Archive for the 'Culture' Category

We Are The Internet

Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

Internet celebrities including Leslie Hall, Tron guy and Peter Pan guy come together to make a music video supporting net neutrality. Terrific. Watch the movie on wearetheweb.org.

Strange looking people

Easter Rabbits with delay

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Do you like e-mails mith attachments? Most of the time you receive the same content again and again. But this one is very cute! I like it, because I didn’t know which part of my chocolate easter rabbit I should eat first.

Easter rabbits made of chocolate

Funny Ha Ha

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

A small, nice and very likeable slackermovie about Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer), a girl aged 23 who is looking for a boyfriend and a temporary job in Boston. Very authentic, very realistic, and sometimes funny indeed. Filmed on 16mm film this movie features very nice camera movements, nice lighting but generally lacks sound quality. Nevertheless it was - besides Kotsch - one of the movies I enjoyed most this year.

Funny Ha Ha - scene shot

Andrew Bujalski who directed this movie in the year 2002 is now being referred to as the new hero of independent cinema and almost considered as the heir of John Cassavetes’ legacy.

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Himitsu

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Yesterday I watched a very nice Japanese/Korean movie called “Himitsu”.

Himitsu

After a fatal bus accident, a mother wakes up to discover that she’s taken possession of her daughter’s body. Grieving husband Heisuke is more than confused-and can’t get used to seeing his beloved wife Naoko’s funloving personality in the cute form of his daughter Naomi. Heisuke and Naoko decide to keep up appearances as father and daughter, and embark on a secret life that brings as many laughs as tears in this tragicomedy of mistaken identity. This film received Best Actor/Actress Awards at the 23rd Japan Academy Awards.

Himitsu was screened in ‘Kunsthaus Graz’ space04.

A clear case

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

This nice play in 5 acts comes from Claude Magnier, translated by Hans Weigel.

A clear case - scene shot

France. After a car accident RenĂ© (Christian Linzbichler) finds a cottage house. Nobody seems to be in there, so he uses the telephone and calls the local service. Jaqueline (Agnes Julia-Redl) is constantly unable to get some sleep so she used water-dissolvable sleeping pills. Unfortunately she left half the glass next to the telephone. As a result both, RenĂ© and Jaqueline fell asleep in the same bed without recognizing each other. Trouble arises when Jaqueline’s husband Robert (Norbert Hermann) comes back from work…

I went to the premiere with my brother and was pleasantly surprised. Very well acted, very entertaining and also very well written this play has all it takes to be your choice if you like theatrical plays of that kind.

Booking information.