Canada Reads 2014
This year’s Canada Reads may have been the best yet. Well worth watching all four episodes if you missed them.
170 years of The Globe and Mail's front page
1997.
Q: Snake comes across as a dick, but he’s everybody’s dick.
Kurt Russell: He is not a dick. Never call Snake a dick. One thing Snake Plissken isn’t is he’s not a dick. As he says about himself “I’m an asshole,” but there’s a big difference between a dick and an asshole. He’s never a dick. It’s impossible for him to be a dick! It’s just something he doesn’t know how to do. That’s like saying Snake’s not cool. I mean, what the fuck!?! If Snake’s not cool there is no cool! Yeah, he’s not a dick, he’s an asshole. He can be a fuckin’ pain in your ass and he doesn’t give a fuck about anything!
Martin Scorsese's Top 10 Criterion Titles
1. Paisan
Roberto RosselliniIn My Voyage to Italy, the documentary that we made about Italian cinema, we started with this picture. For me, it really was the beginning. I saw it for the first time on television with my grandparents, and their overwhelming reaction to what had happened to their homeland since they left at the turn of the century was just as present and vivid for me as the images and the characters. I was experiencing the power of cinema itself, in this case made far beyond Hollywood, under extremely tough conditions and with inferior equipment. And I was also seeing that cinema wasn’t just about the movie itself but the relationship between the movie and its audience. Fellini said that when Rossellini was filming the Po Valley sequence, he acted on pure instinct, inventing freely as he went along. The result—in that episode, and in the Sicilian and Neapolitan and Florentine episodes as well—is still startling: it’s like seeing reality itself unfolding before your eyes.
"There’s nothing better in one shot together, than Nicholas Cage and an iguana." - Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Errol Morris and the director of The Act of Killing's recent Reddit AMA is a fascinating, revealing must-read.
