Movies and Links

28Sep08

Tonight I watched Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, or, for short, Amélie. I have had many friends telling me that I really must take the time to watch it, and I was pleased that I finally did. The movie was visually stunning, slightly quirky, oddly romantic, and completely inspiring. I also recently watched Paris, je t’aime. It is a newer film, and there were some wonderful throwback to Amélie via the sound track and other visual elements. Both movies are so wonderful—two gems of French cinema that are extremely watchable, even to those who may bit a bit intimidated by foreign films.

I find myself passively watching many TV series’ but one of my favorites has been Pushing Daisies. If anyone has seen both Amélie and Pushing Daisies, you would have to agree that the similarities in color, texture, and style are remarkable. So, the bottom line is that tonight’s movie experience was delightful.

Below are few links I want to pass on.

So much could be said about the political situation right now, and so much is being said; to help you keep up with everything, Twitter has put together a wonderful aggregator web-app to pull together current thoughts. Its well worth spending a few minutes watching the world talk about politics over at http://election.twitter.com/.

I ran across an awesome web app tonight called Wordle. You can copy and paste text and it creates a word cloud of the most frequently used words. Very elegant, nice typography, and fun to use. Truly a novelty item, but very fun!