100 film classics of the new century selected by 177 film critics

Many people lament the death of ‘real cinema’ and ‘real films’ because of the number of people now downloading films illegally.  This means that the investment into film is jeopardised by piracy. Although the same was said about cinema being dead when Television first came out as well, right? Could streaming TV and films beContinue reading “100 film classics of the new century selected by 177 film critics”

Tilda Swinton is an iconoclast, rebel and an alien of the best kind

In 2014, actress actress Tilda Swinton was awarded with the Rothko Chapel Visionary Award at the The Rothko Chapel, which is home to fourteen of Mark Rothko’s paintings. This luminous chapel is a spiritual and human rights center whose mission is “to inspire people to action through art and contemplation, to nurture reverence for the highest aspirationsContinue reading “Tilda Swinton is an iconoclast, rebel and an alien of the best kind”

Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)

Quaint, hopeful and at times creepily accurate. This story with Walter Kronkite is just fascinating, as a historical artifact, and also to see just how many of these ideas actually came to fruition and how far beyond these simple ways of living we have come. “The domestication of the computer is upon us”. And what aContinue reading “Walter Kronkite: The Promise of the 21st Century’s Bounty (1967)”