Why am I posting so much all of a sudden? I dunno ... just feel I should put something up, leave me mark on the interweb, though nobody actually reads this blog, and nobody knows who I am ... oh well, anyway ...
Being a big Life on Mars fan that I am, I decided to start watching Ashes to Ashes, and I have to say, Gene Hunt is just a fantastically fun character to watch. Just gold!!
Here's a trailer:
I have to say, I'm enjoying the music as always. For me, the '70s music in Life on Mars is more my sorta music, but there's nothing like '80s music to bring back the good old memories of shoulder pads and too much mascara!!
This video features The Clash with I Fought The Law. Can I say "gold" again??? =)
Saturday 22 March 2008
Firthy firth
Mmmmm ... so I'm a big fan of Colin Firth and can't help posting this trailer of Then She Found Me, though it looks rather like a rehash of one of his romantic comedy roles like Mr Darcy in Bridget Jones's Diary etc:
and for good measure, here's an interview he did with Sky News for the movie And When Did You Last See Your Father?:
and for good measure, here's an interview he did with Sky News for the movie And When Did You Last See Your Father?:
Monday 17 March 2008
'They're just dead Africans'
When a BBC reporter in the movie Shooting Dogs is asked how her experience in Bosnia compares to that of her current situation in Rwanda, she replies: "Everytime when I saw a dead Bosnian, white woman I thought, that could be my mother ... no, it's worse ... Over here, they are just dead Africans. What a thing to say. We are all just selfish pieces of work in the end."
I've just rented this British film, which surprisingly, has only just been released in Australia (it was first released as a film in the UK in 2005), and it's about the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where about 800,000 were massacred in just 100 days.
Shooting Dogs (or Beyond the Gates, its American title) is a powerful and very moving film. It was produced by a BBC journalist who was in Rwanda covering the genocide and is based on actual events of how 2500 Tutsi Rwandans were killed in the compound where they were sheltering in with the UN soldiers when they pulled out.
I watched Hotel Rwanda when it came out a few years back and somehow I think this movie is much more poignant. It was filmed IN Rwanda for one, unlike Hotel Rwanda, which was shot in South Africa, and used people who were caught up in the genocide.
Hotel Rwanda sort of gave an African point of view of what happened, and the heroism of one individual, while Shooting Dogs really works in encapsulating the lack of action by the UN though the abandonment of the Tutsis in the compound. It's a must-watch:
I first started reading in detail about the Rwandan genocide when I read the book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch probably about eight years ago, and then the book Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda by Scott Peterson. Philip Gourevitch's book was the one that really changed my perception of spirituality and my belief in God. I think slowly but surely after that (unlike John Hurt's character in Shooting Dogs) I lost my faith in God and the belief that there is God, that Jesus did exist, that there's Heaven and Earth. I guess I just couldn't believe that such things could happen - and not only that it was happening, that it is happening again and again, after the Holocaust, and now, in Sudan ...
I've just rented this British film, which surprisingly, has only just been released in Australia (it was first released as a film in the UK in 2005), and it's about the Rwandan genocide in 1994, where about 800,000 were massacred in just 100 days.
Shooting Dogs (or Beyond the Gates, its American title) is a powerful and very moving film. It was produced by a BBC journalist who was in Rwanda covering the genocide and is based on actual events of how 2500 Tutsi Rwandans were killed in the compound where they were sheltering in with the UN soldiers when they pulled out.
I watched Hotel Rwanda when it came out a few years back and somehow I think this movie is much more poignant. It was filmed IN Rwanda for one, unlike Hotel Rwanda, which was shot in South Africa, and used people who were caught up in the genocide.
Hotel Rwanda sort of gave an African point of view of what happened, and the heroism of one individual, while Shooting Dogs really works in encapsulating the lack of action by the UN though the abandonment of the Tutsis in the compound. It's a must-watch:
I first started reading in detail about the Rwandan genocide when I read the book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch probably about eight years ago, and then the book Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda by Scott Peterson. Philip Gourevitch's book was the one that really changed my perception of spirituality and my belief in God. I think slowly but surely after that (unlike John Hurt's character in Shooting Dogs) I lost my faith in God and the belief that there is God, that Jesus did exist, that there's Heaven and Earth. I guess I just couldn't believe that such things could happen - and not only that it was happening, that it is happening again and again, after the Holocaust, and now, in Sudan ...
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