As I said in my earlier post about Szczecin, you can fly direct from our local airport to London Stansted. The slight problem is that it's via Ryanair. The video clip below will explain.
I laughed till I cried :-) Click HERE
Sunday, 6 March 2011
Movie Mondays: Mary & Max
DIRECTOR, ADAM ELLIOT, 2009, 80 mins
After its sell-out shows at the London Film Festival, we have an exclusive screening of Mary and Max – a dark and funny claymation animated feature film from Academy Award winner Adam Elliot. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, the film tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle – a chubby, lonely 8-year old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz – a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Featuring the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette and Barry Humphries, this is a truly original, visually unique film.
‘A moving celebration of oddness and friendship’
Time Out
‘Audaciously eccentric, poignant and funny’
The Telegraph
Please click HERE for more info
After its sell-out shows at the London Film Festival, we have an exclusive screening of Mary and Max – a dark and funny claymation animated feature film from Academy Award winner Adam Elliot. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, the film tells of a pen-pal relationship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle – a chubby, lonely 8-year old living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia; and Max Horovitz – a severely obese, 44-year-old Jewish man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in the chaos of New York City. Featuring the voices of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette and Barry Humphries, this is a truly original, visually unique film.
‘A moving celebration of oddness and friendship’
Time Out
‘Audaciously eccentric, poignant and funny’
The Telegraph
Please click HERE for more info
A little about my hometown
As I briefly mentioned in my profile I live in Szczecin Poland. It’s not the most well known city in Poland so here’s little profile.
Szczecin’s in the North West of Poland around 10 miles from the Polish/German border,75 miles from Berlin and 60 miles from the Baltic coast. The city is surrounded by national forest and 90 (yes 90 !) lakes.
Up to the end of the second world war Szczecin was part of Germany and known as Stettin. It was an important administrative centre linked to Berlin so thanks to the RAF it was carpet bombed in early 1945 and 60% destroyed.
After the war Germany very generously gave the destroyed city back to The Peoples republic of Poland. The city was re-built with very ugly ‘Council flats’ during the 70s and 80s. Most of these flats have now passed into private hands and been renovated but they’re still pretty ugly.
Today Szczecin is a typical Western city with 5 shopping centres, cinemas, theatres and an opera house. It also has the oldest working cinema in the world built in 1909, it’s in the Guinness World Records book. It also has a beautiful castle and is the Polish centre for military navel training.
The shipyards are now closed but a Russian company has bought part of it and intends to build a commercial vehicle factory. most commerce is now based around banking and finance administration and IT. We have a University and medical school totalling around 10,000 students
Transport is pretty good, our local Airport flies to London Stansted with a flight time of around 90 minutes. Alternatively you can fly to a wide range of countries from the two Berlin airports. Trains are 50 years out of date, very slow but very cheap.
We don’t get that many tourists, mostly Germans doing their weekend shopping as most food is cheaper in Poland as compared to Germany
Most Jews fled Szczecin during the war never to return. There are around 70 Jews left (plus me) and whist there are no synagogues there is a small but active community centre.
Enough of my ramblings, if you need more information click on the links below.
A Jewish eaterie that gets the thumbs up from me and from others
"Just spent a glorious two hours in a large family group enjoying a delicious Sunday lunch. The portions are enormous so how refreshing to find absolutely no problem at requesting extra plates and cutlery and being able to share many of the dishes ordered. The service was great with our hughly complicated mixed order cheerfully taken and beautifully presented.The prices are excellent value for food of such high quality, the atmosphere relaxed, friendly and really welcoming. This was our first visit. It certainly won't be the last."
Please click HERE for details
Please click HERE for details
banned commercial
This was a banned commercial, I wonder why ? Not really a Jewish video clip but good fun anyway
Click HERE
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