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Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
02 February 2023
12 August 2019
Unpopular Positive Opinions
As usual, XKCD says something immediately funny, but also a tiny bit profound.
12 June 2017
Catching up
The NY Times critics have published their list of the 25 best movies of the new century. While I have made a substantial dent in the list (I read the reviews often enough that I am not surprised by much of the list) I think I need to take a few days off to catch up. This heat wave seems like the perfect time to start.
19 April 2013
An unrelated recommendation
Late in the semester as the stress mounts, I will offer the unsolicited recommendation of the (now streaming) TV series Slings and Arrows. Mark McKinney leads a great ensemble cast mixing up some Shakespeare with a mix of drama and comedy, just the way the Bard would have liked it. Enjoy.
19 February 2013
Architecture movies
With the Oscars on Sunday Feb 24th, design fans who want to watch some movies might want to start with Arch Daily's list of The 30 Architecture Docs To Watch In 2013.
The list includes a few I have already seen and can recommend (e.g., My Architect: A Son's Journey) and a few in my Netflix queue (Eames: The Architect and the Painter and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth). Sadly, the one I most want to see (Los Angeles Plays Itself) will probably never be released on DVD due to complicated rights issues. But that still leaves plenty that are more widely available.
The list includes a few I have already seen and can recommend (e.g., My Architect: A Son's Journey) and a few in my Netflix queue (Eames: The Architect and the Painter and The Pruitt-Igoe Myth). Sadly, the one I most want to see (Los Angeles Plays Itself) will probably never be released on DVD due to complicated rights issues. But that still leaves plenty that are more widely available.
02 March 2012
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.
What better way to celebrate the release of The Lorax than with pictures of trees.
Tress are pretty amazing.
29 February 2012
Gasland: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Gasland: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
March 5 at 7 p.m
The Rutgers Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs is sponsoring a screening of the documentary Gasland on March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room at the Rutgers Student Center, Rutgers–New Brunswick. This screening is part of the 2011–2013 Technologies Without Borders: Technologies Across Borders theme and will be followed by a panel discussion. Learn more here.
March 5 at 7 p.m
The Rutgers Centers for Global Advancement and International Affairs is sponsoring a screening of the documentary Gasland on March 5 at 7 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room at the Rutgers Student Center, Rutgers–New Brunswick. This screening is part of the 2011–2013 Technologies Without Borders: Technologies Across Borders theme and will be followed by a panel discussion. Learn more here.
27 February 2012
Film and panel
The 2011-2012 Biennial Theme - Technologies Without Borders: Technologies Across Borders
Cordially invites you to a panel discussion and film screening of:
GASLAND, A film by Josh Fox
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room A (College Ave Campus)
(Details after the break)
Cordially invites you to a panel discussion and film screening of:
GASLAND, A film by Josh Fox
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Rutgers Student Center, Multipurpose Room A (College Ave Campus)
(Details after the break)
28 October 2011
Free movie tonight
FARMAGEDDON showing for free at Rutgers University
WHEN: Friday, October 28, 2011, 7:00 pm Movie
Following the screening, meet the film producer Kristin Canty, and participate in a panel discussion on food choice.
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
For clips from Farmageddon, visit: http://vimeo.com/smallfarmproject/videos
WHERE: Voorhees Hall #105, Rutgers University
Sponsored by Cook Campus Dean, College Ave Campus Dean, Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, and the Office of Undergraduate Education
FREE
WHEN: Friday, October 28, 2011, 7:00 pm Movie
Following the screening, meet the film producer Kristin Canty, and participate in a panel discussion on food choice.
