Author: Dax
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August 2007 Newsletter available
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A World Without Water review
I’m glad to say that this is the last documentary I am watching at the Earthnotes Documentary festival, one can only watch so many documentaries and I think I watched one more than that number. But A World Without Water was a good one to end on, it was extremely interesting and not a little…
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A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil review
This was an amazingly uplifting documentary to watch. A Convenient Truth is about a city in Brazil called Curitiba, which is one of the most livable cities in the world. They look at various aspects of the city and show how they made them not only environmentally friendly and people friendly but also without using…
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Crude Impact review
There are a lot of documentaries out there about oil. I say another one at the Earthnotes Documentary festival at the Labia this last weekend called Crude Impact. It covered a lot of the same ground as the other documentaries about oil I have seen, but you always learn something new from every documentary you…
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Farming the Seas review
Why are there two documentary festivals running at the same time? It’s difficult to get people to support just one, two is not going to be good for attendance levels at either. I’ve been to see 2 movies at the Encounters Festival at the Waterfront Nu Metro. You can read my reviews here and here. The…
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Everything’s Cool review
I watched a documentary about global warming at the Encounters documentary festival last night called ‘Everything’s Cool’. It’s not a fantastic documentary, I wouldn’t recommend that you inconvenience yourself in order to see it (in other words spend R35 and 2 hours). There were some interesting points that came out of it though. They were…
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Objectivity
Overhearing what people say as they walk out of a documentary viewing is always interesting to me. I’m amazed how people take what they have just watched as gospel truth just because it’s a documentary. Last night I watched a documentary called ‘Manufacturing Dissent‘ at the Encounters Documentary Festival. It was about Michael Moore and the…
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The Dirty Skirts
Regular readers will know that this is not a promotion website. I only promote things that I really like and I don’t get any financial benefit from it. I’m definitely more into electro/housey music, which is why Goldfish and Coda are my favourite Cape Town bands. But the other day I was listening to the…
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Food & wine pairing at Blues review
This is an event review, not a review of Blues restaurant. Blues is hosting food and wine pairing evenings in July and August (see forthcoming dates below). Last night was the second one, I went along to check it out. The evening is a really good deal, 5 courses paired with 5 wines, all for…
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Catharina’s review
I’m not a big fan of buffets. Sometimes they can be nice but a lot of the time it’s an exercise in choosing the dishes that are worth eating. They are generally a lot more expensive than eating a la carte and one often ends up eating too much and feeling very uncomfortable. Often the food has…