http://www.bioscopemagazine.com/smf/index.php?topic=71.150
--ELI ROTH gave an interview in “SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN” about old Italian horror films:
http://www.sfbg.com/printable_entry.php?entry_id=3804
“On emulating the grand old Italian B-movie tradition of killing kids: I wanted to take risks in the movie. I wanted things where people would go, "Oh, you can't do that." Not just to offend, but I wanted to live in that danger zone. After I made it, I saw this film directed by [Narciso Ibanez] Serrador called Who Can Kill a Child?, which I think is genuinely one of the single greatest horror films. I love those early 1970s Italian movies like Torso, Night Train Murders, and To Be Twenty, by Fernando di Leo. Have you seen To Be Twenty? At the end of this movie, my jaw was on the ground. It was so horrific that they pulled every single print from the theaters. But in all three of those films, it's a group of college-age girls that are all going on a trip somewhere. The girls all make intelligent decisions; there's nothing that they do that's like a dumb movie moment. And there's a real, palpable sense of dread in those movies. I really wanted to build that sense of dread for everybody [in Hostel 2].”
Some films mentioned by Eli Roth:
1.WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? (1976, Narciso Ibanez Serrador)
Plot Synopsis from AMAZON.COM
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OCY7TE/imdb-adbox/
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“A couple of English tourists rent a boat to visit the fictitious island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the town deserted of adults, there's only children who don't speak but stare at them with eerie smiles. They soon discover that all the children of the island have been possessed by a mysterious force or madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can't defend themselves because nobody dares to kill a child...”
2.TORSO (1973, SERGIO MARTINO)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/630579720X/imdb-adbox/
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Plot Synopsis from AMAZON.COM
“Someone is strangling coeds in Rome. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from classes by going up to Danielle's uncle's villa in the country. Unfortunately the killer decides to follow, and the women begin suffering a rapid attrition problem.”
3.TO BE TWENTY (1978, Fernando Di Leo)
http://www.dvdmaniacs.net/Reviews/Q-T/to_be_twenty.html
--FAVORITE SONG
LAVENDER OIL -- PLAID
http://www.myspace.com/plaid4thepeople
--I went to see CHILLAX (2007, Edward Squire, A+), a video installation at Whitespace Gallery, Lido Theatre, Bangkok, yesterday. I like it a lot. The installation has many artworks. The piece that I like the most is the sentence written on the wall as in the photo below. It is called INTERNATIONAL JOHN LENNON FORGIVENESS DAY, DECEMBER 8:
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I like this sentence very much, because it made me ask myself whether I would be able to forgive Mark David Chapman if I were Yoko Ono, And I think I can’t. That doesn’t mean I would take a revenge on Mark, but it means that I would not trust this murderer for the rest of my life. This piece of work made me realize that I still have some anger inside of me, and it would be better for me if I am able to get rid of my anger. If I can forgive this murderer, I might be able to “chillax” (chill + relax).
However, other things in this installation made me feel very relaxed. I hope I will have time to write more about this video installation in the future.
For more information on CHILLAX, please read
http://www.onopen.com/2007/editor-spaces/1749
--I just bought OPEN YOUR BOX (2007, A), an album by Yoko Ono. I like this album very much, though I’m still not sure if Yoko Ono’s voice is good for dance music.
The songs that I like very much in this album are:
1.HELL IN PARADISE (Reconstruction Mix) remixed by Peter Rauhofer
http://www.myspace.com/peterrauhofer
2.OPEN YOUR BOX (Club Mix) remixed by Orange Factory
A review for this album
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/42561-open-your-box
--I would like to see old South Korean films by Kim Ki-Young, including these films:
1.THE INSECT WOMAN (1972)
Synopsis from imdb.com written by Nathan Fiedler
“A schoolgirl goes from braids to bouffant when her mother makes her a bar hostess/prostitute. She cures impotence for Professor Lee and becomes his concubine. His entrepreneurial wife is initially shocked but soon accepts the arrangement and even gives the girl and allowance.”
2.PROMISE OF THE FLESH (1975)
Synopsis from imdb.com written by Nathan Fiedler
“Mild-mannered and modest Sook-young looks like your usual middle-aged woman, but happens to be a man-killing murderess. On a train trip to Mokpo, she remembers an earlier trip as a prisoner on furlough accompanied by a menacing but kind butch female guard. On the train they meet Hoon, a young man who falls for Sook-young. The guard lets them be alone at a bizarre marriage in a hill-top graveyard “
3.LIVING DEAD GIRL (1978)
Synopsis from imdb.com written by Nathan Fiedler
“A dour student, Young-gul, crosses paths with an elderly book salesman obsessed with Hitler and Nietzsche, a two-thousand year-old female corpse, and a mad scientist. Young-gul wants to commit suicide but the book salesman insists the human will even overcome biological death. Young-gul tests this by trying to kill him. Later the corpse comes to life in the hope that Young-gul will impregnate her.“
--Mr. PC in bioscopemagazine’s webboard wrote a very good comment on his guilty pleasure in seeing some erotic films. His comment made me ask myself about my guilty pleasure, and I hope my comment on this topic won’t scare all of my readers away.
One thing that makes me doubt myself very much is that I always think I hate war, militarism, and military government. However, I have to admit to myself that I enjoy sexual fantasy about foreign muscular soldiers. Does this mean that I am a militarist in my subconscious? Does this mean that I should go to see a psychiatrist? I don’t know, and I don’t care, because I’m sure that my fantasy won’t harm anyone, and I’m sure that my fantasy will never lead me to support war, military ideas, or military government.
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MY HANDSOME GUILTY PLEASURE LIST
This list is about the films that I like very much, and one of the main reasons that I like them is just because the actors are handsome. However, these films have many other good things in them besides the looks of the actors. And frankly, I don’t think I really feel guilty about liking them.
1.BEAU TRAVAIL (1999, Claire Denis, A+)
2.ALWAYS (1989, Steven Spielberg, A+)
I love Brad Johnson in this film, but I don’t like him in other films or TV series.
3.OCEAN TRIBE (1997, Will Geiger, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119817/
4.THE GREAT RAID (2005, John Dahl, A+)
5.TOP GUN (1986, Tony Scott, A)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/
6.IN JULY (2000, Fatih Akin, Germany, A)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177858/
Moritz Bleibtreu is very cute.
7.POP & ME (1999, Chris Roe, A)
This is a documentary about the relationship between fathers and sons. One thing that stands out from the film is that the director and his brothers are very cute.
8.BAD BOYS -- A TRUE STORY (2003, Aleksi Makela, Finland, A-)
9.TRUE BLUE (1996, Ferdinand Fairfax, A-)
10.ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID (2004, Dwight H. Little, A-)
Johnny Messner looks very sexy.
11.DEATH WARRANT (1990, Deran Sarafian, A-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099385/
I think Jean-Claude Van Damme looks very sexy in this film.
12.303 FEAR FAITH REVENGE (1998, Somjing Srisupap, Thailand, A-)
http://www.siamweb.org/sanook/movies/handbill2/handbill/thaimovi/thai000/303/303.html
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