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I rented I AM CURIOUS-YELLOW from my video store because of all the controversy that surrounded it when it was first released in 1967. I also heard that at first it was seized by U.S. customs if it ever tried to enter this country, therefore being a fan of films considered "controversial" I really had to see this for myself.<br /><br />The plot is centered around a young Swedish drama student named Lena who wants to learn everything she can about life. In particular she wants to focus her at ...... edish cinema. Even Ingmar Bergman, arguably their answer to good old boy John Ford, had sex scenes in his films.<br /><br />I do commend the filmmakers for the fact that any sex shown in the film is shown for artistic purposes rather than just to shock people and make money to be shown in pornographic theaters in America. I AM CURIOUS-YELLOW is a good film for anyone wanting to study the meat and potatoes (no pun intended) of Swedish cinema. But really, this film doesn't have much of a plot. neg train
"I Am Curious: Yellow" is a risible and pretentious steaming pile. It doesn't matter what one's political views are because this film can hardly be taken seriously on any level. As for the claim that frontal male nudity is an automatic NC-17, that isn't true. I've seen R-rated films with male nudity. Granted, they only offer some fleeting views, but where are the R-rated films with gaping vulvas and flapping labia? Nowhere, because they don't exist. The same goes for those crappy cable shows ...... nudity, the mentally obtuse should take into account one unavoidably obvious anatomical difference between men and women: there are no genitals on display when actresses appears nude, and the same cannot be said for a man. In fact, you generally won't see female genitals in an American film in anything short of porn or explicit erotica. This alleged double-standard is less a double standard than an admittedly depressing ability to come to terms culturally with the insides of women's bodies. neg train
If only to avoid making this type of film in the future. This film is interesting as an experiment but tells no cogent story.<br /><br />One might feel virtuous for sitting thru it because it touches on so many IMPORTANT issues but it does so without any discernable motive. The viewer comes away with no new perspectives (unless one comes up with one while one's mind wanders, as it will invariably do during this pointless film).<br /><br />One might better spend one's time staring out a window at a tree growing.<br /><br /> neg train
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Zentropa has much in common with The Third Man, another noir-like film set among the rubble of postwar Europe. Like TTM, there is much inventive camera work. There is an innocent American who gets emotionally involved with a woman he doesn't really understand, and whose naivety is all the more striking in contrast with the natives.<br /><br />But I'd have to say that The Third Man has a more well-crafted storyline. Zentropa is a bit disjointed in this respect. Perhaps this is intentional: it is presented as a dream/nightmare, and making it too coherent would spoil the effect. <br /><br />This movie is unrelentingly grim--"noir" in more than one sense; one never sees the sun shine. Grim, but intriguing, and frightening. pos
Zentropa is the most original movie I've seen in years. If you like unique thrillers that are influenced by film noir, then this is just the right cure for all of those Hollywood summer blockbusters clogging the theaters these days. Von Trier's follow-ups like Breaking the Waves have gotten more acclaim, but this is really his best work. It is flashy without being distracting and offers the perfect combination of suspense and dark humor. It's too bad he decided handheld cameras were the wave of the future. It's hard to say who talked him away from the style he exhibits here, but it's everyone's loss that he went into his heavily theoretical dogma direction instead. pos
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MISTER QUILTER IS THE APOSTLE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND WE ARE GLAD TO WELCOME HIS GOSPEL
NOR IS MISTER QUILTER'S MANNER LESS INTERESTING THAN HIS MATTER
