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Monbiot: “Avatar is a profound, insightful, important film”

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:33:53 +0000

Avatar, James Cameron’s blockbusting 3D film, is both profoundly silly and profound. It’s profound because, like most films about aliens, it is a metaphor for contact between different human cultures. But in this case the metaphor is conscious and precise: this is the story of European engagement with the native peoples of the Americas. It’s profoundly silly because engineering a happy ending demands a plot so stupid and predictable that it rips the heart out of the film. The fate of the native Americans is much closer to the story told in another new film, The Road, in which a [

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sweet

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:24 +0000

[Aborted] Christmas Card from FLIMEMA on Vimeo.

so clever …

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:30:10 +0000

Cinnamon Chasers – Luv Deluxe (Music Video) from Saman Keshavarz on Vimeo.

says it all

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:49:47 +0000

Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo.

“Last Day Dream” a man watches his life pass before him

Quicktime version http://chrismilk.com/42/

Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival Beijing China 2009 www.42×42.com

Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D Mark II SLR Camera

looks like she lives in Leyton to me

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:09:55 +0000

Remind Me from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

yellow jersey

admin — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:12:42 +0000

Ekstase “Near To You”

admin — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:35:56 +0000

via YouTube - Ekstase “Near To You” .

wikipedia

Hedy Lamarr …. what can you say?

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:51:33 +0000

Hedy Lamarr (under her then-married name of Hedy Kiesler Markey) and composer George Antheil received U.S. Patent 2,292,387 for their Secret Communication System on August 11, 1942. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam. This idea was controversial and ahead of its time and technology.

Lamarr’s frequency-hopping idea served as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology used in devices ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi Internet connections. The technology in [

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Brad Pitt – homeless

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:13 +0000

Is it just me or does Brad Pitt always go off inter-railing or have a gap year or 3 in the middle of lots of films; ‘Legends of the fall’, ‘Interview with a Vampire’, ‘Benjamin Button’. Then am I wrong or does he always do a spacy, robotic, slow-talking thing with everyone which would usually cause him to be Brad no-mates; ‘Legends of the fall’, ‘Interview with a vampire’, ‘Benjamin Button’, ‘Meet Joe Black’.

Is it that I am missing something – I could do that sort of acting. I think I am doing!

“And you must be Tristan”

Winnebago Man documentary

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:15:35 +0000

via YouTube – Winnebago Man at SXSW 2009.

The YouTube clip that started it all is here