POLL 73: MINI-SERIES

POLL 73: MINI-SERIES

My poll 73 is inspired by DOMBAIS ET FILS (2007, Laurent, Jaoui, 180 min, A+++++++++++++++), a French mini-series I just saw. I think it is one of my most favorite mini-series of all time, because Edith de Préville, a character in this mini-series, is one of my most favorite characters ever. She is an extremely indomitable woman.

DOMBAIS ET FILS shares one important thing with other mini-series I love. They are not aesthetically interesting. I just love their stories. I decided to make a list of my favorite mini-series, and found that only two of them are really aesthetically interesting – BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ and A TIME OF INDIFFERENCE. I wonder if there are other mini-series which are aesthetically interesting or are interesting because of their "forms" or "styles", not only because of their "contents".

THESE ARE MY FAVORITE MINI-SERIES. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (1980, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 894 min)
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2.THE BLOOD OF OTHERS (1984, Claude Chabrol, 175 min)
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3.CONDOMINIUM (1980, Sidney Hayes, 240 min)

4.DOMBAIS ET FILS (2007, Laurent Jaoui, 180 min)

5.THE FRENCH ATLANTIC AFFAIR (1979, Douglas Hayes, 278 min)

6.GOLDENE ZEITEN (1981+1984, Michael Braun, 741 min)

7.INTENSITY (1997, Yves Simoneau, 186 min)

8.LACE II (1985, William Hale, 188 min)
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9.LONESOME DOVE (1989, Simon Wincer, 384 min)
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10.MASTER OF THE GAME (1984, Kevin Conner + Harvey Hart, 413 min)
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11.THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN (1988, William Hale, 251 min)

12.QUEENIE (1987, Larry Peerce, 233 min)

13.PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1995, Simon Langton, 300 min)
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14.RETURN TO EDEN (1985, Karen Arthur + Kevin James Dobson, 266 min)
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15.RING (1999, Yoshito Fukumoto + Hiroshi Nishitani + Hidemoto Matsuda, 570 min)
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16.SALEM'S LOT (1979, Tobe Hooper, 184 min)
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17.SARTRE, L'ÂGE DES PASSIONS (2009, Claude Goretta, 165 min)
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18.A TIME OF INDIFFERENCE (1988, Mauro Bolognini, Italy)

19.TROPIQUES AMERS (2007, Jean-Claude Flamand + Jean-Claude Barny, 312 min)
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20.WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (1988, Dan Curtis, 1620 min)
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You can cast multiple votes.

Please tell me about your own favorite mini-series. I have seen so few mini-series and have almost no knowledge about them.

RESULTS OF POLL 72

My poll 72 ended with five votes. Thanks very much to everyone who voted in it. Here is the result:

I LOVE THE EXQUISITE CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THESE FILMS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?


1.THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES (1968, Sergei Paradjanov, Soviet)
DP – Suren Shakhbazyan
+DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978, Terrence Malick, USA)
DP – Néstor Almendros
+INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (1995, Stephen Quay + Timothy Quay, UK)
DP – Nicholas D. Knowland
+KALYI (1993, Fred Kelemen, Germany)
+PROSPERO'S BOOKS (1991, Peter Greenaway, UK)
DP – Sacha Vierny
+A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY (1984, Bertrand Tavernier, France)
DP – Bruno de Keyzer

Each of them got 2 votes or 40 %.

7.L'AUTRE RIVE (1986, Etant Donnes, France)
+CLASS TRIP (1998, Claude Miller, France)
DP – Guillaume Schiffman
+DECEMBER BRIDE (1991, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, UK)
DP – Bruno de Keyzer
+FIREFLIES (2005, Chawit Waewsawangwong, Thailand)
+THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992, Terence Davies, UK)
DP – Michael Coulter
+MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
DP – Lee Ping Bin
+THE MOON IN THE GUTTER (1983, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France)
DP – Philippe Rousselot
+MY MINE (ความในใจ) (2009, Woratouch Wattanagune, Thailand)
+PHANTOM LOVE (2007, Nina Menkes, USA)
DP – Christopher Soos
+VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970, Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia)
DP – Jan Curík

Each of them got 1 vote, or 40 %.


17.CHRISTINE (1958, Pierre Gaspard-Huit, France)
director of photography – Christian Matras
+LE CRABE-TAMBOUR (1977, Pierre Schoendoerffer, France)
DP – Raoul Coutard
+PRISONER (นักโทษ) (2009, Prachaya Lampongchat, Thailand)
+THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003, Guy Maddin, UK)
DP – Luc Montpellier

Each of them got 0 vote.


--MY FAVORITE EXQUISITELY CINEMATOGRAPHED MUSIC VIDEOS:

1.ANGEL – Eurythmics (1989, Sophie Muller)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fMtfK6s7Ow

2.DON'T WANNA LOSE YOU – Gloria Estefan (1989, Jim Yukich)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i54qdr2Ioi0

3.DREAM OF ME – OMD (1993, Pedro Romhanyi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIYoxN5ZsJU

4.EVENING FALLS – Enya (1988, Michael Geoghegan)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P8Axizjn2k

5.MY FIRST NIGHT WITHOUT YOU – Cyndi Lauper (1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlQOiaj4aMU

6.OH FATHER – Madonna (1989, David Fincher)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TplkQnCPrLg

7.SWEET LULLABY – Deep Forest (1993, Tarsem)

8.TAKE ME HOME – Sophie Ellis Bextor (2001, Sophie Muller)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjD_m0znQs

9.TAKE YOUR TIME – Mantronix featuring Wondress (1990)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4q4viufSs

10.THIS HOUSE – Alison Moyet (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy3q3k4hxfY

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 16: WAS THAT ALL IT WAS -- KYM MAZELLE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WRpdGZtzM0

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION BETWEEN SUKIT NARIN AND JANUSZ KAMINSKI

This is my comment in the Facebook of Kanchat Rangseekansong:

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION BETWEEN SUKIT NARIN AND JANUSZ KAMINSKI
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1.Sukit Narin directed SIN SISTERS, starring Claudia Jakkrapun
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2.Claudia Jakkrapun stars in RUE MANUT (1995), a Thai TV series, with Apichart Puapimol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IsgLoVaLqc

3.Apichart Puapimol was known as the Thai Keanu Reeves.
http://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/อภิชาติ_พัวพิมล

4.Keanu Reeves stars in DANGEROUS LIAISONS (1988) with Michelle Pfeiffer.

5.Michelle Pfeiffer stars in A THOUSAND ACRES (1997), directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse.

6.Jocelyn Moorehouse works with Janusz Kaminski in HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT (1995).

