Though I have not much interest in movies lately I still went ahead and bought tickets for several films featured under this year’s HKIFF.
Just now I was browsing HKIFF’s website again, and I found out there’s a section called 10-not-to-be-missed-films. None of these movies were on my list. I hope it doesn’t reflect anything badly on my movie taste.
A typical hollywood meal with the usual ingredients - war, love, self-achievement, politics, environmental protection, racial discrimination etc.
Not a particularly interesting movie if you do without the 3D tech. It was pretty boring sometimes.
I must confess my ignorance of Scott Fitzgerald’s works. I have only read The Great Gatsby at secondary school and I thought that was all. I didn’t know this book was written by him until the movie came out.
It’s a short story and easy to read. I haven’t seen the film but it’s one of those works that I’m sure the movie will be more interesting. The reason being that “to see” an old man growing young is definitely much more visually stimulating and interesting than to “read” about or imagine it. The book, though quite well-written at some places, has little portrayal of the psychological and emotional evolution of Benjamin and the people around him, thus making the whole story a bit insipid.
Even BBC doesn’t know whether we should pronounce the new year as “two thousand and ten” or “twenty ten”. But that shouldn’t affect us from celebrating the coming of yet another wonderful year. I wish everyone a very happy and healthy 2010.
As usual I made a number of new year resolutions, one of them being “read more books!”. I hope this is going to materialise…
Christmas to non-Christians like me is nothing more than a nice to have festive season when uncontrolled shopping and eating are excused. After three days of jolly parties and drinking it’s no surprising that many people, including me, suffer from post-holiday syndrome and become exhausted and sick.
Apart from my health, there are of course other aftermaths to deal with, such as:
What am I going to do? Nothing at the moment, becos I’m now busy planning my New Year parties!!!
I bought this at HK$1 at a book fair today.
I am glad that I haven’t become an author.
11月下旬去了一趟日本的四國，行程大部份參考joetsang的2007年四國之旅。我倆最大不同之處是我是自駕遊，而他則用公共交通。
原以為11月下旬已是紅葉遍遍，可惜今年氣候變暖，紅葉只開了30%左右，比想像中略為失色。但當然四國仍是美景處處，加上其鄉土風情，令整個旅程十分輕鬆愉快。
這次由於時間所限，並未能到訪高知縣，有點遺憾。
The movie is cut in a way that makes the audience feel like watching a full concert rehearsal, and it’s not filled with loads of sentimental comments from friends and families. And I was truly amazed by the scale and efforts put into the making of the concerts, and can’t help feeling what a pity that they are not materialised.
This film fully reveals what a talented singer and dancer Michael Jackson was. And his professionalism deserves our respect when he strived for perfection for his every note and movement.
Directed by Hermine Huntgeburth. With Julia Jentsch, Sebastian Koch, Juliane Köhler. Based on the novel of Theodor Fontane published in 1894.
Effi Briest is a young girl from a noble family. She married a baron who’s twice her age and had once courted her mother. The marriage was not happy and she fell in love with her husband’s friend. The affair ended tragically.
A disappointing film. Boring. I haven’t got chance to watch the Fassbinder 1974 version, but from the reviews it seems the old one is much better.
Finally managed to see the LV exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Arts before it ends.
Comment? Disappointed. The most exciting exhibits all come from LV. Its old suitcases that comprised of foldable tables and beds were practical and original. Selected works from local artists?? um… A group of middle-aged women and men were surrounding local artist Nadim Abbas’s exhibits “I prefer not to”, which is a series of aluminium window grates of Hong Kong apartment buildings, and their discussion was about how to clean these window frames. Such is the art appreciation level of Hong Kong general public.
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