Before I went to see Guy Maddin's latest film, My Winnipeg, I read about it on the BFI website. I read it twice. The review didn't make any sense to me. When I arrived, I read the BFI handout given away at all their screenings. I was confused, and still didn't know what to expect. I had onlybooked the tickets because the poster looked good. Then Guy Maddin appeared and introduced the film. A friendly, avuncular character, he riffed his way easily through the introductory speech, cracking jokes about his aunt and the chance to win tickets to Winnipeg....
Posted on July 3, 2008 11:00 PM | Tagged with: bfi,guymaddin,winnipeg
Natacha Atlas enters the stage in the cosy surroundings of the Pigalle Club very discretely. Some seated diners are still finishing off their lemon tart with ice cream on top. Only after the first number does the crowd's almost delirious affection for her become apparent. Extended applause, whoops and a few continental 'La, la, Natacha!'s....
Posted on June 26, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: accordion,natachaatlas,pigalle
I have started a map of Edwin Lutyens' work in England, and I'll be updating it as time goes on....
Posted on June 20, 2008 1:29 PM | Tagged with: architecture lutyens london surrey map
Dangalnama is a play about the string of riots and bombings that have plagued India since 1984, when large numbers Sikhs were killed in retaliation for the assassination of Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. It opens with a montage......
Posted on June 17, 2008 9:32 AM | Tagged with: gujarat babrimasjid godhra hindu muslim communal violence
It must be cheating, in some way. What Michael Nyman does, I mean. His music is so direct, it takes a shortcut to the emotional core of your being. It's not fair on all the other composers. He bypasses all......
Posted on June 10, 2008 9:43 AM | Tagged with: soundtrack composer piano cadogan
Just got back from an entertaining and informative talk with Jonathan Zittrain as part of the Guardian's series of internal lectures "The Future of Journalism". To encapsulate the two-hour presentation, Zittrain fears that as a result of the security and......
Posted on June 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Tagged with: generativity,security
I braved the chattering hoards to see Sex & The City. As we walked in Kate wondered aloud if people might think she was my beard - the audience was 95% chicks, whiling away the time until the chick-flick started by gossiping loudly through the trailers and adverts. Whole rows were filled instantly when parties of 20 turned up. Their anticipation was palpable....
Posted on June 6, 2008 7:49 AM | Tagged with: sexandthcity tv
I thought I was going to see some shoegazer bands at The Boileroom. Shoegazing's back, isn't it? "It's been and gone. You missed it." my friend Ivan says. I go along anyway....
Posted on June 4, 2008 12:03 AM | Tagged with: boileroom
So look forward to more activity on this website very soon......
Posted on June 3, 2008 1:19 PM |
This one has got a heart. Hard to pinpoint, perhaps, but it's in there - the three brothers played by Wes Anderson regulars Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman and new guy Adrian Brody are looking for it too. Coming from a typically Andersonian broken home, they are on a quest to rescue their mother from a convent in the Himalayas....
Posted on November 25, 2007 9:47 PM | Tagged with: darjeeling,india,wesanderson
Typically contentious article concerning Nelson Mandela's silence over Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. In it he says Mandela is "...making himself complicit in the pillage and murder of an entire nation."
Lots about Anita Jain's epic struggle to get married...
The marrying kind
A modern Indian woman's struggle
An open letter to Anita Jain
Hamish Hamilton's new literary magazine Five Dials, named after a lost part of London which was once "a den of iniquity, a haven for criminals, a slummy, ragged bit of the city cleaved away to make room for a broadening of Charing Cross."
Flickr spam! I got spammed by this bible-bashing weirdo.
This film looks a bit good. It's called The Fall, and has a certain Roy Walker in the cast list, raising hopes of a surreal otherworldly version of Catchphrase as produced by David Fincher and Spike Jonze (as if Catchphrase could ever really get more otherworldly, isn't that right Mr Chips?)
Friends Reunited, the Web 1.0 Facebook, finally catches up with the rest of the social networks and makes it free to contact people
Enticingly subtitled "Everything you always wanted to know about The Dewey Decimal but were afraid to ask", it's the Dewey Decimal system blog!
No one from the Western Sahara has downloaded Firefox 3...yet
Illustration special - some recent contributors to The Believer magazine:
http://thebathwater.com/
http://bertbergen.com/
http://paulmccreery.com/
http://steph.vonreiswitz.com/
http://brendanmonroe.com/
The world's 50 most powerful blogs
Another oldie, but well worth a read through. I'm not featured on the list, by the way...
Catching up a bit after six months away from a computer screen...Here's an article clearly explaining the differences and similarities between XHTML2 and HTML5
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