> “Золотой раковины” 55-го кинофестиваля в испанском Сан-Себастьяне удостоился последний фильм гонконгского режиссера Вэйна Вонга, передает в субботу агентство France Presse.
Картина Вонга “Тысяча лет добрых пожеланий” (A Thousand Years of Good Prayers) основана на одноименном рассказе китаянки Июнь Ли (Yiyun Li) и рассказывает о вдовце из Пекина, который отправляется в США навестить недавно разведенную дочь.
Приз за лучшую мужскую роль получил американец китайского происхождения Генри О (Henry O), сыгравший отца в фильме Вонга. Лучшейактрисой жюри под председательством американца Пола Остера признало испанку Бланку Портийо (Blanca Portillo), исполнившую роль в картине “Семь бильярдных столов”.
Приз за лучшую режиссуру достался британцу Нику Брумфелду (Nick Broomfield) за фильм “Бой за Хадиту” об одном из эпизодов иракской войны.
Всего в конкурсной программе участвовали 16 фильмов. Как напоминает агентство, фестиваль открылся 20 сентября фильмом канадца Дэвида Кроненберга “Восточные обещания” о русской мафии в Лондоне. На церемонии закрытия поздно вечером в субботу будет показана внеконкурсная картина Майкла Редфорда (Michael Radford) “Без изъяна” (Flawless) с Деми Мур (Demi Moore) в одной из главных ролей.
Break 02:15 PM - Friday, September 28, 2007 - by Tim Fans of Prison Break will get a little extra out of today’s strip, I think. I watched the first season on DVD earlier this year, on a whim, and was surprised when I really enjoyed it. I was still skeptical that they would be able to keep it going in a second season, but when that came out on DVD a few weeks ago, I plowed through it fast enough to catch up in time for the start of the new season. And so far it’s looking like it will continue to be a pretty damned good show.
I played some 4 person Halo co-op with some people the other night… the 4-player part was great, but I just wasn’t really all that impressed otherwise. It almost seemed too crowded, and making the three other players alien-creatures was just too confusing. In the middle of a big fight, they looked just like everyone else. In my opinion a squad of Spartans would have been the way to go.
I think the most fun was just killing each other, though. I was particularly fond of driving a warthog off a cliff, and jumping out at the last second, while Brian, still in the gunner seat, careened over the edge along with the vehicle.
I’ve been playing Skate more than Halo 3, but I still jump on occasionally for some matches. At least for the next two weeks until The Orange Box comes out. Then Halo will probably get shelved in favor of TF2.
TF2 09:23 PM - Friday, September 28, 2007 - by Tim Yeah, I know I could pre-order TF2 and play in the beta right now… but that’s only if I wanted the PC version. TF2 I could play either way, but for Portal I want The Orange Box on my 360.
Besides, I’d like to give Skate and Halo 3 another couple of weeks before my attention wanders off to yet another game.
Teh Haloz 12:11 PM - Sunday, September 30, 2007 - by Tim I r gud driver. Brian is gud guner.
Break 02:15 PM - Friday, September 28, 2007 - by Tim Fans of Prison Break will get a little extra out of today’s strip, I think. I watched the first season on DVD earlier this year, on a whim, and was surprised when I really enjoyed it. I was still skeptical that they would be able to keep it going in a second season, but when that came out on DVD a few weeks ago, I plowed through it fast enough to catch up in time for the start of the new season. And so far it’s looking like it will continue to be a pretty damned good show.
I played some 4 person Halo co-op with some people the other night… the 4-player part was great, but I just wasn’t really all that impressed otherwise. It almost seemed too crowded, and making the three other players alien-creatures was just too confusing. In the middle of a big fight, they looked just like everyone else. In my opinion a squad of Spartans would have been the way to go.
I think the most fun was just killing each other, though. I was particularly fond of driving a warthog off a cliff, and jumping out at the last second, while Brian, still in the gunner seat, careened over the edge along with the vehicle.
I’ve been playing Skate more than Halo 3, but I still jump on occasionally for some matches. At least for the next two weeks until The Orange Box comes out. Then Halo will probably get shelved in favor of TF2.
