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OMG, I Need a Website!

January 22, 2010 — Leave a comment

A website about 101 Websites~~~ The information you need to know about how to get your website done. Of course, they won’t tell you how to apply things to build your website, but they will tell you who to get to do what on your website~

More info from the barbarian group blog, or visit Internet Online Website!

BAFTA 2010 Nominations

January 21, 2010 — Leave a comment

Yay for Moon! Yay District 9!
Yay Let the Right One In!! xD
And I’m glad there’s some love for The Road. And Parnassus!

The rest of nominees are your usual suspects…

BEST FILM
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An Education
The Hurt Locker
Precious
Up in the Air

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I saw it yesterday in the morning, and I was very surprise to actually find out it was going to get release here. I was already getting used to the idea of watching it on DVD or cable.

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What the title says~

From the 65 eligible foreign films, the top9 have been chosen~ I’m being positive here, instead of saying films have been cut. xD Anyway, as a surprise (to many?) Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow (aka. La Teta Asustada) made the Top9, alongside:

  • Argentina’s El Secreto de sus Ojos
  • Australia’s Samson & Delilah
  • Bulgaria’s The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner
  • France’s Un Prophete
  • Germany’s The White Ribbon
  • Israel’s Ajami
  • Kazakhstan’s Kelin
  • The Netherlands’ Winter in Wartime.

At the moment, The White Ribbon and Un Prophete are lock-ins… it seems, so that leaves 3 more spots to fill. Which films will they be? I’ve seen The Milk of Sorrow and commented on them a year ago when the film won the top prize at the Berlinale. For a short review, and an article about the original title of the film plus other Peruvian films check out YAM003.

abstract, but I like it with the music~~~

Best Posters 2009

January 20, 2010 — 1 Comment

and the winner is…

big omissions, in my opinion, for character sets where Alvin gets a nod instead of Where the Wild Things Are… However, there were some that got nominated, even if they didn’t win. WtWTA for “Serious Tagline”, Watchmen for “Character Set”, The Lovely Bones, Star Trek and Up in the Air for “Bravest Poster”, Adam for “Funny Tagline”, and 500 Days for “Best Poster”.

Obviously, Antichrist won Creepiest Poster LOL

And kudos to the Best Motion Poster, pretty cool.

check out the nominees and winner at the IMPAwards Site.

Hey, everyone~~~

you still got 8 days to vote for the Experiment Awards.

Check the nominees and vote here.

YAY!

EW is reporting Glee is currently shooting the Madonna episode, which includes 10 Madonna songs (heavy!). Apparently, Sue Sylvester will be singing Vogue~~~ and Nicole Julian should totally visit that scene saying “thank-you” like no one but Nicole Julian can…

Also, since Glee is casting the part of 3 characters… you’d better be a guy because Kurt is getting a boyfriend! And also be a prima donna because Rachel is getting an Eve, but she’s really getting some fun with Puck because “Rachel’s a hot Jew, and the good Lord wants Puck to get into her pants” right?

And LOL! At more celebrities wanting to be on Glee… and the J. Lo the Lunch Lady comment.

via EW.

Ohisashiburi desu! LOL
This is taking the 4-years-waiting title. xD

This is your chance to see Yu Aoi on scrubs… even if she spends the first episode apologizing for everything she does, after all — she is playing a nurse just out of school, so we can forgive the IV drip, the blood-taking… the fainting in the OR, and shutting her eyes while doing an incision. Mina-chan is kind of a klutz, but a super-cute-i-totally-wanna-hug-you-poor-you clumsy nurse.

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10 J-Films Writing a Decade

January 18, 2010 — 2 Comments

TheAuteurs has a nice post talking about some films that changed films in Japan in some way or the other…

Two major consequences of this have been: the diminishing status of the director in the creative process, who comes in as a hired gun, and: the banality and triteness of encountering performers on a daily basis, from movie to TV drama to variety show to advertising. The last decade launched the careers of countless “talentos”, young and cute boy-girl products, yet revealed but a handful of actors & actresses one might be eager to follow over the next ten years.

Wow, that statement sounds pretty negative xD almost making “auteur” films non-existent in Japan, and focusing on idol-pushing films that are more commercial than anything.

Like Acerk pointed out, a shout out to Shunji Iwai’s Lily Chou Chou film;

The film featured two outstanding young actresses, Ayumi Ito, discovered by Iwai for his 1996 Swallowtail Butterfly, and another Iwai revelation, Yu Aoi, who has since become one of Japan’s more original and refreshing performers. It should be noted that Iwai was among the first directors to hire TV drama stars as main actors in his films, to secure additional financing; he proved that when a director worked hard enough, he could get inspired work from talentos. This method has since been used by virtually every auteur in Japan.

Hello, and thank-you.

And more shout outs to Memories of Matsuko, and Tekkonkinkreet.