Date posted: January 22, 2006
The performances in Amsterdam had already sold out and so I had to go to Rotterdam to see Johan Simons’ production of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Platform. Since I couldn’t leave early from work, this meant eating a pasta salad and a bread roll on the train from Amsterdam to Rotterdam and stuffing myself with French fries from McDonald’s on my way to the theatre. An appropriate start to see the performance.
Date posted: January 9, 2006
I had to queue almost 45 minutes to buy a ticket and then another 20 minutes or so to actually get into the exhibition on the top floor of the Centre Pompidou, but it was well worth the wait, if only to see Marcel Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even” set against the skyline of Paris. Had I known this in advance I would have gone sometime during the morning and not late in the afternoon, when it was already getting dark.
Holland Animation Film festival 2008
As with every edition of the Holland Animation Film festival there were too many films. And also as with every edition the films ranged from hilarious, touching and stunning to boring, tedious and outright dreadful.
I'm a cyborg is yet another highly intelligent movie by Park Chan-wook. It's also a visual treat and in its own special way profoundly moving.
Supplementary material for my review of Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms; Paul Collier: The Bottom Billion; and Dani Rodrik: One Economics, Many Recipes.
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