Every weekday I write a post at Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2014:
- The City in Cinema Mini-Documentaries Reveal the Los Angeles of Blade Runner, Her, Drive, Repo Man, and More
- Close Personal Friend: Watch a 1996 Portrait of Gen-X Definer Douglas Coupland
- Cyberpunk: 1990 Documentary Featuring William Gibson & Timothy Leary Introduces the Cyberpunk Culture
- F for Fake: Orson Welles’ Short Film & Trailer That Was Never Released in America
- Glenn Gould Gives Us a Tour of Toronto, His Beloved Hometown (1979)
- Let’s Learn Japanese: Two Classic Video Series to Get You Started in the Language
- A Photographic Tour of Haruki Murakami’s Tokyo, Where Dream, Memory, and Reality Meet
- Protect and Survive: 1970s British Instructional Films on How to Live Through a Nuclear Attack
- Take a Road Trip with Cyberspace Visionary William Gibson, Watch No Maps for These Territories (2000)
- Watch Solaris (1972), Andrei Tarkovsky’s Haunting Vision of the Future
See also my ten favorite Open Culture posts of 2012 and 2013.