http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/ The Egocentrics, Piet Hein]]> en-us 2008-08-09T15:47:31+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002594.html Hah! I bet some of you didn't think that I'd get around to writing up this, the last day of the festival! Well, given past experience, that's fair enough. But I've managed to claw back some free time, and I... svend 2008-08-09T15:47:31+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002589.html Thanks to what was possibly the slowest No. 2 bus in the world, I arrived at Mechanical Love only moments before it started. This was a documentary about giving a robots a sense of presence - trying to make humanoid... svend 2008-08-04T22:43:12+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002587.html I didn't have a chance to write anything during the day, so here are some brief impressions. I likes The Station Agent, so I had hopes that The Visitor would be as good. I think it is, though there's a... svend 2008-08-04T00:21:42+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002586.html After dealing with a work crisis, my first movie was The Not Dead, where returned soldiers from the Malay conflict, the Balkans peacekeeping mission and Iraq talk about their experiences and their PSTD (and the difficulties that they had getting... svend 2008-08-04T00:17:20+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002582.html My first movie was Swedish Tango at the Film Archive with Jenni, following the same couple as in Paradise. I don't think it's quite as good as Paradise; you get to know a bit more of the couple's history, and... svend 2008-07-31T01:43:11+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002581.html My first film was Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S. Thompson. I'm slightly embarrassed to admit that I'm much more familiar with his caricatures and imitations (The Duke from Doonesbury, or Spider Robinson from Metropolitan, or King... svend 2008-07-31T01:41:04+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002576.html I was running a bit late for Note By Note: The Making of Steinway L1037, and actually missed the first five minutes; but I'm glad I didn't give it a miss, and not just because I had already paid for... svend 2008-07-29T00:46:25+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002573.html The problem with catching buses into town is the feeling that you get when you've been waiting for 20 minutes, and then a bus comes that won't actually get you all the way - do you catch it and transfer,... svend 2008-07-27T00:36:44+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002571.html I was quite lucky today, since I had three films in a row that C was interested in seeing, and she's going to come to the last one I have today as well. (I'm currently sitting in the cafe of... svend 2008-07-26T01:49:22+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002570.html C had me scrubbing the shower (we had someone staying that night), so we ended up having to catchi a taxi to Taxi to the Dark Side - tres extravagant! And also tres creepy, now that I think about it.... svend 2008-07-26T00:45:18+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002569.html I saw my sister Ellen before Rain of the Children, because a bunch of people from her work were going; C came into town with me, but decided that discretion was the better part of valour as far as Vincent... svend 2008-07-25T23:49:35+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002567.html By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience,which is the most bitter. -- Confucius This is the quote that started Up the Yangtze, a film... svend 2008-07-25T10:11:23+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002559.html Don't have time to finish my reviews today, because of work things. Heading into Rain of the Children; let's hope it's not River Queen.... svend 2008-07-23T10:40:32+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002557.html My first movie on Sunday was Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, a documentary about a school for troubled children. C and I were running a little behind schedule, so we got to our seats a touch late, but I'm... svend 2008-07-22T02:33:02+12:00 http://www.additiverich.com/andersen/archives/002551.html Before we start into comments about today's movies, I'd like to mention a few other matters. Firstly, a package arrived from darkest Ireland, with pretty Canadian stickers. It was a present from the lovely Giffy and the great and terrible... svend 2008-07-20T01:18:37+12:00