> С 26 по 29 октября 2007 года в Москве пройдет новый международный кинофестиваль “Завтра”, у которого главный денежный приз - за режиссуру - составляет сто тысяч долларов. Президентом фестиваля выбран Иван Дыховичный, сообщает РИА Новости со ссылкой на компанию “Интерфест”, организатора проекта.
Помимо режиссерской награды на конкурсе будут призы еще в четырех категориях - “Звук”, “Изображение”, “Актеры”, “Истории”.
Дыховичный уточнил, что особое внимание дебютного фестиваля будет уделено Восточной Европе, субкультурам и музыке.
Названия картин, включенных в конкурс, не сообщаются, но организаторы упомянули, что это будут “фильмы, премьеры которых прошли на крупнейших кинофорумах мира в уходящем году”. У фестиваля предполагаются внеконкурсная программа, клубные дискуссии и мастер-классы.
Ride the machine 02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers) 02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff. So that’s how it is huh? 02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah 02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle 02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre <Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh 04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah! 04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea 06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Heroes (spoilers): Mirror Image 10:56 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Some people have emailed me to say that the person Nathan is seeing in the mirror is Peter, all burned up. I beg to differ.
Heroes (Spoilers) Again 10:39 AM - Thursday, September 27, 2007 - by Tim Seriously, if that’s Peter in the mirror, I’ll eat this newspost.
Hah! Proof! (Spoiler Warning again) 01:29 PM - Thursday, September 27, 2007 - by Tim Here you will find a blog by the director of the season 2 opener, ‘Four Months Later”. If you scroll down to the 7th paragraph, you will see this little bit:
“Nathan, who was so in control and determined as a political candidate last year, has seemingly lost it all and has no goals. He drinks alone in a bar and is haunted by a disfigured version of himself. Who is this vision and what is the symbolism behind his horrible disfigurement?”
> “Монгол”, фильм Сергея Бодрова, включен в основной конкурс Римского кинофестиваля, который пройдет с 18 по 27 сентября. Всего в конкурсе оказалось 14 картин, в том числе “Caotica Ana” испанца Хулио Медема, “Juno” Джейсона Рейтмана и “Reservation Road” Терри Джорджа (оба - США), сообщает The Hollywood Reporter.
Римский фестиваль пройдет в 2007 году во второй раз. Его первым лауреатом была российская картина “Изображая жертву” Кирилла Серебренникова.
На фестивале будет показана обширная программа премьер. Среди наиболее ожидаемых оказались, главным образом, американские фильмы - Роберта Редфорда (”Lions for Lambs”), Фрэнсиса Форда Копполы (”Youth without Youth”), Шона Пенна (”Into the Wild”), а также канадская экранизация романа итальянского писателя Алессандро Баррико “Silk” (”Шелк”).
> Пятеро вооруженных взломщиков пробрались в дом Фрэнсиса Форда Копполы в Палермо, пригороде Буэнос-Айреса и похитили компьютеры, в том числе ноутбук со сценарием нового фильма “Tetro”, и съемочное оборудование. Как сообщает BBC News, режиссера в момент ограбления дома не было. Представитель Копполы объявила о награде за возвращение украденного компьютера. Также она сказала, что режиссер “очень огорчен” произошедшим.
Главную роль в “Tetro”, драме о семье итальянских иммигрантов в Буэнос-Айресе, сыграет Мэтт Деймон (по сведениям imdb.com - Мэтт Диллон). Съемки начнутся в феврале 2008 года.
Последний завершенный фильм Копполы “Youth without Youth” (”Без юности юность”) впервые будет показан на Римском кинофестивале в октябре 2007 года.
Наступает новая эра в истории Jaguar. У руля дизайн-студии марки встал Иэн Кэллум, который, похоже решил идти по стопам печально знаменитого Криса Бэнгла (кстати, тоже англичанина) — мистер Бэнгл известен тем, что в свое время убил фирменный классический стиль BMW, заменив его на авангардизм молодых европейских дизайнеров. Примерно тем же сейчас занимается и мистер Кэллум — первое его творение — купе XK многими было встречено в штыки из-за слишком противоречивого дизайна передней оптики, которое куда лучше смотрелось бы на какой-нибудь Kia, но только не на самой быстрой и дорогой модели аристократического кошачьего семейства.
