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We must remember that art is art. Well, on the other hand water is water isn’t it? And east is east and west is west. And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does. Now uh…now you tell me what you know.

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By: Groucho Marx
From: Animal Crackers

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Honk, honk, honkhonkhonk, honk…honk!

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By: Harpo Marx

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Harpo Marx, when asked about the futility of modern existential living.

New global indie film fundraising projects announced

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) announced today exciting new projects and partnerships for its pioneering Cinema Reloaded digital film production and online fundraising platform. Launched earlier this year, Cinema Reloaded allows filmmakers to directly connect with film-lovers around the world, in order to finance and distribute their projects through online crowd funding. The first ….

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America is now in that curious interlude that Nietzsche foretold a century ago: the time of the reevaluation, the devising of new values to replace the osteoporotic skeletons of the old. Behold, it is not the ending but the beginning! Sisters and brethren, it is written that these are evil days, but I say unto you: the holiest of spirits are even now bubbling up into every brain.

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By: Tom Wolfe

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From Wolfe's Life Magazine article "The Sexed-Up, Doped-Up, Hedonistic Heaven of the Boom-Boom ’70s" (December 1979).

Gasland screening and open bar after-party this Saturday

Rooftop Summer Series’ Kickstarter Extend the Summer Campaign has additional screening events this fall, starting with a special screening this Saturday of Josh Fox’s Gasland. Part vérité travelogue, part exposé, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, and part showdown, Gasland delivers a devastating look into the effects of the natural gas drilling method known as ….

Indie film group picks 30 most significant indie films of the last 30 years and announces theatrical screening series

The Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA) recently marked its 30th anniversary by selecting what it considers the “30 Most Significant Independent Films” from around the globe produced over the past three decades. IFTA Chairman Lloyd Kaufman and President & CEO Jean Prewitt jointly made the announcement today. In selecting the Most Significant Independent Films ….