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Akira Kurosawa Forums » Tag: forums - Recent Posts http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Akira Kurosawa Forums » Tag: forums - Recent Posts en Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:33:11 +0000 Vili Maunula on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-964 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:24:59 +0000 Vili Maunula 964@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Ok, let us then proceed with the schedule as originally planned. After all, the Club moving onto the next film doesn't mean that all discussion of the previous film(s) needs to stop. I might still write more about Stray Dog at some point. As for the Olympics, I can honestly say that I saw practically nothing of the games. They are not quite my thing, especially after I had already spent three weeks watching the UEFA Euro 2008 in June! And the broadcast times were not all that good for European viewers. Yet, even then, it was difficult not to hear about the unstoppable Phelps! Or his diet. Not least so, because he beat the Hungarian Lásló Cseh in three events, leaving him with three silver medals from these games. Well, at least the Hungarians got their revenge in the water polo final, where they beat the Americans. That was actually the only event I watched -- well, about half of it. Water polo is something of a religion in this country. cocoskyavitch on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-961 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:35:24 +0000 cocoskyavitch 961@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ I'm with Ugetsu and Jeremy and Fabien- Olympics, the particular film, and busy with our lives. Like Jeremy I was addicted to the Olympics. It was the whole China-taking-center-stage thing, plus the Phelps thing (he trained here, and is a local hero). I don't even like beach volleyball, and ended up watching every match I could. Ricidulous. Ugetsu on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-955 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:52:16 +0000 Ugetsu 955@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ I think its just an August thing, everyone is a bit busy or on holidays. I also think that maybe Stray Dog is not the sort of movie that provokes deep discussion - Didn't Kurosawa himself say he didn't find it interesting? Jeremy on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-953 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:46:32 +0000 Jeremy 953@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Where I fill some 30 pages worth of notes for other films, and writing up something that takes advantage of less then half of my notes. Stray Dog, even after 2 watches, fills less then 1 page of notes, and gives me no clue as what to write about, nor much motivation to write. I also became addicted to the Olympics, I dont even like sports, but there some good stuff going on. By the way, it is really funny to see the Chinese take on the CCTV stations versus the American take on NBC, whenever America loses to China or vice versa. The pacing, I am open to whatever, but I see a increased time period stretching the motivation that any one movie can produce too far. Fabien on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-952 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:53:43 +0000 Fabien 952@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ b) who drop a line every now and then but might want to write more b) busy with our lives Indeed, I have one or two ideas to put on the Stray Dog topic but didn't manage to re-watch it seriously yet. I think that summer vacations are not very helpful, and that extending (temporarily or not) the duration of the club would be an excellent idea, in order to rub out any disadvantage on specific film, as far as the other (and main) discussion participants are stumbling on the same obstacle. Vili Maunula on "Film Club Pacing" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/film-club-pacing#post-950 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:24:24 +0000 Vili Maunula 950@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ The Stray Dog month has been the most quiet of the Film Club months so far. I'm wondering why. I would actually like to hear from both regular contributors as well as those of you who drop a line every now and then but might want to write more. Are we getting tired, are we all busy with our lives, or is it that Stray Dog just isn't that good a source of discussion? As I think that the film actually has quite a lot of discussion to it, I would imagine that the first two are the real reasons? Or, at least in my case, I had some film club fatigue earlier this month from Yojimbo, and after recovering from that I found myself extremely busy with my work and my social life. That is why I haven't contributed all that much, although I would still like to write a couple of treatments on the movie, if only I find the time. If it really is due to tiredness and/or lack of time, should we slow down the Film Club schedule and give each film, say, two months from now on? We certainly don't have to rush anywhere. What do you think? Any other thoughts regarding the matter? Vili Maunula on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-919 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:30:18 +0000 Vili Maunula 919@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Thanks