Новая модель, от которой в гораздо большей степени зависит финансовое благополучие всей марки, внешне стала еще менее удачной. Многие помнят предвестника серийного седана — концептуальный С-XF, представленный прошлой зимой. Он многим даже понравился! Мускулистый, подтянутый, мощный силуэт, хищный прищур фар — все это ждали и от серийной модели. К сожалению, новому XF от концепта остался лишь контур… А фары — это вообще нечто из ряда вон. После осмотра фасада С-XF кажется, будто серийный XF проснулся с тажелейшим похмельем после недельного запоя, а перед глазами у него счет за напитки, выпитые всей компанией… В остальнолм все вроде в порядке, только вот не Jaguar это… Это мог бы быть новый Rover… То есть попытка совместить английский и китайский дизайн. От Англии — хромированные детали, кузов седан с пропорциями купе, а от китайцев — фары и оформление интерьера. Последний — это просто песня. Лебединая.
Взгляните на фото. Где дерево? Где уют, свойственный только настоящим Jaguar да исконно британским каминным комнатам? Разве за рулем такого автомобиля можно себя почувствоать так же уютно, как в кресле-качалке под пледом, читающиим The Times? Нет, тут более уместен строгий костюм менеджера высшего звена и ноутбук в алюминиевом корпусе, например, MacBook Pro. Он полностью соответствует духу автомобиля. Не осталось романтики, не осталось легенды. Этот седан уже не покрасишь в цвет British Racing Green, не пойдет он XF.
Хотя не так все плохо. С технической точки зрения XF во многом переплюнул S-type, на смену которому пришел. Концепция практически не изменилась — задний привод и мощные двигатели. Теперь Jag еще больше нацелен на конкуренцию с BMW — эта мысль буквально витает в воздухе при знакомстве с начинкой XF. Неожиданные решения буквально везде. Чего стоит только селектор автоматической шестиступенчатой коробки передач — это не рычаг, а поворотный переключатель, естественно, не имеющий механической связи с приводом коробки. Вручную передачи можно переключать с помощью подрулевых переключателей. Такое решение экономит место на центральном тоннеле. Пока мотор не заведен, вентилляционные решетки наглухо закрыты, когда нажимаешь кнопку старта мотора, они открываются.
Двигателей уже сейчас предусмотрено четыре, в том числе и 2,7-литровый дизельный V6 мощностью 207 л.с. и 435 Нм крутящего момента. С ним XF разгоняется до 100 км/ч за 7,7 секунды. Далее — бензиновая 240-сильная “шестерка” объемом 3 литра и два варианта 4,2-литровго бензинового V8 с разной степенью форсировки — атмосферная версия выдает 300 л.с., а вариант с нагнетателем — 420 л.с. Последняя модификация разгоняется до 100 км/ч за 5,4 секунды — отличный результат!
Ride the machine 02:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim So Halo 3 is finally out, and thank the almighty Robot Jesus. Hopefully now we can all shut up about it, and focus on a game that really deserves some anticipation. Like Mass Effect. Now there’s a game I could almost get excited enough over to go to some ridiculous midnight opening for… but still not.
Don’t get me wrong here, Halo 3 is a good game. All three Halo games are good. They’re solid titles with good graphics and good gameplay. I played some Halo 3, I enjoyed it. But it just seems like we’ve done this exact same dance twice before.
It has some new features, new weapons, new maps, all of which are really cool… but to me the game plays and feels exactly like the previous Halo. The graphics are okay, but they’re hardly the best the 360 has to offer. They’re obviously not ugly, the visuals are clean and attractive, with some cool effects. But coming off a weekend of straight Bioshock, a game that seemed to really push the lighting and textures and effects to a new level, it’s hard not to draw parallels, and Halo 3 comes up shorter.
I do love the new features that are there. The forge and theater options are really fun and great. The party/online system is one of the best I’ve seen so far, with regards to finding exactly the games you want to play, and avoiding the retards as best as possible. The new weapons are neat, the maps seem pretty cool, especially seeing the updated ones from Halo 2.
But that’s the point. They all seem more like… an update to Halo 2, than a whole new game. And that’s not to belittle the sheer amount of work that I know went into designing those systems. I can only imagine that the theater playbacks themselves were a herculean effort of coding and computer wizardry. And the result is a really cool feature.
