Movies Eugene Fischer | 02 Apr 2011
I just finished viewing Duncan Jones’s second movie, SOURCE CODE. Stop reading now if you don’t want spoilers. Overall: enjoyable movie that posits the reality of Many Worlds QM. What I find myself most struck by leaving the theater, though, is that at the end of the movie there is a reality in which Colter [...]
Movies Eugene Fischer | 09 May 2009
Warning: the following containes spoilers for the 2009 Star Trek movie. A brief sketch of my Star Trek history to start with: somewhere amongst the posessions of mine that still live at my parents’ house is my copy of the Klingon dictionary. I never did become a speaker, but I did spend a fair bit [...]
Comics &Movies Eugene Fischer | 07 Mar 2009
Today I saw the Watchmen movie, with some trepidation. I wasn’t afraid, as Ferrett Steinmetz is, that the film version would overwrite my own internal imagery developed from reading the graphic novel. I understand his fear–his example, in the comments at the link, of the Harry Potter movie actors overwriting his own internal voices when [...]
Movies &Video Eugene Fischer | 05 Mar 2009
Download links and BitTorrents of Sita Sings the Blues have gone live, in a variety of resolutions, with more (including DVD-ready files) to come. The download page is being updated with more resources regularly. Get your Sita fix here.
Creative Commons &Movies &Video Eugene Fischer | 01 Mar 2009
Sita Sings The Blues is a beautiful animated movie exploring various versions of the Ramayana, with about five distinctly different visual styles and a soundtrack of 1920s jazz. It was written, edited, directed, conceived, and everything-else-importanted by Nina Paley. Everything else except distributed, of course. Because film distribution companies handle all that stuff. Right? [...]
