Ramblings about crap in my life.
Reading
I won something awesome
Mar 9th
Apparently I participated in some contest on kino.dk, and won the special edition of The Dark Knight on Blu-ray (already have that, though), and this awesome book, about the history of Warner Bros. I’m not really interested in their old movies, but the second half of the book is really cool, especially the photographs and posters, here’s an excerpt from the chapter about the Batman franchise:
(Click the images for full size)
Watch out for The Road
Mar 9th
The Road is a post-apocalyptic movie starring Viggo Mortensen, to be released sometime in 2009. It’s been in the top of my must-see list for a while, and now that I’ve started reading the source material, a novel of the same name, I’m even more excited. The novel is written by Cormac McCarthy, who also wrote No Country for Old Men, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his work. The movie (and book) follows a father and son, walking along a road, through a desolate post-apocalyptic world. The movie is directed by John Hillcoat, who also directed The Proposition, a western that I really enjoyed. To be honest, I could not think of a director I would rather see make this movie.
The Road on:
Wikipedia
IMDb
The New York Times
Stuff I’ve been doing
May 11th
Hello there, I finally got around to post a new entry, I’ll just kind of write about stuff I’ve been doing the last three weeks or so.
First of I ended my stay at the European Film College, it was rather sad, especially because some of the friends I’ve made live in other countries. On the other hand, staying in touch is easier than ever with Facebook, Skype, etc. The last week on the school was awesome, we didn’t really have anything to do, the only real thing that was planned was the screening of our final projects, so we just partied.
My movie didn’t really turn out that good, our main problem was the actors, we had two kids and two adults, the actor playing the dad was very good, the other three kind of sucked. Also, since it’s a sci-fi we kind of had to built a convincing set and we only had 1500 DKK for the entire project, but the end result was still satisfying (see pictures in latest entries). It was awesome to see the other final projects though, some of them were really, really good.
As a finale we got to see Nimbus Film’s new movie, Det som ingen ved (What No One Knows) because their owner, Bo Erhardt, is the chairman of the school’s board. Leading role is (surprise, surprise) Anders W. Berthelsen, and it’s a "Oh-my-God-is-the-Danish-government-making-chemical-weapons"-kind of thriller with an added commentary to the Big Brother-like society we’ve come to live in. It’s directed by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and co-written by Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel’s writing partner from the EFC. I didn’t really like the movie though, seemed like I had seen it before, just better.
Then I got home, just in time to prepare a little doc-like movie for my mom’s 50-year birthday, which was this friday. It all went down fine. I also got to see Iron Man which was a pleasure to watch, well, until the movie’s third act though. I’m thinking of going to the cinema to see it again. On another note, the fourth season of Lost has started again, and I’m gonna watch the tenth episode this afternoon. The season has really taken off, the start was quite boring, but now it’s great. Since the weather is so nice I’ve also bought a bunch of Ray Bradbury books, more specifically Fahrenheit 451, The Illustrated Man and The Martian Chronicles. Right now I’m reading the Chronicles, it’s a bunch of short stories about mankind’s colonization of Mars, and they all intertwine nicely. The book’s written in 1951, and the stories all take place in 1999 – 2025, kind of funny to read.
Movies I’ve seen before I die
Dec 31st
I got this book at Christmas called ‘1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die’, and since I’m bored to hell I’ve been looking through it to see how many of those movies I’ve seen. So, without further ado:
1. Nanook of the North (1922)
2. Celovek s kinoapparatom (Man With Movie Camera) (1929)
3. Triumph des Willens (1934)
4. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
5. Animal Farm (1954)
6. The Birds (1963)
7. Goldfinger (1964)
8. Dr. Strangelove. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
9. Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo (1966)
10. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
11. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
12. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
13. Dirty Harry (1971)
14. Deliverance (1972)
15. The Godfather (1972)
16. Badlands (1973)
17. The Conversation (1974)
18. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
19. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
20. Barry Lyndon (1975)
21. Jaws (1975)
22. Rocky (1976)
23. Taxi Driver (1976)
24. Star Wars (1977)
25. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
26. The Deer Hunter (1978)
27. Grease (1978)
28. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
29. Halloween (1978)
30. Alien (1979)
31. Life of Brian (1979)
32. Apocalypse Now (1979)
33. The Shining (1980)
34. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
35. Raging Bull (1980)
36. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
37. Das Boot (1981)
38. Gallipoli (1981)
39. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
40. The Thing (1982)
41. Blade Runner (1982)
42. Star Wars: Episode IV – Return of the Jedi (1983)
43. Scarface (1983)
44. The Terminator (1984)
45. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
46. Ghost Busters (1984)
47. Back to the Future (1985)
48. The Fly (1986)
49. Aliens (1986)
50. Top Gun (1986)
51. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
52. The Untouchables (1987)
53. Akira (1988)
54. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
55. The Naked Gun (1988)
56. Big (1988)
57. Die Hard (1988)
58. Rain Man (1988)
59. Batman (1989)
60. My Left Foot (1989)
61. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
62. Pretty Woman (1990)
63. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
64. Total Recall (1990)
65. Delicatessen (1991)
66. Thelma & Louise (1991)
67. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
68. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
67. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
68. The Crying Games (1992)
69. Jurassic Park (1993)
70. Schindler’s List (1993)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. The Lion King (1994)
73. Clerks (1994)
74. Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
75. Nattevagten (1994)
76. Pulp Fiction (1994)
77. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
78. Riget (1994)
79. Babe (1995)
80. Braveheart (1995)
81. Toy Story (1995)
82. Casino (1995)
83. Heat (1995)
84. Se7en (1995)
85. The Usual Suspects (1995)
86. Fargo (1996)
87. Independence Day (1996)
88. Trainspotting (1996)
89. Scream (1996)
90. The English Patient (1996)
91. Titanic (1997)
92. The Big Lebowski (1998)
93. Festen (1998)
94. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
95. Fucking Åmål (1998)
96. Lola rennt (1998)
97. The Thin Red Line (1998)
98. There’s Something about Mary (1998)
99. The Blair Witch Project (1999)
100. Three Kings (1999)
101. Den Eneste Ene (1999)
102. Fight Club (1999)
103. American Beauty (1999)
104. The Matrix (1999)
105. The Sixth Sense (1999)
106. Gladiator (2000)
107. Bænken (2000)
108. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
109. Meet the Parents (2000)
110. Wo Hu Cang Long (2000)
111. Memento (2000)
112. Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001)
113. Moulin Rouge (2001)
114. Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001)
115. The Pianist (2002)
116. Oldboy (2003)
117. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
118. Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
119. Lost in Translation (2003)
120. Der Untergang (2004)
121. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
122. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
123. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
124. The Prestige (2006)
125. Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
126. United 93 (2006)
127. El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
128. The Last King of Scotland (2006)
129. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
130. Babel (2006)
131. Apocalypto (2006)
132. The Departed (2006)
It’s more or less what I expected, I feel pretty embarrassed that I haven’t seen more of the classics, especially Hitchcock and Kurisawa’s. I disagree with a lot of the movies though, especially the new ones, Meet the Parents for example, what the hell?!
I’ve also uploaded a spreadsheet with the IMdb top 250 movies I’ve seen, you can see it here.
No more Potter
Jul 22nd
I’m feeling weird. About an hour ago I finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the Harry Potter series. I’ve been reading since 9 AM, so I feel kind of dizzy. I don’t know how to feel at the moment, I’m not disappointed; it’s just strange that there will be no more Harry Potter. I’ll probably write something more tomorrow. For now, I’m off to bed. :)
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