Posted in Art and Design, Ideas, Movies, People on Jul 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
Julian Schnabel is a well known painter who has made the movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
The movie is an adaptation of the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly written by Jean-Dominique Bauby, the late editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE, who suffered a massive stroke that left him with locked-In syndrome. [...]
Posted in Movies, Video on Jul 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Pixar’s hit new movie WALL-E has a short called “Presto” that plays before it in theaters and will no doubt be on the DVD when it is released.
Presto is available for purchase from the iTunes Music (and video) Store for $1.99.
Two words: Buy It!
Then watch it full screen. Oh yeah! It’s worth $1.99 just to [...]
Posted in Movies, Opinion, People, Video on Jul 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Oh boy, great stuff. Jackie Chan rules, dude!
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Posted in Movies, People, Reading on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Success Story 2
David A. Price has written The Pixar Touch, about the history of Pixar and how Steve Jobs turned a small investment into one of the most important movie studios of our time.
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Music, Tech Stuff, Travel on Jun 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
United Airlines Offering iPod/iPhone Connectivity on International Flights
Plug in, watch your content on their screen. Interesting and no doubt great. Only on business and first class. The rest of us will have to watch movies on small screens or hope our MacBook Pro batteries will go the distance.
I don’t care about the screen. Power to [...]
Posted in Drumming, Movies, Video on Jun 1st, 2008 7 Comments »
My 93 year old mother saw this last night. Raved about it.
The trailer made me cry. Twice. Looks fantastic. Drumming too. What could be bad?
[via Frances Wanderman]
Posted in Movies, People on May 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
Sydney Pollack, Film Director, Is Dead at 73
Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay as director, producer and sometime actor whose star-laden movies like “The Way We Were,” “Tootsie” and “Out of Africa” were among the most successful of the 1970s and ’80s, died Monday at home (in Los Angeles). He was 73.
Wow, I’m shocked. His [...]
Posted in Movies, Tech Stuff on May 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Netflix to Sell a Device for Instantly Watching Movies on TV Sets
Unlike the Apple TV or TiVo devices, the Roku box does not have a hard drive. It plays video directly from the Internet by way of an Ethernet cable or home wireless network. That means that the picture could freeze on slow Internet connections. [...]
Posted in Movies on May 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Most Useful Movie Websites 2.0
I use The Internet Movie Database but some of the rest of these look great too.
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Posted in Ideas, Movies, People on May 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
I was listening to On Point today and the second hour was about a new documentary coming out called Surfwise.
Surfwise is about Dorian “Doc” Paskowitz. a successful doctor who dropped out to surf. Along the way he marries and fathers nine children (eight boys and a girl) and they all live in a 24 foot [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Music, Stories on May 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Independent Lens had an incredible documentary last night: Na Kamalei (the men of hula).
Follow the journey of legendary teacher Robert Cazimero and the only all-male hula school in Hawaii as they celebrate their 30th anniversary and prepare to compete at the world’s largest hula festival. NA KAMALEI: The Men of Hula goes beyond deep-rooted stereotypes [...]
Posted in Movies, People, Video on May 8th, 2008 4 Comments »
I love Jackie Chan and I love great choreography. He da man.
“They’ll kick your ass ’till shit comes out your ears.” Sorry, I’m laughing pretty hard at that.
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Posted in Ideas, Movies, People, Politics on May 4th, 2008 3 Comments »
For those who were too young to follow this or weren’t paying attention back then, the Washington Post gives you The Watergate Story.
Complete with Key Players, Timeline, Herblock Cartoons, Resources, Multimedia, and Post Coverage.
And, for those who prefer movies: All the President’s Men.
This is an important piece of US history and given our current mess [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Opinion on Feb 26th, 2008 11 Comments »
Six months ago a friend loaned us a DVD of the German movie Mostly Martha. Being dyslexic I’m not a huge fan of foreign films with English subtitles, I just can’t keep up and that can wreck the movie for me. There are exceptions, the most notable being Cinema Paradiso which I’ve watched many times [...]
Posted in Movies, People on Feb 22nd, 2008 8 Comments »
HBO is doing a mini-series on John Adams starring Paul Giametti and Laura Linney. Looks fantastic. Dang, wish we had HBO.
Watch the preview, this looks like an incredible look at pre-Revolutionary America. I love seeing how things might have looked in earlier times, it enriches my sense of history.
[via Longboard]
Posted in Macintosh, Movies, Video on Jan 23rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Trailer for MacHeads the movie
Funny. Might be good. As a MacHead, guess I’m gonna have to go see it.
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Posted in Ideas, Macintosh, Movies on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Why Steve Jobs has pulled one over on the entire movie rental industry
More than anything else, Apple can rely on its movie rental service to be a success for two reasons: iTunes’ success and the downright stupidity of its competitors.
[via Steve Splonskowski]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, People, Social Software, Video on Jan 20th, 2008 No Comments »
YouTube film contest winner revels in Web’s possibility
I think it’s fantastic that Sundance now includes a category for showing short films made for the internet. One more instance of media convergence that’s leading to good things.
What excites Falcao about the Internet medium is that it allows anyone–her maid included–to access to film. Many residents of [...]
Posted in Ideas, Movies, Social Software on Jan 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Netflix Partners With LG to Bring Movies Straight to TV
Reed Hastings, chief executive of Netflix, said he hoped to strike other such deals and that Netflix would soon be viewed as a movie channel that might appear on myriad devices.
“We want to be integrated on every Internet-connected device, game system, high-definition DVD player and dedicated [...]
Posted in Movies, Video on Dec 15th, 2007 6 Comments »
Trailer for the documentary Steep on big mountain extreme skiing. Yowza.
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