Tag Archives: movies

Seasonal tales

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Arthur

Earlier this week I found out that the French director Eric Rohmer (Wikipedia) died at the age of 89. Ebert has an elegant in memoriam: additional commentary at Metafilter. My first introduction to Rohmer’s movies was (I think)‘Conte d’été’ (1996): … Continue reading →

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Haute hyperedroit

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Arthur

I saw ‘Religulous’ (imdb) the other day, which I thought was entertaining but awkward. I like Maher’s ‘Real Time’ show and I think his work is generally funny, but he’s definitely no Michael Moore. If you plan to watch it, … Continue reading →

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Morething

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Arthur

Earlier, we were out in Saint John to check out a couple things for things that needed to be done for things in the house-thing. You know, things. So while we were trotting through town, we were surprised how thick … Continue reading →

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Sinking Brick

Posted on May 25, 2008 by Arthur

What is more exciting than a rant about rising gas prices and peak oil? Why, a photo of an oil tanker in the Bay, of course! This week’s attention grabber was Weezer’s video for their new song, ‘Beans and Pork’, … Continue reading →

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What definition?

Posted on April 6, 2008 by Arthur

Yesterday, while watching Dream Warriors’ “My Definition of a boombastic jazz style” video-clip, I was amazed about the visuals used in that video. The clip prominently features (besides a lot of colours and pantomime) the (artistic) use of a focal … Continue reading →

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Is that a fractal?

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Arthur

The CBC has an excellent slideshow (with audio) about the movie industry’s obsession with evil machines. The slideshow uses the new movie ‘Untraceable’ (starring Diane Lane) as a reference and the columnist narrates us through other examples of evil machine … Continue reading →

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The Queen has her picture taken

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Arthur

Various news organizations report that the British Queen has launched a YouTube channel (@ YouTube). The Palace promises clips from garden parties, footage from overseas travels, prime ministers and even a day in the life of the Prince of Wales. … Continue reading →

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Klaatu barada nikto

Posted on November 7, 2007 by Arthur

When astronauts (or cosmonauts for that matter) from a different country get into a fight, which country’s law does apply? (via Slashdot) According to a 1967 treaty (Outer Space Treaty), states have legal jurisdiction within spacecraft registered (‘owned’) by them, … Continue reading →

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Wolkers

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Arthur

Last week, Dutch author Jan Wolkers died (Wikipedia on Wolkers, warning: possibly NSFW because of a picture of author posing with a bare-naked lady). He was buried today (warning: Dutch language alert) in what newspapers call a well-attended funeral. I … Continue reading →

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Von Cruisenberg

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Arthur

The most famous attempt to assassinate Hitler (July 20 Plot) goes to the silver screen and the actor who’s going to play Claus von Stauffenberg is… Tom Cruise. This doesn’t go over well in Europe, and particularly Germany, of course: … Continue reading →

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Visual

Posted on June 10, 2007 by Arthur

While working on billing software, I was planning to write something on visual inheritance in Visual Studio Express (C#): this feature is ‘amiss’ in the lower end versions of that programming environment. I decided not to because the concept is … Continue reading →

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That’s impossible

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Arthur

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching all the ‘Matrix’ movies back to back and I discovered that the sentence ‘That’s impossible’ (or ‘It’s impossible’) is mentioned way too many times. Yesterday, Islanders went to the polls and voted … Continue reading →

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Are you a wookie?

Posted on May 26, 2007 by Arthur

I read that it’s exactly 30 years ago that Star Wars was released in theatres in the US. Links that might help you through the weekend: Wired has plenty of stuff. Metafilter discussion and (of course) Slashdot. I was too … Continue reading →

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