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Movies I’m Watching: Edward Yang’s Terrorizers (恐怖分子)

July 30th, 2008 · No Comments

《恐怖分子》影评:杨德昌的手术刀-搜狐娱乐 via kwout

Edward Yang is, by any measure, a master of the cinema. Like his other films from this era (late 1980s and early 1990s), Terrorizers is a merciless dissection of the lives of the Taiwanese urban middle-class. I’ve been reading a Chinese review/essay on the film, and I think it brings out some interesting [...]

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A picture of Wong Kar-wai at Tony Leung/Carina Lau wedding–WITHOUT SHADES

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments

This is the first time that I have ever seen Wong Kar-wai without his trademark sunglasses. I never realized his face was so big;
evidently the shades he wears occupy a good part of his face. He was in Bhutan for the wedding of Tony Leung and Carina Lau
and lots of other Hong Kong celebs, such [...]

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Photography books capture Wenchuan earthquake and aftermath

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

I saw this book when i was in the Xingguang Photographic Equipment Center on Luban Lu, in one of the bookstores on the third floor. The book is called 震动中国(百名摄影记者震区全记录 and cost 80 rmb, but I felt cheap at the moment, so didn’t end up buying it. I think it’s a good book, but it’s [...]

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An interesting quote from Tristan Tzara

March 20th, 2008 · No Comments

Ever since stumbling across his grave at the Montparnasse cemetery, I have been not quite obsessed persistently inquisitive about the life and times of the Romanian-French poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of the Dadaist movement. I was just looking over his single entry in Wikipedia, and found this quote plastered on [...]

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