Fri 18 Dec 2009
Purple Noise
Posted by David under Purple Noise at 2:02 pm
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Williams Record- Campbell enjoys athletic and academic success
- Light humor makes Black Comedy a success
- Kain scores 1000th as men’s hoops wins two
- Walk on the wild side at Winter Carnival
- Women’s swim, dive improves to 6-0
- Men’s swim, dive dominates MIT field, routs Middlebury
- Women’s basketball falls just shy of upset bid at No. 3 Bowdoin
- Will it ever fade?
- Students a sight for sore eyes
- Women’s ice hockey looks strong
- College News Releases
- Maria Elena Cepeda's New Book Examines the "Boom" of Latina/O Music
- Geologist's Personal Revelations of "Heroic Engagement with the Earth" Published ...
- Williams College Nurses Travel to Haiti to Provide Relief to Earthquake Survivors
- Williams College Names Philosophy Professor William Dudley as Next Gaudino Scholar
- Williams Theatre Professor Set Designer for Young Jean Lee's "Lear" at SOHO Rep
- Athletics
- Eph Men aim for top 15 finish at NCAA Swim/Dive Championships
- Eph Women seek top 5 finish at NCAA Swim/Dive Championships
- Final Four Tickets on Sale at Williams Tuesday & Wednesday
- Williams Drops Season Opener to Defending NESCAC Champions
- Ephs Earn All-American Honors in Distance Medley Relay, Triple Jump
- Ephs Earn All-American Honors in Five Events at NCAA Championship
- Ephs claim Regional title over Brandeis, 71-57, advance to Salem for Final Four
- Ephs climb to 12th on Final Day of NCAAs; Luthi top-15 again
Ronit says:
Williams has an actual, real, official YouTube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WilliamsCollege
peter abrahams says:
Lovely photo. Makes me sleepy just looking at it. I had the best naps of my life in the Valley.
Ronit says:
Naps and the Sawyer DVD collection helped me get through days like that
JeffZ says:
Billsville experts pick their top ten films of the decade:
http://www.thetranscript.com/ci_14023333
What say Ephbloggers? Here are my 15 favorite (which is different from TOP 15, these are moves I most enjoyed):
1. Being John Malkovich [released at the very end of 1999 in US but in 2000 elsewhere; it's my list so I'm counting it]
2. Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
3. Children of Men
4. The 40 Year Old Virgin
5. Almost Famous
6. The Lord of the Rings (all three together)
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Adaptation
9. School of Rock
10. Donnie Darko
11. The Royal Tenenbaums
12. Bad Santa
13. No Country for Old Men
14. Once
15. The Prestige
JeffZ says:
Makes me think of Winter Study, which I miss terribly even all these years later. I’ve said it before: life needs a Winter Study.
Ronit says:
My top
ten121315, based on nothing more than the films I liked and happen to have watched:1. The Last King of Scotland
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. The Lives of Others
4. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
5. Big Fish
6. In Bruges
7. There Will Be Blood
8. Moulin Rouge
9. Paris Je T’aime
10. Slumdog Millionaire
11. Atonement
12. Little Miss Sunshine
13. Titus (released in the last week of 1999)
14. District 9
15. The Dark Knight
JeffZ says:
Lives of Others was amazing, started off slow but really built momentum and the emotional payoff at the end is amazing. I haven’t seen the rest of your top five, need to catch up!
Ronit says:
I’ve been meaning to watch Children of Men for quite some time. Should really add that to my Netflix.
And Brokeback Mountain could well be the best film of the decade, but Forest Whitaker’s memorable acting in Last King of Scotland puts it on top for me.
JeffZ says:
Oddly, I have the Last King of Scotland soundtrack. I have been meaning to see Brokeback forever, just somehow kept missing it. Children of Men I absolutely love, just blew me away. Atonement I haven’t seen but I was less enamored of the book than almost anyone I know. District 9, Little Miss Sunshine, and Dark Knight were all tough omissions, as were Memento (which I might have to find a place for if I reconsidered for a bit), Sideways, Team America, the two good Hornby adaptaions (About a Boy and High Fidelity), and several good documentaries (King of Kong, Capturing the Friedmans, and Spellbound).
Ronit says:
If we’re counting documentaries, I’d add Why We Fight and Adam Curtis’ BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares (part I, part II, part III).
Parent '12 says:
@JeffZ: and @Ronit:
What a nice, pleasant way to pass the time on a cold Friday afternoon:
Think of movies seen in the past 10 year. Thanks.
In reading your lists I recognize films, some of which I saw, but realize that I spent more time watching pre-2000 films because of DVDS, etc.
Here are a few memorable directors that come to mind:
Lots of Fellini, including films he made in the fifties. Same with Antonioni. And, all of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (15+ hours), even though that was for German television. I saw a lot of Fassbinder in the seventies. About that time I also saw a lot, probably all, of Verhoeven’s films before he went Hollywood.
kthomas says:
kthomas says:
>>Hamlet: or, Europe’s long night, finds its End< < (--Title of a novel, by Doeblin)
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