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“Perhaps a decent film couldn”t have been made from Jose Saramago’’s Blindness,” suggests Eric Hynes at indieWIRE. “If one were to insist on adapting the text, why in the world would one ignore its central aesthetic challenge? Similar to stage-to-film transfers that “open up” action with camera movements that distract from a scene’’s point of being (Proof, Hurlyburly among others), Fernando Meirelles’’s Blindness strains to visualize lack of vision.”

Fernando F Croce in Slant: “It’’s too easy a joke to say that Blindness lacks vision; more accurate to say that it lacks control, lucidity and humanity, the last being a particularly calamitous absence in a film about civilization in crisis.”

Updated through 10/3.

By:  dwhudson                        Source

“Many rock bands have a moment when they flirt with cinema, but the best efforts are not slick productions like Purple Rain or The Wall,” writes Andy Webster in the New York Times. “They”re more like the Monkees” Head, say, or Led Zeppelin’’s Song Remains the Same: endearingly ragged projects, destined for cult status. For the Oklahoma group the Flaming Lips, that movie is Christmas on Mars.”

“Seven years in the making and shot on home-built sets in the band’’s back yard in Oklahoma City, [Mars] is finally getting released - sort of,” notes Jürgen Fauth. “In a characteristically unpredictable move, the film will begin an underground tour of offbeat venues around the country next week at the KGB Kraine Theater, a retrofitted Ukranian Socialist Social Club in New York….. Christmas on Mars works hard to convince you it’’s a freaky, freaky freak-out, but the strangest thing about the film is how dull it is.”

Updated through 9/13.

By:  dwhudson                        Source

The Paris Motor Show, “she is on,” and we’ve got the latest. Hosted by Derek DeAngelis from Fast Lane Daily

Reese Witherspoon presenting the Best Actor Oscar® to Forest Whitaker for his performance in “The Last King of Scotland” -the 79th Annual Academy Awards® in 2007

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Parents TV gets expert advices to help you understand your childs personality, so you can help them make and keep friends.

If you live in a basement or some place where there isn't a whole lot of light coming in from outside, you might appreciate something that at least simulates real sunlight. Unless you're emo or a vampire, who wants to sit in the dark all the time?

The Bright Blind is a window shade that hangs on your wall. It is backlit by electroluminescent sheets to provide simulated daylight. Brightness is adjusted by twirling the plastic shade control, just like the real thing!

Check out how the blinds work:

A cool idea, if you ask me. What do you think?

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By:  Dameon Welch-Abemath                        Source

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Watch a video from the development team on the thinking and features behind Google Chrome.