Showing posts with label Moving Images. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moving Images. Show all posts

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Am I in Hk?14.03.2010

Watching "night and fog" by Alain Resnais on one misty sunday
nite. My heart sinkened when I passed through central. Once I stepped
from star ferry and walked towards central, it was a large piece of
reclamation land with construction machines and cargos
Where is the coastline?

I couldn't stop relating what I saw in the film: Construction site and
cargos look like dormitory blocks in the camp.
The misty air / polluted air looks like the poisoned gas.
People are marginalized to the outskirts of new territory.
Our life are controlled by the land developers.

People working here thought they work for liberty and freedom but in
fact they may not realize they are working hard just to earn enough
money and get the entrance ticket into the system.

I couldn't keep thinking,
Are we living in the invisible -live concentration camp?

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Kino



每年十一月份,總會想起歌德的Max電影節。
開幕電影及opening party總是影迷、
藝術圈中盛事!去年和今年亦設有免費戶外放影。
在fringe club的天台放影着精選短片,觀眾隨意走動、拿着飲品、
遇見友人可邊談邊看,整個氣氛十分casual、舒服!在秋高氣爽
的晚上舉行,感覺十分良好!自從上年第一次參與後便愛上了!
註:Max今年改名為kino,更設合電影節的德文原意。

Sunday, May 04, 2008

The 11th Hour




想看 inconvenient truth 已有一段時間 。朋友再次提及此片,終於在hmv買回來看,hmv哥哥還介紹了由 Leonardo Dicaprio 監製的 The 11th Hour紀錄片給我。
一連看兩套環保 documentary,心裏並不好受。如果想把生活現狀改變,一切唯有從自身開始。片中的一位專家曾說: " living in slow and frugality"… 慢慢感受生活、足夠便可;與其不斷從大自然中拿取資源,也許應學會懂得與大自然為友並建立 give and take 的關係…

Monday, August 20, 2007

The Man From London


《倫敦來客》是匈牙利導演 Béla Tarr 零七年最新作品。這是第三次看他的作品。還記得兩年前也是在Agnes b CINEMA!看過他的《撒旦探戈》Sátántangó (1994) ,片長七小時,幸好從辦公室拿來坐墊還與友人作伴,恐防集中力不夠便打瞌睡…他的電影真是不容易看,長鏡頭、節奏緩慢、就像一幅巨形拼圖,觀眾需要耐心地把人、事、物拼湊一起。

《倫敦來客》也是如此,不過是一個偵探小說故事,相比《殘缺的和聲》Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)和《撒旦探戈》我所看過的前兩部作品,來得比較容易消化。
欣賞他的簡約 —影片前段只有數句對白,充份運用影像說故事,;
欣賞他的長鏡頭 —給予觀眾空間,把故事慢慢連接起來;
欣賞他的節奏 —對於習慣了「速戰速決」、「即食」影像的觀眾在觀賞習慣上來個沖擊;
不過,這幾種元素一旦失去平衡,便會失了重心,變得鬆散…
他的作品如在大銀幕放映的話,我仍會把握機會看,不過說不上十分喜歡…
太沈重了,有點受不了…

《殘缺的和聲》的尾段,令我感動的一幕,沈重的一段…

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Zabriskie Point

安東尼奧離開了,
很想寫一些對他的作品感想,
很想重看他所有作品,再次認識他…
今晚,想起這套他唯一的美國電影 Zabriskie Point (1970)
想起一些零碎片段…
這是電影的尾段,Pink Floyd的音樂,震撼的場面…

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

六四的殘留影像

那年十一
吾爾開希穿着puma睡衣在馬路上示威
柴玲帶病虛弱的聲線
血染的風彩、一無所有、龍的傳人
電視上新聞報導員穿着黑衣,心情沈重强忍淚水冷靜地報導着
外面充滿坦克車槍聲尖叫聲驚恐哭叫
電話說着我們爬上公廁躲避人群解放軍
最後太危儉,放棄報導
電視通宵報導,片段重複着
解放軍於清晨進入
混亂過後是平靜
不知天安門的情況
廣場上的揚聲器
沒有人
只見雜物帳幕隨處散着
沒有一個人死慯?
說着全世界連小五六也分辨到的大謊話
隨着在報紙相片錄像看到的更不需說吧
逃忙審查坐監軟禁…
某年初步天安門,看見了毛主席的相片
也記起了那天從黃昏到清晨的在電視看到的
中間新聞看不到的
在這刻
像看到了感受到了
忘記了星期一是六四
那天的六月四日代表一個死線
和一個重要的會議
轉眼,不覺已經十八年

Friday, May 18, 2007

weddings and a funeral plus etc

...8am - helped my u mate for online wedding registration...
...8pm - attended a furneral ...
...someone just gave birth to her first child...
... someone is waiting for the medical report...
... a farewell to my colleague ...
... a meet up with some long lost friends...
... a beginning (also the end)of a relationship...
...just happened within one day /week ...

dunno y, it makes me think of an old movie "Four weddings and a funeral" , which is back in 1994. From there , i recall this beautiful poem ,just google and you can find it easily...

