January 2009
14 posts
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Is 'Slumdog Millionaire' poverty porn? →
Quite a discussion is going on at Slashfilm, mimicking the debate Danny Boyle’s movie is sparking among critics. I’m quite a fan of Danny Boyle, but I won’t say anything about Slumdog Millionaire until I actually see it. The concept of a rags-to-riches via TV contest plot seems quite dodgy to me, but somehow the trailer I’ve seen leaves hope that it won’t work like...
Poison cure →
Here’s a genuine dilemma: How to review Raquel Freire’s Veneno Cura. Three close friends worked in it - Margarida, Inês and Cristina, whom I’ve worked with a lot in my own stuff - lent their…
WatchPaul Thomas Anderson’s first short film Cigarettes & Coffee.
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a... →
It’s impossible not to chuckle with schadenfreude while reading the story of how Porsche pwned Gordon Gekko-type speculator fucks bent on pillaging and bankrupting a perfectly functional company (Volkswagen). This tale could probably do a lot more than politicians to prevent the kind of financial gambling that brought us The Crisis in the future.
Then again, there’s no shortage of...
Offset Millenium Tension →
Is it possible someone did the math wrong and the New Millenium actually starts in 2010? It certainly feels that way. Reading my predictions for 2008, I can’t help but smile at the following two…
WatchVA001 - One Slow Minute (Eduardo Morais 2009)
First in a series of square video objects.
The sounds and the words of 2008 →
Music, then. It’s now almost a decade since I gradually stopped caring about any sort of zeitgeist, so nowadays I’m probably less hip when it comes to music than your grandad. Just a few notes: …
Visions of 2008 →
So what can be said about 2008 in the arts and entertainment?
Well, the films I enjoyed mostly during 2008 were the following:
P.T. Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. Technically a 2007 film,…
#009999 →
Well, that’s it for 2008, a year that won’t be missed. Phew! Not that anything bad happened in my life, it was just a Year of Minor Annoyances. There may be ominous signs for 2009, with the Pyramid…
