must-see films

Zero Dark Thirty

Django - Yay! New Tarantino Film!

The Hobbit 

the master and the perks of being a wallflower

I am very curious about Paul Thomas Anderson's controversial film "The Master." I hope it will be shown here in SG. Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Freddie Quell, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, who plays Dodd, the leader of a philosophical movement called "The Cause", are very convincing in their respective roles. It seems like a solidly engrossing and powerfully acted film.

On the lighter-hearted side of things, i've seen "The Perks of Being a Wallflower." Of course, the book is better than the on-screen, but seeing Charlie and friends come to life is fun and enjoying to behold.

"Be aggressive, be passive aggressive!"

films

Awesome movies i've seen recently...

Drive

Another Gosling film because i love Gosling:

Lars and the Real Girl

The new Wes Anderson film:

Moonrise Kingdom

Planning to see:

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Mediterraneo

Rurouni Kenshin

more about the Samurai X film

*photos used from google images

That awkward moment

... when somebody sends a youtube link of an old interview of random artists in an exhibit

and then suddenly, your own face appears in the middle of it.

*PALM-FACE*

I remember how difficult it was to think of words to say on-the-spot.

Some embarrassments in life immortalized on social media, hahah.

Hayao Miyazaki

Favorite Hayao Miyazaki films in my collection:

Spirited Away

Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, 2001

My Neighbor Totoro

Tonari no Totoro, 1988

Princess Mononoke

Mononoke-hime, 1997

Ponyo

Gake no Ue no Ponyo, 2008

The Cat Returns

Neko no Ongaeshi, 2002

Whisper of the Heart

Mimi o Sumaseba, 1995

How's Moving Castle

Hauru no Ugoku Shiro, 2004

Kiki's Delivery Service

Majo no Takkyūbin, 1989

I want to watch more Hayao films. But i couldn't find copies anymore.

Japanese films

Seven Samurai

Shichinin no Samurai, 1954

A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies

Mari To Koinu No Mongatari, 2007

Achilles and the Tortoise

Akiresu To Kame, 2008

Azumi, 2003

A Clash of Kings

Varys: I’ve always hated the bells. They ring for horror, a dead king, a city under siege. 
Tyrion: A wedding. 
Varys: Exactly.

Rings a bell? Ah-huh. To cut the story short, the Game of Thrones Season 2 ruined our lives. Boni Compound will never be the same again. I already saw episodes 1 to 7, but for the sake of my friends' sanity (and mine), i went through with them from the start. We started at noon and finished around midnight (snack and peepee breaks included). We continued on the next day for the season finale. Take that, television marathoners!

To Beejay and Sandy.. cheers on waiting for season 3 and our sanity! 

*image and gif from tumblr

salvador dali x walt disney

What happens when two of the world’s geniuses, a surrealist and an animator, collaborate on a short film? A surreal but long-lasting friendship and one of the cinema's oddest but best collaborations of all time.

Destino is unique in that its production originally began in 1945, 58 years before its eventual completion. The project was originally a collaboration between American animator Walt Disney and Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí, and features music written by Mexican songwriter Armando Dominguez and performed by Dora Luz. Now, 57 years later, a team of Disney animators has finished what Dalí started. The six-minute film, spearheaded by Walt's nephew Roy E. Disney and producer Baker Bloodworth (Dinosaur).

Farewell Maurice

"I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smart ass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it." ~ Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012)

Farewell Maurice. Here's to a wild rumpus.

Hideaway

Rumpus Reprise

drive-in cinemas

I still want to experience a real drive-in film viewing and satisfy the deoxyribonucleic part of me that belongs to a different era.

"Drive-In Movie Theatres" is a black and white series by the Connecticut-based photographer Carl Weese documenting much forgotten relics of 1950s cinema. {source}

films of the week

Inglorious Basterds

Midnight in Paris

The Artist

Anonymous

carpe diem

Long live the glory of the betamax days! This film will forever seize a special spot in my life.

:)

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is full of passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do.”

—  Dead Poet’s Society (1989)

{clip of one of my fave scenes; and a nostalgic soundtrack)

Carpe Diem. Sieze the day. Make your lives extraordinary. 

{images from google and tumblr}

of men

Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless

Gattaca

Detroit Rock City

The Hottest State

{films seen and liked; images from google and tumblr}

love affair

Reality Bites

Restless

TheYoung Victoria

The Science of Sleep


Above films are what i've seen last week (a good omen that the dark age is over hahah).
*Note: I'd like to watch this film. I hope to see this after the Internationale Filmfestspiele Berline
opens this year, among other interesting ones, too.
{trailer}

*images from google & tumblr