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 15: YOU'VE GOT TO BE A HUSTLER IF YOU WANT TO GET ON -- SUE WILKINSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td4WAh1ShiE

L'AFFAIRE SALENGRO (2009, Yves Boisset, A+++++)

L'AFFAIRE SALENGRO (2009, Yves Boisset, A+++++),

MY BROTHER IS GETTING MARRIED (2006, Jean-Stéphane Bron, A+++++),

THE HURT LOCKER (2008, Kathryn Bigelow, A+),

MENILMONTANT-AGADEZ, D'UNE ECOLE A L'AUTRE (2005, Luc Federmeyer, A+),

VENUS'S PARTY (2004, Sineenadh Keitprapai, A+),

READ WOMEN (2010, Paornrut Yodnane, Pavinee Samakkabutr, Sineenadh Keitprapai, Neelacha Fuengfoogiat, A),

GREEN ZONE (2010, Paul Greengrass, A)

UN FLIC, CONFUSION DES PEINES (2006, Frédéric Tellier, A)

MAURICE RICHARD (2005, Charles Binamé, A/A-)

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2010, Tim Burton, B+)


L'AFFAIRE SALENGRO is about Roger Salengro, a left-wing French politician who committed suicide after being attacked by the extreme right-wing groups.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Salengro

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 14: IF I HAVE TO STAND ALONE -- LONNIE GORDON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVMrpdxp-4

NEWS RELEASE FROM THAI FILM FOUNDATION

มูลนิธิหนังไทย มีข่าวประชาสัมพันธ์ให้ท่านรับทราบโดยทั่วกัน 2 ข่าวค่ะ ดังนี้

1. เทศกาลภาพยนตร์สั้นครั้งที่ 14 เปิดรับผลงานหนังสั้น เพื่อเข้าร่วมฉายประกวดในงานเทศกาลหนังสั้นปีนี้ ที่จะมีขึ้นระหว่างวันที่ 26 ส.ค. - 5 ก.ย. ศกนี้ แล้วนะค่ะ สำหรับกติกาในการสมัคร และรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม สามารถเข้าดูรายละเอียดได้ที่ http://www.thaifilm.com/shortFilmDetail.asp?id=143

2. คอร์อบรมภาพยนตร์วิจักษ์ 13 เปิดแล้ว โดยคอร์สนี้เน้นการเรียนรู้ภาพยนตร์ผ่านทฤษฎีต่างๆ (เป็นคอร์สสอนการดูหนัง เข้าใจหนัง ไม่ใช่สอนการทำหนังนะค่ะ) ปีนี้สอนที่หอศิลปวัฒนธรรมแห่งกรุงเทพมหานคร ควบคุมและดูแลการสอนโดย อ.แดง กิตติศักดิ์ สุวรรณโภคิณ สนใจรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม สามารถและดาวน์โหลดใบสมัคร ได้ที่http://www.thaifilm.com/newsDetail.asp?id=454

หากมีข้อสงสัยประการใด สามารถติดต่อเจ้าหน้าที่มูลนิธิหนังไทย ได้ที่ thaishortfilmfestival@gmail.com ขอบพระคุณมากค่ะ

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 13: MERRY X-MESS -- ROTTERDAM TERMINATION SOURCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BRFcCO5_us

FILM WISH LIST: LATE SUMMER BLUES (1987, Renen Schorr)

This is my comment in Twilight Virus' blog:
http://twilightvirus.blogspot.com/2010/03/80.html

I have never heard of LATE SUMMER BLUES (1987, Renen Schorr) before. It sounds very interesting. Its plot reminds me of CAT AND MOUSE (1967, Hans Jürgen Pohland, A+++++), which also deals with friends before going to war.
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I also haven't seen PAINTED FACES (1988, Alex Law). I think I used to be confused between this film and THE PUPPETMASTER (1993, Hou Hsiao-hsien), which I also haven't seen.

Btw, I just mentioned your article on European cinematographers in my blog. I think your articles are still very useful for me though you wrote it many years ago. I still have to refer to it or re-read it again and again.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/03/poll-72-exquisite-cinematography.html

FAVORITE THAI SHORT FILMS IN THE YEAR 2000

I hope I will have time to make my own list for favorite films of the decade 2000-2009. But first I think I should make some lists for favorite films in the early years of the past decade.

FAVORITE THAI SHORT FILMS IN THE YEAR 2000

(in alphabetical order)

1.BREATHE (2000, Barameerut Juntaseewong, 30 min)

2.HAPPY DAY (2000, Parkpoom Wongpoom, 6 min)

3.THE KEY (2000, Ronnapong Sutthiwaree, 3 min)

4.LUANG TA (2000, Parkpoom Wongpoom, 8 min)

5.MARCH OF TIME 1 (กาล) (2000, Uruphong Raksasad, 19 min)

6.MARCH OF TIME 2 (ก่อน) (2000, Uruphong Raksasad, 21 min)

7.MIAMI STRIPS, HOLLYWOOD DREAM (2000, Lee Chatametikool, 28 min)

8.MOTORCYCLE (2000, Aditya Assarat, 14 min)

9.MY STORY (2000, Songpol Charnchaijark, 7 min)

10.NO POSTER HERE (ห้ามปิดประกาศ) (2000, Chanthana Wiriyagraigool, 5 min, animation)

11.PEN RUENG 100 % (2000, Taweelarp Saeoui, 26 min)

12.PRIVATE LIFE (2000, Paranoid Team, 15 min)

13.A WOMAN UNDER CONSCIOUSNESS (2000, Samart Imkham, 40 min)

THE MOON IN THE GUTTER (1983, Jean-Jacques Beineix, A+++++)

The images below are from http://www.allocine.fr

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 12: HEAVEN'S HERE -- HOLLY JOHNSON

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6w1WQbwEQ

TROUBLES ACCESSING BLOGGER.COM

Just a quick note to tell you that I have been having a lot of troubles accessing http://www.blogger.com lately. I don't know what happens. In the future, if I can't access it again, my main blog will be changed to http://celinejulie.wordpress.com . That means I may post things in wordpress blog first, instead of posting them here.

WHICH CULT FILMS HAVE YOU SEEN?

I was tagged by Peter Nellhaus on Facebook about which B-movies/cult movies you have seen.

