Stanley Kubrick’s painfully funny take on Cold War anxiety is one of the fiercest satires of human folly ever to come out of Hollywood. The matchless shape-shifter Peter Sellers plays three wildly different roles: Royal Air Force Captain Lionel Mandrake
Where Steve McQueen, Lee Marvin and Warren Beatty radiated charisma in those films, Delon stripped that element away from “Le Samouraï” (and many subsequent roles). Delon’s nearly expressionless face was an inscrutable Noh mask in that film. For those who understand French, his even-...
After 15 years, I’ve seen 1925 features. (I haven’t counted the shorts, or any movies I’ve half-seen—and my list doesn’t take into consideration most of the questions I raised in my last post, “How Many Movies Are There?“, as to what constitutes a feature.) That doesn’t ...
Look, you’re not going to find a cutting-edge sitcom or a Hollywood action thriller on Kanopy. But if you go into it with the expectation of exploring documentaries, independent films and a decent catalog of children’s content, you’re likely going to be happy with the content — and ...
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About an hour into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1946 classic Notorious, a tangled tale of love and espionage set in postwar Rio de Janeiro, comes one of the most celebrated shots the director ever committed to film. During a posh soirée at the home of the wealthy Nazi Sebastian (Claude Rains), ...
Each concept is represented by many neurons; 2. Each neuron participates in the representation of many concepts. Language Modeling with N-Grams. The related slides are here. It introduced language modeling and the N-gram, one of the most widely used tools in language processing. Language ...
The third and final film of the arthouse trilogy features a model who runs over a judge's dog and then finds herself in a unique relationship with the judge. The three films of the trilogy are color-themed based on the French flag. They also revolve around the themes of the French repu...
The third and final film of the arthouse trilogy features a model who runs over a judge's dog and then finds herself in a unique relationship with the judge. The three films of the trilogy are color-themed based on the French flag. They also revolve around the themes of the French repu...
But it could always be worse — much, much worse. For the proof of that, you need only watch one of the many films that Hollywood produced over the past century imagining what life would be like in the far-flung future of the 2020s. From the early days of cinema — before there was...