Resources for June 16, 2014

Just getting to this: for Parallax View Sean Axmaker and Bruce Reid remind us of some of the essential film-related reads of 2013

Top Films of 1973

Top Films of 2009

Landesman, Ohad. "In Cold Blood: The Act of Killing." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)

Pariser, Eli. "Beware Online 'Filter Bubbles.'" TED Talks (May 2, 2011)

'As we are told endlessly, journalists do not express opinions; they simply report the facts.

'This is an obvious pretense, a conceit of the profession. The perceptions and pronouncements of human beings are inherently subjective. Every news article is the product of all sorts of highly subjective cultural, nationalistic, and political assumptions. And all journalism serves one faction's interests or another.' (Greenwald, No Place To Hide – Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State, Penguin, digital edition, 2014, p.471)

Wölk, Ekkehard. "In Search of Bruno S.: A Berlin photographer finds, befriends and remembers the uniquely passionate person and puzzle that was Bruno Schleinstein." Keyframe (June 10, 2014)

366 Weird Movies

Smalley, G. "3 Women (1977)." 366 Weird Movies (February 19, 2014)


Merriam-Webster Word-of-the-Day

matriculate \muh-TRIK-yuh-layt\

verb: to enroll as a member of a body and especially of a college or university

EXAMPLES

A spokesperson for the college said the school is expected to matriculate approximately 1,000 students for the fall semester.

"Work joined Symphony in the Valley at the tender age of nine and continued to perform with them before matriculating at Juilliard." — Beth Slater, Aspen Daily News, May 9, 2014

Anybody who has had basic Latin knows that "alma mater," a fancy term for the school you attended, comes from a phrase that means "fostering mother." If "mater" is "mother," then "matriculate" probably has something to do with a school nurturing you just like good old mom, right? Not exactly. If you go back far enough, "matriculate" is distantly related to the Latin "mater," but its maternal associations were lost long ago. It is more closely related to Late Latin "matricula," which means "public roll or register," and it has more to do with being enrolled than being mothered.