March 2010
28 posts
“How To Train Your Dragon” has beautiful 3D, attention to detail, animated violence, and Vikings with Scottish accents. for older kids+.
“Watching old scifi shows I realize that what I used to perceive as ‘alien’ I now perceive as ‘CGI’.” - @JHitzig
15 minutes into John Water’s “Pecker” (1998). is there any reason whatever to keep watching this? besides some familiar Baltimore scenery?
waiting to see the work-in-progress cut of Dara’s “Bhutan: a Kingdom of Happiness” (at P St & 16th St NW in D.C.).
loving the simple way “Weeds” fixed the first season’s monotonous (funny once) opening, with a new version of the theme song — every week.
wondering whether “Weeds” season 2 is more fun because the series is coming into its stride, or because i’ve simply suspended disbelief.
Seven Samurai: “Honorable Japanese swordsmen dieing in puddles of mud.” - Kirk Wagner (on Facebook http://bit.ly/cTsX3e)
[link] International Space Station comes together: simple animated timeline http://bit.ly/bdSldY
watching Adam Curtis’ “The Living Dead” (1995) utilize diverse archival footage to examine how history is rewritten. http://bit.ly/bSFVsO
for a more technical read about the restoration of “The Godfather” negatives, see American Cinematographer (5/2008). http://bit.ly/biOv17
reading Merlin Mann’s rant about the near lose and recent restoration of “The Godfather” films. http://bit.ly/cphGV0
“Los Angeles Plays Itself” (2003) is a 3 hour critique of one city’s architecture, geography, culture and history, through cinema’s lens.
“Without a car, he will die.” - Thom Andersen, 2003 (“Los Angeles Plays Itself”)
holy lifestream, Batman! Netflix just vomited all over our firehose feed: http://ping.fm/ha7wq
“Weeds” (2005) is too easily predictable and too often propped up by censurable subject matter; but when it hits its marks, it’s touching.
we so often loose interest in a show early in its first season. using the first TV break in days to resume at episode 6, months after #5.
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taking 15 min. to watch Oscar winner “Logorama” makes us wonder how much American media the French have been watching. http://bit.ly/dDcKK3
we saw only a fraction of the Oscar nominees in 2009. gotta get out more. ah well, adding a bunch to our Netflix queue.
…District 9. An Education. Fantastic Mr Fox. Hurt Locker. Logorama. Up. Up in the Air. A Serious Man. Star Trek.
listing Oscar nominees our friends saw and actually liked…
Duncan Jones’ “Moon” (2009) is an existential mystery, echoing the isolation of “2001”, a sojourn through inner space, with piano.
“To Hollywood, a perfect world would be one without hard disks.” - @DaveWiner http://bit.ly/aYngdh
Michael McDonough’s photography is a guardian angel, never speaking nor seeking attention, consistently right where the story needs to be.
“The Babysitters” (2007) is the flip-side to “Risky Business” (1983), with depth and consequence, attended by insightful photography.
it was risky business for a grown man to direct a film about high school girls embracing prostitution.
From Russia With Love: “quintessential James Bond… funny, not corny, a spy movie, not an action movie.” - @Gruber http://bit.ly/cNQ5Qs
[link] Subscription Model Likely for Apple iPad Access to Hulu | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD: Wi.. http://bit.ly/8ZuFcZ