Monika’s Pensieve

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English Babu Desi Mem (India, 1996)
Seen: last night on DVD
Runtime: 170′
Release Date: sometime in 1996 in India and sometime recently on DVD in Poland
Polish Distributor: not even the Polish Bollywood forum knows ;) I saw it on a DVD which was attached to a magazine, but there’s no sign of a Polish distributor on [...]

I can’t get my head round this whole racist thing with Barack Obama. I mean I knew it would be an issue, but I never thought it would be quite this deep. Check out the Al Jazeera clip below, it’s much worse than the BBC article I posted earlier and I couldn’t quite get my [...]

Alan Turing (1912-1954) was a key person in computer science. We owe him a lot, but one of the most interesting things he introduced is the Turing test. In 1950 he wrote a paper, which asked the question of whether a machine can think. Since the term “think” is so subjective, he proposed to [...]

Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen. He was 15 when he was taken into custody by US soldiers in Afghanistan. He is now 23 and still has not been sentenced. He remains in Guantanamo and the Canadian government is not doing anything to help him (Omar Khadr is the only Western national remaining in Guantanamo, [...]

So this was the last day of the festival for me this year…
Pärnography
Impressions In Short
It probably wasn’t the best of ideas to come in late for the film :] I felt a bit lost for about half of it. Would have helped also if I had known a bit more about Estonia’s history - other [...]

By popular demand, a post about Matsumoto Jun at last ;)
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Film: Myu no Anyo Papa ni Ageru
Release Date: 30th August 2008
Director: Yoshino Hiroshi
Cast: Matsumoto Jun, Karina
TV Network: NTV
Plot
From d-addicts:
The drama is based on a true story of Yamaguchi Hayato (25), a young man who learns he has a rare illness known as CIDP, which [...]

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Film: Binbo Danshi (Japan 2008)
Seen: late August to mid-September
Runtime: 9 episodes, 45′-60′ each
Release Date: 15th January 2008 in Japan
Polish Distributor: doesn’t exist :]
Director: Inomata Ryuichi, Yoshino Hiroshi, Shigeyama Yoshinori
Cast: Oguri Shun, Yamada Yu, Yashima Norito, Miura Haruma, Yusuke Santamaria
TV Network: NTV
Plot: The main character is an incurable optimist and is incapable of saying no [...]

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Film: Milarepa (Bhutan/India 2006)
Seen: 13th September 2008 (in the cinema with Kinga *grin*)
Runtime: 90′
Release Date: 5th of September 2008 in Poland and according to imdb Poland seems to be the only country that released this film in normal distribution *shocked*
Polish Distributor: Manana
Director: Neten Chokling
Cast: Jamyang Lodro
Production House: Shining Moon Productions
Plot: The story of Milarepa [...]

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Film: Awarapan (India, 2007)
Seen: 9th September 2008 on DVD (Tina magazine’s Bollywood collection, Polish subtitles)
Runtime: 126′
Release Date: 29th June 2007 in India, no cinema release in Poland - I think the DVD came out this year
Polish Distributor: Mediaway
Director: Mohit Suri
Cast: Emraan Hashmi
Production House: Vishesh Films
Plot: There’s a guy called Shivan who is a criminal [...]

The Polish Figure Skating Association is holding consultations in Warsaw for its best skaters (AFAIK Torwar II will be the host for these until Wednesday). I came to see a little bit of the practices on Sunday evening and got my first look at the new pair of Joanna Sulej/Mateusz Chruściński who I was very [...]