Check mark what B-movies/cult movies you have seen and tag your friends! This list is from Badmovies.org: http://www.badmovies.org/movies/

[] 20 Million Miles to Earth
[ ] 2019: After the Fall of New York
[ ] 7 Grandmasters
[ ] The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
[ ] The Abominable Dr. Phibes
[ ] Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe
[] The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
[ ] Alice's Restaurant
[ ] The Alien Dead
[ ] Alien from L.A.
[ ] Alien Prey
[ X] Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
[ ] The Angry Red Planet
[ ] A*P*E
[ ] A.P.E.X.
[ ] The Apple
[ ] Arena
[X] Army of Darkness
[] At the Earth's Core
[ ] Atomic Age Classics Vol. 6: Love & Marriage
[ ] The Atomic Brain
[ ] Ator
[] Attack of the Crab Monsters
[ ] Attack from Mars
[] Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
[ ] Attack of the Supermonsters
[] Babes in Toyland (Laurel and Hardy version)
[ ] Bad Channels
[ ] Bad Girls Go to Hell
[X ] Bad Taste
[] Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy
[ ] Barn of the Blood Llama
[ ] Bats

[ ] Battle Beyond the Stars
[ ] Battle Queen 2020
[ ] Beast from Haunted Cave
[ ] The Beast of Yucca Flats
[ ] The Beastmaster
[ ] Beginning of the End
[ ] The Being
[] Beneath the Planet of the Apes
[ ] Beowulf (1999)
[ ] Big Bad Mama
[ ] Billy Jack
[] Black Magic (The Hong Kong film with this title)
[ ] The Black Scorpion
[ ] Black Shampoo
[ ] Blades
[ ] Bleeders
[ ] The Blind Dead
[] The Blob (1958)
[] The Blob (1988)
[ ] Blood Freak
[ ] The Blood of Heroes
[ ] Blood Hook
[ ] Bloodsucking Freaks
[ ] Bloody Bender
[ ] Body Melt
[] A Boy and His Dog
[ ] The Brain
[ ] The Brain from Planet Arous
[] The Brain That Wouldn't Die
[ ] Brain Damage
[] Breakin'
[ ] Brides of Blood
[] Buck Rogers
[ ] The Buddhist Fist
[ ] Candy
[ ] Cane Toads
[ ] Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
[ ] The Car
[ ] Carnosaur
[ ] The Cars that Ate Paris
[ ] Cat-Women of the Moon
[ ] The Cave of the Silken Web
[ ] Cavegirl
[ ] Cemetery Man
[ ] The Champions of Justice
[] Cherry 2000
[ ] The Children
[X ] Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
[] Chosen Survivors
[ ] C.H.U.D.
[ ] City of the Walking Dead
[ ] City Limits
[ ] Class of Nuke 'Em High
[ ] Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown
[ ] The Conqueror
[ ] Cool As Ice
[ ] The Cosmic Man
[ ] Crash and Burn
[] The Crawling Eye
[ ] Creatures from the Abyss
[ ] Creature from the Haunted Sea
[] The Creeping Terror
[ ] The Crippled Masters
[ ] Cthulhu Mansion
[ ] The Curse of Count Chocula
[ ] Cyber Ninja
[ ] Cyborg 2
[ ] Cyborg Soldier
[ ] Daimajin
[ ] The Dark Power
[X] Dark Star
[ ] Date With A Vampire
[X] Dawn of the Dead
[ ] Day of the Animals
[ ] Day of the Warrior
[] The Day Time Ended
[] Dead Alive
[] Death Race 2000
[ ] Death Ship
[ ] Deathstalker

[X] Delicatessen
[ ] Demon Wind
[] Destroy All Monsters
[ ] Devil Girl From Mars
[] The Devil's Rain
[ ] Dolemite
[ ] DOOM

[ ] Double Dragon
[ ] Dragonball: The Magic Begins
[ ] Dr. Alien
[] Dr. Phibes Rises Again
[X ] Dreamcatcher
[ ] Drunken Wu Tang
[ ] The Dungeonmaster
[ ] The Dunwich Horror
[ ] Eat and Run
[ ] The Educational Archives: Driver's Ed
[ ] Eegah!
[ x] El Topo
[ ] Eliminators
[ ] Elves

[ ] Endless Descent
[X] The Evil Dead
[X] Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
[ ] Evil Spawn

[ x] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
[ ] Feast
[ ] Feeders
[ ] Fiend Without a Face
[ ] Fist of the North Star
[ ] Five Element Ninjas
[X] Flash Gordon
[] The Flesh Eaters
[ ] Flesh Gordon 2
[] The Fly (1958)
[ ] Flying Guillotine
[ ] For Your Height Only
[ ] The Forbidden Dance is Lambada
[] Forbidden Zone
[ ] Frankenhooker
[ ] Fright Show
[ ] Future Force
[ ] Future War

[ ] Galactic Gigolo
[ ] Galaxina
[ ] Gamera
[ ] Gamera vs Gaos
[ ] Gamera vs Guiron
[ ] The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
[X ] Ghosts of Mars


[ ] The Giant Behemoth

[ ] The Giant Claw

[ ] The Giant Gila Monster
[ ] GI Samurai
[ ] Godzilla 2000
[ ] Godzilla: Final Wars
[ ] Godzilla, King of the Monsters
[ ] Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
[ ] Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
[ ] Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
[ ] Godzilla vs. Monster Zero

[ ] Godzilla vs. Mothra
[ ] Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster
[ ] Godz of Wu Tang
[ ] The Gore Gore Girls
[ ] Graveyard Shift
[] Greaser's Palace
[] The Green Slime
[ ] Gunhed
[ ] Gwendoline
[ ] Gymkata
[X ] Halloween III
[ ] Hard Rock Zombies
[ ] Hawk the Slayer

[ ] Head of the Family
[ ] Heartbeeps
[ ] Heavy Metal 2000
[X ] Hedwig and the Angry Inch
[ ] Hell Comes to Frogtown
[ ] Hercules (1983)
[ ] Hideous!
[ ] High School Ghosthustlers
[ ]Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
[ ] The Horror of Party Beach
[ ] Horror Planet
[ ] House II: The Second Story
[X ] House of the Dead
[ X] Howard the Duck
[ ] Howling II
[] Howling III: The Marsupials
[ ] The Human Tornado
[ ] Humanoids from the Deep
[ ] Hundra
[ ] Hybrid
[ ] Hysterical
[ ] I Love Maria

[ ] I Married a Monster from Outer Space
[ ] Infra-Man
[ ] In Service to America
[ ] Invader
[ ] Invasion of the Animal People
[ ] The Iron Monkey
[ ] The Island at the Top of the World
[ ] Jacker II
[ ] Jack Frost
[] Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
[ ] Journey to the Seventh Planet
[ ] Jungle Hell
[] Killer Klowns from Outer Space
[ ] The Killer Shrews
[ ] Krull
[ ] Kung Fu of Eight Drunkards
[X ] The Lair of the White Worm
[X ] Lake Placid
[ ] The Land that Time Forgot
[ ] Lap Dancing
[ ] Laserblast
[ ] Last Days of Planet Earth
[ ] The Last Dinosaur
[ ] The Last Dragon
[ ] Leeches!
[ ] Legend of the Overfiend
[] The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
[] Leprechaun
[ ] Leprechaun 2
[ ] Leprechaun 3
[ ] Leprechaun 4: In Space
[] LEXX: I Worship His Shadow
[ ] The Lift
[ ] Light Years
[] Liquid Sky
[ ] The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
[ ] Maleorvs
[] Maniac
[ ] The Manitou
[] "Manos" The Hands of Fate
[ ] Mark of the Astro-Zombies
[ ] Master of the Flying Guillotine
[ ]Masters of the Universe
[ ] Matango - Attack of the Mushroom People
[ ] Meet the Feebles
[ ] Megaforce
[ ] Meridian
[ ] Message from Space
[ ] Microwave Massacre
[ ] The Midnight Hour
[ ] Millennium
[ ] Missile to the Moon
[ ] Mom and Dad Save the World
[ ] Mongrel
[ ] Monster
[ ] The Monster that Challenged the World
[ ] Monster High
[ ] Moon 44
[ ] Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
[] Mosquito
[ ] Motel Hell
[X ] The Mummy (1932)
[ ] Mutant
[ ] The Mutilator
[ ] My Demon Lover
[ ] Nail Gun Massacre
[ ] Neon Maniacs
[ ] The Neverending Story III
[ ] New Kansas
[ ] Nightbeast
[ ] Night of the Blood Beast
[ ] Night Hunter
[] Night of the Lepus
[] Night of the Living Dead (1968)
[ ] Night of the Zombies
[ ] Nine Deaths of the Ninja
[ ] Ninja Wars
[ ] Nosferatu: The First Vampire
[ ] Nude on the Moon
[ ] Oasis of the Zombies
[ ] Oblivion
[ ] Octopus
[ ] Ol' Dirty Kung Fu
[ ] Orca
[ ] Orgazmo
[ ] Over-Sexed Rugsuckers from Mars
[ ] Parasite
[ ] Party Crasher
[ ] Peepers
[ ] Penitentiary
[ ] Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law
[ ] Phase IV
[ ] Pigs
[ ] The Pink Angels

