January 2010
5 posts
The men who stare at goats
During a brief introduction, the lady of the cinema told us that it used to be quite hard for Hollywood film makers to find funding for a movie about Iraq. But in that same Hollywood, it’s not that hard to finance a film that ridicules new wave and hippie culture, proves debuting director Grant Heslov.
The men who stare at goats combines the harsh nature of military discipline with...
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Michael Pollan - In defence of food
‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ That’s what Michael Pollan starts his ‘eater’s manifesto’ with. According to Pollan, to eat properly means to avoid processed foods and eat whole foods instead. He takes us to civilizations such as the Aborigines in Australia and the Indians in Peru, showing that they do not eat foods with ‘low-fat’,...
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Up in the air
Up in the air is a film about a guy who spends most of his time in hotels, airports and on planes. It tells the story of Ryan Bingham, who has a tough occupation. He fires people for a living. This job requires him to fly 320 days a year, which is in itself an interesting fact to make a film about.
Jason Reitman, who previously made ‘Juno’ and ‘Thank you for smoking’...
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Realistic, practical and economical
An interesting story from last week’s New York Times caught my eye today. It is about fashion chains destroying new, unsold clothing for efficiency reasons. The article quotes a woman who apparently found hundreds of garments tagged for sale in Wal-Mart. They had holes punched through it by a machine. She also quite regularly found H&M clothing: ‘gloves with the fingers cut...
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Moon
It is the near future. Astronaut Sam Bell is living on the far side of the moon, completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth’s primary source of energy, Helium-3. It is a lonely job, made even harder by a broken satellite that allows no live communications home. Taped messages are all Sam can send and receive.
His time on the moon is nearly over, and Sam will be...