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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5185 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 121 of 331 04 February 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
Is the Paperwhite that much better than the older versions? I have one of the little ones - I think the same size as the Paperwhite, but it's not touchscreen. Does the screen lighting make that much of a difference? I've been debating whether or not to invest in getting one. The only problem being we have so many Kindles in my house, it's ridiculous. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4679 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 122 of 331 04 February 2013 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The touch screen is what I really like - you can touch an unknown word, and the English
definition will pop up. It's made reading a lot easier. I used to have the one with a kepypad and a toggle switch, but kindles with touch screens are a lot easier. The lighted screen is just an added benefit. Adrean - I link to the French films and books on justpaste.it (link on left). I'm not dismissing all French movies off hand, but I've watched more boring or just plain bad films than good ones this past year - and I've been watching a lot. A lot of the ones I disliked had an interesting plot that they couldn't maintain past the first ten minutes, so that you had an hour (or two) of filler while you waited for the final act. Others were interchangeable action flicks and violent stories about violent men. My full list from 2012: Favorites La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game; Jean Renoir, 1939) French Cancan (Jean Renoir, 1954) À bout de souffle (Breathless; Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) Plein soleil (Purple Noon; René Clement, 1960) Le dîner de cons (Francis Veber, 1998) 8 femmes (François Ozon, 2002) Le Fil (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009) Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2010) Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010) Polisse (Maïwenn Le Besco, 2011) Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki, 2011) Good Sous les toits de Paris (Under the Roofs of Paris; René Clair, 1930) Pépé le Moko (Julien Duivier, 1937) Jeux interdits (Forbidden Games; René Clément, 1952) Les quatre cents coups (François Truffaut, 1959) L'Histoire d'Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975) La cage aux folles (Edouard Molinaro, 1978) L'enfant (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2005) Lunch with Madame Murat (Mary Moody, 2007) Séraphine (Martin Provost, 2008) Le silence de Lorna (Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2008) Coco avant Chanel (Anne Fontaine, 2009) Le hérisson (The Hedgehog; Mona Achache, 2009) Les adieux à la reine (Benoît Jacquot, 2012) Neutral / Mixed Feelings Le jour se lève (Daybreak; Marcel Carné, 1939) Guernica (Paul Éluard, 1950) Journal d'un curé de campagne (Robert Bresson, 1951) Le mystère Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956) Le dernier métro (The Last Metro; François Truffaut, 1980) Danton (Andrzej Wajda, 1983) Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten, 1988) Ma saison préférée (André Téchiné, 1993) Le hussard sur le toit (The Horeseman on the Roof; Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1995) La grande séduction (Jean-François Pouliot, 2003) Didn’t care for: Le carrosse d'or (Jean Renoir, 1954) Princes et Princesses (Michel Ocelot, 2000) Change moi ma vie (Change My Life; Liria Bégéja, 2001) Garcon stupide (Lionel Baier, 2004) Les poupées russes (Cédric Klapisch, 2005) De battre mon couer s'est arrete (Jacques Audiard, 2005) La mome (Olivier Dahan, 2007) Parlez-moi de la pluie (Agnès Jaoui, 2008) Paris (Cédric Klapisch, 2008) Les femmes de l'ombre (Female Agents; Jean-Paul Salomé, 2008) Un prophète (Jacques Audiard, 2009) Une vie de chat (A Cat in Paris, Jean-Loup Felicioli, 2010) L'Illusionniste (Sylvain Chomet, 2010) À bout portant (Fred Cavayé, 2010) Les Femmes du 6ème étage (Philippe le Guay, 2010) La fille du RER (André Téchiné, 2010) Nuit Blanch (Frédéric Jardin, 2011) De rouille et d'os (Jacques Audliard, 2012) Actively Hated Un héros très discret (Jacques Audiard, 1996) Monsieur Batignole (Gérard Jugnot, 2002) L'arnacoeur (Pascal Chaumeil, 2010) La tête en friche (Jean Becker, 2010) Angel-A (Luc Besson, 2007) Poupoupidou (Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, 2011) Edited by kanewai on 05 February 2013 at 12:24am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5185 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 123 of 331 04 February 2013 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yea, I can see that being a huge benefit. Mine doesn't even have a keyboard, and it's a pain to sort all my books into folders. I have a DX (which I use for PDFs for some things if I don't have a paper copy), my little one, and each of my kids has one, too. I really don't *need* another one. But I still have some of my Christmas money left over. . . LOL 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4679 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 124 of 331 21 February 2013 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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oops. deleted by mistake Edited by kanewai on 14 March 2013 at 12:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 5958 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 125 of 331 21 February 2013 at 11:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Kanewai, I was so excited to see your list and I'm very impressed with the films you
