Tyler Aikens
2Feb12
Fucking JAWS 4, at that.
It's true, Paris is beautiful in the rain.
Fun, cartoonish and awkward. I like it and so should you.
Kind of like Jaws... but in the Alaskan woods.
Who do I love again?
absolutely brilliant, Nicolas Winding Refn is quickly becoming one of my favorite filmmakers.
A very well put together revenge flick, with great performances from Anthony Wong and Richie Ren. Mature and quite serious, if not a little unbalanced in terms of editing. Could use a little more suspense and possibly action, but for a Hong Kong film it's better than most films coming out of that island nowadays.
atmospheric, great sense of visual style and Lena Headey is very pretty to look at.
It's a fun short. A bit weird, but I like it. Main actress is very adorable and the cinematography is brilliant. Very interesting dance choreography. Fresh even.
I am not entertained.
One of the essential Hong Kong films from the 1980s.
Jackie Chan always does his Buster Keaton best. This film is all cartoon fun, look out for the Street Fighter tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2g3SRYo2g0
One of the first films in the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema.
It's one of those films that have good intentions but isn't perfectly executed. Very interesting adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, this is an example of taking a source material and creating something new with a vision.
pretty good for a two hour episode. Now if they took the last two episodes and made that into a film instead of this one, that would have been a killer ending.
One of those under appreciated Sci-Fi masterpieces.
You know Eagle Eye was not that bad. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Pretty good action/thriller.
It is still a shock to me that Mr. Kon is gone. He is a master in his own right and who knows the amount of amazing films he would have come up with in his limitless imagination. He's given a piece of himself to us in the form of his works. The least we can do as spectator is pass it on to those who are not familiar with it.
Being married is complicated.
One of the best Making Of documentaries out there, really brings you to Wong Kar Wai's filmmaking process, his thoughts and feelings. It's a very successful and intimate film.
Best editing for a music video!
wasn't too excited by the 60fps look. but very PT Anderson in terms of camera and great cover by Fiona Apple.
very creative, perfect casting and fun cameo from Mr. Murray.
not as fun as the original HBO series.
2 sides review: Fun, kinetic and smart. Predictable and not violent enough.
Agreed. Tak Fujimoto is a brilliant cinematographer who is always under-appreciated and possibly not given enough high profile projects to work on.
four directors!!
Saw this years ago when it was playing at an Asian Film festival in New York. This is a great piece of independent filmmaking, in the same veins of Martin Scorcese and John Cassavettes of the seventies and eighties.
I had a lot of hopes for this one, but it's too contrived and comes off like a Moulin Rouge wannabe. The story is too convoluted and the cinematography is very inconsistent (due to having two cinematographers). The songs aren't moving and aren't as sweeping and grandiose as most musicals. I would've liked to see how this could've been handled by other filmmakers like Johnnie To or WKW.
She is the Judy Garland of Hong Kong cinema, maybe slightly classier.