I don’t know why I keep on going to documentaries about architects… they certainly seem to be a more popular film subject than, say, chemical engineers or traffic flow designers. Anyway, I was about two minutes late for Learning From Light: The Vision of I.M. Pei, but I don’t think I missed anything essential. This […]
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2010 Film Festival, Day 3
Monday, July 19, 2010
The first movie was An Inside Job, about the origin of the financial crisis. It did a good job at gathering all the information together, and presenting a unified “here is why things went wrong”. Which is basically – people had big incentives to do bad things, and the freedom to shield themselves from the […]
2010 Film Festival, Day 2
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saturday brought an early-morning start with Animation for Kids, which was my first film with company. This was reliably good – only one that made us go, “Huh?” (Red Riding Hood, where a little girl riding an abused hobby-horse steals a riding dog from a little boy, and then rides happily on an adult). Most […]
2010 Film Festival, Day 1
Sunday, July 18, 2010
It’s just before 9am, I’m in Sweet Mother’s Kitchen, and I’ve already been up for more than three hours. This isn’t how I had intended to start my Film Festival experience – I’m hoping waffles will help. What I had intended to do was to have a mellow end to Thursday, possibly finishing off some […]
2010 Film Festival Schedule!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Here’s this year’s schedule: Friday, July 16 TP 11:00am – 12:40pm Space Tourists Pa 1:00pm – 2:55pm Summer Wars Pa 3:30pm – 5:30pm Hahaha Pa 6:00pm – 7:20pm Homegrown: Works on Film Pa 8:00pm – 9:35pm Love in a Puff Em 11:00pm – 12:50am The Housemaid Saturday, July 17 Pa 10:30am – 11:30am Animation For […]
A fresh start
Monday, July 20, 2009
At some point, when I understand how to import the old records, my previous blog will be resurrected here in all its “glory”. But today is not that day. Instead, I’m going to write down some thoughts that I’ve had about the 48Hr Film Competition — specifically, the pitfalls of getting the genre “Musical/Dance”. In […]