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On DVD at Delsa’s house with Lucía (asleep) on 28 May 2008 at around 22:30.
Ace in the Hole is a very dark, cynical film. A deep shade of noir. While perhaps not as extreme as Sweet Smell of Success, it certainly comes close, and is probably more relevant after all these […]

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On DVD with Lucía at Delsa’s house on 24 May 2008 at around 21:30.
I like heist films. This one has Donald Sutherland and Sean Connery in it. How can it not be good?
Oh, right. It’s a Michael Crichton film. Actually, this is probably the worst Michael Crichton film I’ve […]

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On DVD at home with Lucía on 21 May 2008 at around 21:45.
I was a bit disappointed with The French Connection. I’m not quite sure what I was expecting, but what I got was a pretty good early-70s thriller. The film was fairly cliché, with an impulsive cop with strong hunches, […]

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On 35mm at the Kabuki with Lucía and Ben on 20 May 2008 at 21:20.
Redbelt was very much like every other Mamet film I’ve seen: crisp dialogue delivered by all the actors in exactly the same manner; plot twists for the sake of plot twists. The ending is so short, implausible, and […]

My Neighbors the Yamadas (Isao Takahata, 1999)
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On DVD at home with Lucía on 18 May 2008 at around 22:00.
My Neighbors the Yamadas was a delightful film. The animation style was intentionally sparse, and looked as though it was made up of rough ink sketches with watercolor. Similarly, the film comprised a […]

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On 35mm at the Century 20 Daly City with Lucía and Ben, on 13 May 2008 at 21:40.
Enjoyable superhero rubbish. I loved Marvel Comics when I was a kid, but I’ve been sorely disappointed by each of the recent film adaptations that I’ve seen (X-Men, Spider Man, The Hulk, X2, The Fantastic […]

Orz Boyz (Ya-che Yang, 2007)
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On 35mm at the Clay Theater during the 51st SFIFF with Lucía, on 8 May 2008, at 17:45.
I have not seen many Taiwanese films, but somehow this is the third one I’ve seen this year at the Clay Theater. Ya-che Yang is a new director, and […]

Still Life (Jia Zhang-Ke, 2006)
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On 35mm at the PFA during the 51st SFIFF with Lucía, Ben, and Sunny, on 6 May 2008, at 20:45.
This is exactly my kind of film. Among other things, it is the epitome of the concept of film as a means of travelling to other places. While […]

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On projected video at the PFA during the 51st SFIFF with Lucía, on 6 May 2008, at 18:45.
The Judge and the General wasn’t a particularly good documentary (designed for network TV, I guess?), but the subject was so interesting that I had no trouble looking past that. The film is an exploration […]

Secret, or The Secret that Cannot Be Told (Jay Chou, 2007)
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On 35mm at the Clay Theater during the 51st SFIFF with Lucía, on 4 May 2008, at 21:00.
At the other end of the spectrum from Tout est pardonné, we have the lush mainstream film from the massively popular Jay Chou. It’s probably […]