里斯本第一日

飛機穿越雲層，緩慢的降落，轉個彎，長長的一整片沙灘從我地下飛過。在機上俯瞰里斯本，已經令我不由得驚嘆她的美麗（坐飛機時聽得正好是 The Walkmen 上一張專輯 - 里斯本）。因為，習慣旅行不做功課，寫下來的地址在地圖上卻找不到。叫了計程車，司機繞路帶我逛了市區一圈，原來我上計程車的地方離旅社不到三分鐘的走路的路程，司機卻開了快十分鐘。不過我並不抱怨，里斯本城市就像迷宮一樣，高高低低，拐拐彎彎，你根本不知道下一個路口轉彎會遇見甚麼。雖然，我另外一個旅遊習慣是迷失在陌生的城市中，不看地圖，沒有目標，到處亂走。但這次，我有葡萄牙詩人佩索亞所撰寫的里斯本旅遊指南（可免費下載）。跟著他寫的順序，跟著地標一個一個地走，同時還有他還詳細地介紹了每個地標的歷史和背景，第一天完成了四頁，整本有四十頁。亂晃到了一家出版社的書店，買了兩本他寫的詩集（英文和葡萄牙文同步）。走在里斯本，到處都有佩索亞的蹤影。想想，會想要來里斯本的遊客其實不算多（比起哥本哈根和阿姆斯特丹，我實在很不喜歡遊客爆滿的地方），會因為佩索亞來的更少，但我喜歡這感覺，像是一個少人知道的祕密基地。而我在里斯本正執行著一個秘密任務，一個有詳細指示但沒有明確目標的任務。不，我的目標是跟著我的導遊認真當一個遊客。夜深了，是該出去遊蕩了。

Moonrise Kingdom

Director: Wes Anderson
Writers: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Stars: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, Frances McDormand, and Harvey Keitel
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Year: 2012
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My Rating: 8/10

Lovely. Few reasons: 1) awesome cast; 2) a sweet love story of between two 12-year-old quirky kids; 3) wes-anderson-style humor; 4) beautifully shot and edited. Wes Anderson is actually getting better and better. Go see it.

推手

導演／編劇：李安
主演：郎雄，王萊，王伯昭
年份：1991 (Taiwan)
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評分：7/10

李安首部執導的電影，挺不錯。我很能理解這文化上的差異，所以我覺得這事應該不會發生在我的身上。如果真的發生了，我會先拋棄的絕對是中華傳承千年的家庭傳統。時代已經不一樣了，我們或許很快的適應了新的社會模式，謀生方式，這也代表家庭的概念也要改變。但，我們卻還是被這 "孝" 字給纏住。

Solaris

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky,
Writers: Stanislaw Lem (novel)
Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis and Jüri Järvet
Year: 1972 (Soviet Union)
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My Rating: 11/10

I mean seriously... this is one of the highest cinematic achievement. Definitely much better than any other sci-fi films I've ever seen. Odyssey 2000? Not even close. What makes human human? What makes human inhuman? What makes inhuman human? The thing about Tarkovsky film is that he doesn't just show you a film, he tries to tell the stories of/for all mankind. Perhaps not all mankind (obviously not everyone likes or gets his films), but man of his kind.

Midnight Jazz

Hello, sons and daughters, heroes and villains. Today is a good day, I've decided to share some music with you. Strictly, jazz music. I want to share it because, they have been good to me, and I want to be good to you too. But, you don't like jazz? Oh, it's okay, you don't have to listen to it, or you can give it a try and you might surprise yourself that you actually like it. As far as the selection goes, it's pretty mild and melancholy, just like whiskey on rocks. That's why I call it midnight jazz. Here, drink it.

The Last Days of Disco

Director/Writer: Whit Stillman
Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale and Chris Eigeman
Year: 1998
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My Rating: 7/10

I love disco.

Barcelona

Director/Writer: Whit Stillman
Stars: Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman and Tushka Bergen
Year: 1994
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My Rating: 7/10

I really enjoy Whit Stillman's trilogy, and the way he approaches film-making. I think he really knows how to make intellectual and entertaining movies. I love how his characters talk and behave. There's something fascinating about modern aristocrats, because frankly there's no such things anymore. I mean there are, people who dress to kill, have money readily to spare on whatever things he/she fancy, talk intellectually interesting stuff, are my ideas of modern aristocrats. It is a way to live, vanity to keep sanity. Oh, I see I mention nothing about the movie...