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Our film ALICE NEEL is included on the great list of documentaries in the @nytimes. You can watch it on the SeeThink Vimeo page: www.vimeo.com/seethink https://www.instagram.com/p/B_FuM1MDPcn/?igshid=s3xa605jcpgi

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Fromt  @nytimes Watching: This 2006 documentary from Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel takes its title from the Darkon Wargaming Club, a society of live-action role players in suburban Baltimore. Strapping on homemade armor and whacking each other with foam-padded weapons, these weekend warriors (and wizards and elves) gather to enact elaborate story lines of conquest and intrigue. But peel away the helms and tunics, and you’ll find a diverse group of people, driven by personal or economic dislocation to find fulfillment in an imaginary world: a stay-at-home father, a single mother, a young businessman, a teenage misfit. 
“Darkon” is bracingly honest — and, in the context of today’s cultural conversations, prophetically relevant — about the limits of escapism. And the determination its subjects display in using their own imaginations to find agency and joy is deeply moving. At a time when wide swathes of nerd culture have gone toxic, the downtrodden but upbeat adventurers of “Darkon” are downright inspiring. — Sean T. Collins

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The Lost Girls of Chicago piece we made with Atlantic Re:Think won a Webby People's Voice Award and was honored as a Webby for Good! Congratulations to everyone involved! #lostboyzinc Lost Boyz Inc. @atlanticrethink @theatlantic @allstate @danielle.elliot @the_tomd @laserjuice @thewebbyawards Here’s a short version of the video

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Happy Birthday @jayhendrixe 🎂⚡️⚡️!!! 📷 @emeraldgold

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Happy Birthday @jayhendrixe 🎂⚡️⚡️!!! 📷 @emeraldgold

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We are proud to share this short we made about the Lost Girlz after-school program on the South Side of Chicago with @theatlantic / @atlanticrethink and director @danielle.elliot. The teaser is posted here. Head over to The Atlantic to see the full thing. You can find out more about the Lost Boyz/Lost Girlz and how to support the programs here: http://lostboyzinc.org #lostboyzinc @jakezalutsky @the_tomd @laserjuice

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Yuri Norshteyn interviewed by Alexandra Bazdenkova in Russia Beyond The Headlines

“You cannot get talent by bribing. You either have it or you don’t. This is an area where corruption is impossible. Of course, corruption exists in art, but the results are immediately visible on the screen. Corruption here consists not necessarily in getting ‘crooked’ money from someone, but in that you start to act according to crooked ways that you created. Or in that you put yourself in the place of a zealous administrator, but at the same time you continue to do art. And in this sense, you immediately pervert yourself and your creativity ends; that’s it!”

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"I got everything by talking fast in a world that goes for talk and end up with exactly nothing." -The Fallen Angel (1945)

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Arne Sucksdorff, known primarily for his poetic and scenic nature documentaries serves up an interesting one with John Hurt, Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971). Highly recommend "The Great Adventure" (1953) and his many short films.

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D.A. Pennebaker, Depeche Mode 101 (1989)

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The Entity (1982) with Barbara Hershey, one of Scorsese's recommended scary films along with... The Haunting The Isle of The Dead The Uninvited Dead of Night The Changeling The Shining The Exorcist Night of the Demon The Innocents Psycho

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"I can't say Korea is a place I've always wanted to visit, but I think after Broadway I'm going to welcome a nice quiet war." Career (1959) blacklist film drama co-written by Dalton Trumbo

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Interesting underseen DeNiro/Duvall flick loosely adapted around the black dahlia murder by husband and wife team Dunne and Didion. Religious themes of worship, ritual and hypocrisy summon a quote by its screenwriter Joan Didion, "at the root of the art instinct is this desire for power- vicarious power. The artist is situated hierarchically between the hero and the saint...to put it quite simply, art is only a stepping stone to reality; it is the vestibule in which we undergo the rites of initiation. Man's task is to make of himself a work of art. The creations which man makes manifest have no validity in themselves; they serve to awaken, that is all."