got around to seeing the past year. How do you manage to choose your films? Are they suggested to you or do you find a good film and try to find similar films from the same director? I am almost agreed for all your films and the category you have placed them in - which is a good thing! Plein Soleil was a recent film I picked up by chance and I really loved it as you seemed to have done. I've also recently seen Le Havre and I'm a fan of that director though I think this was his first film outside of Finland. Les quatre cents coups is possibly my favourite film of all time and although you put it only in your good column I will forgive you. Journal d'un curé de campagne is also a favourite of mine and you may want to see Robert Bresson's other films, perhaps au hasard balthazar or Mouchette. I've also seen your list of films to see and from the list La Guerre des Boutons (1962), Masculin feminin (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966), Pierrot le fou and several others are real standouts. I would love to hear what you think of these films when you get around to watching them. There are a few films you put up in your list I've been meaning to see such as Polisse and Incendies - when I track these down I will corner you and let you know what I think. I recommend to you strongly a French radio program called Le Masque et La Plume, every second week the subject of the podcast is cinema. It may take a few episodes for you to come to grips with quirks of each of the critics but they grow on you. I can also recommend with slightly less enthusiasm the Telerama podcast for the cinema which is a 20 minute podcast each week released on Wednesday on two new films which are coming out. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4679 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 126 of 331 01 March 2013 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks, Adrean! I'll definitely high-light those recommendations. I started watching
Masculin Feminin last night, and like it so far. Godard has a really smooth style, and I love how he can keep us interested while seeming to do so little. I've got other friends who say the 400 coups is their favorite film too. I liked it a lot. I've been getting most of my movies from Netflix, and basing my picks off of random top ten lists. This was pretty hit-or-miss. I just switched to using a Roku for streaming videos ... and it's become my favorite new toy. If anyone else is looking at getting one, here are the channels that I've looked at (you have to sign up for each individual channel): Netflix Streaming - $8/month. They have the best foreign movies on disc, but not so many are on streaming. Hulu Plus - $8/month. I hit the jackpot with this one - they have the entire Criterion Collection available - so that's 180 classic French movies, 149 Japanese, 58 Italian, 36 Swedish, and 13 Spanish. They also have dozens of Spanish telenovelas, although without subtitles. Not that shows like Abismo de pasión need a lot of subtitles. There are also lots of Bollywood movies and Korean dramas. Vudu- pay per view, usually $4 to $5 for a movie. They have some of the more modern titles that I can't find on the other sites. Amazon - they have a pretty weak streaming collection, but you can get a lot of modern foreign flics for a $2 to $4 rental. I don't really like the pay-per-view sites, since you only can rent a movie for 48 hours. Dish - Has Bengali, Hindi, Arabic, Tamil, Vietnamese, and Filipino channels. Nothing for me, but it's supposed to be one of the more popular channels. I was hoping that I could stream a French channel like Canal+, or a Spanish channel, but they don't have any yet. I signed up for Hulu Plus and Netflix Streaming ... so I'm ready to really take off in the Super Challenge! Edited by kanewai on 01 March 2013 at 3:42am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4999 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 127 of 331 01 March 2013 at 4:36am | IP Logged | |||||
I went to check out the site, but alas....
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| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4999 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 128 of 331 01 March 2013 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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By the way, did anything ever come of the proposed French-conversation-for-surfing-lessons exchange you
mentioned over the new year? - I remembered thinking it was such a delightful idea...! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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