sitenoise at the movies

CAFE NOIR is a linear quilt of set pieces and cinematic indulgences, vignette style. There are more than a half dozen scenes you could call music videos, gorgeous music videos with great music:...

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I recommend this "documentary" to everyone. There are glowing and heartfelt reviews of it aplenty, and I don't object to any of the ones I've read. The film made me cry and it stayed with me fo...

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Suwa Nobuhiro 's follow up to the marvelous 2/Duo . This is another mostly improvised, watching-paint-dry indie flick—although it's more mature in content and character. Makiko Watanabe is sup...

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By-the-numbers indie. I didn't believe any of the actors made contact with the feelings the characters were supposed to be feeling because everything comes off as an impression, rather than anyt...

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It's hard to believe this is a Shiota Akihiko film; it's so mainstream sentimental. Compared to the two very independent flavored films about lost teenagers he made just before and after this ...

https://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/2011/03/resurrection-yomigaeri-2002-japan.html

A five hour holiday marathon. Period pieces, costume dramas, and films about fighting (physically or with weapons other than the heart) are a few of my least favorite film genres so I don't know...

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One of those "only from Japan" psycho-sexual dramas which explores adult themes of desire, domination, and twisted mind-fuck games and perversion ... acted out by teenagers. No comment on this p...

https://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/2011/03/moonlight-whispers-gekko-no-sasayaki.html

I laughed, I cried. This is a very fun, good looking, popcorn/date flick. Beneath its light-hearted surface there are some teary eyed love happenings. If you like star-studded Hong Kong romantic...

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This film has three things going for it: Aoi Miyazaki , Kumiko Aso , and a great soundtrack. Miyazaki and Aso are two of Japan's most talented and popular young actresses, and I'm always happy w...

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I let myself get over-hyped about this one: Director Anh Hung Tran 's The Vertical Ray of the Sun is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen; Cinematographer Ping Bin Lee, one of my fav...

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"Here's a doobie for the road". Haven't heard that one in years. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to sit comfortably through a couple hours of hillbilly meth heads mumbling through their...

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Gore-hounds and violence enthusiasts should enjoy this one a lot, except that all the horror plot points are interrupted by a lot of story and social commentary about rising home prices in Hong ...

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Zhang Yimou reportedly auditioned 10,000 girls in search of untarnished, innocent (old school Chinese) beauty when looking to cast the lead in this film. > "These young folks are looking...

https://sitenoise-atthemovies.blogspot.com/2011/02/under-hawthorne-tree-shan-zha-shu-zhi.html

Hear Me 听说 This light-hearted rom-com charmed its way into my top ten of the year . It's not a cinematic masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It's just a rom-com, delightful an...

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I was fooled by the poster for this one. Haha. I like black with bluish-purple highlights, and I thought I detected depth in the young woman's eye(s). I thought it might be a dark independent ra...

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There will be a lot of words written about how this film "makes you think"; how it makes you think about marriages which on the surface appear to be happy ones, and then how it (the film) procee...

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Solid cast, good production, engaging spy thriller with some illuminating historical context thrown in. ★★★★ DIRECTOR: Mikael Håfström STARRING: John Cusack , Li Gong , Yun-Fat Ch...

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Frustrated with life in a rural village, she's slapped by her mom, groped by her boyfriend, raped by a truck driver, moves to Shenzhen. Fired from a factory job on her first day, she volunteers...

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When I made my top ten list for 2010 I wrote I was confident that if I had seen this it would have made the list. It's a little late, but now I've seen it and added it to the list. As par usu...

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EPIC. Long, slow, a little melodramatically meandering but never boring. This is a great film to watch before Hero to get a more standard historical telling of the story of China's first Empero...

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This one's very funny, one of those films in which the director and the actors do a dance of comic timing. Hye-jeong Kang is always good but Shin Hyeon-Jun turns out to be a real comic treat. ...

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This is a funny film built on fine performances and skilled direction. Yujiro Isobe (Hiroyuki Miyasako ) acts like a guy who has accidentally dropped his cards face-up on the poker table and thi...

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More Ryuichi Hiroki . This one is love story between a young woman photographer, Kyoko, who gets an assignment to pick a woman off the street and take nude photos of her for a men's magazine, an...

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Phillip Seymour Hoffman fans should be happy with this, his directorial debut. Hoffman is the king of uncomfortable and he directs to his strength here. Beyond directing himself well, a couple ...

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Ryuichi Hiroki released this film and Tokyo Trash Baby on the same weekend! Kurosaki (Ren Osugi ) is an erotic novelist who uses his editor and a hired model to act out scenarios in his liv...

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