Entries Tagged 'Film' ↓

a once-in-a-lifetime experience as I sat in my favourite watering hole, the Copacabana bar and watched the Oscars with friends and, at a table not far away, the subject of the the winning animated short, Ryan Larkin. You can view Ryan, by Chris Landreth, at the NFB site on a special Oscar page. It’s a remarkable piece of work.

a great review of The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, the great new Wes Anderson movie. I love the movie even more as time passes since I saw it, and it will definitely be among the few films I buy on DVD when it is released in a few months.

I was away visiting family in Connecticut over the long weekend, and lots has happened while I was gone. Being busy at work and unable to update regularly, here are some apropos pointers.

• As of Sunday, we’re in a general election campaign in Canada.
• The CBS News program 60 Minutes continued to press on Iraq, this time with a story on General Anthony Zinni, who says that the current course in Iraq is “headed over Niagara Falls.”
• Michael Moore won the Palme D’Or at Cannes over the weekend.
• Many are reporting that Rumsfeld has banned digital cameras and cam-phones in Iraq following the prison atrocities - or more specifically, the publication of photographic records of said atrocities. Boing Boing’s Xeni Jardin, however, has looked into this in more depth, and apparently it’s not so.