With my ongoing sleep debt, my sleep credit rating must be terrible. I’ve certainly had trouble with my eyes foreclosing. Foreclosing? Okay, well, it seemed hilarious when I thought it up. 🙂 Film #73: Maidentrip (& Strongman) The short was a not-so-young intellectually disabled man who we see striding into the water, and starting to […]
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Film Festival Day 14, 08/08/2013
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Film #68: Hannah Arendt This looks at the woman who coined the phrase, “the banality of evil” while covering the trial in Israel of the Nazi war criminal Eichmann, who had been snatched from South America by Mossad. She infuriated many people by claiming that not only was this monster just a boring bureaucrat who […]
Film Festival Day 13, 07/08/2013
Thursday, August 8, 2013
Is there some sort of prestige associated with having the wrong time on your clock if you’re a Wellington bus driver? Is it like young folks who like having a cracked screen on their iPhone? I think I’ve only had one bus that had the right time in all the rides I’ve had during the […]
Film Festival Day 12, 06/08/2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Another thing that I was reminded about by Mud – lyrics to old songs are frequently more troubling than you’d expect. I mean, it wasn’t “My Sharona”-level icky, but I hadn’t realised that “Help Me Rhonda” basically says, “My girlfriend broke up with me, and I wanted to marry her; but you’re cute, so please […]
Film Festival Day 11, 05/08/2013
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
I just came out of a film where someone appeared to have had a critical skittles accident — a pool of them were sitting in the middle of a seat, as if the Easter bunny had gotten a very nasty fright.  But let’s focus on the films I saw yesterday. Film #52: Romeo and Juliet: A […]
Film Festival Day 10, 04/08/2013
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The only downside to a Penthouse day is that you can’t actually get a meal there, unless you go for cabinet food – the gaps between films are too short. In fact, the wee laptop I have with me would have taken most of the time between movies just to bring up Windows, so I […]
Film Festival Day 9, 03/08/2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
Why do I have blended ice drinks, when they seem almost guaranteed to give me a temporary headache? Curse you, frozen tastiness! Film #42: Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With The World This was a documentary made in the 1960s, with parts taken from lectures and seminars that Robert Frost was doing at the time. […]
Film Festival Day 8, 02/08/2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
 Film #35: William Yang: My Generation I don’t think that I was the target audience for this film. There was a target audience – I know, because they were there, and applauded at the end – but I found that the bulk of the film was a barrage of names I didn’t know and didn’t […]
Film Festival Day 7, 01/08/2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
 Film #30: Wadja Filmed in Saudi Arabia, which has no cinemas. It’s about a smart, independent young girl who decides that she needs a bike so that she can race a boy that she’s friends with… so she decides to win a religious club contest to earn the money. (Women, of course, aren’t allowed to […]
Film Festival Day 6, 31/07/2013
Thursday, August 1, 2013
 Film #25: The Missing Picture This was an interesting contrast to The Act of Killing. It was made from the point of view of the victims, rather than the perpetrator; and the violence wasn’t just an extension of gangsterism, but an exercise in ideology, which often seems to mean that the suffering is more pervasive, […]