6.5/10. Very competently done tale of heroes and villains in the world of WWII Danish resistance with strong central performances.
Yesterday (Monday) The Times published an open letter signed by many of the leading UK academics concerned with the issue of copyright term extension.
The letter, of which I was a signatory, is focused on the change in the UK government’s position (from one of opposition to a term extension to, it appears, one [...]
6/10. Flawlessly acted and stylistically impressive but too impressionistic for my tastes — this was a film of vignettes lacking anything with sufficient continuity of direction to be termed a plot. As a result, unlike my experience of Sorrentino’s previous “Consequences of Love”, I was left rather cold. That said I’m still very much looking [...]
The Open Knowledge Foundation’s 2009 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), which I help organize, will take place next Saturday 28th March – less than a week away.
Full details including programme can be found either in this blog post or on the OKCon home page.
As usual this will be a fun and [...]
8/10. I had been unimpressed by the comic book which I had read only recently. However, the film, in part thanks to its excisions and several major changes to the plot (esp. to the nature of Veit’s outrage), and despite its occasional moment of overblown and unnecessary balletic violence was a real triumph.
Background
I’m working on a EU funded project to look at the size and value of the Public Domain. This involves getting large datasets about cultural material and trying to answer questions like: How many of these items are in the public domain? What’s the difference in price and availability of public domain versus non [...]
5/10. Very so-so. Starts with some promise but one’s attention is wandering heavily even before the half-way point and the rather contrived climax centred on a pupil’s expulsion does little to bring it back. Having seen it I am baffled by the acclaim this film has received, it even won the Palme D’Or — perhaps [...]
About
Dr. Rufus Pollock is co-Founder and Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, and an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge.
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