Renowned science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke died Wednesday (Sri Lanka time) after suffering breathing problems. This isn’t strictly film news, but of course Clarke collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey based on Clarke’s story The Sentinel. In the film, it was Clarke’s inspiration to have HAL 9000 singing Daisy [...]

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Anthony Minghella died suddenly Tuesday morning of a brain hemorrhage while convalescing at a hospital following a neck operation. The Oscar winning director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley was 54 years old.
Source: Variety

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Horton Hears a Who, but he can’t see them
“On the fifteenth of May, in the Jungle of Nool,
In the heat of the day, in the cool of the pool,
He was splashing…enjoying the jungle’s great joys…
When Horton the elephant heard a small noise.”
So begins Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss and so begins the new animated [...]

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