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Edinburgh Film Festival
Jun. 22nd, 2008 06:12 pmThe film festival is on! I didn't manage to book everything I wanted, but I'm hopeful that some of the things I missed might be in the best of the fest on Sunday and I might be able to get tickets then instead. I have a block of tickets for things that mostly I don't recall the synopses for. I can only hope that I made good choices, and have a pleasant surprise waiting for me when I get to the cinemas.
First of all I went to see ( Milky Way Liberation Front. )
The next day I saw ( The Wackness. )
After a short break I went to see ( Pageant. )
Today (Sunday), I went to see ( Jules et Jim. )
After that, I went to see ( Alone in Four Walls. )
Now I have a break in films until later in the week, when I am seeing Dummy, Love and Other Crimes, A Film With Me In It, Transsiberian and Princess of Nebraska. I am feeling that I would like to see more documentaries though, so I'll probably see what else is on and what I can fit in. [Bah! For two of the films I missed out on (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Stone of Destiny are part of best of the fest, but they clash, and I will have to Decide.]
It's just as well that the film festival's on at the moment, because there is NOTHING on television. It's appalling. I can't believe how much of a difference freeview makes. And, I suppose, going to bed at a reasonable hour. Although earlier I caught the middle bit of some property show or other, and the voiceover said "so, we need an office for [the man] and a big kitchen for [the woman]", and I grumped quietly to myself, but then decided that this was unreasonable, as sure, they'd chosen a traditional gender roles couple, but if that's what they wanted then fine, BUT THEN, not five minutes later, the presenter man said "so, who does the cooking?" and IT WAS THE MAN. Perhaps they decided that it sounded unbalanced to have two rooms for him, but more likely it was hideous gender fascism at work yet again. Women like kitchens! Men do not like kitchens! I bet he doesn't want an office at all, they just forced it upon him in case he had any dangerously modern ideas about actually spending time with his eventual children. Anyway, it turned out that what she really yearned for was an upstairs bathroom, so they could have had that in there instead. Or are bathrooms too unisex?
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First of all I went to see ( Milky Way Liberation Front. )
The next day I saw ( The Wackness. )
After a short break I went to see ( Pageant. )
Today (Sunday), I went to see ( Jules et Jim. )
After that, I went to see ( Alone in Four Walls. )
Now I have a break in films until later in the week, when I am seeing Dummy, Love and Other Crimes, A Film With Me In It, Transsiberian and Princess of Nebraska. I am feeling that I would like to see more documentaries though, so I'll probably see what else is on and what I can fit in. [Bah! For two of the films I missed out on (Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Stone of Destiny are part of best of the fest, but they clash, and I will have to Decide.]
It's just as well that the film festival's on at the moment, because there is NOTHING on television. It's appalling. I can't believe how much of a difference freeview makes. And, I suppose, going to bed at a reasonable hour. Although earlier I caught the middle bit of some property show or other, and the voiceover said "so, we need an office for [the man] and a big kitchen for [the woman]", and I grumped quietly to myself, but then decided that this was unreasonable, as sure, they'd chosen a traditional gender roles couple, but if that's what they wanted then fine, BUT THEN, not five minutes later, the presenter man said "so, who does the cooking?" and IT WAS THE MAN. Perhaps they decided that it sounded unbalanced to have two rooms for him, but more likely it was hideous gender fascism at work yet again. Women like kitchens! Men do not like kitchens! I bet he doesn't want an office at all, they just forced it upon him in case he had any dangerously modern ideas about actually spending time with his eventual children. Anyway, it turned out that what she really yearned for was an upstairs bathroom, so they could have had that in there instead. Or are bathrooms too unisex?
Also I have a new icon. It is my tattoo underwater, and
humanfemale took the picture.
