Posted 4 months ago at 10:58 pm. 0 comments
“The Warlords” is bravo.
I have absolutely zero tolerance for historical drama and war films. On top of that, I had to watch the movie (in Chinanese Mandarin) with English subtitles, but I still enjoyed it a lot.
It is movie-of-the-year kind of great. Jet Li can act, now we know. He even won “Best Actor” for his role. Andy Lau, the handsome villain in Infernal Affairs, should have won “Bestest Actor” for his performance. Takeshi is so good looking.
It is like “The Gladiator”, but not silly.
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 9:34 pm. 0 comments
I love in-flight movies, especially on JAL.
I saw “Baburu e Go!” (a.k.a. Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust) on my way to Tokyo and I recommend it. It is a wacky Japanese comedy about a girl going back in time, using a washing machine, to save the collapsing Japanese economy. Bubble refers to the economy in the 80’s, when everyone was blowing money like crazy.
Ryoko Hirosue (the Yahoo!BB girl) ’s role as a young bar hostess is very cute and convincing; even though she is not young in person and played the same type of character ten years ago.
Perhaps it was the parallelism I could draw between Japan and Hong Kong that made me fell for this film. I remember there was a time when getting a taxi was a challenge. Now I see long lineups of empty taxis with drivers bickering on the side.
Official website with trailers (Japanese) and its IMDB page.
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 7:31 pm. 3 comments
Have you seen “Eat Drink Man Woman“? It’s a Taiwanese film directed by Ang Lee in 1994.
If you are remotely interested in Asian food, I can’t see why you won’t be interested in this film.
In my opinion, this is one of the best works of Ang Lee and it gives you a good idea what his pre-Hollywood style was like. I didn’t like any of his Hollywood stuff anyway.
P.S. The Hollywood remake is called “Tortilla Soup“. Watch it at your own risk. I never like remakes. “The Departed” sucks big time, hardcore.
Posted 2 years, 8 months ago at 1:27 am. 0 comments
What is Four Eyed Monsters?
Four Eyed Monsters is the Film we made. It’s an independent, narrative Feature Film. We just spent the past year showing it at Film Festivals all over the US and in Brazil and Germany. We are now releasing an online Documentary about our experiences on the Festival circuit. The series is called the FEM Video Podcast and is available for free as a Video-Podcast in the iTunes Music Store and as a Video-Blog on MySpace.com. Either way, it’s free to watch the series.
Give a few minutes of your time and watch the first episode. Doesn’t require iTunes or myspace account.