A Whole Lot of Stuff + An Announcement

Hey guys. How goes it?

As Tuesday is the night for the links post, I will still do that. What's in store for Tuesday Movie Night? Source Code, which I really liked when I saw it in cinemas four months ago. It's the only thing out this week...apart from The Conspirator, which I do want to see, but I don't think I'm in the mood for it at the moment.

So while I watch Jake Gyllenhaal be another man, here's some posts for you to entertain yourselves with:

Now, maybe you all know just how much I love Schindler's List. One of the amazing components in this film is the music, and there's a splendiferous post about it on Anomalous Material.

Scott at Front Room Cinema has owned up to his man crush on Ryan Gosling. I mean, who doesn't love the Gos? The first film in the 'Goslathon' is Lars and the Real Girl.

You know that book '1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die', which every film lover should swear by? Well, Tyler at Southern Vision has had a brilliant idea and has listed all of the films on his blog and checked what he has seen. It's a brilliant idea because you can get a good idea for what people have and haven't seen.

Ryan at The Matinee has been very busy at the Toronto International Film Festival and making me more and more jealous by the minute. He got to talk to Joseph Gordon-Levitt today!! Here's his brilliant coverage...he also makes me jealous with how much he's covering!

I'm pretty sure Jane Eyre was supposed to be out this week, but they're doing more advanced screenings this weekend (what the hell is that about?!) Lesya has seen it, and she quite liked it.

Phil at Phil on Film got an interview with the lovely Kiwi Melanie Lynskey, best remembered from Peter Jackson's brilliant film Heavenly Creatures.

As for the Tumblr recommendation of the week, let's go with something awesome that you've probably already heard of but if you haven't you need to get your ass on here now. The site is Movie Barcode. It's amazing.

Now the links are over, onto the other stuff...

Small notes on my life at the moment:
-I've been rewatching a lot more than fresh-watching. Which is annoying.
-Fatso keeps sending me Stanley Kubrick films instead of Days of Heaven which I actually really want to watch. Is Fatso trying to say something to me?
-I'm in love with Jessica Chastain.
-I wish I was at TIFF. I really do. I sit in ICT looking at photos and keeping up with the coverage and I'm so jealous it hurts.
-I passed level one NCEA yesterday! Basically, that means I have achieved the required amount of credits for our school qualifications. Which is awesome, coz we haven't even had exams yet.

And for the announcement...
I'm very sorry to inform you of this, but Cinematic Paradox is taking a short break. It may be as little as three days, maybe a week, maybe two weeks, geez, maybe even forever. It's just that school has been pretty hectic of late, and we're rolling into mock exams next week (where we do get study leave so I will have a bit more time to blog), then we have a couple more busy revision weeks at school before two weeks of holiday. After that, we have two weeks at school before the actual exams. So I just need to take a while to be able to do study and still have a little bit of time to myself, and still watch movies without having to rush them. It'll be hard living without blogging (this is the first actual break I've taken in my nearly two years of blogging that hasn't been due to a camp or a family holiday), but I think I can do it!

So, see ya's all soon. I'll respond to you comments tomorrow!