br23 blog - minsk, belarus

A movie about terrorists? A psychological thriller? A political commentary on US-Arab situation? Lawrence Fishburne speaking with Arabic accent and pulling a great performance? A movie that is shot in one room but never gets boring? Is that something that would interest you? Then I highly recommend you a new movie “Five Fingers” (imdb).

• Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois to Dorothy Nidelman (born Dora Nidelman on October 17, 1917 in New Jersey), a former radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford on November 20, 1906 in New York; died February 10, 1999), an advertising executive and a former actor. Ford’s maternal grandparents, Harry Nidelman […]

Corpse Bride is a brilliant animation. I’m not a big fan of puppets, not at all in fact, but this movie is brilliant: it’s funny, it was made by a genious director (Tim Burton), it has amazing dolls, great music score, hillarious black humour (the British way! I was really laughing my ass off).
The DVD […]

I use Wordpress engine for blogging. I use del.icio.us for bookmarks. I use flickr for sharing and finding new photos. I use Amazon for checking out books and keeping a wish-list. But I don’t keep track of the movies I watched in any meaningful way.
Is there a good online “web 2.0″ site for tracking movies? […]

ARTE (one of my most favorite TV channels on ASTRA satellite) showed a very good movie tonight. It’s called Molly’s Way, and it’s a heartbreaking story of an Irish woman who had an unforgetable night with a cute Polish guy in Ireland, and now she came all the way across Europe to a small town […]

Today, Alexander Milinkevich met with the Polish president Lech Kaczynski and Polish prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz in Warsaw. And this is already second such meeting in the last several months. Together with the Polish prime minister Milinkevich signed an agreement that Polish government will provide scholarships in Poland to Belarusian students who were (or will […]

I’ve received several short videos from Minsk. They were recorded with a camera phone during Milinkevich’s meeting with the voters on March 2. The video quality is low, but I guess it’s good enough to portray the overall atmosphere and our police-state “ambience” (and, mind you, this was one of the most serene events I’ve […]

• 3SAT program about Belarusian culture, music and Lukashenka
(in German, a very nice 7-minute video, 100 Mb)
Bonus track:
• A hillarious “German” commercial from Google Video
(ze Germans are cool!)

23 (imdb entry) is a great movie. It’s a German production, and I decided to watch it on a Saturday evening almost by accident, just because I always look out for my favorite number. And I think I just discovered another dimension to my own internet identity, with some strikiing similarities…
“The movie is based on […]

Thanks to }T{Reme [Q_G] you can watch and locally save the videos from that Euronews interview of our main opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich:
• Transcript and original streaming video on Euronews
• Milinkevich in English (RM, 1.8 Mb)
• Milinkevich in Russian (RM, 1.8 Mb)
• New Year’s greetings in Belarusian (AVI, 2.8 Mb)