Filmmaker Werner Herzog has made a feature-length documentary about the caves and cave paintings in France’s Chauvet cave. The film is called Cave of Forgotten Dreams and examines paintings on the walls that date to around 30,000 years ago.
To hear Werner Herzog talk about his new movie, including the technical challenges he experienced filming in 3D for the first time, listen to this 19 minute podcast from the U.K.’s Picturehouse Blog.
U.S. President William Henry Harrison made history on this day in 170 years ago. How? He became the first president to die while in office.
“This will be my final campaign, at least as a candidate.”So said Barack Obama in an email to supporters this morning, announcing that he’s filing the paperwork to run for president in 2012.
4700 showed up for Charlie Sheen’s live show in Detroit last night. Not many stayed.
No, that’s not the sequel to The King’s Speech.
Angelina Jolie at age 15, in a portrait by photographer Harry Langdon. The shot was part of a large set of Langdon celebrity photos auctioned off last year; the group fetched a total of $122,000.Here’s Angelna Jolie as she looks 20 years later:
Today would have been the 53rd birthday of D. Boon, singer and guitarist for the San Pedro punk band Minutemen back in the 1980s. He died in 1985 at the age of 27, killed in a car crash.
Here’s a video of one of my favorite Minutemen songs, “This Ain’t No Picnic.” It’s funny, it’s short, it’s a typical Minutemen song in theme and execution and it stars their nemesis, then-president Ronald Reagan:
Robin Williams last night after making his Broadway acting debut in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.
Don Draper fans can relax: Mad Men is coming back for three more seasons.
Saoirse Ronan poses with Amy and Catherine Quinn, her co-stars in the 2008 film City of Ember.