“Megalopolis”, Coppola’s excessiveness
Steve Told Us – Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina and Nathalie Emmanuel as Julia Cicero in Megalopolis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Lionsgate All roads lead to New Rome in the maestro’s film, a cinematic dinguerie. “A political and social fable, a chaotic fresco and a mad sci-fi epic. “I have a lot of very good […]
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Transforming Overwhelm into a Creative, Productive Energy
Steve Told Us – By Leo Babauta I talk to dozens of people every month — Zen Habits readers, coaching clients and Fearless Living Academy members — who struggle with a feeling of overwhelm from all of the things on their plates. Overwhelm from tasks, messages, and more is completely normal. It’s based on a […]
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“Neither chains nor masters”, the slave revolt
Steve Told Us – “It’s a film about a forgotten page in French history,” says director Simon Moutaïrou, who has shot a historical and necessary French western to ‘raise awareness’. An educational film about slavery in Mauritius. While American cinema has often evoked slavery, inherent to the history of the United States, French works on […]
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“Speak no evil”, a Sunday in the country
Steve Told Us – Invited to spend “a great weekend” in the countryside, a family discovers that they are in fact the prey of psychopaths. In this film by James Watkins, a weekend with new friends turns into a bloody nightmare. It’s brutal! Previewed at the Deauville American Film Festival, “Speak No Evil” (out September […]
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Once upon a time in America
Steve Told Us – Films tell the story of the United States at the Deauville American Film Festival, where “In the Summers” was awarded the Grand Prix for the 50th edition, and where Francis Ford Coppola and Natalie Portman received standing ovations in recent days. On the opening night of the 50th Deauville American Film […]
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the new AI for solving complex problems
Steve Told Us – OpenAI has announced the deployment of a new series of artificial intelligence models, dubbed OpenAI o1-preview, designed to solve challenging problems in science, coding and mathematics. These innovative models are trained to spend more time reasoning before providing an answer, mimicking the human thought process to tackle complex tasks. Outstanding reasoning […]
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New Hollywood in Deauville
Steve Told Us – The American Film Festival showcases many independent films made in the USA, as well as the new stars of today and tomorrow, including this year Sebastian Stan, Daisy Ridley, Mikey Madison, Sean Baker… Sebastian Stan (right) with director Aaron Schimberg and actor Adam Pearson before the screening of “A different man”. […]
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Transforming Our Complaints into Something Generative
Steve Told Us – By Leo Babauta Something that has long been a struggle for me is when people complain a lot — I really don’t love the negative energy, and I tend to turn away from people who are complaining. So I’ve been examining this in recent years … and I’ve been learning a […]
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Half a century of America at Deauville
Steve Told Us – The 50th American Film Festival is currently underway in Normandy, where audiences have been able to applaud Michael Douglas at the opening, discover Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, attend the tribute to filmmaker James Gray… and see or re-see “50 films that changed the way we look at the world”. 2024 is […]
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Israel-Gaza : Putting an end to the false narrative!
Steve Told Us – Benjamin Netaniahou and his advisors (capture euronews) How long will the lies, the manipulation of public opinion, the cowardice of the UN and the criminal complicity of the media continue in the war that has been raging between Israel and Gaza for almost a year now? Several testimonies (below) invite us […]
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