[ ] Piranha
[ ] Piranha II
[X ] The Pit
[] Planet of the Apes
[] Plan 9 from Outer Space
[ ] Please Don't Eat My Mother
[ ] Poultrygeist
[ ] Prince of Space
[ ] Princess Warrior

[ ] Prisoners of the Lost Universe


[ ] Prophecy
[X ] Psycho Beach Party
[ ] Pulse (1988)
[X ] The Punisher
[X ] Puppet Master
[ ] Puppet Master II
[ ] Puppet Master III
[ ] Q: The Winged Serpent
[ ] Radioactive Dreams
[ ] Raiders of the Living Dead
[ ] Raiders of Wu Tang
[ ] Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
[ ] Rats: Night of Terror
[ ] Rebirth of Mothra
[] Red Sonja
[ ] Redneck Zombies
[ ] Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
[] Reptilicus
[ ] The Resurrected
[X] Return of the Living Dead
[ ] Return to Frogtown
[ ] Robo C.H.I.C.
[ ] Robot Monster
[X ] Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
[ ] Rock n Roll Nightmare
[ ] Rock'n With Satan
[X] The Rocky Horror Picture Show
[ ] Rodan
[] Rollerball (1975)
[ ] Santa Claus
[ ] Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
[] Saturn 3
[ ] Screamers (1979)
[ ] Seedpeople
[] Sextette
[ ] Sgt Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.
[ ] The Shape of Things to Come
[ ] Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
[ ] Shark Hunter
[ ] Sheena
[ ] Shock Treatment
[ ] Shockwave (AI Assault)
[ ] Silent Night, Deadly Night
[ ] Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II
[ ] The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
[ ] Sins of the Fleshapoids
[ ] The Sisterhood
[] Six-String Samurai
[ ] Skeeter
[ ] Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
[ ] Sleepstalker
[ ] Sleepwalkers
[ ] The Slime People
[X] Slither
[ ] Slugs
[ ] The Slumber Party Massacre
[] Solarbabies
[ ] Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
[ ] Sorority House Vampires from Hell
[ ] Soul Vengeance
[ ] The Sound of Horror
[ ] Space Mutiny
[ ] Spaced Invaders
[ ] Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
[ ] Spaceship
[ ] Spookies
[ ] Squirm
[ ] Starcrash
[ ] Star Crystal
[ ] Starship
[ ] Star Odyssey
[ ] The Star Wars Holiday Special
[ ] Stealth Fighter
[ ] Sting of Death
[ ] Stop It, You're Killing Me
[ ] Story of Ricky
[ ] The Strangeness
[ ] Strays
[ ] Street Fighter
[X ] Streets of Fire
[] Street Trash
[ ] Student Bodies
[] The Stuff
[X ] Superman IV
[ ] Super Fuzz
[ ] Super Mario Bros.
[ ] The Sword and the Sorcerer
[ ] Syngenor
[ ] Tales Til the End
[ ] Tammy and the T-Rex
[] Tarantula
[ ] Teenage Caveman (1958)
[ ] Teenage Caveman (2002)
[ ] Teenage Space Vampires
[ ] Terror Beneath the Sea
[ ] Terror of Mechagodzilla
[ ] The Terror of Tiny Town
[ ] Terror on the Wind
[] TerrorVision
[ ] Test Tube Babies
[ ] Them Damn Zombies
[ ] There's Nothing Out There
[ ] Thriller: A Cruel Picture
[ ] Ticks
[ ] Time Runner
[ ] The Tingler
[] The Toxic Avenger
[ ] The Toxic Avenger Part II
[ ] Toxic Spawn
[ ] Transformers: The Movie
[ ] Transylvania 6-5000
[ ] The Trial of Billy Jack
[ ] Troll
[] Troll II
[ ] Tromeo & Juliet
[ ] Uncle Sam
[ ] The Undertaker and His Pals
[ ] Uninvited
[ ] Unknown Origin
[ ] Up from the Depths
[ ] Urban Warriors
[ ] U.S. Seals II
[ ] USS VD: Ship of Shame
[ ] Vampire Men of the Lost Planet
[] Vampyres
[ ] The Video Dead
[ ] Video Violence
[ ] Voodoo Academy
[ ] Waiting for the Giants
[ ] The War in Space
[ ] Warrior of the Lost World
[ ] The Warrior and the Sorceress
[ ] Watchers
[ ] Weasels Rip My Flesh
[ ] Welcome to Planet Earth
[ ] The Werewolf of Washington
[ ] What Waits Below
[] Willie Dynamite
[] Wild, Wild Planet
[ ] Wing Commander
[ ] Winterbeast
[ ] The Wizard of Speed and Time
[] Wizards
[ ] The Wraith
[ ] The X from Outer Space
[ ] Xanadu
[ ] Yor - The Hunter from the Future
[ ] ZAAT
[x ] Zardoz
[ ] Zarkorr! The Invader

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I have seen at least 32 films. There are many ones I'm not sure I have seen them or not, such as MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE, KRULL, THE BLOB (1988).

