I love that you can have a picture of boobs on the home page of a well respected newspaper website in Slovakia. Granted, it’s a Helmut Newton print that just sold for 264,000 euros… But still, what’s wrong with boobs? Why couldn’t CNN report on this story? Just look at them…
This is not a review (but I’m pretty sure I liked the movie a lot). This is about how they fooled me. While watching the movie, I kept thinking, hmm, the Ukraine is so beautiful. Wow, it looks just like Slovakia. I absolutely have to go visit! I even made preliminary dream travel plans to check out Uzhorod, and Kiev, and Odessa and some obscure places in addition to that. Well, no wonder I felt such emotional connection to the film’s landscape — IT WAS FILMED AROUND PRAGUE (yes, prague is not in Slovakia, but I claim it as part of my “motherland” anyways).
First I was mad. But here’s their reasoning:
Although the filmmakers had initially scouted the Ukraine, they decided to film in and around Prague. Says Schreiber, “The Ukraine was beautiful and a wonderful place to shoot, but there just weren’t the back up resources. I was lucky enough to have shot a film in Prague as an actor and had become great friends with Matthew Stillman who runs Stillking, one of Prague’s best production companies. I sent him the script and he was convinced we could shoot it there. He invited us to Prague and when I saw the locations I realized they were not only a perfect match for the Ukrainian countryside, but they were also really beautiful.”
Also, another thing that became illuminated while looking into this issue: the reason why I liked the cinematography of the movie a lot is because it was done by Matthew Libatique of Requiem for a Dream (as well as Phone Booth and Pi and I’m sure many other things).
theslovak’s birthday comes but once a year (fortunately for everyone involved) and I have until April to decide which of these two glarkware shirts to get her.
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i heart irony (read description)
For the first time in a pretty long time, I have come across a press mention about Slovakia that is positive (as opposed to hilarious fake news pieces, for example) and is not in the Economist or Financial Times about how we introduced flat tax and are stealing everyone’s FDI. This one is in Wired and is about babies. And they’re not dying, or being discriminated against or anything like that. They’re happy babies!!!
