Category: Films

Hard Candy is some fine stuff

Hard Candy
WeatherGirl has written one of her wonderful mini-reviews of the film Hard Candy, which we saw over the weekend. I just want to echo the positive sentiments. It’s a remarkable example of the power of quality writing and acting, of creativity and talent over special effects and flash. Not easy going, but absolutely worth it. And if you haven’t seen it, don’t trust any sense you’ve formed of the film from things you’ve read or seen. It’s a remarkably hard thing to describe, and it’s difficult to imagine any amount of textual description truly anticipating the experience of watching it.

There is much that is worthy of praise in this, but I must put in a plug for the amazing camera work. The colors and image composition and focus work are all quite outstanding. I’d have a hard time pull that sort of stuff together in a single still shot, and they pulled it off in (moving) frame after frame. Wow.

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Random bits on intellectual property

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A few interesting bits on the intersection of tech and intellectual property have popped up on my radar in the last day or two:

  • Courtesy of Alex Jarvis, this article on the MPAA being caught pirating a DVD. Their defense is apparently because it was important for their employees to be aware of the contents of the film in question. Somehow it doubt that would cut much ice in court if I argued that it was “important for my students” to have illegal copies of a book, CD, or DVD. Hmmmm…
  • Courtesy of Pharyngula, Cory Doctorow visited the Nature offices to talk about the lots of stuff, with a focus on the use of the web in writing and promoting his books.
  • The Doctorow piece has a pointer to an interesting Tim O’Reilly article entitled “Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution” which, among other things, has the great line “Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy”. Not quite the same tune that the MPAA and RIAA typically sing.

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