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Archive for January, 2005

Thesis (1996)

Posted in Film, tagged , , on January 25, 2005 | No Comments »

We’re on a Spanish film binge recently :P. Thesis is a very entertaining mystery thriller from director Alejandro Almenábar, who’s known for directing + writing the brilliant Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) (original version of Vanilla Sky) and The Others. Thesis was his break-out first film.
The story: film student Angela (Ana Torrent, all grown [...]

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Bad Education (2004)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , , on January 24, 2005 | No Comments »

I really enjoy Pedro Almodóvar latest film Bad Education! I went into the theatre without knowledge of the plot, since the trailer is so short and ambiguous so I didn’t know what to expect other than a colorful Almodóvar treat. Turns out it’s a top-notched, carefully crafted Film Noir + Hitchcockian thriller (with tranny & [...]

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The Nomi Song (2005)

Posted in Film, tagged , , , on January 15, 2005 | No Comments »

The Nomi Song is a documentary about the bizzare German-born singer Klaus Nomi, a cult figure in the New York New Wave underground movement in the late 70s/early 80s. I’ve only heard of Klaus Nomi and seen his album covers but never actually heard his music prior the film. Klaus Nomi was a classical trained [...]

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Amarcord (1973)

Posted in Film, tagged , on January 6, 2005 | No Comments »

Fellini’s whimsical recollection of his youth in a little sea-side town during the days of Italy’s Fascism in 30s. There’s not much of a story, just different episodic accounts of the colorful town folks’ simple lives and their fantasies. Their lives are weaved by ritualistic highlights: the flower that blew all over town indicating the [...]

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Troll ~A Love Story~

Posted in Novel, tagged , , on January 6, 2005 | No Comments »

Troll ~A Love Story~ (2000)
Johanna Sinisalo
Originally titled ‘Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi‘ (translated as ‘Not Before Sundown’) in Finnish, it finally got translated and released here four years later. It won the highest Finnish literature award Finlandia. The story set place in contemporary world with a slight alternate history twist: mythical creature troll’s existence has been [...]

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The Bloody Countess

Posted in History, tagged , , , , , , on January 1, 2005 | No Comments »

The Bloody Countess: The Atrocities of Erzsébet Báthory
Author: Valentine Penrose
Release Date: Sep 2000
Publisher: Creation Books
Pages: 189
Erzsébet Báthory, the beautiful 17th century Hungarian Countess who tortured and killed more than 600 girls and bathed in their blood, was not as widely known as the infamous Vlad the Impaler (immortalized as Dracula by Bram Stroker), nevertheless [...]

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