Bruno Dias' personal blog.
One of my professors back in film school had this grotty turn of phrase—"the deflowering of the gaze," [1] by which he meant to describe the feeling of how, once you learned to analyze movie (or even worse, to make them) you never really could watch a movie the same way again. If you're someone who likes to watch violent or transgressive or libidinal movies (and in my experience that's most people…
Sign that millennials are aging: R-Pat is now Hugh Grant I'm kind of fascinated by how extreme and intense of a reaction everyone in this movie has to [the fact that causes the titular drama]. It's interesting because I cannot really define what a reasonable response would be, but at the same time it seemed like a bit of an overreaction. It's so weird how R-Pat is tall and short at the same time.…
Actual question: Say you're building a piece of software; the exact details are unimportant here other than to say it's an application, that it runs on a server and talks to a database while providing a service over the network. You want to write it in a language that's reasonably modern and has reasonably uncomplicated memory management (so, C++ is right out). At this point there are dozens of…
Tempted to start a silly little project: a sort of anti-RSS reader. Program that just takes in as input a list of feeds and spits out a static website that is essentially just a fauxsimile of a newspaper, with 'cont. on page 13' replaced with links to the actual original articles. You'd plop that on a server, make a cron job to run it daily or twice-daily, and it'd generate a "morning edition" for…
Rewatching this (in a theater this time) I'm just struck by how much of this movie is Kati Outinen's face. I don't think I've ever seen a movie that is more carried by a single actor. And she's doing it here in a performance where she gets precious little dialogue and almost no action. I don't know how many film actors there have ever been who could do what she does here. The final sequence…
orteil42 on Tumblr: unconvinced i'll ever find "the vitamin" that makes me all better so i can get real work done but i do expect they'll elucidate whatever my deal was post-mortem, after which what i did manage to accomplish with my life will be regarded on the level of Beethoven composing despite being deaf or Gordon Ramsay cooking despite being british
A year and a half out from Failbetter my body is finally unlearning the schedule. I spent a long time kind of doing a poor impression of a morning person because of the time differential between here and London; now I'm finding myself being up at 1-2AM writing, and honestly it's a joy I completely forgot about. I missed the dark, which given what my previous job was, is kind of ironic.
Kati Outinen is the whole deal here, wearing a mask of impassivity the whole movie but always with so much bubbling under the surface. This is still middle period Kaurismäki, with the same icy gaze that also haunts Lights in the Dusk. But it’s a much gentler version of that; a downright optimistic movie under all the melancholy. I can see why some real Kaurismaniacs might love this movie, but for…
From Laura Michet 's blog, a post about an abandoned project to catalog Los Angeles' "No Pedestrian Crossing" signs: The main thing I'd want to communicate is that the places where these signs go up are uniformly miserable. It sucks to be a person on foot in a place where the state has to warn you that it's too dangerous to cross a regular city street. These streets are terrible, loud, dirty, and…
It's more logically sound than astrology.
Storylet narrative structures are less visible and encoded than branching narrative structures, but there are recurring patterns.