Weekend!

[elusivek]

(Decided not to wait for the Friday Five)

I have a long weekend as 1-Oct is China National Day.

And I made these few nights movie nights. Well, not really. Just 2 consecutive nights of JP movies.

Friday night I went with friends to watch “When I get home, my wife always pretends to be dead.” It was an interesting movie. Like many JP movies I know, the “secret” is kept a secret and open to the viewer’s interpretation. The myriad of ways that the wife stages her death are hilarious, and now I want a fake crocodile with a sun hat. Haha!

Saturday night I watched “blank-13.” I was expecting it to be a tearjerker but it wasn’t (at least for me). Watched due to a friend’s recommendation but I didn’t see the charm. Well... my friend had some stakes in that as she was the one to recommend this movie be brought in. She’s a big fan of the main male character (the son). Well anyway, “favor” done so I’ll leave it at that.

Before the movies, they showed some trailers and I’m contemplating watching “the extraordinary journey of Fakir” (or some name along the names of that). The trailer made it look very funny. There were a few other movies but they looked boring (to me) but I guess they were showcasing some big name director or other (Alice Rohrwacher?) that won awards at the Cannes.

Oh and yeah that cinema I went to don’t show hit blockbuster movies.

http://www.cinematheque-passion.mo/en/Home

That’s where they showed Loving Vincent (the Van Gogh painting movie) and many other indie or more artistic movies.

I think it’s good to have such cinemas, but admittedly they may make less business than the ones showing blockbusters, so hopefully it’s here to stay!

Comments

[magic-treehouse.livejournal.com]

Indie cinemas often have fewer overheads though so they don't need to make so much money. Plus they're not really in competition with the blockbuster cinemas. There's room for all thankfully :) I'm glad that we have both in Leeds.

I loved Loving Vincent!

It's our film festival soon and I'd be interested to know if any of the Asian films that I go and see have made it to where you are and if so, what you thought of them!

[notte0.livejournal.com]

I'll check back the LIFF on 10-Oct and let you know :-) though admittedly I'm not really a big movie goer. Sometimes the movie bug bites me then i feel like going to the movies but then after passes, I may go a whole year without movies... haha...

[magic-treehouse.livejournal.com]

You've been doing your homework ;) Have you seen a Thai film called Bad Genius? I was surprised that that didn't get a proper release over here.

[milhent.livejournal.com]

“When I get home, my wife always pretends to be dead.” - you had successfully distracted me from my work because I just had to look up a movie with such name. No hints that it will be released around here, unfortunately, because I'd love to watch it.

There are two cinemas that don't run blockbuster movies in my city. I remember one of them from my childhood when it was one of the most modern cinemas, they even run 3d movies (with blue-and-red glasses) but now they switched to cartoons and hosting children shows. The other only runs movies made no later than 1980th (I think) and biography documentaries. Both are surprisingly popular.

[notte0.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that was pretty entertaining. Give it some time, maybe you can stream it on facebook. I was looking for a trailer of some other movie (I forgot which now) and what came out was actually the full length movie. I think I did the search on Facebook.