My Ecological Footprint

See my pitiful resuilts at MyFootprint.org. According to FootprintNetwork.org I'm doing a bit better: "If everyone lived like you we'd need 3.7 Planet Earths to provide enough resources."

Session 9

Session 9 is 2001 horror film starring David Caruso and Paul Guilfoyle. I don't remember this film at all from when it came out.

Watch it online, compliments of VuReel:


The New York Times says, "the film, too artfully conceived to deliver many overt shocks, often feels long and aimless." Variety says it's "little more than an overworked exercise in jostling red herrings, and not particularly fresh herrings at that."
Moria says,

Session 9 is reflective of the new aesthetic that seems to have settled on the horror film after The Blair Witch Project (1999)...
The film uses naturalistic, sometimes handheld, camerawork rather than dramatically staged set-ups; is shot on high-definition video rather than film; uses everyday surroundings – an actual abandoned asylum rather than any constructed sets; and is one that focuses on actors reacting to the environment rather than performing around camera set-ups. Both Session 9 and Blair Witch strip the horror film away from conventions and clichés – they are more realistic character dramas. Session 9 is particularly well written in this regard ...
The character tensions are remarkably well drawn and some of the soliloquies granted the characters quite haunting. Amidst all of this Anderson generates an intensely haunted atmosphere....

Boris Karloff Blogathon

Frankensteinia is hosting a Boris Karloff Blogathon 11/23-11/29. Day 1 is posted here, with photos, videos, links and, best of all, a note from Sarah Karloff, Boris Karloff's daughter, calling the event "a wonderful birthday present". And this is just the first day!

I've seen lots of Karloff movies and have blog posts on these:

Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
The Ghoul (1933)
The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Bedlam (1946)
Black Sabbath (1963)
The Raven (1963)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
The Terror (1963)
The Sorcerers (1967)

Aqualung

Jethro Tull has always been a favorite of mine. This is Aqualung:



It's from the 1971 album by the same name. The list of 500 Songs that shaped Rock and Roll comes from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Tull has a fun Christmas album.

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets is a 1949 Ealing Studios black comedy starring Alec Guinness as each one of the family members who must be bumped off before our protagonist can inherit the Dukedom. I bought it for The Husband as part of this set. It's on Time's list of 100 best films. It's 6th on the BFI list of top 100 British films.

trailer:


Roger Ebert has it on his list of great movies. FilmReference.com says, "Kind Hearts is very funny, wickedly subversive, and probably the finest black comedy the British cinema has every produced." Slant Magazine calls it "an interesting dissection of the pathologies of the British class system."

Panic Attack

5-minute short film from director Fede Alvarez:



The film comes from Uruguay. Except for folks re-posting it, I can't find much on the film or the director.

HT: Quiet Earth