Culture Soak

The SIX SHOOTER FILM SERIES from Magnet consists of six films from six different countries ranging from horror, sci-fi, alternative comedy and Asian cinema and aims to bring fans the most intelligent, genre-bending titles from around the world. Check out the trailers here. The Kentucky Theatre is currently showing Let the Right One In but I have to say Big Man Japan looks like the most intriguing one to me.

Helvetica will debut tonight on PBS. If you’re local you can catch it on KET2 and KETKY-HD at 10 p.m. In the meantime you can check out the mini-site here. Be sure to play What Font Are You? while you’re there and let’s hope nobody turns out to be Comic Sans.

The Insomnia Film Festival is a contest where each team only has 24 hours to write, cast, shoot, edit and score a 3-minute movie. Apple will post a list of the required elements that must appear in your film the day of the contest. It begins November 15 at 9 a.m. but is limited to students only. Check out the entries from last year here. My friends and I competed in a similar contest while we were students at Morehead State and I must say it was a real challenge but a great experience. Who knows, we may just post our ‘award-winning’ movie for our readers to see.

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Awesome slow motion video of people getting punched in the face by Austin, TX based production company Action Figure. Apparently, everyone in the video is an employee of the company - nice.

Hulu offers U.S. consumers a great selection of full episodes of TV shows, both current and classic, full-length movies, thousands of clips, and much more all free and ad-supported.

Beautiful Losers celebrates the spirit behind one of the most influential cultural movements of a generation. If you seen or missed Beautiful Losers the exhibition this film is a must. Rooted in the DIY (do-it-yourself) subcultures of skateboarding, surf, punk, hip hop & graffiti, they made art that reflected the lifestyles they led.

THE ALCHEMISTS is a surprisingly personal exploration of some of the most influential advertising giants of the last century, and the communication they created which rocked our culture. Through their stories, and with humor and drama, THE ALCHEMISTS will be the definitive film of the 20th century phenomenon of creative advertising.

Dith Pran, a Cambodian photojournalist who had teamed up with New York Times correspondent Sydney H. Schanberg in the 1970s to record some of the most heart-wrenching photos from Cambodia, was later captured and tortured by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1979. After those nightmarish years, he escaped, and was re-united with his family in New York, where he continued to work as a photojournalist and to speak out for human rights. His story was made into an award-winning movie, “The Killing Fields“, in 1984. He died on Sunday March 30 at age 65. A video interview made by the New York Times just weeks before his death can be seen here.

Hillman Curtis releases his new film documenting artist/designer Stefan Sagmeister over the course of his month long residency at Deitch Projects in New York City. Both Curtis and Sagmeister are extremely influential in today’s art and design scene.

Academy Award Winning (Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis & Best Cinematography Robert Elswit) There Will Be Blood comes to DVD along with a Two-Disk Collectors Edition Tuesday April 8th.