The Spanish Academy of Art and Cinematographic Sciences will present the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Goya Award to Jess Franco, notes Robert Monell. Via .........

"Mobilizing a heart-shaped face that might have been carved from alabaster were it not quite so elastic, oversized eyes that flicked from wide-open innocence to heavy-lidded allure, and a voice that, though velvety on command, more often gushed forth in a high, tinkling rush, Carole Lombard seemed to play with the properties of celluloid as if they were finger paints." In the Voice, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert previews the Film Forum series running from Friday through December .........

A Harvard-based study published October 29 in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, led by Drs. Gottfried Schlaug and Ellen Winner has observed that children who study a musical instrument for at least three years outperform children with no instrumental trainingnot only in tests of auditory discrimination and finger dexterity (skills honed by the study of a musical instrument), but also on tests measuring verbal ability and visual pattern completion (skills not normally linked to music)........

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"With Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio interpreting a script by William Monahan (The Departed), Body of Lies puts on prominent display deceptions, betrayals and dispensable attitudes toward humanity that might be essential to United States intelligence work overseas, but that seem particularly challenging at a time when studios appear happy to mollify audiences with hormone-based comedies and superhero epics. It''s true that some classics of American cinema, like Chinatown and the Godfather films, have taken the darkest view of power and human nature. But those films come out of a .........

Poker continues as the favorite form of casino gambling, after slot machines, and the celebrity world has taken to Poker with .........

You might just be looking at the next big tiny thing in computing. This is the first of what is sure to be an onslaught of mini or pico projectors. This one, the 3M MPro110 mini projector, has VGA or composite inputs and is capable of projecting a reasonably large image in a dark room. It would be great for turning a iPod, PS3, or portable DVD player into a ad-hoc home .........

Don Cheadle is another one of those actors that pretty much everyone has seen and liked but he doesn't get the respect he .........

"Hamlet 2 belongs firmly to Steve Coogan, which is fortunate since none of the film''s supporting players prove to be the least bit memorable," writes Andrew Schenker in Slant. "And though it''s rather difficult for a single talent to carry a successful comic enterprise, Coogan comes awfully .........

There's a new game in town and it's using Google Earth as it's playing board. If you're good at finding places on a map, a world map, and you have a lot of time to waste, you may want to give Google Earthing a try. .........

Grunge isn''t the only 90’s trend making a comeback…the "Supers" are too. Fashion Week Daily reports that for their September issue Vanity Fair will be featuring six supermodels in a glossy fold out cover spread. It’s no secret that we’re fans of the supermodel era, and to show our appreciation we’ll be doing some serious digging of blast from the past videos of our top 20 supermodels in their hey day, which we’ll feature daily over the coming weeks. To kick things off here’s a video from MTV documenting the beginning of the end of the supermodel - .........

Fourteen-year old Cristian Avina knows all too well the devastating injuries all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) can cause. Four months ago, Cristian and his sister, Rociel, hopped on an ATV for a little innocent fun in the desert near their home. Cristian was riding tandem with his sister when a bird flew into them causing him to lose control. The ATV crashed, sending Cristian and Rociel flyingneither was wearing a helmet. Cristian suffered serious head injuries, including an amputated ear........

"All in This Tea dips effortlessly into a half-dozen modes - travelogue, biography, nature ode, business story, nerd profile - sustaining a flexibility of tone that allows for both keen insights into the rapidly evolving Chinese economy and drunken raptures on the ability, in one especially prized blend, ''to taste the mountain.''" Nathan Lee in the New York .........

Its nearly that time again. With London Fashion Week round the corner, we’ve been keen to find out which designers were lucky enough to receive New Gen sponsorship this season. .........

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"In his breakthrough film Crane World (1999), Pablo Trapero displayed his mastery at depicting wide open urban spaces and liberating patches of sky in his native Buenos Aires," writes Howard Feinstein for Screen .........

New Yorkers headed to the Walter Reade this evening to see Joachim Trier present his highly regarded Reprise may want to stick around to see Trier introduce Remonstrance, made by his grandfather in 1972. As the L Magazine''s Mark Asch notes, "Erik Løchen was perhaps Norway''s premier modernist .........

Infants who are exposed to television and video in low socio-economic households tend to have limited verbal interactions with their mothers, as per a new study led by Alan L. Mendelsohn, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of Clinical Research for the divisions of General and Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at NYU School of Medicine........

"Like his 2004 film Cafe Lumière, Hou Hsiao-hsien''s sublime new movie The Flight of the Red Balloon finds the director in a foreign country paying homage to another filmmaker," writes Chris Wisniewski at indieWIRE. "With Lumiere, Yasujiro Ozu was Hou''s reference point and Tokyo his canvas; here, Hou reimagines Albert Lamorisse''s classic 1956 short The Red Balloon as a Parisian family .........

Currently ongoing at digital art institution Eyebeam is Feedback, which is a collection of experimental green design. As compact fluorescent light bulbs and solar powered patio lights continue to become more mainstream, Feedback reminds us that there are still boundaries to be pushed in green design. The show explores issues concerning topics such as natural resources, ecology, energy use and climate change. The forms of work run the gambit from visualization of data to working prototypes to theoretical architecture and design. .........