January 2008
12 posts
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters →
I just got done watching one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in awhile - Seth Gordon’s remarkable The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. This film captures the epic journey of recently unemployed family-man Steve Wiebe as he attempts to claim the most coveted achievement in the history of mankind… beating hot sauce industrialist Billy Mitchell’s high score in Donkey...
2 Short Films
2 Short Films. May 2007.
Last night I was up until around 3am checking out Vimeo. I really like the community they’ve set up there and respect what they’re trying to do as a video site. So I joined and posted my first video. The video is called “2 Short Films” and was completed in May of 2007 as a final project for a documentary class I was taking at the University of...
WatchI ran across this video from those interesting folks at Vimeo.
La Faute à Fidel! →
Last night I watched Julie Gavras’s 2007 Sundance entry Blame It on Fidel!, a film about 9-year old Anna de la Mesa (portrayed by newcomer Nina Kervel-Bey) and how she copes with her parents newfound fondness for Parisian radicalism in the 1970s. De La Mesa attempts to understand the difference between group solidarity and sheep mentality, communism and fascism, etc., in ways you might...
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut. Originally his “good uncle” Alex.