Supposedly he was paid a cool million for that commentary. Worth every penny.
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Raul Julia and Sonia Braga as East Germans is one of the most WTF decisions in a movie full of them.
Esther Eng (a pioneering Chinese American director who worked in both Hong Kong and the U.S.) left the industry and eventually opened five restaurants in Manhattan, one of which (Bo Bo Cafe) became something of an institution. She passed away long ago and I don't think any of her restaurants stuck around. Cecile Tang…
The Swordsman is good but is pretty disjointed IMO. I guess that's inevitable when you have a half-dozen directors on a two-hour film, but it's also a pretty common problem with Jin Yong movies, which at times can feel a bit like Kung-Fu Master and other dodgy direct-to-video movies cut down from much longer TV…
The version I see on AMC and such these days actually uses alternate takes where Ray calls him "Wally Wick" instead of "dickless" and Venkman says "this man is some kind of rodent, I don't know which one." It doesn't work for me because I have no idea who "Wally Wick" is (neither does anyone else, judging from Google)…
It's not just S&M play, she actually rapes him. I guess after Tightrope it shouldn't have been that surprising, but then nobody remembers Tightrope, so…
I'm seeing this tonight and I didn't really have a clue what to expect. Reading this I'm feeling a lot better about the amount of money I shelled out for it.
Douban has at least minimal information (director, screenwriters, main cast) on most Chinese-language films, but it's not especially English-friendly. Ditto Mtime, which can be more comprehensive for some films (e.g. listing secondary cast and crew and also connecting actors with their character names).
The wolf, the lizard, and the monkey say, "Because we're sad"
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure it's public domain in the U.S., though just barely—the term of protection for works created but not registered or published before 1978 (and whose authors died after 1932) is life of the author plus seventy years, and Wells died in August 1946. It won't be public domain in the UK until 2040.
Looking at the domestic films that are playing in China now, at least seven (the horror films Soul House and Bridge in Clouds, a romcom called Min & Max, the comedy Lost in Vietnam, Hong Kong co-production Poor Rich Dad, and the wartime dramas Life and Death in 96 Hours and The Elegy) have no IMDb entries at all that…
And Chen, though he has almost no prior career as an actor (one previous film appearance in 2008)…
A Talking Goat!?!
I saw Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton on a double bill with the (not-Canadian) Bitter Lake. It consists partly of Guy Maddin whining that Paul Gross gets so much more money than he does, but beyond that it's hard to describe; the best I can do is to call it a semi-ironic exploration of Canadianness in the guise of a…
Nostalgia has blinded a lot of us to what an ineffective leader Mayor McCheese actually was.
They belonged to Kevin Cloud, apparently. I assume they still do.
For me the entire appeal of the comic is in lingering over the insanely detailed art. I don't really see how that can carry over to a film.
Since the last time I commented on one of these (I missed last week's), we held our city's hopefully-annual Asian American film festival. I was on the programming team, where my duties consisted largely of watching dozens of solicited Chinese and Taiwanese films, almost none with any chance of getting in either…
Monster Trucks will be in theaters on January 13, 2017, though we recommend giving it a week and going on January 20 instead.