Cinema: October 2005 Archives

Pierre gave me links to a couple of the films he'd subtitled earlier, as they're in French here's the place to do your own :)

For the last couple of years Luc Besson's official site has been stagnant. The content was informative, but it gave the impression of having been abandoned to the web. That's all changed with a new and improved version which uses some of the better multimedia technologies to immerse the viewer in the Luc Besson experience. On the plus side there is plenty of new content, including posters, desktops, flash video which streams nice and fast, music video and a whole lot more. On the negative side the site is using Flash for all of the navigation with the content elements loading into a section of the site's main body. Although this works well from a visual point of view it is not very good from an SEO point of view. Other goodies include: - soundtrack extracts - they're all by Eric Serra of course - television ads that Luc directed Of course if you don't know who Luc Besson is this is all probably quite meaningless :)

I've mentioned my obsession with DVDs in the past. It's one of those things I have to live with :) Today I popped over to Amazon.fr to pick up a DVD by related to one of my favourite directors, Luc Besson. Besson's cinema is fantastic in my opinion, but I am aware that purists consider it to be overly commercial. I don't care. In either case I was amazed at how cheap The Dancer was - only €4, so I simply had to pick up another film - Cyrano De Bergerac If you are one of those few people who has not seen Cyrano I would urge you to rectify that situation immediately.