So, it's nearly here... tomorrow we're off to the Big Smoke for the London Film Festival! As a result I won't be blogging here for a good few days.
Join us over at Reel Review is you want to know what we've seen, who we've spotted, etc etc.
technorati tag: london film festival
25 October 2006
24 October 2006
reel spirituality - kes
Don’t go to a cold and rainy bonfire party - join us for a cosy film night…
KES
by Ken Loach (rated PG)
The second of four films exploring the theme of “The Outsider” – alienation, isolation, exclusion and “the other”.
Every 1st Sunday of the month at Nexus, Northern Quarter
Doors: 6.30pm Film starts: 7pm prompt
If you want to explore the film’s themes and issues:
Post-film discussion: 9.15pm onwards Evening ends: no later than 10pm
Feel free to bring your own food. Drinks and snacks available on the night.
+ Book stall of film and spiritual books +
See Sanctus1 for more details.
Other films in this series include:
3rd December - Old Boy (18)
7th January - The Life Aquatic (15)
IMDB listing and technorati tag: kes
23 October 2006
everything i ever learned about cultural relations, i learned from spooks
No really, it's true! Worrying but true nonetheless. Spooks - the TV series where nothing is ever as it seems. Watch tonight's second parter to understand what I mean (we saw it after last week's episode on BBC3).
So in that context (!) I had a really interesting and varied week last week:
Last Saturday, I was affirming my views of the oneness of the world and all of its inhabitants, and my integrated place in it, through a symposium developed by the Pachamama Alliance
Tuesday, I was speaking about the dekhomai/ MBS/ Jesus Deck thing at the Faith to Faith conference
Friday, I was at the MBS fair, actually doing the dekhomai thing (see Ben's posts)
What a great and varied week, talking faith, spirituality and interconnectedness with everyone! And nothing was as it seemed/ I expected. FtoF people were so welcoming and challenging, and made a very short journey from their interfaith conversations to the world of MBS. Dekhomai was busier than expected for a Friday and I had several very encouraging conversations with people who were really searching. Jonathan and I even chose Jesus cards at the start of the day - The Innkeeper and The Dove. Perfect - hospitality and peace. (And as an aside - what might cultural non-assimilation mean for the MBS/ new age crowd who become followers of the Christ?)
Oh for more weeks like this...
technorati tag: spirituality
So in that context (!) I had a really interesting and varied week last week:
Last Saturday, I was affirming my views of the oneness of the world and all of its inhabitants, and my integrated place in it, through a symposium developed by the Pachamama Alliance
Tuesday, I was speaking about the dekhomai/ MBS/ Jesus Deck thing at the Faith to Faith conference
Friday, I was at the MBS fair, actually doing the dekhomai thing (see Ben's posts)
What a great and varied week, talking faith, spirituality and interconnectedness with everyone! And nothing was as it seemed/ I expected. FtoF people were so welcoming and challenging, and made a very short journey from their interfaith conversations to the world of MBS. Dekhomai was busier than expected for a Friday and I had several very encouraging conversations with people who were really searching. Jonathan and I even chose Jesus cards at the start of the day - The Innkeeper and The Dove. Perfect - hospitality and peace. (And as an aside - what might cultural non-assimilation mean for the MBS/ new age crowd who become followers of the Christ?)
Oh for more weeks like this...
technorati tag: spirituality
right and right again
Sam Wollaston is right and right *again*, about Robin Hood (pants! bring back The Doctor - and pronto!) and Torchwood (jury's out - don't worry, he'll be apologising for giving that a chance later in the month as well).
Torchwood was so bloomin' BBC - clunky, cheap, not scary, kitsch without meaning to be. There were some good lines, and I'm usually first in the queue for RTD's telly output, but this was well below par, despite its apparently good overnight viewing figures...
++ UPDATE ++
Urgh - and I'd forgotten that pathetic Silence of the Lambs take-off as well.
Well, Sam - how's that apology shaping up?
technorati tag: Torchwood
Torchwood was so bloomin' BBC - clunky, cheap, not scary, kitsch without meaning to be. There were some good lines, and I'm usually first in the queue for RTD's telly output, but this was well below par, despite its apparently good overnight viewing figures...
++ UPDATE ++
Urgh - and I'd forgotten that pathetic Silence of the Lambs take-off as well.
Well, Sam - how's that apology shaping up?
technorati tag: Torchwood
19 October 2006
18 October 2006
welcome to our two new office mates...
...or Big Boy and Little Boy as they're known to you and me. (Guess which is which - go on.)
