Xander ,'Touched'
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Typo, there are a couple scenes where it's shot sort of documentary style. As if there was a camera on the space ship taking off, for example, that are a little shaky.
But that's very small part of the whole movie, and I don't remember a lot of spinning. Though there are some scenes of lyrical swooping.
shot sort of documentary style
I was very entertained to see some Firefly-esque shots.
(Having had a course in 3d animation: you animate the camera just as you do everything else, and can imitate lens flares and other camera "artifacts" that we expect to see in live action filming. It's really quite neat, because you are deliberately tricking the viewing mind into accepting the reality of the animated film.)
Are you sure it was the spinning?
tough room!
OK now seen Wall E. Great animation, lovely music, wonderful characters but....
Until now I did not realize that I and all the other fat people in the world are the man. No: no direct fat bashing. Just underlying equation of fatness with passivity and destruction. Even Wal-mart is called "Buy N' Large".
Which I didn't realize was a pun until halfway through the movie.
I just finished Paradise Now. Wow. Yet another example of a film that if people watched it before they got all up in arms they might learn something instead of just being angry all the time. It certainly wasn't pro-Israel but it didn't paint militant Palestinians as pure and noble creatures either. I'm shaken but I'm glad I saw it.
The 1967 Bollywood film, Jewel Thief, has been described as a supermod cross between Hithcock and James Bond.
I think I need to own this.
When one watches the world presented in Dev & Vijay Anand's "Jewel Thief" (1967) one knows they have been transported to an incredible fantasy land that is both baroque and exotic. This is a world that is full of all the wonders, accessories, and excess' of the Modern Western landscape. American Cars and Western clothes, Modern Western architecture and furnishings of the hippest design, gadgets that automate the most mundane of tasks, it's the Western lap of luxury, all on full display. What is pictured here is an 'Exotic West' that becomes absolutely one of the main features of "Jewel Thief". In 1967 for the majority of Indians who had never traveled to the West, watching "Jewel Thief" must have been a thrill to watch. T.K. Desai's fantastic art direction for the sets created a make believe world that most could only dream of.
As a Westerner I am so used to seeing kitsch images of the 'Exotic East' in Hollywood films. It struck me watching "Jewel Thief" That the East also does the same thing when picturing the West. One of the finest examples of this exoticizing of the West is the set design for "Jewel Thief".
Hec, how much is monthly cable in SF?
Hec, how much is monthly cable in SF?
Ours is bundled with our DSL, so I'd have to look at the bill. It's not especially cheap, though you can often get a deal for six months when you first sign up.