Incredibly Strange Film Festival iCalendars
12 July 2008
“I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand.”
Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
The Incredibly Strange Film Festival is back with the Rebirth of Cruel, starting today in Auckland and on the 18th in Wellington. I’m personally looking forward to Timecrimes as I have a bit of a thing for time travel movies.
The timetable is online at the official site, but personally I find an iCal file much more useful, so after a bit of playing around here are iCal files for the Auckland and Wellington timetables. The calendars are generated by a php script reading two xml files: venues.xml and movies.xml (which may or may not be valid xml). There’s a bit more data in the files that I’m not using yet, but when it’s finished the info should get picked up by iCal (or Google Calendar) when it refreshes.
To use them, just right click and copy the link, then in iCal go to the Calendar menu, pick Subscribe… and paste in the link. Please set the refresh rate to something low to avoid killing my server.
Disclaimer: Please don’t rely solely on these calendars! Check the official timetable to confirm screening times. If you spot any errors, please let me know in the comments.
