Month: February 2013
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the word “agenda” in English and its pronunciations
agenda – Wiktionary My special challenge with this word is the “g”.
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the spec for my future MacBook Pro/Retina
I would still love to have a 17″ display, but apparently they don’t want to resp. cannot offer this (for the time being). Of course I would love to have as much RAM as possible (esp. for running my Windows and the opensuse GUI virtual machines), but apparently the difference between 8 and 16 GB…
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
summary a summary of film by the same name and contant on IMDb [Link] The legend of how Atanarjuat wins the hand of beautiful Atuat is a well-known Inuit tale from the first millennium. …
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film: Shirley: Visions of Reality
summary IMDB entry A series of snapshots from the life of a fictional actress named Shirley serves to weave together thirteen paintings by Edward Hopper (e.g. “Office at Night”, “Western Motel”, “Usherette”, “A Woman in the Sun”) into a fascinating synthesis of painting and film, personal and political history. … I would have loved to…
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: Top of the Lake
summary IMDb entry My Sunday afternoon 350 minutes movie with my son#2. Well, actually he got bored and left me alone after like 120 minutes of the series. That was rather, rather sad.
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: A Long and Happy Life = Dolgaya schastlivaya zhizn (in russian)
summary in german summary in english My Sunday morning movie at Schaperstraße. I guess, that was my 1st russian film ever at the Berlinale.
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: Isabella Rossellini’s “Mammas”
summary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Rossellini the list of her films on IMDb (i.e. with her as director) [Link] My Saturday evening “Isabella Rossellini” series of short films at the Delphi. I really, really liked them. Actually they came in 2 sequences, with a break in between, and it took them like more then half an hour to solve…
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: frog spider hand horse house
summary I go there because it comes in a package with the “Isabella Rossellini” film afterwards (both at the Delphi). Maybe it is nice anyway.
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movie at the Berlin Film Festival: No Man’s Land = Terra de ninguém (portuguese)
summary IMDb entry Will I make it into the presentation at the Delphi again? I would rather like to, I think. Yes, I did. What Paulo (a mercenary and killer by profession) had to tell about his life was rather shocking, but he mostly presented it in a bragging style.