"No one, though, has seen a black hole evaporate."

[intrikate88]

This article completely makes my morning. The total sci-fi of it makes my heart go pitter-pat in very happy ways. We actually DO have a possibility of being swallowed up by a black hole! And where else can you read about a physicist saying this:

He pointed out that because of the dice-throwing nature of quantum physics, there was some probability of almost anything happening. There is some minuscule probability, he said, “the Large Hadron Collider might make dragons that might eat us up.”

In other news, for my film studies class that is all about Developing a Film Canon, I have to make a list of ten films I'd say would comprise film canon. What films do you all think make the list? Not just favorite movies of yours (though feel free to tell me about those, too! I'd be interested!) but really well-made films that do interesting things with cinematography and narrative and all that.

I'm thinking Citizen Kane (for all the usual reasons that make Andre Bazin wet his pants in realism-loving glee), 8 1/2 (for doing really neat things with a stream-of-consciousness, modernist narrative), Casablanca (for being the quintessential classic Hollywood style movie and making it work), The Maltese Falcon (for being a fucking awesome film noir), and probably a Hitchcock film, something by Bergman, and possibly a Japanese film (though I'm not in love with Tokyo Story and I haven't seen The Seventh Samurai even though I know it looks really cool.) Suggestions, people? inara223?

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[ninamazing.livejournal.com]

NOTORIOUS. (Hitchcock movie.) Although, more realistically, I guess it should probably be The Birds or Psycho or something. And I think Juno and The Day the Earth Stood Still should be in film canon, but that's because I let my geekiness overwhelm me.

I remember when my friend got back from like the third lecture in her quantum mechanics class. She was like, "THERE IS A 10^-343240329433822183 PROBABILITY THAT MY HAND WILL GO RIGHT THROUGH THIS TABLE!!" It is pretty exciting. :D

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Notorious. I've only seen bits of that, but you're right, it's very good.

Kind of a fun thing about that article is the legal stuff involved... people actually going to the authorities and being all "Make him stop! He could make the universe implode!" and they're totally serious about it. In real life! *giggles*

[ohvienna.livejournal.com]

The VRY SRS thinking cap of film student-ness is on!

Will get back to you with like the greatest filmz of all time.

Did you already do the assignment?? Probably. (Damn vacation).

The whole class is about developing a film canon?

[intrikate88.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm still working on the assignment, and feel free to contribute here (http://intrikate88.livejournal.com/147066.html). And also to corroborate and/or challenge the ones I have listed!

Yes, its a Special Topics in Advanced Film Studies class (the official name) and this specific one is on the the topic of what a film canon might be comprised of. So far we've watched Fellini's 8 1/2, Ozu's Tokyo Story, Bergman's Persona, Sluizer's The Vanishing, Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest and Pickpocket, and today we're going to watch a documentary by Albert and David Maysles called Salesman. It's been a lot of fun!