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Ultimately I don’t need anything.
I don’t want anything.
If I needed something I’d have bought it.
So, it’s difficult, and I put together an amazon wishlist to make things easier.
Mostly just go to Fopp, look in the foreign DVD section, and buy something that looks good.
Herzog, Truffaut, and anything Korean are probably good places to look.
Else a voucher for Amazon, Lovefilm, or Threadless maybe?
Normally I try to list the Director in the title, but I can’t really do that for Paris, je t’aime, because its actually 18 films and 22 Directors, and I don’t have space to do that.
Each of the renowned directors were given 5 minutes, a region of Paris, and asked to create a film that depicted love and Paris.
And it certainly worked. Paris, je t’aime is a diverse montage of short films, drawn into a single collective flow.
Whether the director chose to picture a father and daughter, an estranged husband and wife, or Steve Buscemi sitting by himself on the underground, they all work.
What’s most wonderful about is, is that it’s not corny.
The “Mime” story, and Tom Tykwer’s with Natalie Portman are wonderful pieces on their own.
This is what “Love Actually” should have been like, if it hadn’t been rubbish.
Bee Movie feels pretty much like an allegory for modern America.
But yeah.
I’ve never really watched Seinfeld.
But he’s pretty funny in this.
Hong Kong was cool in the 80s.
Cantopop was at its height,
Triad gangs were knifing each other,
And Wong Kar Wai was making his first film.
It must have been great.
As Tears Go By even uses “Take My Breath Away” as its theme song.
Unfortunately the DVD available in the UK is a Mandarin dub, and doesn’t feature any of the great 80s music. Which is a shame.
Nevertheless As Tears Go By is good. It’s about gangs and honour amongst criminals.
And it’s got Maggie (plus 80s pop legend Andy Lau)
what choice do you have?
Let’s forget W is a bio-pic for a minute.
Let’s forget that we all know who George Bush is, and what he stands for.
Is W. a good film?
It’s quite funny. He calls his dad “Poppy”. Condeelza Rice is a bit odd. There are some strange scenes set in a baseball field, which I don’t understand at all.
But yeah.
W.
Meh.
It’s alright.
Before there was Clueless, there was Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
And it was great.
There was sex, shenanigans, and surfer dudes.
It starred Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Anthony Edwards, and Forest Whitaker.
It featured Phoebe Cates from Gremlins and Gremlins 2.
There were geeks, there were jocks, there was Damone.
Part cliche 80s highschool drama, part timeless teen classic, it’s really fun.
(Heckerling also directed Look Who’s Talking, and Look Who’s Talking Too, but we’ll forgive her for those)
Come to our Art Exhibition at the Jago Gallery, just off Brick Lane (map)
The Private View is on Thursday 13th of November from 6pm to 9pm.
Wow.
I had no idea this film would be so good.
Having watched the channel 5 documentary Guys and Dolls, I had imagined something very different.
Perhaps a cheap comedy, making fun of some of the loneliest people in our society?
“Sometimes I get so lonely I forget what day it is, and how to spell my name.”
But that isn’t what this film is.
It’s a warm and sensitive film about loneliness. Loneliness, hope and friends.
A man falls in love with a doll, Bianca, to the initial shock of his friends, family, and neighbours.
But soon enough the whole community come to embrace her presence, and all benefit from it alike.
The scene with the teddy is touching beyond belief. And Kelly Garner is kind of hot as the geeky girl, beaten to Lars’ affection by a highly engineered piece of silicon.
By the end you’ll be in tears.
the film which defines my mid-20s?
yeah zoom zoom zoom
