Life according to Eggers
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films
New Sam Mendes’s film is another one in the series of indy flicks. If you are not familiar with the genre, let me help, those are the films starring cute geeks (Micheal Cera is always welcome), just enough socially adjusted for a wide audience (most of them are high school or university students, if [...]
Tags: away we go, books, dave eggers, film
partizan flicks
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films
Big-budget action films are not being made in any of the post-Yugoslav countries. If anyone dares, the product looks like a cheap imitation of a Hollywood film, with audiences staying clear of cinemas. New generations could not envision that former country, aside from artistic achievements embodied in black wave cinema and popular comedies, had a [...]
Tags: yugoslav cinema partizan films popular culture
Cooking History
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If the tag line is “6 wars, 10 recipes, 60 361 024 dead”, you know that Cooking History is not a history of cooking. It is history cooked. Slovak director Peter Kerekes made a documentary film about army cooks, starting from cook who baked bread for Wermacht, the French counterpart, another French cook, who prepared [...]
Tags: cooking history, documentary, war
Where did you study Andrew Keen?
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, books, films, web 2.0
here is no way to write or speak about web 2.0 without mentioning Andrew Keen and his book (pamphlet?!) The Cult of the Amateur. I am finishing a part of my second chapter , explaining the concept of user-generated content. In all the debates, his position is the most extreme and thought provoking, so he [...]
Tags: andrew keen, MA thesis, the cult of an amateur, university of london, user-ge, web
gomorrah, or things you can do before 30
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films, popcult
Encouraged by a few classes of Italian and previous knowledge of Spanish, I thought to myself “let’s watch a film in a movie theatre”. Italian, of course. I hate dubbed films. So, this spring, while I was in Florence, the first film I ever saw in Italian without subtitles was Gomorrah, directed by Mateo Garrone, [...]
Tags: films, gomorrah, italy, roberto saviano
remnants of the black wave
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films, popcult
Many people whom I meet this year were aware that I come from a post-Communist country, but were surprised to find out that the country in which I was born (with which most are familiar, not the results of the post-war division) had a socialistic organization of society, but was never a part of an [...]
Tags: films, london, yugoslav black wave cinema