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
For clips from Farmageddon, visit: http://vimeo.com/smallfarmproject/videos
WHERE: Voorhees Hall #105, Rutgers University
Sponsored by Cook Campus Dean, College Ave Campus Dean, Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, and the Office of Undergraduate Education
FREE
27 October 2011
06 January 2011
Blue Ridge Parkway documentary
For those in the NY area, you'll want to set your DVRs to record this weekend's showing The Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long and Winding Road. It looks like it might really probe more into the land owners who lost their land so the road could be built. It will show at 9pm on Saturday (Jan 8th) on WLIW. Just another example of ow TV can help you learn. (h/t Puk)
15 November 2010
Rutgers water movie/s
This week there is a screening of a wonderful older film starring one of Rutgers' more notbale faculty, Michael Rockland from American Studies:
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Members of the Rutgers community and the general public are invited to a screening and discussion of "Three Days on Big City Waters" on Thursday November 18th. The film chronicles a canoe trip from Princeton, New Jersey to New York City taken in fall 1973 by Michael Rockland and Charles Woolfolk of Rutgers University. The film starts at 8:00 pm in the Teleconference Lecture Hall, on the 4th floor of Alexander Library in New Brunswick. A discussion of the film will be led by Professor Michael Rockland.
Michael Aaron Rockland is professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of twelve books, three of which have received special recognition. His first book, Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847 (Princeton), was chosen by The Washington Post's Book World as one of the "Fifty Best Books of the Year." His latest books are Stones, a novel (Hansen Publishing Group) and The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel (Rutgers). Rockland has won five major teaching/lecturing awards, including the National Teaching Award in American Studies. He has lectured in some twenty-one countries around the world. A regular contributor to New Jersey Monthly magazine, he has also worked in television and film production, mostly for P.B.S. He is regularly interviewed on N.P.R.
This event is cosponsored by the Rutgers University Libraries, the Byrne First-Year Seminars, and the Ecologies in the Balance? The Way Forward program series, as part of their Water, River, Raritan Film Series. Other film screenings/discussions planned in this series are:
* Thursday March 24, 2011 - "Rivers of Destiny"
Discussion led by Geography Department Professor Trevor Birkenholtz
in the Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Alexander Library
* Wednesday April 13, 2011 - "Atlantic Crossing"
Discussion led by Rick Ludescher, Dean, Cook Campus
in the Cook Campus Center
Both films start at 8:00 pm.
For more information on the November 18th film screening/discussion of "Three Days on Big City Waters" or on the Water, River, Raritan film series, please contact Kayo Denda at kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu.
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Members of the Rutgers community and the general public are invited to a screening and discussion of "Three Days on Big City Waters" on Thursday November 18th. The film chronicles a canoe trip from Princeton, New Jersey to New York City taken in fall 1973 by Michael Rockland and Charles Woolfolk of Rutgers University. The film starts at 8:00 pm in the Teleconference Lecture Hall, on the 4th floor of Alexander Library in New Brunswick. A discussion of the film will be led by Professor Michael Rockland.
Michael Aaron Rockland is professor of American Studies at Rutgers University. He is the author of twelve books, three of which have received special recognition. His first book, Sarmiento's Travels in the United States in 1847 (Princeton), was chosen by The Washington Post's Book World as one of the "Fifty Best Books of the Year." His latest books are Stones, a novel (Hansen Publishing Group) and The George Washington Bridge: Poetry in Steel (Rutgers). Rockland has won five major teaching/lecturing awards, including the National Teaching Award in American Studies. He has lectured in some twenty-one countries around the world. A regular contributor to New Jersey Monthly magazine, he has also worked in television and film production, mostly for P.B.S. He is regularly interviewed on N.P.R.
This event is cosponsored by the Rutgers University Libraries, the Byrne First-Year Seminars, and the Ecologies in the Balance? The Way Forward program series, as part of their Water, River, Raritan Film Series. Other film screenings/discussions planned in this series are:
* Thursday March 24, 2011 - "Rivers of Destiny"
Discussion led by Geography Department Professor Trevor Birkenholtz
in the Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th floor, Alexander Library
* Wednesday April 13, 2011 - "Atlantic Crossing"
Discussion led by Rick Ludescher, Dean, Cook Campus
in the Cook Campus Center
Both films start at 8:00 pm.
For more information on the November 18th film screening/discussion of "Three Days on Big City Waters" or on the Water, River, Raritan film series, please contact Kayo Denda at kdenda@rci.rutgers.edu.
