Top Films of 2000s Top Ten Films of 2000s Return to Main Film Page 1. INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (Quentin Tarantino) 2. WILD GRASS (Alain Resnais) 3. ANTICHRIST (Lars Von Trier) 4. The High Line New York City.com : Arts & Attractions The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (22 blocks) abandoned elevated railway, that stretches from the Hudson Rail Yard at 34th Street down through the West Chelsea gallery neighborhood where it continues on to Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking district. It has recently been developed into one of New York City's more remarkable public parks. Opened to the public in June 2009, just a few years ago the High Line's demolition seemed imminent.
A Guide to Signs and Symbols in Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” Video This morning brought the next stage in Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” roll out. Little Monsters and Gaga haters alike have been watching and weighing in on the music video. Us? We’re feeling a bit ambivalent.
Donnie Darko A new theory to help the viewer unravel the cult classic. Erik A. Coburn Dean & DeLuca - New York It all started here, in SoHo, September, 1977. This team creates a feast for the senses in an environment where expert customer service and culinary excellence reign. Each department is a panoply of color and abundance that's meant to be touched, smelled and tasted. Our managers are experts in their fields, intelligently editing from a vast array of products to offer the very finest. Each manager works directly with the artisan producers, the farmers, the cattle raisers, the fishermen, the truffle hunters. If you have a question, you know whom to ask.
Oscars: 'King's Speech' Reigns Supreme with Four Awards - TIME Success has many cousins. Just a few minutes after the end of the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony — with The King’s Speech picking up four out of a possible 12 Oscars, for Best Picture, Actor, Director and Original Screenplay — the Stuttering Foundation of America e-mailed a press release: “Stuttering Reigns King at Oscars.” “It is an eloquently golden night for people who stutter,” proclaimed the foundation’s president, Jane Fraser. “The King’s Speech has been a godsend for the entire stuttering community.”
Watch the Best Online Short Films The Un-Gone is a near-perfect hard sci-fi short. Unlike recent crowd pleasers The Raven or The Gift, it eschews flashy visuals in favor of providing entertainment that is thought-provoking and like much great sci-fi, disturbing. In further contrast to those films, reliant on chases and characters who are ciphers, it also happens to possess a recognizable narrative with definitive closure. At a lithe 8 minute runtime, it is truly a model of tight short film storytelling. I like action spectaculars and visual treats well enough so I do not wish to come across as a snob, yet it saddens me that The Un-Gone, due to its flat visuals is very unlikely to replicate the success of those aforementioned films, for this story adheres to a quintessential short film virtue—it hones in on an idea and follows it to its natural conclusion—along the way seductively imagining a dark edge to a cherished sci-fi concept. Such nuance is less evident after the big reveal.
10 of the best budget hotels in New York - StumbleUpon Posted on: September 21st in Cool Hotels, Travel by Graham Padmore. Like this Post? The Big Apple may be one of the ultimate city break destinations – shopping, art, sightseeing and so much more. It’s also (like most major capital cities) unfortunately notoriously expensive. So for those wanting to maximise their spending money, you will have to seek out some good NYC budget hotels. To save you the time and the hassle here are 10 of the best budget hotels in New York:
Arizona: Why an Iraqi Woman Fell Victim to Honor Killing "Dude, my dad is here at the welfare office," a 20-year-old woman named Noor al-Maleki texted a friend on Oct. 20, 2009. Noor was at the Department of Economic Security (DES) in Peoria, Ariz., helping Amal Khalaf fill out paperwork for food stamps. Noor was living with Khalaf, a maternal figure whom she'd known since childhood. Noor was estranged from her parents, who disapproved of what they considered her American ways — a fondness for tight jeans and makeup, and a reluctance to accede to their plans for her. Those plans included an arranged marriage to a man in Iraq. Her father, Faleh al-Maleki, was furious when Noor abandoned the marriage, later becoming involved with one of Khalaf's sons.
Jean Simmons and Marlon BrandoDeborah Ke Ingrid Bergman Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando Deborah Kerr Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Bob Hope and David Niven Gaddafi's Next Move: Sabotage Libya's Oil and Sow Chaos? There's been virtually no reliable information coming out of Tripoli, but a source close to the Gaddafi regime I did manage to get hold of told me the already terrible situation in Libya will get much worse. Among other things, Gaddafi has ordered security services to start sabotaging oil facilities. They will start by blowing up several oil pipelines, cutting off flow to Mediterranean ports. The sabotage, according to the insider, is meant to serve as a message to Libya's rebellious tribes: It's either me or chaos. Two weeks ago this same man had told me the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt would never touch Libya. Gaddafi, he said, had a tight lock on all of the major tribes, the same ones that have kept him in power for the past 41 years.
Japan Miracle Rescues: Baby Girl, Elderly Woman Found Alive Amid the silent corpses a baby cried out—and Japan met its tiniest miracle. On March 14, soldiers from Japan’s Self-Defense Forces went door to door in Ishinomaki, a coastal town northeast of Senda, pulling bodies from homes that had been flattened by the earthquake and tsunami. More accustomed to hearing the crunching of rubble and the sloshing of mud than sounds of life, they dismissed the baby’s cry as a mistake.
Fukushima: Chernobyl Redux? Shan Nair is a British nuclear safety expert who was part of a panel that advised the European Commission on its response to the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. For almost twenty years, he worked within the UK nuclear industry for Britain’s national energy supply company analyzing both waste arising from spent nuclear fuel and also the consequences of what are called LOCAs–Loss of Coolant Accidents, which is precisely what officials are battling against at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Northern Japan. I spoke to Nair by phone to learn his thoughts on the incident. Ecocentric: In the aftermath of Chernobyl, Europe faced a radioactive cloud that drifted over the continent. Is that your concern here?
Impostor syndrome The impostor syndrome, sometimes called impostor phenomenon or fraud syndrome, is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be. Background[edit] The term "impostor syndrome" first appeared in an article written by Pauline R. Clance and Suzanne A.