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New Feature: Lists!

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:15:54 -0500

Ryan and I developed the lists functionality for The Auteurs over the past two weeks. It’s pretty badass, check it out for yourselves.

garagestudio:

Everyone loves a good list, so why not make your own? Lists are a powerful new way to share and discover great films.

It’s easy to get started:

Come up with a title for your list with a brief description

Type in the name of a film or director to begin adding films to your list

And drag and drop the numbers to reorder.

You can also add any film to your lists right from the film details page.

And speaking of lists, here are more great things you can do with them:

See other users’ lists and become a fan of the ones that speak to you

Share lists with people on Twitter and Facebook with one click

See lists your friends have created in the activity feed on your home page or in the lists section of their profile page

Get involved in the conversation by writing on a list’s Wall

Find out which lists are most popular and discover new films

Need inspiration? Here are a few lists that are bound to stir up some discussion:

Top 10 Villains
Oh No They Did Not Put That On Film!
Best Documentaries
This Is America

Levi’s: OPioneers! - Go Forth campaign (via pja1978) This...

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:25:41 -0400

Levi’s: OPioneers! - Go Forth campaign (via pja1978)

This is an incredible ad/short film by M. Blash. Gotta seek out his film Lying with Chloe Sevigny after seeing this amazing work.

Last Minute Theatrics

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:59:20 -0400

The TIFF09 schedule, which was supposed to be published today both as content on the official Toronto International Film Festival site and as an RSS feed, was slow to appear, but unfortunately the RSS feed never materialized.

That was a big blow for us at tiffr, we were banking on using that RSS feed to populate our database. It seems that things are not as organized as they once were over on the interactive team at TIFF this year. We’ve spent the day trying to gather all of the schedule data manually from their site, as well as publishing a major update to the pre-release code that was accessible at http://tiffr.com for the last ten days or so.

The app is running smoothly, with a bunch of bug fixes and new features to help save you time, and we’re scrambling to get the data in the database so you can start making your schedules on tiffr.

Stay tuned for more updates and the official announcement of our full launch!

tiffr.com: The simple way to schedule your festival

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:09:12 -0400

As self-proclaimed cinephiles, my friend Ryan and I attend the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) annually, and have always hoped for a way to make the process of selecting from the 300+ films on hand every year and making a schedule simple and clean. Following the old adage, if you want something done right, do it yourself, we did just that and built our own solution. The result?

http://tiffr.com : The simple way to schedule your festival.

We’ve tried our best to make it simple and intuitive to use based on our experiences. Check out this link for more info on How It Works.

Hopefully our hard work will help you save time and frustration. We think the site is pretty kick ass and we hope you will too!

P.S. Check out our Tumblog too!

Audrey Tautou is the new face of Chanel No. 5. Directed by...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:33:00 -0400

Audrey Tautou is the new face of Chanel No. 5. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Simply gorgeous.

She’s also playing Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel in a new film called Coco Before Chanel, directed by Anne Fontaine.

Anouk Aimee in Lola. Amazing. via...

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:58:45 -0400

Anouk Aimee in Lola. Amazing.

via elsaexarhu.files.wordpress.com

hardgraft: We discovered polyvore the other day and started to...

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:30:48 -0400

hardgraft:

We discovered polyvore the other day and started to create some hard graft lookbooks.

If you are not familiar with polyvore this is how it works: You clip you favorite clothes, furniture etc. from online shops and create your own lookbook. So, all you see in this image you can actually buy online in various places. Just click through and start shopping.

Let us know what you think!

// posted by monie.ka @ hard graft

hard graft is a great design company in Austria, from whom I purchased my laptop sleeve and covet several other items, particularly the 2unfold bag. They just introduced me to polyvore, which is a great idea and one of the coolest implementations I’ve seen on the web in a while.

lilsho: (via planettampon) Rose Byrne is amazing. She’s...

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:57:27 -0400

lilsho:

(via planettampon)

Rose Byrne is amazing. She’s one of the few celebrities I’ve seen who is more beautiful in real life. Doesn’t hurt that she’s also incredibly talented. For irrefutable proof, watch The Goddess of 1967.

Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy. Louis CK on...

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:30:25 -0400

Everything’s amazing, nobody’s happy.

Louis CK on Conan. This bit kills me everytime I watch it.

“Listen to the Magic Man” (1985) Celine Dion’s...

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:24:00 -0400

“Listen to the Magic Man” (1985)

Celine Dion’s first English-language video, from the soundtrack of The Peanut Butter Solution (see last posting). Amazing, hilarious and somewhat painful, everything good nostalgia should be made up of.

The Peanut Butter Solution. In its entirety. No Canadian child...

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:22:00 -0400

The Peanut Butter Solution. In its entirety. No Canadian child of the late 70s or early 80s should have gone without seeing this amazing, somewhat creepy, TV movie. Features the first-ever English language tracks by Celine Dion on the soundtrack (posting the video next).

I will be curating an ongoing Movie Night at the Manifesto Studio, Tuesday nights starting March 24th, for those in Toronto. A weekly thematically-linked double feature. More details to follow. I just realised how ridiculous it is that I’m promoting this after posting The Peanut Butter Solution.

I drove to DC from Toronto on a whim to see the inauguration of...

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:32:34 -0500

I drove to DC from Toronto on a whim to see the inauguration of Barack Obama in person. This is a video I made while I was there.

Serendipity.

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:31:00 -0500

Serendipity.

lilsho: From the movie starring Jean Seberg. This is playing at...

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:55:33 -0400

lilsho:

From the movie starring Jean Seberg.

This is playing at Cinematheque on December 7th at 1pm. I think I might check it out, thought you’d be interested (if you didn’t already know).

I saw this film on Tuesday night. It is fantastic; emotional,...

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:36:17 -0400

I saw this film on Tuesday night. It is fantastic; emotional, insipiring and fun at the same time. Presented as a heist movie, more or less, the direction and music go a long way to making this extroardinary story even more compelling. I highly recommend seeing it if you get the chance.

Official Site

IMDB

Storyboard: A Profile of a Profile of Charlie Kaufman

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:17:00 -0400

Storyboard: A Profile of a Profile of Charlie Kaufman:

Raw tape of a long interview with Charlie Kaufman done for Wired. I found it pretty interesting.

Scott Levitates. A picture I have been wanting to take for a...

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:03:45 -0400

Scott Levitates.

A picture I have been wanting to take for a long time and it worked out better than I had hoped.

Nice, Cote d’Azur, France A fun little elegy to a summer...

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:11:23 -0400

Nice, Cote d’Azur, France

A fun little elegy to a summer almost gone.

Music: 7/4 Shoreline - Broken Social Scene

Eiffel Tower at sunset. Still more to learn…

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:12:47 -0400

Eiffel Tower at sunset. Still more to learn…

Vieux Nice.

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:59:41 -0400

Vieux Nice.