Saturday, April 12, 2014

San Jose, Costa Rica

2012 November

San Jose is small

B - two places
The park, met the chinese speaking Costa Rican and his taiwanese teacher
The street protestors!

Mexico city 4th, 5th, and 6th visit

2013 August, November and 2014 January

Zocalo visit every time, saw kids display, outdoor skating and military show.
Discovered:
Garibaldi - Mariachi's plaza and Cabrito market and the bakery shop
Museum of popular arts at Coyancan
Blue house at downtown, inside mural and restaurant, bar and the narrow porch
JW person sent info in chinese outside Blue house
Badminton at YMCA close to hotel Fontan
Basilica the plaza and the park going up to the church
Metro bus from aeroporto to hotel, not recommended
PUEBLA (museum of revolutionary)
OAXACA
etc

People:
Julio
Richard/Ricardo
Guillermo
Liang
Axel
Crustian
Gabriel
and anonymous ones

Movie talk 76

Walkabout (Nicolas Noeg) 8 (wow new film language, need a copy)
After hours (Scosesse) 6 (ok do we need to be surprised all along the movie?)
Frances Ha (Noah) 6 (The only good thing about this movie is how young generation - or maybe some of them -lives their lives in USA)
Barbarian invasions
An angel at the table (Jane campion)
The decline of the American expire
Le Grande Bouffe
Audition
Closely watched trains
Jesus of Montreal
La Vie de Jsus (life of Jesus)
Picnic at hanging rock
The city of your final destination (Jame Ivory) Revisit
Death in Venice (Visconti)
Mahler (Ken Russell)
American Gigolo
Germany, Pale mother
The damned (Visconti)
Women in love (Ken Russell)
La Caza (Carlos Saura)
Memories of underdevelopment
Yeelen (Solomani Sise)
Local hero (Bill Forsyth)
Deus e o diabo na terra do sol
He who hits first, hits twice (Santiago Alvarez)
Timecode (Mike Figgis)