Sunday, October 31, 2010

Sunday Afternoon Post

Aside from Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation, you know who else has referenced Wong Kar Wai?

The Goo-Goo Dolls. Last night,  I was watching their music video for "Slide," (1998) after years of not seeing it. I've always thought of that as my song ("Oh May, you wanna get married? Or run away?").

Look at this particular scene:


Such amazing likeness to Wong Kar Wai's Fallen Angels (1994). 


I feel giddy as if I'm the first person that's discovered it (which I'm sure, I'm not).

On a side note, wasn't the 90s just a splendid time? The music, the movies, the wistfulness, longing and exquisite heartbreak of that time in my life is still romantic and innocent. Like sitting next to someone you're head over heels in love with, and them not knowing.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

500 Movies For Rache



My friends Lia, Clarise, and I have decided to start a movie-review blog for our friend Rache. Here's what it's all about:

About 500 Movies for Rache
Rache is one of our friends, who, though smart and wonderful in every way imaginable, is particularly deficient in terms of her film knowledge.
Now, no friend of ours can be allowed to go on believing that movies such as Batang X and The Little Mermaid 2 represent the height of cinematic excellence.

And so, it is with a mixture of compassion and messianic complex, that we’ve decided to watch and review 500 movies for Rache, until March 31, 2011. There are three of us behind this blog, and we have decided that there is only one way to go about the movie-picking and reviewing process: indiscriminately.

We will sit through the campy and the compelling, the indie films and the blockbusters, the critics’ darlings and the straight-to-video. This is how much we love you Rachelle. And how much we love movies. By March of 2011, we hope to have a good cross-section of cinematic genres, traditions, cultures and periods. (But,let’s face it, in all likelihood, it will be mostly Hollywood fare).

So Rache, our dear, pretty, wonderful, cinematically-clueless friend, and the many others just like her, THIS BLOG IS FOR YOU.

I for one, have been enjoying this little project. That's one thing I think I can never get tired of - watching movies and writing about them. That's my dream job right there.

Click HERE to go to our awesome site.

For Halloween

...I went to school/work as Wednesday Addams, from the Addams Family. I googled her and everything, trying to get the look down pat.





I sort of thought I got it right.

But for some reason, almost everyone who saw me said, "Esther! Orphan!"


I'm off by a decade. Esther is this generation's psycho doll-child.