Jane Austen’s Fight Club

Com­ing to a the­atre near you. If only …

P.S. You can down­load Jane Austen’s nov­els for free. Find them in our col­lec­tion of Free Audio Books, which Makeuseof.com was kind enough to fea­ture ear­li­er today.

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Three Minute Philosophy — Immanuel Kant

File under com­e­dy. It’s slight­ly cheeky, at times lit­tle crass, but how often do the com­e­dy and phi­los­o­phy worlds col­lide? I mean, real­ly?

S. Peter Davis also has three minute takes on DescartesHumeAris­to­tleLockeGalileoPythago­ras, and Aquinas.

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The Monty Python Philosophy Football Match: The Greeks v. the Germans

Today, we’re revis­it­ing a clas­sic Mon­ty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pit­ting Ger­man philoso­phers against Greek philoso­phers. On the one side, the Ger­mans — Hegel, Niet­zsche, Kant, Marx and, um, Franz Beck­en­bauer. On the oth­er side, Archimedes, Socrates, Pla­to and the rest of the gang. The ref­er­ee? Con­fu­cius. On May 9, this match was recre­at­ed by The Phi­los­o­phy Shop, a group ded­i­cat­ed to pro­mot­ing phi­los­o­phy among pri­ma­ry school­child­ren. The Tele­graph gives you more details.

Mean­while, on a more seri­ous note, you can down­load free phi­los­o­phy cours­es in audio & video. Just vis­it our post, Down­load 90 Free Phi­los­o­phy Cours­es and Start Liv­ing the Exam­ined Life, to get start­ed…

Relat­ed Con­tent:

Mon­ty Python’s Best Phi­los­o­phy Sketch­es

Noam Chom­sky Slams Žižek and Lacan: Emp­ty ‘Pos­tur­ing’

Free Phi­los­o­phy Cours­es

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Brontë Sisters Power Dolls

On the lighter side…

On a more seri­ous note, if you want some free audio books by the Bron­të’s (includ­ing Wuther­ing Heights and Jane Eyre), sim­ply find them in our col­lec­tion of Free Audio Books.

Thanks to @wesalwan for send­ing our way.

Conan O’Brien @ Google

Conan O’Brien’s Sil­i­con Val­ley tour winds up at Google as part of his “Legal­ly Pro­hib­it­ed From Being Fun­ny on Tele­vi­sion Tour.” In this set­ting, you can real­ly see his comic/improvisational tal­ents come alive (more so than on late night TV). Give it a watch and tell me if you don’t get a good laugh…

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Jean-Luc Godard Meets Woody Allen

Filmed in 1986, Meetin’ WA is a short (26 minute) film that not many have seen. What you get is Godard, one of the dri­ving forces behind La Nou­velle Vague, in con­ver­sa­tion with Woody Allen. The trade­mark Godard approach to film, the expect­ed dose of Woody Allen neu­roses — they’re all there. You’ll find this gem and 340+ oth­er films (includ­ing many clas­sics) list­ed in our col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online.

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Hitler Reacts to Takedown of Hitler Parodies

Note: strong lan­guage in this video.

You have prob­a­bly all seen them — the count­less par­o­dies of the now famous scene from the 2004 Ger­man film, Down­fall, which records the last days of Hitler and the Third Reich. Ear­li­er this week, the fun start­ed com­ing to an end when Con­stan­tin Film, hold­er of the movie’s copy­right, asked YouTube to remove the clips for rea­sons enu­mer­at­ed here. But almost as quick­ly as YouTube took them down, new ones start­ed to pop up. Above, we have one par­o­dy show­ing Hitler respond­ing vio­lent­ly to the take­down request. And, then, tak­ing an entire­ly dif­fer­ent stance, we see him being the mas­ter­mind behind the con­tro­ver­sial purg­ing of videos. The meme lives on … for now. Thanks to @wesalwan for the tip here.

For 100+ free movies, includ­ing many great clas­sics, see our col­lec­tion of Free Movies Online.

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Woody Allen on Moby Dick, Cole Porter & Artistic Theft

NOTE: For some rea­son, it looks like you need to click play twice to get this video start­ed.

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