1.[ X] Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
2.[X] Army of Darkness
3.[X ] Bad Taste
4. [X ] Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
5.[X] Dark Star
6.[X] Dawn of the Dead
7.[X] Delicatessen
8.[X ] Dreamcatcher
9.[ x] El Topo
10.[X] The Evil Dead
11.[X] Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
12.[ x] Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
13.[X] Flash Gordon
14.[X ] Ghosts of Mars
15.[X ] Halloween III
16.[X ] Hedwig and the Angry Inch
17.[X ] House of the Dead
18.[ X] Howard the Duck
19.[X ] The Lair of the White Worm
20.[X ] Lake Placid
21.[X ] The Mummy (1932)
22.[X ] The Pit
23.[X ] Psycho Beach Party
24.[X ] The Punisher
25.[X ] Puppet Master
26.[X] Return of the Living Dead
27.[X ] Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein
28.[X] The Rocky Horror Picture Show
29.[X] Slither
30.[X ] Streets of Fire
31.[X ] Superman IV
32.[x ] Zardoz

PATH OF PERSEVERANCE: THE CHIN FROM BURMA

This is a news release from Art Center Chula:

Path of Perseverance: The Chin from Burma
By Benny Manser

At The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University
March 10 – April 3, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday March 10, 2010, 4:30-7pm

The eagerly awaited Path of Perseverance: The Chin from Burma exhibition is set to open at the Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. The exhibition which will be officially opened, 4:30-7pm, will also feature a keynote address by Burmese activists.

The exhibition will feature an exceptional portfolio of photographic images by the photographer, artist and writer Benny Manser. Benny’s travels and photographs have created a potent mixture of awe and message which in turn has identified with the horrendous issues of Burma and how the world has seemingly left the plight to fend for itself.

The photographs portraying the story of the Chin ethnic group, spread out across 3 countries in Burma, India and Malaysia, are compelling, emotional and sublime. Manser’s exhibition is a journey of conscience as well as artistic resonance. It is even more enlightening that Manser, who is currently an International Development studies Student at Chulalongkorn University, has captured ‘real’ un-staged images, without manipulation or persuasion. The effect created by Manser is arresting, haunting, and has absolute authority.

The exhibition will be open to the public from March 10 to April 3, free admission, at the Art Center, 7th Floor, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University.

About the artist
Benny Manser earned a BSc in Computer Animation and Special Effects from the University of Bradford, UK, where he achieved a first-class honours degree. Having a British father and a Karen-Mon mother, he is passionate about using the medium of photography as a way of communicating with people to gain a greater understanding of one another and help to bring complex problems to a more personal human level specifically relating to Burma.

For more information, please contact:
Siriwat Pokrajen (PR Officer)
Tel: 081-629-0457, email: siriwatpokrajen@yahoo.com, info.artcenterchula@gmail.com

The Art Center
7th Fl, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University
Phyathai Rd, Pathumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel: 0-2218-2965, Fax: 0-2218-2907
Email: info.artcenterchula@gmail.com
www.car.chula.ac.th/art
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Monday-Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-4pm
Closed on Sunday & Public Holidays

LE CRABE-TAMBOUR (1977, Pierre Schoendoerffer, A+++++)

The images below are from http://www.allocine.fr

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 11: HOW CAN I FALL -- BREATHE

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 10: WHO'S THE BOSS -- ANTOINETTE

NICHOLAS TSE

This is my comment in Screenout webboard:
http://zaa.xq28.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=79&start=875

ตอบน้อง ZM

เป็นดิฉันตัวจริงเสียงจริงค่ะ พอดีช่วงหลังๆมานี้ รู้สึกอยากเปลี่ยนบรรยากาศ ก็เลยลองใช้คำว่า "ผม" กับ "ครับ" ดูบ้าง ตอนนี้ยังคิดอยู่ว่าบางทีว่างๆดิฉันอาจจะลองใช้สรรพนามว่า "ตูข้า" กับ "สูเจ้า" เวลาคุยกับคุณ Kicho ดูบ้าง เพื่อจะได้ไม่รู้สึกเบื่อ

พูดถึงการใช้คำศัพท์ที่บ่งบอกเพศ ก็เลยนึกถึงคำว่า HIR ที่ใช้แทน HIS/HER สำหรับคนที่มีเพศไม่เจาะจง ถ้าจำไม่ผิด ดิฉันเพิ่งเห็นการใช้คำว่า hir ครั้งแรกในข่าวข้างล่างนี้

http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/11/australia-is-first-to-recognise-non-specified-gender/


ตอบน้อง black forest

ขอบคุณมากๆจ้าสำหรับรูปผู้ชาย วันนี้มีเวลาว่างเลยเพิ่งได้เข้าไปอ่านคอมเมนท์เก่าๆช่วงเดือนม.ค.กับก.พ. เลยพบว่าถูกน้องป่ามืดแย่งผัวไปแล้วหน้าตาเฉย นั่นก็คือ เซียะถิงฟงใน BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS ปกติดิฉันไม่เคยชอบเซียะถิงฟงมาก่อนเลยในชีวิต แต่พอเขาโกนหัวและโชว์กล้ามแขนในหนังเรื่องนี้ ก็พบว่าเขาดูใช้ได้ขึ้นมาในทันที
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ส่วนสถาพร นาควิลัยนั้น จำได้ว่าเขาเคยดูดีมากๆตอนเล่นละครเรื่อง "มายา" ที่ประกบกับชไมพร จตุรภุช, อรพรรณ พานทอง และนัฏฐา ลอยด์ จำได้ว่าชอบบทของนัฏฐา ลอยด์ในเรื่องนี้มากๆ

CHRISTINE (1958, Pierre Gaspard-Huit, A+)

Most of the images below are from http://www.allocine.fr

NON-SPECIFIED GENDER

http://gay.pinknews.co.uk/2010/03/11/australia-is-first-to-recognise-non-specified-gender/

Australia may have made gender history this week, as the New South Wales government lays claim to being the first in the world to recognise an individual’s sex as officially “not specified”.

This milestone in the evolution of gender queer came about with the issuing of a ‘Sex Not Specified’ Recognised Details Certificate in place of a birth certificate to Norrie (also known as norrie mAy-Welby) a resident of Sydney.

Zie (a gender-specific pronoun) is now legally recognised by the Australian government as neither male nor female, the Scavenger reports.

It is the end of a long journey for Norrie, aged 48, who was born in Scotland and registered male at birth.

When zie was 23, zie commenced the process of gender re-assignment through hormone treatment and surgery. Zie was later issued with a gender recognition certificate as female in Australia.

However, Norrie did not feel comfortable living solely as a female.

Hir philosophy, developed through hir art and through hir work with Sex and Gender Education, a lobby group campaigning for the rights of all sex and gender diverse people, draws heavily on Eastern concepts of one-ness: of yin and yang being just two halves of a greater whole.

On hir site, zie writes: "The theorists who inform transsexual and intersexual medical intervention presume that everyone has one real gender identity at the core of their being, whether or not this is congruent with their anatomy. Even children biologically hermaphrodite are supposed to be 'really' of one gender, with the surgically discarded sex declared the 'false' one.

“Unsurprisingly, many intersexual children are traumatised by the obliteration of their sexual duality. Many as adults seek transsexual procedures to restore their discarded sex, but at the expense of the surviving sex. This is just one tragic result of our society's belief in mutually exclusive genders.

