Overview: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people. Based on the acclaimed manga by Nakazawa Keiji, the author of Barefoot Gen, who was 6 years old at the time of the Hiroshima...
You may know, or be, one of those people who lovingly catalogued their discs and shelved them alphabetically. Abigail De Kosnik, director of the Berkeley Center for New Media, has a felicitous phrase for the practice: “rogue archiving.” By 2000, some 250,000 VHS or DVD...
So Diego embarked on a rather unusual effort; to talk about countries that make headlines, but instead of focusing on the same three basic stories, he extended the reach of his eye to look at a more subtle vision of these countries, full of culture, people, interests that rise high above...
Here on Retro Thing, we celebrate home movies a lot - mostly the all-but-gone film variety. Though a much more recent innovation, home videos are in even more danger of disappearing. Video tape is less hardy than film, and the pictures tend to disappear off the tape over the years. Wh...
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Celebrating The Career Of John Saxon! One of the things I love about social media is when like-minded people come together for a single reason: and in this case that single reason is John Saxon. I’m so excited to take…Read More › ...
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He is a semi-interventionist deity who offers cryptic words of encouragement before disappearing again. The series has never leaned overly hard into themes or subtext, but what has been dropped away quietly through the season. Ghost Hari has no idea who Salvor is or why she receives psychic ...
Meg is another of those actresses whose careers began too late to be tested in perhaps the greatest ever court of critical opinion on this planet – The Master’s [though a wiser people may exist in a parallel universe elsewhere].