Happy new year!

Let's celebrate 2008 is over. Yeah!

Ski at Bakerville CO

Movie talk 12

A river runs through it (Robert Redford) 7

Amadeus (Milos Forman) 8

Summer palace (Lou Ye) 7

If (Lindsay Anderson) 9

M (Fritz Lang) 8

The treasure of the sierra madre (John Huston) 8

The birth of a nation (D. W. Griffith) 6

Ran (Akira Kurosawa) 7

Rashmon (Akira Kurosawa) 8

4 month, 3 weeks, and 2 days (Cristian Mungiu) 9

Movie talk 11 (Sergei Eisenstein)

Que viva mexico!

Ivan the terrible part 1

Ivan the terrible part 2 the boyar conspiracy

Strike

The battleship potemkin

Movie talk 10

Seduced and abandoned (Pietro Germi) 9
A man and a woman (Claude Lelough) 8
Moulin rouge (John Huston) 6
The last picture show (Peter Bogdanovich)  9 
Moulin rouge (Baz Luhrman) 6
Code unknown (Michael Haneke) 6
Alphaville (Jean Luc Godard) 9
Tuya's marriage (Wang Quanan) 8
Terms of endearment (James L Brooks) 9
Ordinary people (Robert Redford) 9
M.A.S.H (Robert Altman) 9
Time regained (Raoul Ruiz) 8
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf (Edward Elbee) 8
In the heat of the night (Norman Jewison) 8
The wages of fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot) 9
Open city (Roberto Rossellini) 9
The railroad man (Pierto Germi) 9
Tin drum (Volker Schlondorff) 9
Sting (George Roy Hill) 7
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) 8
Salvatore giuliano (Francesco Rosi) 8
The lost weekend (Billy Wilder) 7
Viridiana (Luis Bunuel) 9
Friendly persuasion (William Wyler) 7
Perhaps love (Peter Chan AKA Chen Kexin) 5
Marty (Delbert Mann) 7

Movie talk 9

MILK by Gus Van Cant

Reminded me the documentary THE TIMES OF HARVEY MILK.

Ironically, Havey Milk fought hard and succeeded in beating discriminative propostion 6 thirty years ago, while propostion 8 was passed in California this year. 

What a shame.

Solute to Gus Van Cant, a ground-breaking movie.

Movie talk 8 - after graduating from New York Film Academy

Have left NYC for more than a month, here is the list of films I have seen after:

Title(director) Rate (out of 10)

Ulysses' gaze (Theodoros Angelopoulos) 9

Eternity and a day (Theodoros Angelopoulos) 8

Midnight cowboy (John Schlesinger) 9

Mango yellow (Claudio Asis) 5

Night of shooting stars (Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) 7

The garden (Derek Jarman) 5

The sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky) 8

Flanders  (Bruno Dumont) 8

Repentance (Tengiz Abuladze) 8

My American uncle (Alain Resnais) 9

The sweet hereafter (Atom Agoyan) 7

Faraway, so close ! (Wim Wenders) 8

Birdy (Alan Parker) 8

Too beautiful for you (Birtrand Blier) 7

The man without a past (Aki Kaurismaki) 7

Month Python's the meaning of life (Terry Jones/Gilliam)  8

A world apart (Chris Menges) 9

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog) 6

Nostalghia (Andrei Tarkovsky) 7

Ay, Carmela (Carlos Saura) 6

Summer (Eric Rohmer) 6

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky) 7

Last year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais) 7

Pelle the conqueror (Bille August) 9

Paulin at the beach (Eric Rohmer) 3

The enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner herzog) 7

Carmen (Carlos Saura) 7

Divorce (Pietro Germi) 8

Padre Padrone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani) 6

Kanal (Andrzej Wajda) 9

Godfather II (Francis Coppola) 9

The tree of wooden clogs (Ermanno Olmi) 9

Campfire at Bay of Fundy

T-shirts

Our Uncles moved to Morocco and all we got was these T-shirts !!

Mark in Morocco

Self picture on the ferry boat -
plying the Straits of Gibraltar between Spain and Africa

Mark dashed through Tangier over the past ten days. He's doing great. All packed up now with more stories to tell and confident of having already embarking on an exciting new phase of life: be sure to ask him about it...