Warner Bros. Lets You Watch 31 Movies Free On-line: David Byrne’s True Tales, Christopher Visitor’s Ready for Guffman, Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep & Extra

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It’s Fri­day, which implies that tonight, many people will sit down to look at a film with our fam­i­ly, our associates, our sig­nif­i­cant oth­er, or — for some cinephiles, better of all — by our­selves. In case you haven’t but lined up any home-cin­e­mat­ic expe­ri­ence in par­tic­u­lar, con­sid­er tak­ing a take a look at this…

Laurie Anderson’s Thoughts-Blowing Efficiency of C. P. Cavafy’s Poems “Ready for the Barbarians” & “Ithaca”

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In the video above, Lau­rie Ander­son describes C. P. Cavafy’s poem “Wait­ing for the Bar­bar­ians” as being “set in historic Rome.” That’s a rea­son­ready inter­pre­ta­tion, giv­en that it con­tains an emper­or, sen­a­tors, and ora­tors, although Cavafy him­self mentioned that none of them are nec­es­sar­i­ly Roman. The uni­ver­sal­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion the poem describes, during which a…