The personal weblog of Marc Zeedar.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham (novel) and Campbell Dixon
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Interesting early Hitchcock film about secret agents trying to track down another secret agent. Great Peter Lore role. Quite sophisticated special effects for the train wreck at the end, considering the technology of the day. Hitchcock was famous for pushing movie-making technology; it’s scary to think what he could have done with today’s computer-generated stuff.
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Author: Edward Bond
Director: Nicolas Roeg
This is one of my favorite movies, for many reasons. I love the wildlife photography, and the story, which purports to be about survival in the wild but is really about survival within civilization (there’s a lot to make you think about what exactly is the definition of civilization). It’s a movie you need to see more than once, as it opens your eyes to life from a different perspective (but without preaching). It’s a beautiful movie.
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I'm Marc Zeedar, writer and dreamer. I'm interested in writing, technology, programming, soccer, philosophy, engineering -- pretty much anything creative.
In college I was given an assignment to write a mini-biography. Rather than do the traditional, I wrote mine as a chronological list of the influential books in my life, explaining what they meant to me (both at the time and later). This turned out even better than I expected -- the saying "you are what you eat" really ought to be "you are what you read." So I decided to do that with my blog: it's a journal of what I'm reading, seeing, thinking, with the occasional unusual event thrown in. Feel free to add comments!
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