Rough Groove

I just got a hold of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz!

After having seen a DVD copy of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s monumental 15 1/2 hour work Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) for quite some time from a supplier’s stock, I finally decided to buy it! I’ve been intrigued about this work, which was originally made for television in 13 episodes based on the book by Alfred Döbling. Come to think of it, it is longer than Lav Diaz’s Heremias but I don’t intend to watch it in one sitting. Maybe, a week or two.

First read about it in Time Magazine’s yearender picks and with just being introduced to the works of this German director, I am looking forward to watch this soon.

Movies watched: June 08

40! That’s how many movies and a short I’ve watched in June! The following are non-US productions. This is the last part of movies I’ve watched in June. All are US productions.

The Lady Killers -The Coen Brothers, 2004
Frida - Julie Taymor, 2002
Fur - Steven Shainberg, 2006
What Dreams May Come - Vincent Ward, 1998
Around the Fire -John Jacobsen, 1999
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rober Ford -Andrew Dominik, 2007
Crash -Paul Haggis, 2004
The Four Feathers -Shekhar Kapur, 2002
Gangs of New York -Martin Scorsese, 2002
The Score -Frank Oz, 2001
Traffic -Steven Soderbergh, 2000
West Side Story - Jerome Robbins & Robert Wise, 1961
Day Night Day Night - Julia Loktev, 2006
Deja Vu - Tony Scott, 2006
Into the Wild - Sean Penn, 2007
There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007 (US)
Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006 (US)
Half Nelson - Ryan Fleck, 2006 (US)
The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach, 2005 (US)

Movies watched: June 08, 3

40! That’s how many movies and a short I’ve watched in June! The following are non-US productions. The six films below were those seen in theater screenings.

Caregiver - Chito Rono, 2008 (Philippines)
The Incredible Hulk - Louis Leterrier, 2008 (US)
Kung-Fu Panda - Mark Osborne & John Stevenson, 2008 (US)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Andrew Adamson, 2008 (UK)
The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan, 2008 (US)
Wanted - Timur Bekmambetov, 2008 (US)

Movies watched: June 08, 2

40! That’s how many movies and a short I’ve watched in June! The following are non-US productions.

Karaula, Adams Aebler and Drama/Mex are good while Seven Swords is gory but the effects and stunts are great. As for The Science of Sleep, well, I’m not too fond of real life and animation mixed together but its kind of interesting as to how the concept of reality and dreams mix together. Gael Garcia Bernal is such a wonderful actor here.

Chat gim (Seven Swords) -Tsui Hark, 2005 (China)
Adam’s Aebler (Adam’s Apples) -Anders Thomasjensens, 2005 (Denmark)
Drama/Mex - Gerardo Naranjo, 2006 (Mexico)
Karaula (Border Post) - Rajko Grlic, 2006 (Slovenia)
La Science des rêves (The Science of Sleep) - Michel Gondry, 2006 (France)

Short: Clara - Van Sowerwin, 2005 (Australia)

Wordcamp Philippines 2008!

I’m an avid Wordpress user for the past years now and in fact, this is my blogging platform of choice powering my five blogs: Langyaw (my primary blog), Rough Groove, Binary Silver, Salagubang and Simbahan. Thanx to nina, I got to know of the Wordcamp Philippines 2008, considered to be the first in Southeast Asia.

I’m very much interested to know more about Wordpress, especially making it as a simple and easy to design and administer content management system (CMS) of which I’ve been thinking of making one of my blogs as one.

This blogging event is organized by Mindanao Bloggers of which I’m a part of.

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