Visual Acoustics

Director: Eric Bricker
Writers: Eric Bricker, Jessica Hundley
Cast: Julius Shulman, Frances Anderton, Tom Ford and Frank O. Gehry
Narrator: Dustin Hoffman
Year: 2009
IMDB

My Rating: 8/10

A documentary about the most influential architecture photographer. Visually stunning. I didn't know anything about this guy Julius Shulman, I was attracted to this film, simply because of the poster. If you're into modern architecture and photography, watch it.

My New Room

has

- a king single bed
- a desk and chair
- a sink with a mirror cabinet
- a coffee machine
- a reading lamp
- a fridge
- a fan
- a tv which doesn't have channels
- no wireless internet connection

condition perfect.

二十四の瞳

監督：木下惠介
脚本：木下惠介
原作：壺井栄
出演：高峰秀子，天本英世，笠智衆，田村高広
音楽：木下忠司
撮影：楠田浩之
年間：1954
IMDB

My Rating: 11/10

Twenty-Four Eyes... completely sweep over me. Maybe I have a thing for sentimentalism, but how could I help it? The way the film does is like a tidal wave, washes me over and over again. There were many things I have thought about when I was watching this film, now they don't want to come to mind. Well, I... highly strongly recommend this film, if you're feeling like a big cry, or feeling a bit nostalgic, or just simply wanting to see a great film. I don't give out 11 for no reason, trust me.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Tennessee Williams (original play)
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Kim Hunter
Year: 1951
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My Rating: 9/10

The play by Tennessee Williams is really intriguing. You have a drama queen who constantly manipulates the truths, and you have a rough and masculine guy who wants nothing but the truth. Their clash is a classic play/movie called A Streetcar Named Desire. I should start reading Tennessee Williams.

Both leading actor and actress put on incredible performance, but I prefer Marlon Brando in this film, his extreme masculinity is quite fascinating to me, although his character is definitely not a good model to follow.

悲情城市

導演：侯孝賢
編劇：吳念真，朱天文
攝影：陳懷恩
演員：李天祿，陳松勇，高捷，梁朝偉，辛樹芬，阿匹婆，吳念真，張大春，蔡振南，金士傑
年份：1989
評分：9／10

雖然這可能是侯孝賢最重要的一部片，也是台灣電影史上第一部在國外得獎的作品。但我真的很難享受這部電影，也不是我最愛的侯孝賢電影。身為台灣人，了解台灣的歷史的我，在看這一部片時，巨大的悲傷壟罩了整部電影。連應該是快樂的婚禮，看來都格外感傷。這可能是國片中，最富歷史意義，最在意台灣的一部吧。

我之前曾一個人去九份走走，看到了許多有關悲情城市的招牌，地標，和海報。但是當時還沒看這部片。老實說，讓我認出九份那個地方的不是那些有名階梯式建築（九份現在的商業化，已經面目全非了），而是面海的基隆山。影片裡有很多山和海的場景。我還記得自己一個人跑到山上，山上的風相當大。但當時，對我來說，那是一個我希望能無限延長的一個瞬間。當時拍了些照片，但現在只剩這張，和一些我破碎的回憶。

我想，往往當我們回頭看時，大多數是感嘆而不是驕傲，因為最好的時光已經過去了。看看台灣的歷史，看看九份的歷史，看看台灣電影的歷史。

On The Waterfront

Director: Elia Kazan
Writers: Budd Schulberg
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden and Lee J. Cobb
Year: 1954
IMDB

My Rating: 8/10

Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando, Marlon Brando. Such a good movie.

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Herzog

Saul Bellow has just become one of my favourite writers of all-time. I, "am" Herzog, in many ways. This is another novel that has dug deep into a character's psychological mind, apart from Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground, which is another novel of "me". I have taken something like 20 to 30 pages of notes from Herzog. I don't even know how to describe the book to you. It's too personal.

Here, I throw this question, because I have been thinking about it,
"What is good literature? "

For me, good literature isn't about the smartness of wording, it definitely isn't about good storyline or awards or sales figure, and it's not so much about style. I guess for me, it's more to do with the deep understanding of characters and the universe (this, I mean everything, family, lovers, society, culture, ideology, you name them) surrounding them, the deeper the better. Is that it? No, but words always fail me, and I'll let myself fail.

Shabazz Palaces

After hearing many different types of music, my taste isn't becoming more receptive, rather harder to please. Catchy tunes don't always catch my ears anymore. It's gotta be something new, something radical. Shabazz Palaces' new LP is definitely one of them. The musical production is just astounding. The throbbing bass and the ice-cold percussion are all too overwhelming. Put on your headphone, the music becomes a beast, it lives, breaths, and runs wild in the darkness of your mind. Yes, this album is quite an experience.

An Echo from the Hosts that Profess Infinitum


Swerve the Reeping of All that is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)

Emmy The Great - Virtue

The Tree of Life

Director/Writer: Terrence Malick
Cast: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain
Year: 2011
IMDB
My Rating: 4/10

對於別人的看法和觀點，我早就自認我缺乏意願去理解。如果你喜歡這部片，那很好，恭喜你看了你喜歡的片。以下的內容就可以不用看了。如果你跟我一樣對這部片不是很喜歡，你可以試著看看我不喜歡這片的地方。看你是不是能找到跟我相似的觀點。（內容有雷）

Angry Boys

Man, this shit is fucking hilarious. I usually don't watch TV episodes, cuz most of them somehow all look the same, sound the same. But man, you never know what to expect from Chris Lilley. He's too fucking crazy, funny and too fucking good portraying different characters!!! His characters are often mean, annoying, and just plainly dickheads... but I can't stop watching it. Watch it now!