Notes about festivals and Withoutabox
I’ll try to write here some notes about festivals and Withoutabox – having used it many times – as suggested by John Harrigan after a twitter conversation. Withoutabox is the leader of its market so, as usual, its service/software is not at the state of the art and the prices are not so low but [...]
Milano calibro 9
I watched this film as requested by a friend of mine so let me add a few notes here while you can read real reviews on IMDB: the lap dance scene performed by Barbara Bouchet is still sexy forty years later: in 1972 it should have blasted the audience… there are even two very interesting [...]
When a master writes about sorrow
With a tweet, Letters of Note informed us about a letter by Henry James to his depressed friend Grace Norton, dating back to July 1883. IMHO, the core of his lucid and powerful prose is: consciousness is an illimitable power
Déjà Vu
The website of Déjà Vu, my first short film, is online! Here, I don’t have anything to add to that. :)
Simple hints for novice directors
I’m not a real film director but life is strange and I have written, produced and directed a very short film – we’re still editing it, I’ll keep you informed about its next step. :) There is a lot of good advice on the Internet: let me add here a few naive hints. :) I [...]
36 hours
four flights; an interview for a TV channel; a speech during a street protest; another interview, in English, for a Swiss German newspaper; one more video interview for a web channel; a talk in a conference; a bunch of new friends and an incredible ghost town, among other things. :)
Turning back a mother into a woman in five easy steps
Unfortunately, such a book doesn’t exist so I’ve added a fake cover on the O’Reilly Maker Series: it’s one of the most missing manuals for new fathers. :)
Filminute 2011 critics
Filminute is the International One-Minute Film Festival and for its 2011 edition, I’ve got a deal with them: writing twentyfive short but tweet sized reviews, one for each candidate. I’ve watched all of them: the quality clearly increased since the previous edition. It has been hard to choose a candidate to vote for… and I [...]
On Yeti Tracks
A summer ruled by blue mood is not the right thing to turn me into a hungry reader so “On Yeti Tracks” is the only short novel I can write a few lines about. What I liked most of this pleasant typical Chatwin story, with his unique mix of searching and telling, was the beginning: [...]
Closing the top posts list
After a few years of monthly updates, I stopped publishing the top posts list of this blog because it has been almost stable for many months so the following is the last one. Top ten Italian songs of all times Inserting raw HTML code in MediaWiki jQuery tabs and cookies Using AWK to remove file [...]
