Oscars Betting Odds

Easyodds.com provides a table of odds being offered by 20 British bookmakers on all of the major Academy Awards categories. I don’t want to give anything away but A Serious Man has its work cut out for itself. link

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Screening Today @ AU: PBS Frontline “Flying Cheap” followed by panel discussion

The screening will begin at 7 o’clock in Wechsler Theater located on the 3rd floor of the Mary Graydon Center. “Flying Cheap” was co-produced by the School of Communication Investigative Reporting Workshop and FRONTLINE. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion, including David Fanning, the executive producer of FRONTLINE. A full description of […]

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Today in the AU Library: Lawrence Lessig Webcast

6 pm – 7:30 pm, Training and Events Room (library 1st floor) Open Video Community Day Webcast: Open Access advocate Lawrence Lessiglectures on copyright in the digital age and “fair use” which allowslimited use of copyrighted material for commentary, criticism,teaching and scholarship. Please Note: This is a webcast. Lawrence Lessig will not be here in […]

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Streaming Video: One Degree Matters

I went looking for distributors of films that will be screened in the upcoming Environmental Film Festival and discovered One Degree Matters is available in its entirety on Vimeo. Here’s the Film Festival’s blurb on it: ONE DEGREE MATTERS (Denmark, 2009, 57 min.) This documentary follows social and business leaders as they travel to Greenland […]

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Academy Awards Best Picture Nominees

They’ve upped the list to ten this year. Five aren’t yet on video but the other five can be found in the Media Services collection. Avatar – Not yet on video.The Blind Side – Not yet on video.District 9 – DVD 6686An Education – Not yet on video.The Hurt Locker – DVD 6762Inglourious Basterds – […]

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A History of Banned and Censored Films – courtesy of UCal Berkeley Library

This filmography created by media librarian Gary Handman has many titles that are also available in the AU collection. It’s fun to browse through as it’s loaded with notes on where and why a film was banned. Sample entry: The Last Picture Show(1973) Director, Peter Bagdanovich. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn, Ben Johnson, […]

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