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Gift Guide: A Projector That Fits in Your Pocket

The Optoma PICO Pocket Projector hooks up to your iPhone, iPod or anything with a composite AV out and projects a 60 inch image… and it weighs about 4 oz. Obviously it’s an ideal gift for anyone who’s always talking about preparing a “presentation for clients” or for those who do more than a bit of public speaking. But actually, pretty much anyone can have fun with a miniature projector.

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Gift Guide: A Projector That Fits in Your Pocket

Gift Guide: Find Old Faves and New Treasures in The Elia Kazan Collection

The problem with best-of DVD collections is that they usually include so much more than you need — or even want. But The Elia Kazan Collection (20th Century Fox DVD ), which includes 15 Kazan treasures selected by Martin Scorsese, is lean, mean and essential.

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Gift Guide: Find Old Faves and New Treasures in The Elia Kazan Collection

Postcard from Venice: Getting Folky With the Russians and Nostalgic with Martin Scorsese

As much as I love going to film festivals, there’s one reason I sometimes feel out of place: Whenever I find myself in a circle of colleagues waxing euphoric about, say, an exquisite Russian or Eastern European movie they’ve just seen that deals very poetically with the idea of mourning the lost customs of the old country, I always want to pipe up, “Yes, but didn’t it remind you just a bit of the Schmenges?”

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Postcard from Venice: Getting Folky With the Russians and Nostalgic with Martin Scorsese