A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
January 1, 2015
Original Title:
A Ramble in Serralves Park
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 5
"On visiting the gardens at Serralves Contemporary Art Museum in Porto, Portugal, I found myself completely and utterly sexually turned on. It was a sunny afternoon, and there weren’t many people in the park at all. My desire consumed me, and I had a strong impulse to retreat to the overgrowth and phone my lover, and to pleasure myself until I came. But something in me pushed me to use this libidinous drive to make a film, and see if I could channel it and make something creative from the desire, rather than simply satisfy a powerful craving. The result is this film." — M.J.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.