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I'm still tired from the late Lille nights and early mornings, just had a bit of a nap. Now I go back to working on my school assignment. If I manage to be done in time I'll go and watch ODDSAC tomorrow, Animal Collective's cinematic extravaganza at Smart Project Space in Amsterdam, my former work base

Here's the trailer for this 'visual album'



Damn Kelis your new album is fucking incredible

^&TWO INSTEAD OF ONE_?

Yesterday I ended up watching two movies Gran Torino at Pathé and then Broken English at SMART where I work :) Loved both. Loved Eastwood. Played his part so well and boy does he start to look old, but at the same time he still looks so much the same. The same but just older. ^_^ He has such a powerful on screen presence. Loved his moaning sounds, his grrrrs :) Enjoyed the film, although you should not take things too seriously. You just have to take it as some kind of lesson, a story he felt like telling and this is just the way he did it. Just watch, don't ask.

Broken English started a bit weak. Wasn't convinced. Felt like a TV show rather than a film. But then things changed. If it wasn't for Parker Posey and the other actors who supported her I might have lost complete interest. A long time ago since I felt so much for a character. I could connect with her so well. She developed in front of me. Evolved. True, these last days I've been a bit weak. That's why I could find myself so lost in a character. I did still look at aesthetics, performances etc. But Posey's character just got hold of me. I didn't care it was so blatantly romantic. I didn't mind it has this cliché ending which i would have detested in any other movie. But Posey's character she got under my skin. And she deserved that cliché ending. I was with her right there. I went through it all with her. Maybe the film took advantage of me, of how I felt, perhaps I was easily won over. But without a doubt Posey nailed her character. And she actually irritated me a bit in the beginning. And that best friend of hers played by Drea De Matteo, she made acting look so easy. She was perfect for the part. Loved her from the beginning. And the French guy played by Melvil Poupaud of whom Posey's character thought he was saying 'angry' when he meant 'hungry' - sounded very familair ;) - was so subtle and charming. So even though it took a while before it got going, I ended up really enjoying it. Probably wouldn't buy it, not sure too if I would watch it again. But it was nice for last night. I needed it.

_+IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS"|

All wannabe filmmakers take notice. You got to see this film as it will truly inspire. In Search Of A Midnight Kiss is shot in black and white and shows that as long as you have a good script and good actors, it won't matter if you don't get that film look. In Search was filmed on HDV cam to which I must admit it takes some minutes getting used to as the look has this really amateur feel. But the script is so great and the actors, especially Sara Simmonds who plays Vivian, perform as well as the actors you find in films with a much bigger budget, that you easily forget that the film was made on a small budget. So only imagine this film having been made by this big studio, I'm sure it would have been an even bigger hit. Now it's one of these small idnependent films which has received lots of buzz. I wanted to see it for a while already and I was lucky to see it at SMART where I work. We got a sneak preview, 'cause the film isn't released here yet. It's a very funny film, very recognizable and just very authentic. The characters are very believable and I like that their lives don't end up being picture perfect. They're all flawed, but they do their best to work on it, like we all do. But really for everyone who want to make a film, but believes a film which doesn't have the look of that of a film with a bigger budget won't be able to compete with other films or won't find any real recognition, has to think again. For Alex Holdridge this is his third feature length film and it's a real success. Like for instance Once, which also was made on a low budget, the film just works, 'cause it's good. And that's what it's all about. If you tell a good story and just execute it well you don't need anything else. So go see it and start working on your own film! Just get a group of friends together, 'cause that's basically what Holdridge does who works with the same group of people on all his films. As a result his cinematographer plays one of the characters and I believe even contributed to the film's soundtrack. In sum, watch this film and be inspired.

>"UNKNOWN WHITE MALE%$

I just came back from working at SMART some minutes ago. Yesterday I went to see Cold War Kids, I know, will tell about that later. But, have to tell about this film I saw tonight. Like with the Lynch one I was allowed to watch a film. This time I saw Unknown White Male a documentary which has affected me deeply. Every human being needs to see this film. Why? Because it tells you all about who we 'are', about what identity is. It's a amazing documentary about this guy who one day loses his memory while taking the New York underground. Memory loss just all of a sudden kicks in. When it happens you're not even aware of it immediately. By the time this guy realized he didn't know who he was anymore, it was already the next day and he was somewhere he didn't know. It really is the most fascinating thing. Once he is found by someone who knows him and taken back home he has to face his past. A past only the people who know him hold. He himself has no memory of past events. He doesn't know who he was and has no sense of identification with the person he sees on photos, the guy he used to be. Watching this film suddenly you become aware of how things which seem so normal become strange and really receive meaning. When you would walk into my room you would go like, haaaa, yep, that's Danilo, typically him. But think about losing your memory and than enetering your own room which tells everything about you. You come to rediscover yourself, you come to face the person you are, were, or are supposed to be. It's the craziest thing. You basically have all these things, objects, saying this is you, this is all yours, this is part of you, you bought these things, choose them, but you yourself have no recollection of it, no memory. These things belong to that person you're supposed to be but are no more. And while this guy tries to find out who he is he gets the chance to start all over again. He is able to reinvent himself. He's like a newborn baby who doscovers life but from an adult perspective. He became so fascinated about everything, had to rediscover things like the ocean, snow, eating a hamburger. Everything. It is incredible to watch. It's scary but also such a beautiful thing. I think a lot of people would love to get the chance to start over, though it's a huge sacrifice, 'cause you won't remember your closest friends, your family. And for them, you suddenly have become a stranger. They will be afraid what you will come to think of them, will you still like them as your friends? You might have changed, your dad doesn't recognize you anymore, or there have been character traits you now have but didn't in the past. You've changed and you might never go back to being the same. Like a child you are formed again by all you see and experience, you start completely anew, from the start. This film, ughhh, see it. SEE IT! It's incredible. You will get the urge to write things down while watching, call friends to tell them they NEED to see this film. It's that kind of movie. It's remarkable. There are skeptics out there though who say the film is a hoax and is all staged, fake because the director has provided so little real proof. I don't know if that's true, but nomatter if it is or isn't the questions it comes to raise and which you leave the cinema with are what are the most important and makes all this so fascinating and affective. The questions are the core of the film, the idea of what if this all would happen to you, you could start life over again, really anew, fresh and the way identity is formed, how much we know about our friends, or actually how little. Noone knows everything about me, only me. So if I lose my memory of my past I might not be the same person anymore, I might become interested in complete different things. And my friends and family will realize what our friendship really consisted of. This guy was a supporter of Chelsea and with one of his friends he always talked about cricket. These were things they shared in common, both liked, now all that was gone and the guy didn't even know what cricket was. Crazy things like that. This film had a similar effect to the effect The Matrix had on me when I first saw it, that one raised so many questions and this film does as well. It's a fascinating piece.