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un blog comme les autres AlloCiné : Cinéma, Séries TV, Stars, Vidéos, DVD et VOD What Culture... Incorporating Obsessed With Film | Film, TV, Gaming, Music, Comics. Elon Musk, the 21st Century Industrialist On Fridays, Elon Musk gathers his engineers in an old hangar in Los Angeles. The building, next to a municipal airport a couple miles south of the Hollywood Park race track and casino, is now a research and development facility for Musk’s electric car company, Tesla Motors (TSLA). Musk uses these meetings to check the team’s progress and give straightforward, often withering, design critiques. During one such session in July, versions of the Model S sedan and the skeletal frame of a forthcoming sport-utility vehicle, the Model X, sit in a corner. Drivetrain prototypes lay on the concrete floor next to interior cabin mock-ups. Musk’s staff huddles around him as he zeroes in on a sun visor. Illustration by R. The session continues in the parking lot, where a number of competitors’ vehicles—some hybrids, some conventional—await judgment. Last year alone, Acura’s parent company, Honda Motor (HMC), sold 200,000 hybrids. Musk has been having a year good enough for another movie.

The Spy files WikiLeaks: The Spy Files Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality. Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many as 160 intelligence contractors in the mass surveillance industry. International surveillance companies are based in the more technologically sophisticated countries, and they sell their technology on to every country of the world. But the WikiLeaks Spy Files are more than just about ’good Western countries’ exporting to ’bad developing world countries’. Selling Surveillance to Dictators Trovicor, previously a subsidiary of Nokia Siemens Networks, supplied the Bahraini government with interception technologies that tracked human rights activist Abdul Ghani Al Khanjar. Orwell’s World

Welcome to Issue 62 of our journal Once upon a time in France, long, long before The Artist and all it represents was even a blimp on distant horizons, film culture had an altogether different dimension and orientation. That orientation can be summed up, perhaps too simply, in one phrase: “the politics of film”. And its effects were felt at all levels of film culture, from the mainstream industry to the independents and all manner of production modes in between; from filmmakers to audiences; from ciné-clubs to film schools; from film journals to film scholars. No strata of film culture remained untouched. In part 1 of our interview with Jean-Louis Comolli that period and its political agitations are evoked in exacting detail. For Comolli, this is no nostalgic stroll down memory lane, but a portrait of an era that defined him and, as a thinker and filmmaker, set him on a course for life. At the time, Cahiers was undergoing its so-called “Marxist-Leninist” phase, with a heavy overlay of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory.

Movie-Moron | Reviews, News, Humor, Top 10 Lists Absolutely No Machete Juggling » The Star Wars Saga: Introducing Machete Order Brace your­selves, what follows is an amaz­ingly long blog post about the best order in which to watch Star Wars. First, let me say this: for people that couldn't care less about the prequel trilogy, I suggest Harmy's De­spe­cial­ized Edi­tions. They are 720p videos that are the result of "Harmy" from The Orig­i­nal Trilogy forums painstak­ingly re­con­struct­ing the the­atri­cal re­leases of all three films uti­liz­ing a wide variety of video sources as well as custom mattes. So, with that out of the way, what can you do if you do wish to involve the prequel trilogy? What­ever your reason, if you are showing someone the of­fi­cial edi­tions of Star Wars for the first time, you have to make a de­ci­sion about which order to watch the films. There are two obvious options for watch­ing the Star Wars saga. There are two crit­i­cal flaws with both of these orders, un­for­tu­nately, that prevent either from being ap­pro­pri­ate. So neither order really works. What Gets Removed? What a Twist!

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