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Tag Archives: cinema
Movies I’m Watching: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I’d heard a lot about this one before actually watching it. It wasn’t a bad movie, all in all, but there wasn’t anything particularly moving about it. It’s based off a F. Scott Fitzgerald movie, which explains some of the … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching：Doubt
I think i read the play a number of years ago … it was good but didn’t leave a huge impression on me. The movie retains that “theatrical” feeling in the way that it’s staged, in the particular rhythm of … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: The Equation of Love and Death (李米的猜想）
Zhou Xun plays Li Mi, a plucky Kunming cab driver secretly nursing a broken heart and obsession—the man she loved disappeared four years ago and their one-way line of communication are the letters that he writes to her, which she … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent
Brilliant. One of the most masterful of war films I have ever seen. The Russians have a singular flair and talent for war films–I mean this black and white, grainy dramas where humanity is thrown back upon itself. In the … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Nagisa Oshima’s Pleasures of the Flesh (Etsuraku)
I haven’t watched too many Oshima films but judging from Etsuraku (I really dig his style, especially the cinematography. There’s just something about the film stock that they used over there in the 1960s – plus Oshima loves nothing more … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Les Valseuses
I actually watched this a couple of weeks ago but never got the chance to write about it: There’s a Channel4.com review which sums it up nicely: For Blier, the surreal agent provocateur who would make a career out of … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: X Files: I want to believe
I was never a huge fan of the X-files series but I was quite looking forward to this movie ever since I first saw the previews when at a movie theater in Paris. I just got the DVD in Shanghai … Continue reading
Beijing Olympics spoof movie posters
Netease has a bunch of spoof movie posters featuring Chinese Olympic athletes. You can vote for the ones that you like. Here are some of the ones that I liked or thought were nominally interesting, featuring Yao Ming, Liu Xiang … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Nosferatu the Vampyre
I’m a big fan of vampire movies and most of them scare me because of the typical techniques that modern horror films use. However, Herzog’s is different, in part because it’s shot in the same documentary type style that he … Continue reading
Movies I’m Watching: Antonioni’s La Notte
lanotte_062220070442.jpg (JPEG Image, 550×365 pixels) via kwout Antonioni films are always difficult for me. They are in their wayso eravishing and yet there is something maddeningly obscure about them. The dialogue is not something that you can understand if you … Continue reading