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Maniratnam, who in India, is often compared with prominent world film makers and is regarded a genius in film-making, has yet again proved that he can only make the frames look visually good, without offering much food for thought.Forget about pure cinematic pleasure that can be derived from cinema as a very old form of art.<br /><br />While I would not like to claim and portray myself as someone who has seen all the beautiful movies made around the world, still any thoughtful and a bit educated film goer can identify that his films do not contain innovative ingenuous plots, does not contain lingering effects afterward and MOSTLY contain ridiculous ending and a LOT of melodrama, seen profusely in Indian movies.<br /><br />Overall, Maniratnam has successfully confirmed my distaste for his films once again.<br /><br />Sorry for those who on this board were claiming otherwise. My suggestion to you: WATCH SOME BEAUTIFUL CINEMAS MADE AROUND THE GLOBE. 0.509
I quite enjoyed The Wrecking Crew (1999), which was the last of the three films in this series (the first being Urban Menace (1999) which I've yet to see). I know it was baaaaad, but the three leads did a pretty decent job, all things considered.<br /><br />This, however, was truly atrocious. Ice-T was dreadful, and he's the producer! Can't say I've ever heard of Silkk The Shocker (who apparently never learnt how to spell), but his performance was one of the worst I've ever seen in a movie.< ...... io show after the SE Asian tsunami (plus other occasions sadly). Way to go, girl...<br /><br />No-one else comes out with any credit. Strangely, TJ Storm and Ernie Hudson (who are both pretty bad here) are far better in The Wrecking Crew, which was made, along with Urban Menace, at the same time as Corrupt. How that works, I don't know.<br /><br />I'm going to try the Ice-T commentary now, to see whether he apologises for the film, or tries to make us think it's a great piece of film-making. 0.466
Four things intrigued me as to this film - firstly, it stars Carly Pope (of "Popular" fame), who is always a pleasure to watch. Secdonly, it features brilliant New Zealand actress Rena Owen. Thirdly, it is filmed in association with the New Zealand Film Commission. Fourthly, a friend recommended it to me. However, I was utterly disappointed. The whole storyline is absurd and complicated, with very little resolution. Pope's acting is fine, but Owen is unfortunately under-used. The other actors and actresses are all okay, but I am unfamiliar with them all. Aside from the nice riddles which are littered throughout the movie (and Pope and Owen), this film isn't very good. So the moral of the story is...don't watch it unless you really want to. 0.46
`]; Pixeltable provides seamless integration with Hugging Face datasets and models. This tutorial covers: * Importing datasets directly into Pixeltable tables * Working with dataset splits (train/test/validation) * Streaming large datasets with `IterableDataset` * Type mappings from Hugging Face to Pixeltable * Using Hugging Face models for embeddings ## Setup ```python theme={null} %pip install -qU pixeltable datasets torch transformers sentence-transformers ``` ## Import a Hugging Face Dataset Use `pxt.create_table()` with the `source=` parameter to import a Hugging Face dataset directly. Pixeltable automatically maps Hugging Face feature types to Pixeltable column types. ```python theme={null} import datasets import pixeltable as pxt pxt.drop_dir('hf_demo', force=True) pxt.create_dir('hf_demo') # Load a dataset with images padoru = datasets.load_dataset( 'not-lain/padoru', split='train' ).select_columns(['Image', 'ImageSize', 'Name', 'ImageSource']) # Import into Pixeltable images = pxt.create_table('hf_demo/images', source=padoru) ``` 
  Connected to Pixeltable database at: postgresql+psycopg://postgres:@/pixeltable?host=/Users/pjlb/.pixeltable/pgdata
  Created directory 'hf\_demo'.
  Created table 'images'.
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 100 rows \[00:00, 310.24 rows/s]
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 100 rows \[00:00, 353.22 rows/s]
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 100 rows \[00:00, 368.40 rows/s]
  Inserting rows into \`images\`: 82 rows \[00:00, 567.89 rows/s]
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```python theme={null} images.head(3) ```
## Working with Dataset Splits When importing a `DatasetDict` (which contains multiple splits like train/test), use `extra_args={'column_name_for_split': 'split'}` to preserve split information in a column. ```python theme={null} # Load a dataset with multiple splits imdb = datasets.load_dataset('stanfordnlp/imdb') # Import all splits, storing split info in 'split' column reviews = pxt.create_table( 'hf_demo/reviews', source=imdb, extra_args={'column_name_for_split': 'split'}, ) ``` ```python theme={null} # Query by split reviews.where(reviews.split == 'train').limit(3).select( reviews.text, reviews.label, reviews.split ).collect() ```
```python theme={null} # Count rows per split reviews.group_by(reviews.split).select( reviews.split, count=pxt.functions.count(reviews.text) ).collect() ```