“Not all human societies see the genders as mutually exclusive. Transgender people are seen in India as "half half" , in the Philippines as "lady-boys" , and in indigenous American cultures as "two-spirited." People seen by our society as having a gender opposite to the one sex they were born with are seen by other societies as simply having two genders. Bi-gendered. In this light, the permanent removal of the characteristics of one sex to allow the expression of the other seems a total waste."

Zie goes on: “I wonder if we in Western culture would have more options for happiness if we too had permission not simply to be of one gender or the other, but also to be of both genders, if such was our nature."

Norrie ceased lifelong hormone treatment and took up a neuter identity – neither male nor female – resisting any further female or male normalisation.

In January 2010 doctors declared that they were unable to determine hir as either male or female as zie has no gonads, the hormonal system was not typically male or female, and Norrie’s psychological identity was neuter.

The rest is now history.

The irony of this landmark decision will not be lost on other trans Australians, who discovered just three years ago that the Australian foreign minister, Alexander Downer, had secretly and without consultation reversed a policy whereby trans people could obtain a passport stating their “intended sex.”

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 9: GIVE YOU ALL MY LOVE -- STACEY Q

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 8: ANOTHER LIKE MY LOVER -- JASMINE GUY

POLL 72: EXQUISITE CINEMATOGRAPHY

POLL 72: EXQUISITE CINEMATOGRAPHY

My poll 72 is inspired by my conversation with a friend about INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA, which I think is one of the most exquisite films ever made. So I think I should compile a list of films with beautiful cinematography or beautiful images.

I'm not sure if the exquisite images in the following films are mostly the results of the cinematographers, or the directors, or the art direction/production design units, or the lighting technicians.

I LOVE THE EXQUISITE CINEMATOGRAPHY IN THESE FILMS. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.L'AUTRE RIVE (1986, Etant Donnes, France)

2.CHRISTINE (1958, Pierre Gaspard-Huit, France)
director of photography – Christian Matras

3.CLASS TRIP (1998, Claude Miller, France)
DP – Guillaume Schiffman

4.THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES (1968, Sergei Paradjanov, Soviet)
DP – Suren Shakhbazyan

5.LE CRABE-TAMBOUR (1977, Pierre Schoendoerffer, France)
DP – Raoul Coutard
I love the images of the ship in the cold ocean in this film.

6.DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978, Terrence Malick, USA)
DP – Néstor Almendros

7.DECEMBER BRIDE (1991, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, UK)
DP – Bruno de Keyzer

8.FIREFLIES (2005, Chawit Waewsawangwong, Thailand)

9.INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (1995, Stephen Quay + Timothy Quay, UK)
DP – Nicholas D. Knowland

10.KALYI (1993, Fred Kelemen, Germany)

11.THE LONG DAY CLOSES (1992, Terence Davies, UK)
DP – Michael Coulter

12.MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)
DP – Lee Ping Bin

13.THE MOON IN THE GUTTER (1983, Jean-Jacques Beineix, France)
DP – Philippe Rousselot

14.MY MINE (ความในใจ) (2009, Woratouch Wattanagune, Thailand)

15.PHANTOM LOVE (2007, Nina Menkes, USA)
DP – Christopher Soos

16.PRISONER (นักโทษ) (2009, Prachaya Lampongchat, Thailand)

17.PROSPERO'S BOOKS (1991, Peter Greenaway, UK)
DP – Sacha Vierny

18.THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (2003, Guy Maddin, UK)
DP – Luc Montpellier

19.A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY (1984, Bertrand Tavernier, France)
DP – Bruno de Keyzer

20.VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970, Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia)
DP – Jan Curík

You can cast multiple votes.

--In the Thai book Filmvirus 2, Sonthaya Subyen wrote about some interesting European cinematographers, including:

1.Boris Kaufman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442100/

2.Carlo Di Palma
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005688/

3.Dante Spinotti
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005883/

4.Darius Khondji
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0451787/

5.Eduardo Serra
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0785381/

6.Gianni Di Venanzo
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005689/

7.Giuseppe Rotunno
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005850/

8.Henri Alekan

9.Igor Luther

10.Jean-Yves Escoffier
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0260389/

11.Michael Ballhaus
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000841/

12.Néstor Almendros

13.Peter Suschitzky
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005893/

14.Philippe Rousselot

15.Piotr Sobocinski

16.Raoul Coutard

17.Robby Müller
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005810/

18.Rudolph Maté
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005789/

19.Sacha Vierny

20.Slawomir Idziak
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005744/

21.Sven Nykvist
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005815/

22.Thierry Arbogast
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005636/

23.Tonino Delli Colli
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005686/

24.Vittorio Storaro

--If I remember it correctly, Sonthaya likes the cinematography of TO DIE LIKE A MAN (2009, João Pedro Rodrigues), of which the cinematographer is Rui Poças.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694874/


--This poll only includes films with beautiful images. There are also other films whose cinematography I like very much for other reasons, such as

1.Unshowy quality
Films with William Lubtchansky as director of photography
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005779/

2.Mise-en-scene
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder) DP – Michael Ballhaus

3.Extraordinary camera movement

3.1 I AM CUBA (1964, Mikhail Kalatozov) DP – Sergei Urussevsky
3.2 THE PASSENGER (1975, Michaelangelo Antonioni) DP – Luciano Tovoli
3.3 RUSSIAN ARK (2002, Alexander Sokurov) DP – Tilman Büttner
3.4 SHARA (2003, Naomi Kawase) DP – Yutaka Yamasaki
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0694874/

4.Camera angles

4.1 BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL - NEW ORLEANS (2009, Werner Herzog) DP – Peter Zeitlinger
I like the iguana shots in this film.

4.2 LAW OF DESIRE (1987, Pedro Almodóvar) DP – Ángel Luis Fernández
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0273795/
I like the typewriter shot in this film, if I remember it correctly.

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 7: BABY IT'S TONIGHT -- JUDE COLE

WHO ARE YOU (2010, Pakphum Wongjinda, A+++++)

WHO ARE YOU (2010, Pakphum Wongjinda, A+++++),

A SERIOUS MAN (2009, Ethan Coen + Joel Coen, A+++++),

WE (1969, Artavadz Peleshian, A+++++),

DEN MUSO (1975, Souleymane Cissé, A+++++),

LA PASSANTE DU SANS SOUCI (1981, Jacques Rouffio, A+),

HACHIKO: A DOG'S STORY (2009, Lasse Hallström, A+),

TRACKING THE WHITE REINDEER (2008, Hamid Sardar, A+),

THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH (2010, Nir de Volff, A+/A)

GREY AREA (2010, Dujdao Vadhanapakorn & Nophand Boonyai, A+/A)

THE MUSIC TEACHER (1988, Gérard Corbiau, A+/A),

DEAR JOHN (2010, Lasse Hallström, A/A-)

DAYBREAKERS (2009, The Spierig Brothers, A-)

JOLLY RANGERS (2010, Note Chernyim, A-)

NIJ (1983, Pagorn Promwituck, B+)

THE BOOK OF ELI (2010, Albert Hughes + Allen Hughes, B+)

WHO ARE YOU may not be a good film, but this is just the kind of films I love. There are many flaws in the film, but there are also many personal reasons why I love it.

