A 10-part mini-series from the creators of Band of Brothers and producers Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, telling the stories of three Marines during America’s battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. Episode 1 airs March 14.
La Chureca in Nicaragua is one of the Western worlds biggest open garbage dumps. Even the briefest visit is a considerable challenge. Nevertheless it is home to far over a thousand people. Most deaths on the dump are due to a lung disease, that is known there as ‘lead’. For children growing up around La Chureca, it’s the standard course of events.
Marten Persiel and Xabier Garay’s Chureca project is a documentary film as well as an active participation in one of Spains most ambitious foreign aid projects to date: the complete clean-up of La Chureca, the construction of recycling facilities and an entire village, including a school, a hospital and community service projects. One of these projects is a skate park, which aims at getting Chureca kids in touch with other young people, whose world doesn’t consist of nothing but trash.
I like the type elements in the super weird intro scene of the 2007 release Ex Drummer directed by Koen Mortier.
Manufactured Landscapes
Movie | Photography | World
Sunday, February 28th, 2010 by Christian, 1 Comment
A movie about the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky.

Have you ever been watching TV or a movie and pointed to the screen and said, “Hey! It’s that Guy!”? Well, here is where you’ll find him – All “That Guys!” on one page.
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point – A comic tour de force that shows that – while terrorism is about ideology – it can also be about idiots.
Tropic Thunder (2008) by Ben Stiller with Tom Cruise in the role of his lifetime.
The best action scene ever
ClipOfTheDay | Movie
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 by Christian, 4 Comments
This clip from the 1985 Bollywood production Alluda Majaka is the best action scene ever – super exciting and wildly over-the-top unrealistic. Especially the horse-sliding scene at 2:07. You don’t know what horse-sliding is? That’s because this guy invented it.
Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) by Jared Hess
Apocalypse Now (1979) by Francis Ford Coppola
The Art Of Akira
Art | Exhibition | Illustration | Movie
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by Christian, No Comments

Joe Peacock has been collecting Akira cells and production art since he was 14 years old and has now collaborated with ToonSeum to launch an exhibition series, starting in April 2010.

For the movie lovers.
I don’t like the fact that this is another marketing project but the trailer to Spike Jonze’s new 35 minute short film debuting at the Sundance film festival looks very promising.


