Random Thoughts

Strange Culture. Lynn Hershman-Leeson. 2007.

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Sleepwalkers. Doug Aitken. 2007.

This art documentation video can be found on Youtube.

I wanna visit New York again soon, anyway.

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Galápagos. BBC. 2006.

I haven’t really watched a nature documentary since I was a teenager or something. I always feel that documentaries just waste my preciouses time. “Give me a ten sentence summary! I mean five! Stat!”

But this is rather brilliant. It’s all slo-mo/time lapse hi-def video (especially on Blu-Ray), with fake foley sounds, presumably fake “story lines” for the animals, and Tilda Swinton narrating. BBC knows what they’re doing. They’ve got this genre down pat.

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Stephanie Daley. Hilary Brougher. 2006.

This is mostly not very good, but the final scene is a great twist.

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Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Andrew Adamson. 2005.

I read the book when I was like ten. (Several times.) This film is just like what I remember the book being like. For better and for worse.

So I can’t really fault the film. My ten year old self would have loved it. Although it’s a bit scary here and there.

(All the christianey stuff went way past my heathen self.)

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