Saturday, July 14, 2007

Black Book

I saw my first movie at the International Film Festival yesterday - it was 'Black Book' by Paul Verhoeven and I must admit that it has been the tightest and tautest movie with SUPERB written all over it, I have seen in a while. Pan's Labyrinth was good but this definitely blows it away in terms of storytelling. It is highly recommended and hopefully this movie sees a wide release. The running length is close to 3 hours but there is never one moment where your mind wanders off anywhere else and it was a truly magical experience. Next on my list is 'Rescue Dawn'.


The heart that flew away

The broadband is up and running again and the refrigerator is working again as well and the hot water is finally back on again. So pretty pleased that things are back to normal. Now I just have to clean up my room which is a complete mess. That I will probably leave till early next week as I have a couple of days off.

It is lucky living so close to a ferry terminal - I don't have to use my car, I don't have to worry about parking, I can walk everywhere and I can just sit back and enjoy the views while commuting. The times I do use the car is when I have meetings back to back at different locations and at that point I can't rely on the public transportation because it is too sporadic and time consuming at this point in time. I hope they did something about the bus service. Anyway I am rambling about transportation for no particular reason - here are some pics I took yesterday night while coming back home.

The ferry service at night

Auckland Skyline at night from the ferry

Calm and Quite

The Bridge

Time for me to scoot and get ready for another long day. Oh and my headshots came back and they look good - you can check out the portfolio pic HERE.
Amit

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posted by Amit @ 10:24 AM

1 Comments:

At 4:53 PM , Blogger d f mamea said...

only realised earlier today that the fest has been away screening since yesterday.

i've been a hardcore Verhoeven fan since his unforgettable Flesh+Blood in 1985. if Alien made it okay for horror to go hand-in-hand with sci-fi, Verhoeven's signature style in Total Recall showed there was also room in the sci-fi genre for lots more blood. i do hope Black Book gets general release - fest-time for me and mine is time to catch those unlikely to find general distribution.

 

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