14 September 2010
The Fountainhead reviewed
TV Worth Watching just published a review of the movie adaptation of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead. It presents it in a fairly standard review of its watchability to a non-design audience: "It's all here: unapologetic personal gain, artistic passion, romance and selfless sacrifice... hot off the drawing board in the drafting room."
And there are plenty of political and philosophical reviews online about this as a metaphor for life. But what I couldn't find easily is a designer's critique of how this ego-driven approach doesn't work today, especially in collaborative and participatory settings. There must be plenty, but where? I trust my readers will let me know.
And there are plenty of political and philosophical reviews online about this as a metaphor for life. But what I couldn't find easily is a designer's critique of how this ego-driven approach doesn't work today, especially in collaborative and participatory settings. There must be plenty, but where? I trust my readers will let me know.
03 May 2010
Modeling movies
Andy at Digital Urban has posted 5 movies that explore agent movement in different rule-based landscape settings.
09 March 2010
Film Screening: A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
Center for Latino Arts and Culture presents:
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
Thursday, March 11
8:00-10:00 pm
Graduate Student Lounge, CAC
126 College Avenue, New Brunswick
Cities should be a solution not a problem for human beings. The city of Curitiba, Brazil has demonstrated for the past 40 years how to transform problems into environment-friendly, cost-effective solutions that can be applied in most cities around the world. Ecology and Conservation, 2007 Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival.
Join us for a post screening conversation with film director Maria Terezinha Vaz and Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture professor David Tulloch.
Last in a four-part series entitled Ecologies in the Balance in Latin American and the Caribbean: A Documentary Film Series.
Sponsored by the Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes, the Center for Latin American Studies, The Department of Human Ecology, The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, The Office of International Programs at the School of Arts and Sciences, Central and
South American Association, Rutgers Union of Cuban American Students, Latin American Student Organization, Rutgers Capoeira Club, [em]POWER Rutgers Chapter, and the Graduate Student Association.
13 January 2010
Slate on the Netflix maps
Slate readers have been digging into the Netflix maps that I mentioned earlier today and posting zipcodes with odd results on the BrowBeat Blog.
Netflix maps
The NY Times has created city-by-city maps of Netflix rentals by zip code. It turns out that movies are pretty spatial.
I'd really like to see the map of where Cabin Boy rentals are higher, or what kind of place there is where people rent Gigli.
I'd really like to see the map of where Cabin Boy rentals are higher, or what kind of place there is where people rent Gigli.
11 January 2010
A LULU of a movie
The Princeton Environmental Film Festival continues at the Public Library of Princeton until January 17th. It all sounds great, but one film has a particular Rutgers connection. In 1981 Frank Popper published a Planning article on "Siting LULUs" that introduced the now common term for locally unwanted land uses. On Friday, January 15, between 12 and 3, the PEFF will show a short called "Locally Unwanted Land Use."
29 December 2009
Top 10 Movies of 2009
Not many of these were released in 2009, but that is when I saw them and that'll have to do for this list.
10. Up
9. Wendy and Lucy
8. Gran Torino
7. Still Life
6. Frozen River
5. Up in the Air
4. The Wrestler
3. Elegy
2. Man on Wire
1. The Visitor
10. Up
9. Wendy and Lucy
8. Gran Torino
7. Still Life
6. Frozen River
5. Up in the Air
4. The Wrestler
3. Elegy
2. Man on Wire
1. The Visitor
03 March 2009
March Madness
It is that time of year. The college basketball season is reaching the point where it infects people who are usually immune to sports.
To celebrate, the NY Times' A. O. Scott made a video review of Hoosiers, the greatest basketball movie ever. And that led me to read Janet Maslin's original review when it came out. It is a pretty fun way to mark the changes of the seasons, and Places and Spaces will also help host a NCAA bracket tourney, so keep your eyes open.
To celebrate, the NY Times' A. O. Scott made a video review of Hoosiers, the greatest basketball movie ever. And that led me to read Janet Maslin's original review when it came out. It is a pretty fun way to mark the changes of the seasons, and Places and Spaces will also help host a NCAA bracket tourney, so keep your eyes open.
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