January 2010
18 posts
Short-term Goal
I want to make a film about love that doesn’t explicitly show love through an on-screen couple.
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Le Temps qui reste
Sometimes the simplest stories are the most beautiful. Francois Ozon’s “Le Temps qui reste” (Time to Leave) is the story of Romain (Melvil Poupaud), a handsome 31-year-old fashion photographer who discovers he is terminally ill with cancer. With only a rare chance of survival, he decides to forego all kinds of treatment and attempts to live life alone. He alienates everyone around him - his...
Climates
The opening scene is probably one of the most effortlessly gripping I’ve seen from contemporary cinema. Few words are exchanged but the intensity from Bahar’s (Ebru Ceylan) facial expression, which is unnerving as anything from the best silent film actors tells it all – there’s something wrong in their relationship. We wonder whether the fault is hers or her husband’s (played by director Nuri...
Of Time and the City
Going beyond your typical documentary, “Of Time and the City” is Terence Davies’ ode to his native city of Liverpool. Serving both as an essay film and visual poetry, it does more than just simply present facts and events. Using excerpts from the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, T.S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson narrated over a series of newsreel and...
Suzhou River
Lou Ye’s “Suzhou River” is a harrowing tale about a search for lost love. It begins with an anonymous videographer (Hua Zhongkai) serving as the film’s narrator and his encounters with Meimei (Zhou Xun), the girl he desires. From there we would be introduced to the character of Mardar (Jia Hongsheng), a courier who would do anything to find Moudan (also played by Zhou Xun), his most beloved girl....
Review Central
I’ve decided that I’ll be cross-posting my film reviews here as well. Get ready for a dump. Advanced apologies for the flooding.
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