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Egg, Descendant of the Sun & Our Early Tech Guide

This week we zoom in on Early Tech with a deep-dive article, plus three choice feature films from Japan and China. Happy weekend family!
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Megan Switzer

The Eternal Guide to Early Technology

This account of the Digital Revolution will be told through the Eternal Family archives, and is thus nowhere near an exhaustive presentation of what is here called ‘Early Technology.’ Please instead consider this a stringing-together of bits and pieces of history, a macaroni necklace of information, rather than a complete
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Newsletter Eternal Family

The Boxer's Omen, Bee Cities & Secret Codes

Weekend watch suggestions include the Boxer's Omen (one of the wildest in the Shaw Brothers' collection) and two gorgeous animated shorts. ¡Buen Provecho!
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Articles Megan Switzer

Eternal Holiday TV Guide

Happy Holidays, Eternal Family! In this playlist we’re highlighting the best of our Christmas stories and winter classics for you and yours to enjoy this holiday season.
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Articles Matt Prins

When the Wind Blows (1986)

Raymond Briggs, best known as the writer and illustrator of beloved children’s books such as Fungus the Bogeyman, Father Christmas, and the holiday classic The Snowman, ventured into far darker territory with his 1982 graphic novel When the Wind Blows. Maintaining the same simple, pencil-crayon aesthetic that characterized his
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Articles Matt Prins

Cemetery Man (1994) - Of Death and of Love

Before director of Cemetary Man - Michele Soavi - became a distinctive voice in Italian horror, he spent much of the 80’s working as an assistant director to two giants of the genre: Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava. He was on the set of (to mention a few biggies)
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The Films of Nanny Lynn : Interview with Lynn Ochberg

Obscure bootlegged VHS tapes surfaced at a Michigan video store tracing back to surprising origins: a grandmother in the 90's making animated films to entertain her grandkids.
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Rock Demers and The Peanut Butter Solution (1985)

If you grew up in front of the television in the 1980s, chances are you’ve experienced it: that eerie, half-memory of a film you were sure you saw, but could never quite place again. The kind of thing that made you wonder, Did I dream that? For a certain
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Saul Bass Archives

Saul Bass (1920–1996) was an American graphic designer and filmmaker whose bold, minimalistic style redefined visual communication. Considered by many to be “the Pablo Picasso of commercial artists,” Bass spent over 50 years crafting images for Hollywood and Madison Avenue. His portfolio ranged from iconic film posters and motion-picture
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The Point (1971)

The Point is a psychedelic fable written and composed by Harry Nilsson. The story follows the journey of a round-headed boy, Oblio and his faithful dog, Arrow who live in the Land of Point. Oblio is born with somewhat of a deformity: he doesn't have a 'point&
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Three Films by Roze Stiebra

Roze Stiebra is considered the "godmother" of Latvian animation. Across six decades of work, she not only established animation as a serious art form in Latvia but also infused it with a distinctive poetic voice. Her films, nearly seventy in total, adapted folklore, poetry, and national fables, always
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Drowning by Numbers (1988)

Peter Greenaway was a painter before he started making films. He saw cinema as a painter's medium, and transposed that belief in every single frame. Drowning by Numbers is the kind of film better referred to as a picture; the images of this film are really the heart
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