This was the last file that we sent to see at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. Maybe I don’t _get_ French comedy, but I found the end of this film incompressible. It started off with a good premise, and some interesting ideas, but overall it is a stinker.I’ll give it one star out of five.
I do enjoy podcasts. One of the best ones I’ve found is done by the folks at “Manager Toos”:http://www.manager-tools.com/. Their podcasts provide a wide range of behaviours that managers can implement to improve their effeictiveness (and efficiency). If you want to be a better manager — and you want to improve in bite size pieces, …
How do you know you have a world-class business school. When the Dean can do something like this perhaps? That was the Dean of Columbia Business School taking the mickley out of CBS alumni, and current FED chairmen, Ben Bernanke. {Oh, I shamelessly lifted this from Manu’s “blog”:http://manuelkoser.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/every-breath-you-take-remake-%e2%80%93cbs-is-great/]
I received and email today from Baris to let me know he has a blog. Baris was one of the students from Maastricht University who competed in the MMICC in March this year. His site lead me to Manu’s site who was also part of the Maastricht team. The interesting thing about the Maastricht team was …
Darl has asked me to set up a Wiki for his current MGMT 301 (Management Theory & Practice) and MGMT 329 (Advanced Theory & Practice) classes. Well its done and now the site Bad Dog is up and running. The name of the site came from one of the symbols/characters used in the simulation … …
Last movie of the weekend was Keane. Overall, I found it slow and overly long (maybe the two are connected). Two out of five stars.
So, having watched “The Method”:http://www.petersmith.org/diary/archives/2006/07/22/the-method.html we rushed down to the Civic for the 21:15 showing of “The Science of Sleep”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/. As we were waiting for the film to start, I made the comment that the seats at the “Civic”:http://www.civictheatre.co.nz/ are much more comfortable than those at the “Sky City Theatre”:http://www.skycity.co.nz/. The people sitting next to …
One of my favourite film genres is “get the guest”. I also enjoy films that have a few twists in the plot. So is it any wonder that I really enjoyed the Spanish Argentinian co-produced “El Metodo”:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/ (The Method). I wonder how long it will be before Hollywood does a remake. At times the film …
It’s going to be a busy weekend. We’re seeing five movies over the weekend. Today started off with more animation at the “film festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz/. The two best films were “Der Propellervogel”:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0490473/ and “Moongirl”:http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0482549/. Kazkaheutte was pretty good too. The audience (mainly children) seemed to enjoy them all (and enjoy them immensely).
I’ve replaced my old phone. My “Nokia 6310″:http://www.nokia.co.uk/nokia/0,8764,18177,00.html has been retired. I tend to only use my phone in the car (with a “Blue Ant”:http://www.blueant.com.au/ “car kit”:http://www.blueant.com.au/supertooth2.htm) but I’ve always wanted to use the old Nokia with my laptop. Alas, the bluetooth implementation on the Nokia seems to be a bit flaky to say the …
Still at the “festival”:http://www.nzff.telecom.co.nz … This movie is a semi-autobiographical piece by “Richard E. Grant”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001290/ recounts a his life in Swaziland. Not only did he write the screen play, but he also produced and directed it. Apparently, his real mother (played in the movie by “Miranda Richardson”:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001669/) thought is was a good movie too (if …
I should start by saying (no pun intended) that I was already warm to the idea of global warming. So, this film (doco) about “Al Gore”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore and his crusade to inform the world about global warming fell on fertile soil. Judging by the applause at the end of the movie, most of the audience were …