Monika’s Pensieve

Yep, “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” is coming to Afghanistan…

I’m trying to finally get back to reading news - I miss it :]
So I just read an article about a railway being built between Afghanistan and Iran, financed by the USA. Somehow I found it strange since the US is supposed to consider Iran evil and all. Even more interesting, it says Iran has [...]

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 [...]

Friday was a busy day (4 films), but a good one - no major disappointments :)
Secrecy
Impressions In Short
Very professionally made documentary. Some excellent interviews.
Some Details
It’s a very well-made documentary. Mainly it consists of interviews with people who were at one time or other involved with government policies to do with keeping certain information classified. There [...]

American Military Intelligence and You!
Impressions In Short
Small, funny, sarcastic film.
Some Details
Basically, the director took the style used in films made during World War II to train US soldiers and made his own propaganda film of a totally different nature. It’s not the most amazing film ever, but there are some wonderful, very sarcastic lines which [...]

In the end I didn’t go to see Donkey in Lahore today, was just too tired and too busy *sigh* Not that I should lament too much about it - having bought 12 tickets I won’t exactly be film deprived this week :]
Anyway, Saturday reviews…
Be Like Others
Impressions In Short
Fascinating topic, average film.
Some Details
I don’t think [...]

Belated post, I know :] As planned, I saw three films on Friday…
Full Battle Rattle
Impressions In Short
I thought it was excellent :) A very clever way of approaching the subject matter of the war on terror.
One of the biggest strengths of the film IMO is that it’s very difficult to suss what the directors’ opinion [...]

Yep, it’s time to moan about my degree project yet again ;) Unfortunately we bailed out in the end. It was just too much in too little time and the project was too crappy (that was the biggest problem actually - if you have a badly constructed piece of software every small change seems to [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
The Warsaw Film Festival starts on Friday, so it’s high time I looked into what they’re showing and choose something - a task which is not as easy as it sounds (on top of which I’m feeling a little guilty right now - I should be correcting the documentation of my degree project rather [...]

I just sent out the e-mail with our degree project to the teacher in charge. I’m knackered (I had about 5h of sleep all together in the last two days), but at least we’ve got something to show for this deadline, which is a big improvement over the last few ones ;-P The project is [...]