Mania!

Today was amazing as I discovered that the incredible Tatsuya Nakadai who performed his craft in countless classic films including Yojimbo / Sanjuro,Fires on the Plain,Sword of Doom,Ran,Kagemusha,Kwaidan,Hara Kiri, and a uncredited debut role in the Seven Samurai is going to be in DC at the National Gallery of art to screen a film of his directed by the great Kon Ichikawa(I am a Cat). Needless to say my ass is there with bells on. 

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New Gaspar Noe

They Speak for themselves.

Jesus Von Trier

Innaritu going and being a showoff

Cronenberg

Kitano-sama!

Zhang Yimou

Claude LeLouch(my favorite one)

Tarsem Singh's The Fall

The first trailer I saw for this one did not instill much enthusiasm on my part, but I read a few good reviews and decided to give it a watch(the below posted trailer is great). We hit a fucking mysterious suburban traffic jam on the way to the theatre so I missed the first scene, but It didn't matter the film was awesome. Immediate comparison are going to be made to Pan's Labyrinth which is fair and I would put this film at nearly the same level. The Fall is a bit lighter in tone than Pan's Labyrinth but still going to be to heavy for some. The bizzare style of Singh is just a show-stopper, men are born from burnt trees there are human chandeliers and impossible rows of stairs and its all captured with a stylish and evocative camera(which is apparent from the first shot of the below posted trailer). Basically it boils down to the fact that Tarsem is a badass and you should see this movie post haste. Consider me impossibly excited and preemptively terrified for his version of the videogame condemned(his supposed next project).

5/5

The Good, The Bad and the Weird

Recent Watchings

Summer Palace by Lou Ye

4/5 . College life and romance in troubled china of the 80's . Filled with great Scorcese esque cinematography intense acting not to mention it was banned in and the director is not allowed to be

involved in film for 5 years. Sex scenes will probably make some people panic due to their frankness.

Speed Racer by the Wachowski's

3/5 I enjoyed it for its goofy and fun sensibilities. It felt like it was a labor of love for the Wachowski's.

An affront to taste and decency, lacking completely in geometry and theology.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/beverlyhillschihuahua/