Using `schema_overrides` for Embeddings When importing datasets with pre-computed embeddings (common in RAG), use `schema_overrides` to specify the exact array shape: ```python theme={null} # Wikipedia with pre-computed embeddings - specify array shape wiki_ds = ( datasets.load_dataset( 'Cohere/wikipedia-2023-11-embed-multilingual-v3', 'simple', split='train', streaming=True, ) .select_columns(['url', 'title', 'text', 'emb']) .take(50) ) wiki = pxt.create_table( 'hf_demo/wiki_embeddings', source=wiki_ds, schema_overrides={'emb': pxt.Array[(1024,), pxt.Float]}, ) ``` ```python theme={null} wiki.select(wiki.title, wiki.emb).limit(2).collect() ```
## Streaming Large Datasets For very large datasets, use `streaming=True` to filter and sample before importing: ```python theme={null} # Stream, filter, and sample before importing streaming_ds = datasets.load_dataset( 'stanfordnlp/imdb', split='train', streaming=True ) positive_stream = streaming_ds.filter(lambda x: x['label'] == 1).take(50) ``` ```python theme={null} positive_samples = pxt.create_table( 'hf_demo/positive_samples', source=positive_stream ) ``` ```python theme={null} positive_samples.select( positive_samples.text, positive_samples.label ).limit(2).collect() ```
## Importing Audio Datasets Audio datasets work seamlessly - Pixeltable stores audio files locally: ```python theme={null} # Import a small audio dataset audio_ds = datasets.load_dataset( 'hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy', 'clean', split='validation', ) audio_table = pxt.create_table('hf_demo/audio_samples', source=audio_ds) audio_table.select(audio_table.audio, audio_table.text).limit(2).collect() ``` 
  Created table 'audio\_samples'.
  Inserting rows into \`audio\_samples\`: 73 rows \[00:00, 3960.27 rows/s]
  Inserted 73 rows with 0 errors.
## Inserting More Data Use `table.insert()` to add more data from a HuggingFace dataset to an existing table: ```python theme={null} # Insert more data from the same or similar dataset more_audio = datasets.load_dataset( 'hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy', 'clean', split='validation', ).select(range(5)) audio_table.insert(more_audio) audio_table.count() ``` 
  Inserting rows into \`audio\_samples\`: 5 rows \[00:00, 3186.68 rows/s]
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## Type Mappings Reference
## Using Hugging Face Models Pixeltable integrates with Hugging Face models for embeddings and inference, running locally without API keys. ### Image Embeddings with CLIP ```python theme={null} from pixeltable.functions.huggingface import clip # Add CLIP embedding index for cross-modal image search images.add_embedding_index( 'Image', embedding=clip.using(model_id='openai/clip-vit-base-patch32') ) # Search images using text sim = images.Image.similarity(string='anime character with red clothes') images.order_by(sim, asc=False).limit(3).select( images.Image, images.Name, sim=sim ).collect() ```
### Text Embeddings with Sentence Transformers ```python theme={null} from pixeltable.functions.huggingface import sentence_transformer # Create table with text embedding index sample_reviews = pxt.create_table( 'hf_demo/sample_reviews', source=datasets.load_dataset('stanfordnlp/imdb', split='test').select( range(100) ), ) sample_reviews.add_embedding_index( 'text', string_embed=sentence_transformer.using(model_id='all-MiniLM-L6-v2'), ) # Semantic search query = 'great acting and cinematography' sim = sample_reviews.text.similarity(string=query) sample_reviews.order_by(sim, asc=False).limit(3).select( sample_reviews.text, sim=sim ).collect() ``` 
  Created table 'sample\_reviews'.
  Inserting rows into \`sample\_reviews\`: 100 rows \[00:00, 21625.70 rows/s]
  Inserted 100 rows with 0 errors.
### More Hugging Face Models Pixeltable supports many more HuggingFace models including: * **ASR**: `automatic_speech_recognition()` - transcribe audio * **Translation**: `translation()` - translate between languages * **Text Generation**: `text_generation()` - generate text completions * **Image Classification**: `vit_for_image_classification()` - classify images * **Object Detection**: `detr_for_object_detection()` - detect objects in images See the SDK reference below for the complete list. ## See Also * [HuggingFace SDK Reference](/sdk/latest/huggingface) - Full list of models: ASR, translation, text generation, image classification, etc. * [Working with embedding indexes](../../platform/embedding-indexes) - Index configuration Built with [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com).