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A beautiful BMW commercial featuring sculptor/engineer Theo Jansen.

This looks like fun. Morgan Spurlock goes on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.

In the 80’s, when this film is set, my brothers and I used to make “Super Dave” videos with phony stunts, stubbed in with all the dangerous parts being done by a dummy. We dragged the dummy behind a 3-wheeler, dropped it off the roof, shot it, etc. Good times. This film preview reminds me of that time.

Funny.

Evidently, Mark Twain went a bit existentialist as he aged and spent the final 20 years of his life working off and on on a story encapsulating some epiphanies related to the dream-like nature of life. What he came up with is a bit darker than most people would probably believe came from Twain.

It’s worth while to take a few minutes to read the wikipedia article on “The Mysterious Stranger” before watching the creepy video below. Just call it your literary moment of the day.

The trailer for the new documentary “Taxi to the Darkside” looks like it will be another fantastic documentary from the same director that made “The Smartest Guys in the Room.” A documentary tracing the unexplained detention and death of an Afghani taxi driver.

Check out the to view the trailer. It’s worth it.

Here’s the deal, don’t take anyone that’s squeamish. I thought it was a fantastic film treatment of a darkly comic musical but the blood really does gush and flow going so far as to splatter the camera in one of the shots. A great film for fans of the macabre but definitely not for their girlfriends (sorry, Jan!). Yet another argument for owning the entire Tim Burton collection.

Link to the trailer.

For a fantastic review of the movie, check out the Mumpsimus. While I do not know the play as well and think he underestimates the gore, I agree wholeheartedly with the rest of his sentiments.

“The Bank Job” starring Jason Statham looks outstanding. The film chronicles an unsolved 1971 London bank robbery known as the “walkie-talkie bank job.” What’s compelling about this story is that the British government issued a gag order suppressing public news of the robbery within days of the heist. A modern day “Deep Throat” informer acted as testimony for the film and points to embarrassing blackmail material implicating the royal family as being the reason the story was suppressed.

See the Guardian Unlimited story here for more information on the robbery.

I can’t wait for this one. February 29th.

“Lost in Translation” is a phenomenal movie but I always wondered what Bob Harris (Bill Murray) whispered to Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) at the end. Well, with a little digital processing, these guys on youtube figured it out and I love the fact that it’s in keeping with Bob’s character.

A great hour-long interview with Jeff Bezos, mostly centered on the new Amazon Kindle e-book reader but with other interesting tidbits on innovation in general.