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Monthly Archives: April 2010
MSPIFF: Thursday 4/29: Italy, USA
Thursday was Day 14 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, the last full day with 5 screens running. It doesn’t seem like things have been running for two weeks now. Louise was able to escape from grading long enough … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Wednesday 4/28: Austria, USA
Wednesday was Day 13 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. It was a day of contrasts, the concrete and the surreal. Pianomania, Austria. This documentary follows a year in the professional life of Stefan Knüpfer, a piano technician and … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Tuesday 4/27: Canada, USA, and Best of Fest Schedule
Tuesday was Day 12 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Mom left for home today, so I didn’t have a movie buddie today. Father and Guns, Canada. I was expecting a comedy, and I got one. “De père en … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Monday 4/26: Canada, Italy
Monday was Day 11 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Mom stayed with us for a few days, to catch up on the worst of jet lag before driving home on Tuesday. Movies are a great cure for jet … Continue reading
MSPIFF of yore: 21st Annual Festival, 2003
It was 2003. I’d been working for Caspian Networks for over two years. We were going to make an IP router that would surpass Juniper Networks and Cisco, “eating the lunch” of every other top-end router maker in the world. … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Sunday 4/25: Jordan & Syria, France
Sunday was Day 10 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. How does a person who’s just returned from vacation in Europe (asking hypothetically, of course) deal with jet lag? Movies! Today Mom and I saw two documentaries: The Unreturned, … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Saturday 4/24: Spain
Saturday was Day 9 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. It was also concert day (with god-daughter Viveka and Ian singing) and pick-up-Mom-from-the-airport-returning-from-holiday-in-Europe day, so I only made it to one film: Forever Waiting, Spain. The reviews at IMDB … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Friday 4/23: USA
Friday was Day 8 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. The blossoms on the crab apple trees smelled even better than they did on Thursday, so I had to flee to the movies to escape them. It turned out … Continue reading
MSPIFF: Thursday 4/22: U.K.
Thursday was Day 7 of the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. The blossoms on the crab apple trees were intolerably lovely, forcing me indoors to see movies instead. Thursday got me to only one film, though. Skeletons, U.K. The MSPIFF … Continue reading