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Monthly archives: September 2006

say NO to deceptive fim advertising

28 September 2006 | Comments Off

Part 3 of the ongoing film rant… and today’s whinge is about deceptive film advertising and editing. People used to worry that the best scenes from a film were all in the trailer or in the television advertising, meaning that seeing the film did not provide sufficient further entertainment. Now you get even less.

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After seeing Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby at the Hoyts cinema in Melbourne Central on Tuesday night, I mentally went through the advertising I had seen for the film and the film itself, and noted several scenes that feature in the television advertisements and online trailers but NOT in the film.…

say NO to allocated cinema seating

27 September 2006 | 5 Comments

It must be whinging about cinemas week. After the Nova rubbish on Sunday I went to see A Dog’s Dream at the Greek Film Festival at the Palace Como Cinema on Monday night. They have a stunning foyer, a good bar, make reasonable coffee and have comfortable seats with wide isles. They also do allocated seating for all sessions, even when there are only 30 people in a cinema that seats 300. The film was quite good – slow dreamy magic realism and surrealism – David Lynch Greek style.…

say NO to the Nova

26 September 2006 | Comments Off

On Sunday I went to the Nova cinema in Carlton to watch United 93, which is soon to close. I am an avid film goer, and see at least one a week. However, as films have shorter and shorter screen lives, I sometimes have to travel far and wide to see a film before it disappears.

I have been to a lot of the cinemas in Melbourne and I can say that the Nova is possibly the worst.…

Retro cafe

25 September 2006 | Comments Off

I enjoyed an excellent coffee at the always reliable Retro cafe on Saturday afternoon while discussing the meaning of life and the virtues of a good scotch with a friend. I love their 1950s chrome and laminate furniture and I sat at the yellow table.

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mass psychosis

23 September 2006 | Comments Off

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I attended the Portable Film Festival symposium on Thursday night, and one of the speakers, John Safran, joked that the constant exposure of banal life via YouTube would lead to the loss of all privacy and mass psychosis. The panel discussed everything from the copyright implication for broadcasters distributing user generated content to the proliferation of ‘crap’ entertainment. The idea that low production values and coarse humour are spreading via user generated content appears to despair some traditional media makers, but the ‘bedroom media creators’ simply don’t care.…

going to an opening at Preap & Coutts

22 September 2006 | Comments Off

On Tuesday night I went to the opening of a new boutique at 118 Gertrude St, Preap and Coutts. Gertrude St is rapidly becoming another chic shopping strip. A friend of a friend has her jewellery available at the shop. The bubbly was sweet and the paint extremely fresh!

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flowers

20 September 2006 | Comments Off

Giving flowers to women is something that is lovely to do; as a man, receiving them is something that doesn’t happen very often. I recently cooked dinner for a close friend, who was visiting my flat for the first time since it has looked properly lived in, and she brought me these amazing tulips.

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Cape Live

19 September 2006 | Comments Off

The Cape Live bar, on the corner of Johnston and Brunswick streets, is a great place to drop in for a cold crisp Beck’s on tap, such as after walking home from seeing Placebo at Festival Hall and feeling rather in need of refreshment.

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