Rose Cantine

I recommend watching Fred Wilson’s keynote at the Information Industry Summit. Fred Wilson is a partner in Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund in New York City. They focus on IT-enabled services in the media and marketing, financial services, healthcare and telecom verticals.
Fred says answers the frequently asked questions: If content is [...]

I love Dailymotion because it has videos such as this one — how to make risotto with cepes (a type of mushroom). I make risotto all the time and am not intimidated by it. People think it’s so difficult to make. The only secret is patience. You have to stand over the stove and keep [...]

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La Flandre proclame son indépendance

Last Tuesday, the Belgian station RTBF reported that Flanders had declared independence and that Belgium was gone. It looked so real that even CNN picked it up and the French newspaper, Le Monde, placed several calls to the Belgian prime minister’s office. Click on the video above.
The broadcast [...]

I just discovered two places to download video (legally): vodeo.tv and francetvod.fr. Both are French language sites and have so many videos available on a great variety of topics: sports, current events, science, gastronomy, travel, etc. And you can pay via Paypal (micro payments — many videos are only 1.99 EUR). The cooking videos are [...]

I had high expectations for this film since I loved Sofia Coppola’s last two films, Lost in Translation and Virgin Suicides. Unfortunately, Marie Antoinette is nothing more than a very long music video with gorgeous costumes, a great cast and astounding period details. There is no story. If you don’t mind that, then you will [...]

Zwartboek (Black Book), the new film by Dutch director, Paul Verhoeven, opened two weeks ago in Amsterdam. It is Verhoeven’s first Dutch film in years - he made Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) in 1977 and moved to the US where he made films such as Basic Instinct, Robocop, Showgirls, and Total Recall.
Synopsis: Zwartboek [...]

I have always loved Pedro Almodovar’s movies - the complex characters, the dialogue, the twists of plot. His latest film, Volver (in English, Coming Home or Coming Back), is about the relationships among six women, especially between mothers and daughters: the main character, Raimunda (Penelope Cruz), her teenage daughter Paula (Yohana Cobo), her sister Soledad [...]