December 2009
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...and the rest of my favorites
Yesterday I indulged myself into writing my longest post ever, about my favorite films of the decade. Re-reading it, I see I left out of lot of things I should have talked about. I completely negleted non-portuguese and non-american movies (I should have mentioned Cidade de Deus, Rois et Reine, The Beat My Heart Skipped, In the Mood for Love, to say just a few - perhaps someday, when I write a...
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My favorite films of the decade
So those were my favourite films of 2009. But what about my favourite film of the 2000s? My answer is as obvious (if you have been paying attention to this blog) as it is surprising:
David Simon’s The Wire (2002-2008). That’s right, my favourite film (or should I say my favourite work of moving image art to be more accurate) of the decade was a TV show, despite the fact I went to...
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Film'09
It’s that time of the year yet again: My favourite (and not so favourite) films of 2009, chosen among the sixty-one features I watched in a movie theatre (picking up from my last year’s dismal less-than-weekly film-going).
Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married felt unique among all the films I’ve watched in 2009. It didn’t feel like a movie at all, instead I...
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WatchAlain de Botton’s talk A kinder, gentler philosophy of success is one of the most inspiring things I’ve seen lately.
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Noupe: CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started... →
Having started building websites in 1997, I guess I could say “CSS techniques I wish existed” back then, but still this is a pretty good recap on the kind of knowledge that often slips past the cracks in my self-learning (I’ve only had a couple of months of formal webdesign training, and that was back in 1999).
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Skokiaan by the Bulawayo Sweet Rhythms Band is a...
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