Microsoft Is Setting Up Shop Venice Beach

Watch Out, Google: Microsoft Is Setting Up Shop Venice Beach



Microsoft is setting up offices in Venice Beach, and their new digs will put them pretty close to Google's Venice outpost.

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Great Movie: Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Sure, now's a fine time to look back at how awesome this movie is...


Great Movie: Mulholland Dr. (2001)

It's well known that David Lynch's "Mulholland Dr." was assembled from the remains of a cancelled TV series, with the addition of some additional footage filmed later. That may be taken by some viewers as a way to explain the film's fractured structure and lack of continuity. I think it's a delusion to imagine a "complete" film lurking somewhere in Lynch's mind — a ghostly Director's Cut that exists only in his original intentions. The film is openly dreamlike, and like most dreams it moves uncertainly down a path with many turnings.

The Hunger

DVD: Watch This: The Hunger



Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a piece of pop culture coming out that week. This week: Twilight: Breaking Dawn—Part 2 has us thinking of vampire alternatives. 
The Hunger (1983) Cinematic vampires did the glam thing long before Twilight’s Edward Cullen came along with his diamond-sparkly skin and tousled hair. In The Hunger, Catherine Deneuve is a vampire and David Bowie is her blood-sucking, century-old consort, and they live a happy predatory life together in a glitzy ’80s paradise of Bauhaus concerts, blown-out hairspray helmets, and hard-edged Robert Palmer aesthetics. Then Bowie starts to age rapidly, and Deneuve admits that his connection to her could only keep him young and beautiful so long. As he panics and looks for a solution, she discards him and replaces him with new lover Susan Sarandon. As Sarandon says in The Hunger’s commentary track, this was back when ...

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