Moments that Made the Movies
Remember the opening scene of "Sunset Boulevard," with William Holden floating face down in a swimming pool? Or Ingrid Bergman asking Dooley Wilson to "play it Sam" in "Casablanca?" How about Al Pacino's trip to the men's room in an Italian restaurant in "The Godfather?" Those are some of the scenes that film historian David Thomson spotlights in his new book, "Moments that Made the Movies." What makes a celluloid moment endure? We'll talk to Thomson about his picks, and we want to hear from you: what are you all-time favorite movie moments?
Host: Rachael Myrow
Guests:
David Thomson, film critic and historian; and author of "Moments That Made the Movies," "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film," and "Have You Seen...?"
Remember the opening scene of "Sunset Boulevard," with William Holden floating face down in a swimming pool? Or Ingrid Bergman asking Dooley Wilson to "play it Sam" in "Casablanca?" How about Al Pacino's trip to the men's room in an Italian restaurant in "The Godfather?" Those are some of the scenes that film historian David Thomson spotlights in his new book, "Moments that Made the Movies." What makes a celluloid moment endure? We'll talk to Thomson about his picks, and we want to hear from you: what are you all-time favorite movie moments?
Host: Rachael Myrow
Guests:
David Thomson, film critic and historian; and author of "Moments That Made the Movies," "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film," and "Have You Seen...?"
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The Deep Web
It sounds like a Hollywood movie: A 29-year-old in San Francisco calling himself "Dread Pirate Roberts" masterminds an online black market for drugs and other illicit goods, allegedly hires a hit man to take out someone threatening to expose him, and the FBI swoops in and arrests him at a local branch library. That's the story of Silk Road, a sort of eBay for illicit goods, which only accepted the open-source electronic money, Bitcoin. We discuss the Silk Road bust and the "deep web" of sites that give its users anonymity, and what implications this will have for Bitcoin.
Host: Rachael Myrow
Guests:
Andy Greenberg, staff writer for Forbes, covering data security, privacy and hacker culture
Jerry Brito, senior research fellow and director of the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Parker Higgins, activist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Little Brother
Cory Doctorow's young adult novel "Little Brother" plunges readers into a dystopic version of San Francisco, in which the Bay Bridge is attacked by terrorists and the Department of Homeland Security reigns supreme. Doctorow's novel draws as much from sci-fi classics "1984" and "Fahrenheit 451" as the current debates on government surveillance and information leaks. We talk to Doctorow about his writing and work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and to city librarian Luis Herrera about why the book was selected as the San Francisco Public Library's One City One Book selection for 2013.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
Cory Doctorow, author of "Little Brother," co-editor of the website Boing Boing and former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Luis Herrera, city librarian at the San Francisco Public Library
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