famous Authors – Flavorwire

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Classic Books Annotated by Famous Authors. May 28, 2013. From Sylvia Plath’s copy of. Mark Twain’s improvements to the title page of. Plutarch’s Lives of Illustrious Men. The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s copy of Kafka’s. Read more of his notes here. Christopher Hitchens’s cheeky notes in his copy of. Another dubious one-liner (but see Charles Ryder on his missus) / First mention of ‘careless people’ (better than car-less)? From page 594 of David Markson’s copy of. Volume ten of the. Subscribe To Our ...

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Famous Authors and Their Typewriters – Flavorwire

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Famous Authors and Their Typewriters. December 25, 2011. Editor’s note: While your Flavorwire editors take a much-needed holiday break, we’ll spend the next two weekends revisiting some of our most popular features of the year. This post was originally published May 30, 2011. Inspired by LIFE’s “ In Praise of the Typewrite. William Faulkner, 1943. Nate Parker’s ‘Birth of a Nation’ Screening and Q&A at AFI Canceled. This Is Not My Life: Frank Ocean and Elliott Smith Share More Than You Might Think.

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The Best Made-For-TV Movies of All Time – Flavorwire

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The Best Made-For-TV Movies of All Time. February 7, 2012. Folded in among today’s DVD releases, presumably overlooked amid your. 3D yuletides and “Shakespeare didn’t write his plays! 8221; screeds, is one of 2011’s best films:. Written by Cormac McCarthy, directed by Tommy Lee Jones, starring Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. You might be thinking. (You might be! What a fine pedigree! What an excellent cast! I would have gone to see that! Did it not play at my local art house or multiplex? It won three Emmy ...

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Awesome Furniture Built to Look like Giant Versions of Everyday Items – Flavorwire

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Awesome Furniture Built to Look like Giant Versions of Everyday Items. May 27, 2012. Here at Flavorpill, we always appreciate a little creative design work, especially when it comes to highly covetable. Inspired by Jeff Skierka’s “Mixtape Table,” which we spotted over at Design Milk. 8220; Mixtape Table. 8221; designed by Jeff Skierka [via design milk. Late-Night TV Shows You Might Have Missed. Frank Ocean Releases Second Album ‘Blond’ and Launches New Mag ‘Boys Don’t Cry’. Subscribe To Our Newsletter.

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2014: The Death of the Postmodern Novel and the Rise of Autofiction – Flavorwire

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2014: The Death of the Postmodern Novel and the Rise of Autofiction. December 31, 2014. The postmodern novel is dead. It is no longer what William James would call a. Were autofictions that vigorously reasserted the self. Midway through Ben Lerner’s 2014 metafictional novel. It was as if I could register in my hands a subtle but momentous transfer of weight: the twenty-one grams of the market’s soul had fled; it was no longer a commodity fetish; it was art before or after capital. In her own life, which ...

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Watch a Book Being Born – Flavorwire

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Photo credit: Lise Sarfati. Watch a Book Being Born. April 3, 2012. We don’t know about you, but we never really think about how physical books get put together — and as e-readers become more and more prominent, the art of book-binding will probably become even more forgotten. This short film of a book being assembled with traditional printing methods, created for the UK’s. Frank Ocean Pays Tribute to Trayvon Martin and Others in New “Nikes” Video. The Moxi Girls: How We Roll. Subscribe To Our Newsletter.

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10 Essential African-American Photographers – Flavorwire

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10 Essential African-American Photographers. August 31, 2014. Thomas Allen Harris’ documentary. Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People. 8220;What the film strives to say is, when everything around me is telling me I am not worth anything, I can present myself and have a likeness of myself and my talents that shows I have values, Harris told. James Van Der Zee. In a 1993 interview. Her use of text, depictions of family, and her own constructed image tackle issues of r...

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Expressive Picasso Artworks That Don’t Need Color – Flavorwire

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Expressive Picasso Artworks That Don’t Need Color. October 4, 2012. Would Pablo Picasso’s. Look more somber if every surface of her body wasn’t garlanded with festive colors? Would his mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter look less sensual if her curves were monochromatic instead of pale fleshy pink? Opening tomorrow at the Guggenheim,. Picasso Black and White. The Maids of Honor (Las Meninas, after Velázquez). Les Ménines, vue d’ensemble, d’après Velázquez. This Week’s Top 5 TV Picks.

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10 Great Female-Fronted Punk Bands You Should Know – Flavorwire

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10 Great Female-Fronted Punk Bands You Should Know. April 5, 2012. A couple of years back, we stumbled across something called. A Reference Of Female-Fronted Punk Rock. A wonderful, exhaustive compilation of old school female-fronted punk bands from 1979-1989. (You can find it here. If you’re interested.) But as much as we love all the bands featured, we got to thinking recently: well, what about their contemporary counterparts? Shannon and the Clams. Evocative Portraits of Russian Teens in the ’90s.