Well I just finished watching the Mel Gibson’s movie Apocalypto, and I’m somewhat disappointed. Firstly, and regarding some of the positive aspects of the film, the cinematography was outstanding in several of the scenes. Gibson used colouration well, and especially utilised varying light schemes with astonishing artistic craftsmanship. Secondly, some of the characters were developed …
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Jun 12 2007
Fortune cookie wisdom
I just finished indulging in a feast of chicken lo mein (sans vegetables) and steamed rice from the local Chinese take-out joint. I reached into the nearly empty brown bag and found precisely what I was looking for: the tasty, crisp, and perpetually enigmatic fortune cookie. After delicately cracking its outer shell in half–causing a …
Jun 01 2007
Not quiet on the indie front
Over the past couple of days I’ve been actively looking for new independent and foreign films. In particular, I’ve wanted to find purchasable DVDs of Jeff Erbach’s The Nature of Nicholas, and Soft Like Me, Kat Candler’s Cicadas, and Joshua Sanchez’s Kill or be Killed. To start on these valiant and estranged quests, I tried …
Thought for the Moment