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST

HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WISH LIST
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/main.html

1.BERLIN-STETTIN (2009, Volker Koepp, Germany, documentary, 115 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2771/4418016936_96a2797fa9_o.jpg

2.LAST TRAIN HOME (2009, Fan Lixin, Canada/China, documentary, 87 min)

3.MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON (2009, Stéphane Brizé, France)

4.MOTHER IS A WHORE (2009, Lee Sang-woo, South Korea)
http://www.hkiff.org.hk/eng/film/detail/34135.html

5.ONCE UPON A TIME PROLETARIAN: 12 TALES OF A COUNTRY (2009, Guo Xiaolu, China, documentary, 76 min)

6.OXHIDE II (2009, Liu Jiayin, China, documentary, 132 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4418016946_9af31c5ce4_b.jpg

7.PETROPOLIS: AERIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE ALBERTA TAR SANDS (2009, Peter Mettler, Canada, documentary, 96 min)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2685/4418016952_6513c4ca80_b.jpg
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8.RABIA (2009, Sebastián Cordero, Spain)

9.THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY (2009, Veiko Õunpuu, Estonia, 114 min)

10.THE WIND JOURNEYS (2009, Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 101 min)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/4418016958_377d9e041d_b.jpg

NIJ (1983, Pagorn Promwituck, B+)

This is my reply to my friend in Facebook:

เมื่อวานนี้ได้ดูนิจ (1983, ปกรณ์ พรหมวิทักษ์, B+) ค่ะ รู้สึกว่าหนังจะสร้างจากบทประพันธ์ของดอกไม้สด นำแสดงโดยจารุณีกับลลนา หนังโรแมนติกเกินไปสำหรับดิฉันค่ะ แต่มีฉากที่ชอบสุดๆอยู่สองฉาก นั่นก็คือฉากที่แม่พระเอก (ศรินทิพย์ ศิริวรรณ) บอกกับพระเอกว่า ถ้าพระเอกยอมแต่งงานกับนางเอก "ทั้งแจกัน ส้ม และปูนซีเมนต์ (!?!?!?!) ในบ้านหลังนี้ ก็จะตกเป็นของแก"

ส่วนอีกฉากคือฉากที่ลลนาพูดกับแม่ว่า "ถ้าหนูจะมีผัว หนูก็จะมีผัวห้าคน" แล้วเธอก็บรรยายว่าผัวทั้งห้าคนในอุดมคติของเธอจะมีคุณสมบัติแตกต่างกันอย่างไรบ้าง
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOo-6NNqtg&NR=1

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 6: LOOKING FOR A LOVE -- JOYCE SIMS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rib5le5WU0A

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 5: RAIN FALLS -- FRANKIE KNUCKLES FEATURING LISA MICHAELIS

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 4: ON THE WAY UP -- ELISA FIORILLO

THE BANGKOK BOURGEOIS PARTY IS THE WINNER

My poll 71 ended with 8 votes. Thanks to everyone who participated in it. Here is the result:

I LIKE DARKNESS AND DIM LIGHT IN SOME SCENES IN THESE FILMS/PLAY. WHICH ONES DO YOU LIKE?

1.THE BANGKOK BOURGEOIS PARTY (2007, Prap Boonpan, Thailand)
It got 4 votes, or 50 %.

2.BLOOD CANNOT BE CHANGED (เพื่อนสาวผีดิบ) (2009, Wannasak Sirilar, Thai stage play)
+A LAKE (2008, Philippe Grandrieux, France)
+ONE NIGHT (2008, Zart Tancharoen, Thailand)
+THESIS (1995, Alejandro Amenábar, Spain)

Each of them got 3 votes, or 37 %.

6.THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT (2009, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, Thailand)
+THE SUN (2004, Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
+TROPICAL MALADY (2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)

Each of them got 2 votes, or 25 %.

9.THE BOY FROM MARS (2005, Philippe Parreno, France)
+ENDLESS RHYME (2008, Tanatchai Bandasak, Thailand)
+A FAREWELL TO HEMINGWAY (2008, Svetoslav Ovtcharov, Bulgaria)
+THE INSURANCE (ประกันชีวิต) (2009, Nok Paksnavin, Thailand)
+THE KITE (ZMEY) (2002, Aleksei Muradov, Russia)
+LOST HIGHWAY (1996, David Lynch, USA)
+NE CHANGE RIEN (2009, Pedro Costa, Portugal)
+THE NIGHT WILL PAY (2004, Néstor Mazzini, Argentina)
+PERU TIME (2008, Chaloemkiat Saeyong, Thailand)

Each of them got 1 vote, or 12 %.

18.KEMPINSKI (2007, Neil Beloufa, France)
+THE POLICEWOMAN (2003, Joaquim Sapinho, Portugal)
+THE RIVER (1997, Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)

Each of them got 0 vote.

--I'm glad THE BANGKOK BOURGEOIS PARTY is the winner. This film uses darkness in a unique way. The darkness in this film still creates a lot of fear in my mind now. It represents the time and the place in which I am living, and I don't know if I will survive it or not.


--There's a recent film which I think presents darkness very beautifully. It's THE WOLFMAN (2010, Joe Johnston, A+), which is very atmospheric. The cinematographer of this film is Shelly Johnson. The dark forest in THE WOLFMAN is so beautiful that I think it is not too far removed from the gorgeous dark forest in A LAKE.
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--I think UPRISE (2008, Sandro Aguilar, Portugal, A+++++) also uses darkness in a very beautiful way. Its cinematographer is Paulo Ares.
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4033/4405892149_4f94595838_b.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4405892141_05dd1df8be_b.jpg


--I think the photographs PARIS BY NIGHT by Brassaï present darkness very beautifully.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2772/4405892139_afa12c2281_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2729/4405892137_997e7c2f6a_o.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2680/4405892133_a05b4378b3_o.jpg


--Another photographer who knows how to use darkness is Bill Henson.
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2008/12/sonthaya-subyen-bill-henson-philippe.html

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 3: CAN'T STOP FALLING INTO LOVE -- CHEAP TRICK

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 2: IT'S ALL RIGHT -- AYUMI NAKAMURA

THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION

This is my comment in Zach's blog:
http://elusivelucidity.blogspot.com/2010/02/butterflies.html

I just saw THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION (1998, Lav Diaz) and my friend Filmsick thinks that it should be compared to BUTTERFLIES HAVE NO MEMORIES, because both films deal with kidnapping and a kidnapper with some sorts of humanity in him. I think the main difference between both films can be described by your words, because THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION is "in the vein of novelistic, richly structured moral exposé", but does not fully belong to "the "slow", "meandering," small-s surrealist paradigm of contemporary festival cinema".

(However, I think THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION can be called "slow" if you compared it to action-kidnapping films such as MAN ON FIRE, but it is still much faster than other films by Lav Diaz.)


