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That day, on the beach (1983) Edward Yang

A thousand peace clouds encircle the sky (2003) Julian Hernandez

The road to love (2011) Remi Lange

Dust in the wind & The boy from Fengkui Revisited

Breathless by Godard

More movies, and guatemala city

In Jimo, read HHH's interviews

On the plane back to Guatemala city
watched: Crosscurrent (Chang Jiang Tu)

In airbnb
also watched

A summer at Grandpa's  HHH
Maurice (1987) James Ivory
My last round (2011)- no english/chiness subtitle
Taekwondo (2016) only watched first 30 minutes then randomly picked a few
Esteros (2016) Papu Curotto

Now reading
Pasolini Requiem (biography)

In Guate,
Having problem with jetlag - strange
Neck pain
sore throat
etc

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in china now for my dad's 80 year birthday

watched a few films on the airplane:
1. silence by martin scorcesse 2016
2. Harmonium by Koji Fukada 2016
3. song of the phoenix by Wu Tianming 2013

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BAL by Semih Kapolanoglu 2010

Suzaku by Naomi Kawase 1997

Voyage of the red balloon by Hou Hsiao Hsian 2007

Rewatched:
Blue is warmest color & tropical malady

More movies...and leaving brazil today

Oedipus Rex by Pier paulo pasolini (1967)
masterpiece

The gospel according to St. Matthew by Pier Paulo Pasolini (1964)

Millenium Mamabo by Hou Hsiao Hsian 2001

Three times by Hou Hsiao Hsian 2005
masterpiece

Street of shame by Kenji Mizuguchi 1956 - his last movie

Things to come by Mia Hansen-love 2016

Bad blood by Leos Carax 1986
masterpiece

Kohei Oguri

The Sting of death (1990)

Muddy river (1981) First work!!!
Masterpiece...

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Come undone (2000) revisit Sebastien Lifshitz
Going South by Sebastien Lifshitz 

Two movies similar style, with broken cuts, scenes, broken sequences...

Dust in the wind (revisit) (Hou Hsiao Hsian)

The way he looks (2014) by Daniel Ribeiro

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Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovski) 1969

Masterpiece
8 chapters for person growth/experience
1. the jester: leaving
2. theophanes the greek: Being recognized
3. the passion according to andrei: religion and painting
4. the feast: sex and love
5. the last judgement: painting and conscience
6. the raid: committing sin
7.the silence: regret and punishment
8. the bell: inspired and resurrecting

The story of the last chrysanthemums by Kenji Mizoguchi 1939

Accattone (Beggar in Italian) Pier Paulo Pasolini 1961
Masterpiece!

Strapped (2010)

Weekend (2011)

Comrades: almost a love story 1996 Peter Chan
very so-so

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Sons and lovers (Jack Cardiff)
Master American style photography
Interesting dilogue

The crucified lovers (A Story from Chikamatsu) Kenji Mizoguchi

Blissfully yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
The piece before Tropical Malady

Friday night black/white asian films

Sisters of the Gion 1936 Kenji Mizoguchi

Masterpiece! and 1936!!!!!!
He lived 58 years and directed 90 films!
And he is a TAURUS!

I saw his movie "Ugetsu" many years ago - somehow not so impressed, probably I didn't like the style of fable story.

Spring in a small town 1948 Fei Mu
Chinese masterpiece!

The great loneliness, the special loneliness

La epidemia de la soledad gay / The Epidemic of
Gay Loneliness

http://projects.huffingtonpost.es/…/la-epidemia-de-la-sole…/

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articl…/…/gay-loneliness/

and this --

Gay Loneliness Is Real—but “Bitchy, Toxic” Culture Isn’t the Full Story - http://www.slate.com/…/gay_loneliness_is_real_but_toxic_gay…

QUOTES:

Whether we recognize it or not, our bodies bring the closet with us into adulthood.

This is how I spent my adolescence, too: being careful, slipping up, stressing out, overcompensating. Once, at a water park, one of my middle-school friends caught me staring at him as we waited for a slide. “Dude, did you just check me out?” he said. I managed to deflect—something like “Sorry, you’re not my type”—then I spent weeks afterward worried about what he was thinking about me. But he never brought it up. All the bullying took place in my head.

Sao paulo sao paulo

Stormy in Sao Paulo tonight
US bombing Syria
what a night..