But I just can’t get behind this “greatest game ever” stuff. Personally, I think a lot of the review scores were given in the reviewers heads before the game even arrived, and some of the score may be attributed more to the juggernaut franchise that Halo is, and less to the actual game itself.
That said, it is a good game. I do enjoy it. I’m hardly bashing Halo here, I enjoy playing it. I just think some people are going overboard with the hype. Though I’m laughing at the people who stood out at midnight because they just had to get their copy at 12:01 now, in a couple of months I’ll probably be the one salivating uncontrollably at the Pavlovian bell that is Mass Effect. I guess the hype hits us all for different things, for different reasons.
That said, I may be on playing Halo anytime between 9am-3pm EST (when the children are in school), so if you see me on, feel free to jump in. I usually leave my games open to my friends list. I pruned my friends list for inactives (anyone who hasn’t signed on in more than a day) last night, so I should have some spots open, if you want to send me a request. First come, first served.
Also, the demo for the new Crash Bandicoot game was pretty cool. I watched my girlfriend play it yesterday afternoon, and it looks really neat. I haven’t played a Crash game since… well since the very first one on the PS1. But I really liked the cartoony style for this one. May have to grab that when it comes out.
Server stuff, and Heroes talk (spoilers) 02:28 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Regarding the issues with the advertisements and our forums, there is a small technical issue with the server on which those two systems reside. The server monkeys are aware of it, and working to fix whatever has been exploding.
And how about Heroes, huh?! I’m most confused about what’s up with Nathan. It would make sense that he got burned up pretty badly while carrying Peter to explode in the sky. But why isn’t it showing? Why did he only see a flash of it in the mirror? Or was he healed? Argh!
And Peter… glad to see he isn’t dead, I didn’t expect he would be, but why did the Haitian wipe his memory? That’s my assumption because he’s wearing the Haitian’ necklace when the Irish find him. We know that the Haitian worked for Angela Petrelli, so she must have ordered it…
Actually I’m glad to see that nobody really died (Matt, Nathan, etc) though it would have given the show a sense of real mortality for the characters. Oh well. Good stuff. So that’s how it is huh? 02:31 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre First “The server guy” and now “Server Monkeys”… I used to have a name! I see how it is.
Yeah 02:32 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim It’s because you haven’t showered in a while, and now you smell like monkey.
Sniffle 02:45 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre <Chris Crocker>You don’t appreciate anything! WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!</Chris Crocker>
Ugh 04:12 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim I can’t believe you wrote his name on my website.
Ah! 04:13 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Pierre That’ll teach you!
Plus, who knows. Might give you some additional traffic via google ;).
Good idea 06:51 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Let’s get even more traffic here, and they can all see your broken advertisement server.
“Ooohhhhhh, no he di’in’t!”
Yes. Yes I did.
Heroes (spoilers): Mirror Image 10:56 PM - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - by Tim Some people have emailed me to say that the person Nathan is seeing in the mirror is Peter, all burned up. I beg to differ.
> Студия Capitol Films выбрала Роберта Редфорда режиссером фильма “Against all Enemies” (”Против всех врагов”), адаптации одноименного политического бестселлера 2004 года, написанного Ричардом Кларком, советником администрации Джорджа Буша и ее известным критиком. О возобновлении работы над многократно откладывавшимся кинопроектом сообщает Reuters.
Ранее режиссером фильма значился Пол Хаггис, обладатель премии “Оскар” 2006 года за картину “Столкновение”. Но Хаггис отказался от этого проекта в пользу фильма “In the Valley of Elah”, впервые показанного на Венецианском кинофестивале 2007 года.
В книге “Против всех врагов” Кларк раскритиковал действия администрации Буша накануне теракта 11 сентября 2001 года и на обстоятельства начала иракской кампании. Роберт Редфорд также является убежденным критиком действующего президента США. В настоящее время актер и режиссер готовит к прокату свой новый политический фильм “Lions for Lambs” (”Львы для ягнят”) с Томом Крузом и Мерил Стрип в главных ролях.
“Золотой раковины” 55-го кинофестиваля в испанском Сан-Себастьяне удостоился последний фильм гонконгского режиссера Вэйна Вонга, передает в субботу агентство France Presse.
