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Links for the Day: Agnès Varda Retrospective, Why McDonald's Got It Right, BP Oil Leak = Hollywood Blockbuster?

Cleo from 5 to 7

The Auteurs's online retrospective Le cinéma d'Agnès Varda, which includes shorts and feature-length films from the director, is now live. Check it out!

Here's a really insightful, eloquent, and touching editorial by Jim Emerson at the Chicago Sun-Times about that "controversial" French McDonald's commercial we posted a couple of days ago.

Thanks to Ray Privett for pointing us toward this cartoon at xkcd.com satirizing Michael Bay and the media's response to the BP oil leak (though we're surprised at how good BP itself comes off).




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Links for the Day: Mubi, Slant's New Name, Law & Order: Special Letters Unit

According to Wikipedia, Mubi is a small town in Nigeria. Also, it's the new name of the website formerly known as The Auteurs.

In other news, Slant Magazine is changing its name to I Farted in Your Mouth While You Were Sleeping.

Reports that Law & Order is getting the axe seem to be upsetting a lot of people. Because apparently 20 seasons and three spin-offs (and a new Los Angeles edition on the way) isn't enough. Here's the pilot for a spin-off that sadly didn't get picked up:

Links for the Day: A collection of links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to keithuhlich@gmail.com and to converse in the comments section.




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Links for the Day: The Auteurs, Lynn Redgrave, Juliana Hatfield, and the Magic of Hair

Congratulations to our friends over at The Auteurs, who, along with Roger Ebert, won a Webby Award! They also assembled a great collection of quotes and links about the late Lynn Redgrave yesterday. Check it out!

Jonathan Keefe took a break from helping bail buckets of floodwater out of his neighbor's basement in Kentucky to let us know that Juliana Hatfield is selling herself. While supplies last.

Finally, as the Gulf oil spill flow continues to grow and threaten local wildlife and fisheries, people in other parts of the country are wondering how they can help. Here's one fascinating way:

Links for the Day: A collection of links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to keithuhlich@gmail.com and to converse in the comments section.




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Link for the Day: Open Mind Advised

Open Mind Advised

Toronto man and House contributor Adam Nayman is the subject of today's link. He's written a beautiful wrap-up of the 28th Vancouver International Film Festival for The Auteurs. Here's an excerpt, from his section on Mario Llinás's Historias Extraordinarias:

"Then there's the question of the film's generally ugly video aesthetics, but this too deserves closer attention. Besides the not unimportant note that Llinás pulled off such a physically ambitious epic for very little money, there's an impressive continuity to the visuals despite the ever-shifting locations. I'd also argue that the TV-style presentation comments subtly on our willingness (or not) as filmgoers to accept run-on cinematic narratives, as opposed to television, where twists and turns and the illogical distension of character arcs is not only expected but welcomed. Perhaps the best way to describe and to recommend Historias extraordinarias, at a time when even very devoted cinephiles seem more willing to mainline DVDs of Mad Men but blanch at the prospect of a festival movie running more than 90 minutes, is to say that it feels finally like a great, short-run season of high-end television (and also that it won't lose much being viewed on DVD)."




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