links for 2010-05-15

  • From Academy Award winners Paul Wagner and Marjorie Hunt and folklorist Steve Zeitlin comes this warm portrait of six elderly Americans whose vigor belies their age. Three are folk artists, one a baker, one a political activist, and one a bayman on the Chesapeake. Though they remember the past, they still relish the present and life it fully.
    (tags: film)
  • The most unsettling opening line in a horror story, I think, is the famous claim that launches H.P. Lovecraft’s 1926 tale “The Call of Cthulhu:”

    The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

  • It seemed inevitable but the news is nonetheless shocking: NBC’s drama Heroes won’t be back for a fifth season