I can tell you, it was a very difficult task to compile my personal top 50 movie list. I started off with more than 500 movies about one week ago, but finally managed to narrow it down to 50. It was not only difficult because of the sheer number of movies but also because I considered all of them to be good ones (otherwise, I wouldn’t have included them on my initial list). Now, the final top 50 list has been compiled and it’s safely locked away in my Cayman Islands safe deposit box. Every week on Monday I call the bank’s manager who then reads the next movie on the list out to me on the phone. Yes, that’s service and it’s free - if you have a bank account in the Caymans. By the way, they even came home to me, picked the list up personally and flew it over in the bank’s corporate jet. But back to topic: The list is complete and number 50 is already nervously waiting to see the light of day. Before I can reveal it to you I must speak a word of caution: This is my very personal top 50 movie list and it does in no way indicate the public’s general opinion on any of the movies on the list and not on the list. In fact, there are so many great films not on the list, which is also the reason why it was such a difficult week for me… I just couldn’t delete the movies from the list, until Monday came closer and my desperation reached levels that had previously been unheard-of… It was Rhine Lana McLin who taught me to be down-and-dirty and finally grab the pen and eliminate those (still great) movies. Also, I only included movies which I have seen. I have watched a lot of movies and at least 50% of them have been good, but there are still so many movies and some classics which I have not yet had the chance to watch. So much for the words of introduction. Number 50 can’t wait any longer. Here we go!
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker
Sweden is known for being the leader in Internet innovation. Today I found an article on CNN about 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg. She has a 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad, which is believed to be the fastest residential Internet connection in the world.
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Jonsson and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.
The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.
“We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.
New series and changes ahead, bringing order to smokyglass.com! Starting next week, all series posts will be released as follows:
Monday: Top 50 Movies (Part I: #50-26) Tuesday: Quoted Wednesday: Photos & Impressions Thursday: Song Lyrics Friday: Movie Quotes Saturday: Guest Post Sunday: Anatomy of a Revolution
As you’ve surely noticed, there are two new series coming: Top 50 Movies and Guest Posts. Every Monday I will post one movie from my personal top 50 movie list. The list contains movies of all genres and time and I’ll begin at the end of the list, working my way to the top revealing one pick per week. Part I will be posted first and features the movies #50 to #26.
I will also try to get Guest Posts from friends and fellow bloggers, which I will then publish every Saturday. All guest contributors are free to post about whatever topic they’d like to write about.
About 70% of the Earth is covered by water, the remaining 30% is ground. What if this was inverted? Cool map I found via strangemaps.wordpress.com. Click here for the map.
Michael Schumacher will officially unveil the car at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
The new Ferrari 430 Scuderia will join the road-going V8 line-up alongside the F430 coupé and the F430 Spider. The 430 Scuderia is a truly high-performance 2-seater berlinetta which demonstrates how Ferrari’s Formula 1 know-how is carried across to its production cars.
The new model is a special series based on the F430 and is aimed specifically at Ferrari’s most passionate and sports-driving oriented clients. Development focused on light weight, minimum trimmings and innovative technology. All this to exalt the car’s extremely high-performance and ability to thrill the driver.
The new car can count on an extremely low weight-to-power ratio of just 2.45 kg per hp thanks to a low dry weight of just 1250 kg - 100 kg less than the standard F430 – and to the naturally-aspirated 4308cc V8’s 510 hp at 8500 rpm.
Superb performance both on and off the track is assured by a series of cutting-edge solutions. There is the latest F1 software - Superfast – which reduces gearchange times to just 60 milliseconds, and new traction control which, for the first time, combines the E-Diff electronic differential and the F1-Trac traction and stability control in a single integrated system.
Vehicle dynamics, control and performance thus represent the zenith of Ferrari’s achievements in terms of developing road-certified sports cars.
The 430 Scuderia will be officially unveiled by Michael Schumacher on September 11 2007 at the IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt.
Willie: Aren’t you gonna introduce us? Lao Che: This is Willie Scott; this is Indiana Jones, a famous archaeologist. Willie: Well I always thought that archaeologists were always funny looking men going around looking for their mommies. Indiana Jones: Mummies.