This is a photo of Raymond Bagatsing, the main actor of THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION:

CHRIS MESSINA

This is my comment in Screenout Webboard:
http://zaa.xq28.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=79&start=875

ขอบคุณน้อง paaae, น้อง black forests และคุณท้อปมากจ้าสำหรับคำอวยพรวันเกิด

วอน บินในรูปของคุณท้อปใสปิ๊งมากๆ จำแทบไม่ได้เลย ไม่แน่ใจ 100 % ว่าเขาคือวอน บินหรือเปล่า แต่อาจจะใช่ก็ได้นะ
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4400747855_1bd183b2d6_o.jpg


เมื่อเร็วๆนี้เพิ่งได้ดูหนังเรื่อง JULIE & JULIA (2009, Nora Ephron, A+/A) ไป หนังไม่ได้วิเศษอะไรมาก แต่สาเหตุสำคัญที่ทำให้ชอบหนังเรื่องนี้มากเป็นพิเศษเป็นเพราะหนังเรื่องนี้พูดถึงชีวิตของ blogger และเป็นเพราะว่าบท Eric Powell (Chris Messina) ในหนังเรื่องนี้เป็นบทสามีในอุดมคติมากๆ เพราะเขาไม่ใช่คนที่หล่อมากนัก แต่เป็นผู้ชายที่ดูอบอุ่นน่าใช้ชีวิตอยู่ด้วยอย่างมากๆ
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4067/4400730961_eaba2f564c_o.jpg

FAVORITE OLD SONGS 1: CRAZY -- DAISY DEE

FAVORITE QUOTE FROM JACQUES RIVETTE

I quote it from Misterio Abierto's blog:
http://misterioabierto.blogspot.com/2009/09/jacques-rivette-1.html

" To write the history of these ten years would obviously be a fascinating task, but it is equally obvious that he closer one comes to the present day, the more one gets tangled up in polemic and personal preferences. I'm judging from my own experience of reseeing at the Cinematheque the films which I first saw in 1950 or so. Murnau, Stroheim, Griffith are still great; the unimportant film still look unimportant. But when one comes to films made over the last decade, I find that some which I didn't properly understand at the time now look remarkable, while others which I admired seem worthless. It isn't easy to make an objective assessment of something that is close to you.

For example, I saw Resnais' Muriel a few days ago. I'm glad I wasn't asked for an opinion on it right away, because I have since seen it a second time; and I realize that my opinion after a first viewing would have been a mixture of polemic, bile and prejudice about the sort of film I expected from Resnais. It's difficult to absorb a new film straight away, because one begins by superimposing the film one expected, which one wanted to see, and even which one wanted to make oneself.

All these barriers must be set aside before one can see the film which is actually there on the screen, and only then can one decide whether or not the director has succeeded on his terms rather than yours. A certain distance is absolutely essential. Spontaneous reactions are all very fine, but they tell you more about the critic than about the film."

LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES (2001, Claude Miller, A+++++)

LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES (2001, Claude Miller, A+++++),

KILLED THE FAMILY AND WENT TO THE MOVIES (1969, Julio Bressane, A+++++),

THE CRIMINAL OF BARRIO CONCEPCION (1998, Lav Diaz, A+++++),

LOGIC: MADAME GUMJAI CAUSES GLOBAL WARMING (2009, Chalida Uabumrungjit, A+),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_uQwq87gCM

BORDER CROSSING (2010, Apichart Pholprasert + Helen J. Stacey + Wendy Grace Allen, A+),

HESUS THE REVOLUTIONARY (2002, Lav Diaz, A+),

LITTLE BIG SOLDIER (2010, Sheng Ding, A+),
LA PASSION SELON DIDIER (2009, Lorenzo Gabriele, A+),
JULIE & JULIA (2009, Nora Ephron, A+/A),
L'ABBAYE DU REVOIR (2004, Jérôme Anger, A+/A),
BATAILLES (2008, Jean-Michel Ribes, A),
UP IN THE AIR (2009, Jason Reitman, A),
BREAK (2008, Jean-François Hassoun, B-),
TRUE LEGEND (2010, Yuen Woo Ping, C+)

What I love the most in LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES is the scene in which I think there will be a murder, but the murder doesn't happen. What happens is the opposite of murder. What happens is the human kindness. It surprises me a lot.

Though LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES seems to preach about kindness, generosity, charity, or something like that, I think the film does this thing in a very different way from A CHRISTMAS CAROL. The ending of LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES is also very great, because it does not affirm the family value. This characteristic makes LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES rise much higher above such films as A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE FAMILY MAN (2000, Brett Ratner), or other films which teach us to be generous and love your family.

I also like the mental journey from "tortured feelings" to "happiness" experienced by the heroine in LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES. Somehow I can follow her mental journey. This is different from the mental journey in SHARA (2003, Naomi Kawase, A+). The characters in SHARA seem to be happy at the end of the film, but I can't follow their journey.

Having said that I can follow the mental journey in LA CHAMBRE DES MAGICIENNES doesn't mean that I can be as generous as the heroine in this film. If I were in the same situation as the heroine, I might not do the same thing as her.

Somehow I think UP IN THE AIR should be screened together with THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (1977, Robert Bresson, A+++++) and APRIL (1962, Otar Iosseliani, A+++++), because the differences between these films are the reasons why I don't like UP IN THE AIR that much. There's a dialogue in UP IN THE AIR which accidentally reminds me of the greatest dialogue in THE DEVIL, PROBABLY about what one will gain in one's lifetime. But while the characters in UP IN THE AIR still hold on to life, the character in THE DEVIL, PROBABLY doesn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ofrg9cwr0

The nearly-empty room of the hero in UP IN THE AIR accidentally reminds me of the nearly-empty room of the couple in APRIL, but UP IN THE AIR seems to portray the loneliness of the empty room, while APRIL seems to portray the true happiness of the empty room. UP IN THE AIR would rise much higher above APRIL, if the film chose to portray the true happiness of the empty room of a single, self-contented person.

Oggs Cruz's review of HESUS THE REVOLUTIONARY
http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/07/hesus-rebolusyonaryo-2002.html

Noel Vera's review of HESUS THE REVOLUTIONARY
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/noelmoviereviews/message/290

THE BORDER CROSSING ART PROJECT
http://www.car.chula.ac.th/art/en/?page_id=18

STÉPHANE BRIZÉ AND FLORENCE VIGNON WIN CÉSAR AWARD

I'm very glad to know that Stéphane Brizé and Florence Vignon win César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay from MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON. I haven't seen this film yet, but I love Brizé and Vignon a lot from their work in HOMETOWN BLUES (1999, Stéphane Brizé, A+++++). I wrote a comment on HOMETOWN BLUES here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0201483/usercomments

The full winner list can be found here:
http://reassurance.blogspot.com/2010/02/cesar-awards-2010.html