S rescued them from the Chinese Arts Centre because they were remodelling their foyer and didn't have anywhere else for them to go. Now at least they have a home. Well, an office anyway. More specifically, the corner of A's desk... Welcome boys!
16 October 2006
tomorrow is one day in history
A mass blog for the national record. The History Matters campaign has designated 17 October a day for the public to make historic. We have chosen 'an ordinary' weekday of no particular significance to ask you to write a one day on-line diary.
Help us publicise it. Participate. Urge others to do so.
Help us publicise it. Participate. Urge others to do so.
reel review
In advance of our trip to the London Film Festival, and because we've been meaning to do it for ages, M and I have started a film review blog.
It's called Reel Review.
Maybe see you over there sometime...
It's called Reel Review.
Maybe see you over there sometime...
11 October 2006
talking or doing?
“An older, wiser woman once said to me that there were two choices with this stuff - you could either talk about the place of women, and make that your project, or you could choose another project and just bash down the resistance and take your place in the world, but you can't do both.”
[From Maggi Dawn's reflections on occasionally being asked to comment on the place of women in church]
[From Maggi Dawn's reflections on occasionally being asked to comment on the place of women in church]
04 October 2006
the story of the lost cheque
Imagine a woman who has ten cheques and loses one. Won’t she clear her desk and scour her account, looking in every folder and bank statement until she finds it (or discovers that her colleague hasn’t paid the invoice in the first place)? And when she finds it (or is belatedly given a cheque by said colleague) you can be sure she’ll call out to her colleague: “Lunch is on me! I found my lost cheque!”
Based on true events.
(With due deference to the Story of the Lost Coin, Luke 15)
Based on true events.
(With due deference to the Story of the Lost Coin, Luke 15)
02 October 2006
the outsider's view
In addition to the Donnie Darko showing as the first of the “Outsider” series for Reel Spirituality, M and I watched two other DVDs this weekend which (with hindsight) fitted the theme well – Napoleon Dynamite and Lost in La Mancha.
Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky indie film charting the nothing happening, small-town life of the protagonist – dealing with his dodgy salesman Uncle Rico, his chat-room-wannabe brother Kip, and his new friend Pedro’s campaign to be elected school president. It’s a film in which almost nothing happens – but I guess that’s Idaho for you… The tagline is “He’s out to prove he’s got nothing to prove”. Exactly.
Fulton and Pepe’s documentary of Terry Gilliam’s doooomed and never-completed feature film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, is a brilliantly revealing insight into the paranoid, fragile and tempestuous process of film-making.
A decade after he first had the idea, and on a budget of only $34m (ie tiny! but still the biggest budgeted feature film using only European financing), Gilliam and his crew are beset by problem after problem after problem – overhead noise from the nearby NATO airbase, the mother of all hail storms and subsequent flash flood, the illness, absence and conflicting schedules of the cast, many pan-European linguistic and geographic co-ordination problems, and an eventual insurance claim for a cool $15m. Frankly, it makes even my hard weeks at work look like making daisy chains in the sunshine…
Two films about fantastical dreamers, filmic outsiders, maybe even victorious losers in a way… Oh, and I fully expect the “Vote Pedro” backlash to start any minute via the comments!
Napoleon Dynamite is a quirky indie film charting the nothing happening, small-town life of the protagonist – dealing with his dodgy salesman Uncle Rico, his chat-room-wannabe brother Kip, and his new friend Pedro’s campaign to be elected school president. It’s a film in which almost nothing happens – but I guess that’s Idaho for you… The tagline is “He’s out to prove he’s got nothing to prove”. Exactly.
Fulton and Pepe’s documentary of Terry Gilliam’s doooomed and never-completed feature film, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, is a brilliantly revealing insight into the paranoid, fragile and tempestuous process of film-making.
A decade after he first had the idea, and on a budget of only $34m (ie tiny! but still the biggest budgeted feature film using only European financing), Gilliam and his crew are beset by problem after problem after problem – overhead noise from the nearby NATO airbase, the mother of all hail storms and subsequent flash flood, the illness, absence and conflicting schedules of the cast, many pan-European linguistic and geographic co-ordination problems, and an eventual insurance claim for a cool $15m. Frankly, it makes even my hard weeks at work look like making daisy chains in the sunshine…
Two films about fantastical dreamers, filmic outsiders, maybe even victorious losers in a way… Oh, and I fully expect the “Vote Pedro” backlash to start any minute via the comments!
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