Monika’s Pensieve

Loved this interview :)

The teaser poster of Thirst, Park Chan-Wook’s latest film, features a priest in “sexual context” and has therefore been banned in Korea. You can see it here. I think it’s quite beautiful and only a little bit sexual, but whatever :]

I’m not sure what I think of this, but it’s interesting…

As of the 4th of April no new films are going to be shown in Indian multiplexes. Film producers say they cannot afford the deals multiplexes force upon them and that’s why they’ve had to take such drastic action.

You may remember I posted that Joaquin Phoenix retired from acting to pursue a career in music. Since then there’s been a lot of gossip about whether he’s lost his marbles or whether he’s just having us all on.
I didn’t bother posting any of this gossip since I was totally prepared to believe he just [...]

Here’s an article, which talks a bit about Sufi Islam and how it differs from the more hard-line forms of Islam.

You know like when you’re installing somekind of software and loads of licensing appears that you have no interest in reading, but you agree to it anyway because you want to install the application? They could write absolutely anything there and you’d agree to it. So, the best thing to do is to get your [...]

This is just sacrilege ;) No, seriously… there’s so many people like me, who are very nostalgic about the original. And the original really hasn’t aged badly… Unless they intend to do a very, very different film then this is suicide IMO :]

Doc Alliance is a new project, which seeks to make documentary films easily available to purchase for people. I rather like the idea :)

My Harry Potter relapse has most recently been focusing quite a bit on Draco Malfoy and Tom Felton, who plays him. I guess that’s because I’m pretty excited about how Draco is going to turn out in the next film - anyone who’s read the books knows why ;)
So here’s an interview with Tom Felton [...]