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Why Do Filmmakers Call The Battle of Algiers the Greatest War Movie Ever?: Watch It Free Online
about 11 hours ago
Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film, the loose Thomas Pynchon adaptation One Battle...
The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)
about 12 hours ago
Image via Wikimedia Commons With the old joke about every generation thinking...
The Unlikely Friendship of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla
1 day ago
Mark Twain was, in the estimation of many, the United States of...
Talking Heads’ David Byrne Performs a Tiny Desk Concert
1 day ago
If you’ve seen a David Byrne concert in recent years, you know...
Inside Disney’s Long, Frustrated Quest to Create Artificial Human Beings: A Six-Hour Documentary
2 days ago
For young children today, just as it was for generations of their...
An Immersive, ASMR-Style Look at Japanese Woodblock Printing
3 days ago
While not every Open Culture reader dreams of moving to Japan and...
How the “Marvelization” of Cinema Accelerates the Decline of Filmmaking
6 days ago
As hard as it may be to believe, some of us have...
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture Classic
7 days ago
Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition...
What Makes Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Perhaps the Most Revolutionary Painting of the 20th Century?
7 days ago
Practically anyone could take one glance at Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and identify...
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
8 days ago
Above, we have the menu for an 1899 Thanksgiving dinner at the...
How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink’s Strategies for the Digital Age
8 days ago
In his new video above, the writer Daniel Pink proposes the following...
Watch Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania, the First Major Animated Propaganda Film (1918)
9 days ago
You might know Winsor McCay (1867? ‑1934) for the gorgeously surreal Little...