TOKYO SONATA

I love the bittersweet (slightly ambiguous) ending. One of the best ones I've seen in a while...



Also, what's up with Japanese films and Debussy?

GOLDEN HORSE SHORT

Sadly enough, I haven't shot a film in almost 2 years (not including the occasional commercial).

I'm now in pre-production on a short film for an omnibus project, sponsored by the Golden Horse Film Festival. It's a collection of 20 shorts (5 minutes each), all by Taiwanese directors, established and not-so-established. The actual feature-length omnibus will be the 2011 opening film for the festival.

My short is about a washing machine.

FOUR LIONS

Funniest movie I've seen in a while. Also some of the best slapstick in recent memory. It's about a group of bumbling Pakistani suicide bombers in Sheffield...

You have to have a little faith in people...

What is it with me and black and white anamorphic romances set in New York?

Singing...Singing...

From "Singing in the Rain"

Leaning...Leaning...

From "Night of the Hunter"

MOVIE MARATHON

I've been watching a lot of movies recently (an average of one a day), which I haven't done in a long time. A very random selection:

(in the last 5 days...)
Night of the Hunter
Let the Bullets Fly
Tokyo Sonata
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

(and coming up...)
Golden Slumber
Singing in the Rain
Four Lions
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Save the Green Planet
Love Exposure
A Brand New Life
The Way I Spent the End of the World
Three Idiots