Good man good woman 1993 Hou Hsiao Hsian
THe use of silhouette of the villain figure (dark) + protagonist under the light (bright) dominating the frame, at the end move to edge of the frame, blocking the woman, while the child /baby walks to the middle of the frame. for a while.
A landscape wide shot (two trees), long at least 10 seconds, with non symmetrical, image, left side blank, one smaller tree in the middle but not exactly in the middle, a bigger tree on the right side, only 2/3 in the frame.
watching him film, is a feeling, a feeling of mass, a group of people, walking back and forth, running around, chasing this that belongs or doesn't belong to them
coldly express how Haodong executed, cremation bureau asks for money, they borrow money all over the place, the she asked her sister, did she see him, she said, yes, three bullets in the chest, head injury, etc - quite cold feeling
A comparison of 1950s and 1990s - both meetings, the dean of middle school is talking about how the classes conflicting problem, farmers, landlords, how to sell their house to make a newspaper so people know more, while in 1990s, the gang member meeting is all talking about to make networks, getting more money, killing other group of gang

as Hou use long wide shot, he has his own method for blocking in his long shot, , make it un-symmetrical, make it realistic but unusual, to make extra points

In the heat of sun 1994 Jiang Wen
The use of music
slow tracking shot of the young men sing "ka qiu sha"
Reality and fantasy

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Three dancing slaves ( the third piece about the younger brother is very appealing, and the interesting dialogue of them after landing with umbrella (reminding me the dialogure of tropical melody, when adong wants to lay his head on abing), and motocycle scene, as well as the voiceover explaining briefly what happened,etc, oh and use of music, and not overly use of music0

Y tu mama tambien(Alfonso Cuaron) 

Wild reeds (Andre Techine) (such a good multi character story)
(not crazy about some camera work)
Last scene of the girl running is incredible (original, unforgetable, realitic)
scene of motorcycle, the use of music and not overly use of the music - unforgetabble.
Slightly overuse of fable of Oak tree vs reeds on the fascist boy, but not as bad as Mengiu's graduate,
a bit too many dialogue
great blocking)

Rhapsody in August (Kurosawa) what a disappointing movie. (images of ants climbing on a rose?)

What I like of some of these movies is there is no clear 3-act and 5 act, just fragments of life, no climax, no organsm, plain/truthful/touching.

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Goodbye south goodbye (1996, Hou Hsiao Hsian)

Four moons (2014)

Heartbeats (2010 Xavier Dolan)

Movies and last few days of Lima trip

Watched
I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ken Roach

Cemetery of Splendor (2015) (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

The second mother (2015) (Anna Muylaert) (Brazil)

Ciao (2008) 

The puppetmaster (1993) (Hou Hsiao Hsian)

Leslo (Jean Claude Lauzon) 1992

Undertow (Contra Corriente) (Javier Fuentes Leon) 2009

Last few days in Lima -we visited Boranco neighborhood last day and walked to the beach. The beach looks similar to Miraflores while boranco neighborhood does appear to have more people in the parks. I was having either allergy attack or cold, was not feeling well.

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Tropical Malady (2004) by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The name of the movie in Thai is Sud Pralad，meaning the devil in your heart, or the entangled in your mind?

Mamma Roma (1960) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Heli (2013) by Amat
Disappointed.
Best director in Cannes.

Happy together (1997)
Classic.
The color.

Dust in the wind (1986)
Classic.
Need to research how he shot the film, lens, lights, etc.

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Come undone (2000)
Revisiting the movie - this version is shorter, sex scene cut off
it has its style, restrained, not related, scenes don't serve obvious purpose

A city of sadness (1989)
Masterpiece.
A different between masterpiece and good movie (even great movie like Mommy 2015) is, masterpiece can be viewed year by year, but there is no great desire to view good movie again and again

The multiple-purpose use of chinese character, the mountain shot, the landscape shot (sometimes serving an internal or emotional break, sometimes serves as inner peace of the location/people), the constant shooting through doors/thresholds,  windows/doors/multiple rooms, how long does one shot take, and how thrifty he is using the close-up shots, need to study year by year to gradually understand the movie more and more...

There are many short pieces of scenes - but meaningful and important to make a masterpiece

I.E, brother injured, going back parents house with sister:
1. WS of dark mountain, brother sister going back the way they came;
2. WS of palm trees, tilt down to sister and brother walking towards parents house in the yard, camera pan, then camera moves slightly same direction of walking,
3. MS of brother/sister walking inside of the house, Mom helped brother sit down, Dad also coming in and slapped son, then said, hurry, hide here xxxx"

Three shots are simple, no close ups, but full of meaning:
1. Dark mountain, symbol of established power, how fragile single individuals are
2. Palm trees, signalling peace, but was interefered with all the chaose, home - signalling warmth
3. Dad slapping surprised everybody, a typical chinese father, then trying to get son hidden somewhere, the slapping give the audience some sort of surprise and tension, and it is realistic.

another round of movies

Prayer for bobby
Based on a true story.
More or less like a educational film.
Plain, frontal, actor, you go speak your lines

Mommy (Xavier Dolan, 2015)
Great movie.
Third character (neighbor) is the key. Without her, it is plain movie

Savage grace 
Based on a true story.
Not my type of tea.

Two women (1960, De sica)

movies about mom, son, gay

watched I killed my mother, Tom at the farm, Old well (1986 from legendary director Wu Tianming)

I killed my mother - witty, funny but not too inspiring. Copied too much Wang Kar wei

Tom at the farm - story doesn't work then nothing works

Old well - finished half, produced in 1986 - the political implications...