for the information, Jeremy! I'm afraid I have no idea what's the problem there. I actually tested this page today with a machine running Windows 2000 (no Japanese language bar), and the characters displayed just fine. It might be that XP SP1 is indeed at fault -- I run XP SP2 myself without problems. There could be other reasons as well such as mangled fonts or a partial UTF-8 support. Did you happen to check if the page was indeed rendered in UTF-8 (View > Character Encoding)? It is strange that the Arabic text would print out but not the Japanese. Oh well, at least the other characters displayed ok, so I think we can live with some question marks. But do let me know if you see some further oddities, or figure out what the problem is! Jeremy on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-911 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:43:16 +0000 Jeremy 911@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Vili, would you still need to have at least the Japanese language support install on older versions of Windows? Right now a older computer I'm using with Windows XP SP1 and Firefox 2.0xx is showing "??" instead of Japanese. My 2 Windows Vista computers work just fine, but I believe Vista has all languages pre-supported. I have a Windows 2000 computer with IE6 that shows the Japanese correctly, but that does have the Japanese plugin from MicroSoft. The script for the author's name appears fine on all computers. Vili Maunula on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-910 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:17:23 +0000 Vili Maunula 910@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ It is actually difficult to pick a favourite Mahfouz novel. I have so far mainly read his earlier works, and maybe only half a dozen of them. I have, for example, yet to start the famous Cairo trilogy. Yet, he is among my favourites already. I love him for his style, and the world that he paints with it, while much of the political and social issues that he tackles probably go unnoticed by me, so different is the post-revolutionary Egypt from my own world. But if you want to start somewhere, novels like The Beggar or Autumn Quail might be good starting points. About the Japanese in the title of the browser window, I think that you indeed need Japanese language support for Windows (such as the Japanese language bar Jeremy mentions) to be able to see them. The title bar is probably controlled by the Windows interface, and the browser has very little influence on it other than feeding in the title text. Jeremy on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-909 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:11:09 +0000 Jeremy 909@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ <blockquote>Fabien <a href="http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-906">wrote</a> 1 hour ago: except for the title bar of the browser window</blockquote> Firefox 3 supports all languages, I can see the Japanese in my title bar. I never had a problem on this site, but I do have the Japanese language bar running on my computer-maybe that's why. Jeremy on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-908 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:03:16 +0000 Jeremy 908@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ そのシステムは現在とてもうまく動いている (I might of used to wrong kanji for "work" -what do I know.) Fabien on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-906 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:28:11 +0000 Fabien 906@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Nicely done, Vili, and thanks for this extra comfort. At least, on reading, it works perfectly here (the newly UTF-8 encoding is well accepted by my 3 browsers – except for the title bar of the browser window, but I think that we can't help this), and I will write some pretty things to test the reply form, like 志村喬 or どですかでん. (By the way, would you mind killing two birds with this single stony topic by mentioning your favourite book of Naguib Mahfouz? – Sadly, my egyptian contemporary knowledge is nearly non-existent.) Vili Maunula on "漢字 and black diamonds" http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/%e6%bc%a2%e5%ad%97-and-the-end-of-the-world#post-902 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:22:47 +0000 Vili Maunula 902@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ I think that I finally located the issue with the non-working kanji and kana. As far as I can see, both kanji (漢字) and kana (カナ) should now be available for use. Actually, any other character set should work as well. As a test, here is the name one of my favourite authors: نجيب محفوظ Making this happen involved a certain level of black magic, and I am not a hundred percent sure if everything works correctly on all browsers, all platforms and all eyes. Please report any strange phenomena. The following are an especially good indication that something is not working as it should: mangled text, black diamonds with questions marks inside of them, boxes instead of text, or simple question marks where there should be text. Let me know if you encounter any of them. (And here's a few test symbols: <img src='http://akirakurosawa.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif' alt=':!:' class='wp-smiley' /> <img src='http://akirakurosawa.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_question.gif' alt=':?:' class='wp-smiley' /> )