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“Eating Roquefort cheese could help guard against cardiovascular disease despite its high fat and salt content, according to new research that suggests why the French enjoy good health.”
My nutritionist is going to crack it.
The original Pale Blue Dot NASA photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990, which inspired Carl Sagan’s book and famous monologue of the same title.
They’ve built a supermassive Wallmart in San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico.
Within a mile of the Pyramid of the Sun.
Nihilo sanctum estne?
Photo: Henry Romero
I’ve been surprised by and am quietly enjoying this new series Moone Boy, while this trailer doesn’t really sell it, the kid is really funny and Steve Coogan’s character is pretty darn good too
Catriona McKenzie’s debut feature Satellite Boy is headed to the Berlin festival
Some more killer Emmanuel Lubezki cinematography here in Terrence Malick’s To The Wonder.
I hope that at least one of the characters makes it out of the field they’re stuck wandering around in.
Nice looking field wandering though.
Pump this up to at least 720p!
Hope it didn’t deserve the boos it received at the Venice Festival
The Twin Shores of Agnès Varda
“Having filmed the seaside and the beach so much, I could be taken for a specialist. Here I show a photo of the sea and we can imagine the wind which, at that moment, whips the crest of a wave up into jets of water. I also propose that the movement which continues the image is cinema, another representation of the seaside, we hear the last wavelet that comes and flattens itself on the sand, well, the sand is real sand, it’s reality,” says the iconic New Wave film director Agnès Varda about her new exhibition at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Cntemporaneo in Seville, Spain. The exhibition, entitled The Twin Shores of Agnès Varda, presented in collaboration with the Sevilla Festival de Cine Europeo, shows short films, photographs and installations by the French filmmaker.
If you’ve not seen her autobiographical documentary The Beaches of Agnes, make it your business.
An All American Nightmare
By: Peter Van Buren
Huffington Post
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, accused 9/11 “mastermind,” was waterboarded 183 times. Al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj spent six years in the Guantanamo Bay prison, stating, “They used dogs on us, they beat me, sometimes they hung me from the ceiling and didn’t allow me to sleep for six days.” Brandon Neely, a U.S. military policeman and former Guantanamo guard, watched a medic there beat an inmate he was supposed to treat. CIA agents tortured a German citizen, a car salesman named Khaled el-Masri, who was picked up in a case of mistaken identity, sodomizing, shackling, and beating him, holding him in total sensory deprivation, as Macedonian state police looked on, so the European Court of Human Rights found last week.
I missed this film from 2008, written and directed by Gerardo Naranjo who more recently made the excellent Miss Bala. Checking it out tonight.
The peeps at TheWeek have asked a Doctor to analyse the nasty injuries sustained in Home Alone. I’d like to see the film remade but with Joe Pesci playing Nicky Santoro from Casino.
The injury: Handling a burning-hot doorknob
The set-up: While Marv is getting an iron to the face, Harry tries to enter the home through the front door. The first attempt doesn’t go well, as the stocky burglar slips on the icy steps and falls to the ground, landing with a thud on his back. Easing up a second time with the help of the railing, Harry makes it to the front door, reaches for the doorknob — which we see is literally burning red — and grasps the searing handle, the pain of which forces him once again down the icy steps.
The doctor’s diagnosis: ”If this doorknob is glowing visibly red in the dark, it has been heated to about 751 degrees Fahrenheit, and Harry gives it a nice, strong, one- to two-second grip. By comparison, one second of contact with 155 degree water is enough to cause third degree burns. The temperature of that doorknob is not quite hot enough to cause Harry’s hand to burst into flames, but it is not that far off… Assuming Harry doesn’t lose the hand completely, he will almost certainly have other serious complications, including a high risk for infection and ‘contracture’ in which resulting scar tissue seriously limits the flexibility and movement of the hand, rendering it less than 100 percent useful. Kevin has moved from ‘defending his house’ into sheer malice, in my opinion.”
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