a shameful waste of madhouse time

Sure, why the hell not. Like Frank Yi said they copied his way.
I mean the publicly listed Chinese fashion sportswear company, Xtep, whose recent commercials during the Olympics caught my attention because of the music used. The song is called “It’s My Way” and it doesn’t take a New Jersey-born fan of 1980s hair rock [...]

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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 and the usual suspects:

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网友制作奥运大片讽刺国奥：臭脚总动员(图)_网易奥运 via kwout

Not surprising, really. The e’gao crowd has made a bunch of take the piss mock movie posters featuring various players from team China.

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Bored out of my mind on a day of perfect weather and Olympic sport in Beijing, I decided to find a good Kermit the Frog toy on Taobao.com. Using an English search there were but two results and one of them was indeed a Kermit toy but from a store/seller that had this design for [...]

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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 are expecting stuff that echoes regular speech. If you watch the European auteurs of that era [...]

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《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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Les Amants (The Lovers) is another of the Louis Malle CC films I’ve picked up before the DVD shop got harmonized for the Olympics. They say this is the film that made Jeanne Moreau into a star. She had already been famous before this (1958), most notably as the youngest woman to ever become a [...]

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Comrades—Almost a Love Story is a movie I am embarrassed to admit I had not seen until a couple of days ago. I’ve always suspected that Peter Chan’s movies are a bit heavy on the schlock factor, and to a certain extent, that’s true of this film, but in a relatively unoffensive way.
I can’t [...]

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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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So I subscribe to Shanghaiist events and i got this newsletter from SmartShanghai.com and this is what the first paragraph said:

Hey Shanghai!
Check yo’ delf! So many clubs opening in Shanghai I can’t even keep track of
them all.
But before we get to that - more importantly - “The Dark Night” opens in
theatres TONIGHT, son, [...]

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