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

-- W.H. Auden

According to the information, this poem was first published as "Song IX" from 'Twelve Songs' (1936); reprinted under the present title in 'Tell me the Truth about Love' (1976)

What ? 1936 ? cant imagine this poem was written at that time, as it still sounds
" modern" to me ...well maybe a slight change to some lines...
Stop all the mobile , cut off the msn/internet(pls forgive me as i am ruining the poem)...

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

300



300
是一部喜出望外的電影。
古裝戰爭片並不是我杯茶,
不是朋友的邀請陪伴,也不會到戲院看,也不會買dvd。
改編自美國漫畫家 Frank Miller (Sin City)的作品,電影講述三百戰士敵百萬大軍。
Sin City已經很暴力血腥,此部還更甚,但非常精緻 — 從場景、服裝、音樂…
也是精心製作。
我最喜歡是基本的人物設計,每個戰士各有性格,
記不起他的名字也記得他們的故事…演技非常專業!
場景設計更是超於現實,真的要向荷李活big budget片致敬!
只有這樣的大製作才能做到令人讚嘆的場面…
及感受到只有在大銀幕下看才能品嚐電光幻影的魅力。

記得" love actually " 中的辦工室靚仔嗎?
他的名字叫Rodrigo Santoro,有非常出人意表的演出!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

《頤和園》--導演:婁燁


今天,感動了。
在這裡,不是工作了,
而是多年前在這裡曾有過的 …
遺失了很久的感覺…回到身邊
今天所看到的,在攝錄機鏡頭下的流動影像…
因社會道德、政治問題而被刪剪、禁播 …
在這裡, 因為它特殊的位置,
在大銀幕下與一群饑渴的大眾,齊看著它…
感受它的力量…

今個月令我感動的電影也是在這裡看到的…
《頤和園》中男女主角講述這段跨越中國近代政治經濟改革時段、藕斷絲蓮、糾纏不清的(三角/四角?)感情關係。
女主角余紅 那種對感情" 把持不定、既不願投入又放不低、害怕受傷" 的任性態度。「我要與你分開了,因我知道我將不能離開你」(lets break up, cos i know i can never leave you)* 。 尋求性慾上的滿足和短暫的 " companionship"來代替失去的愛情,受傷害的以為只是肉體軀殼,但肉體和精神的步伐卻並不一致,把自己在精神上推向崩潰邊沿。

兩女一男雖經歷時代的變化, 身在不同環境,關係仍糾纏不清直到其中一方退出了,

對方再次碰上,

現在又怎樣了?」*
一切已無可挽留,昔日的情感隨時間不覺間已變了大家美化了的、理想化的回憶…

導演婁燁那種不拘束獨特的hand held 拍攝手法及具節奏性的剪接,與男女主角的性格及整套電影發生了一種奇妙的關係 。
太多感覺了,只能盡量有組織地把它寫下來…
很喜歡這套電影了,深信有更多人把它在更廣闊的網上討論。
期侍 導演婁燁五年後的新作 (用五年作為處罰真可笑,創作力能用年月來衡量嗎?)

* (對白大約的意思、因普通話不靈)

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Babel


Babel

The film looks very simple but it is not at all.

i keep thinking about it , trying to gather all fragments piece by piece, finding connections between them.

not only the linkage between four stories but also linkage within each story itself.

between parents and children ; couple ; family...

Four stories, four families can be seen as " unity" indivdually but what lacking between them is the coummication and understanding which cannot express in words.However, when it comes to the " breaking point", it bursted out into irrational behaviour ...

The Film title " Babel" already speaks for itself

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Babel: n. 1. In the Bible, a famous tower built by a united humanity to reach toward heaven, causing God in his anger to make each person involved speak different languages, halting the project and scattering a confused and disconnected people across the planet.

official website: http://www.paramountvantage.com/babel/

Director's interview: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/films/fiche_film.php?langue=6002&id_film=4352770

Sunday, December 10, 2006

父子


After This ... R and i went straight to TST and had 2 pints of beer immediately.
I guess we all felt the same, this film was so "heavy" that we couldnt breath after 160mins.
This unbearable heaviness generates from the simple realistic yet structured narrative specially arranged by the director.It makes me think about L'Argent (1983) by Bresson & The Bicycle Thief (1948) by Vittorio De Sica.(No Offense to the director! , just feel " After" is as powerful as those master works and cant believe i can still able to see it ... esp by the Hong Kong director )

Within a week, i travelled through the rich imaginative world from " the science of sleep" to the " realistic-down-to-earth" life in " After this our Exile".How wonderful to witness different film styles, both are powerful!

Thursday, November 30, 2006

old and new


everyone is talking about the close of the cin-art today, i took a half day off and went to IFC for a new release of a film...

everyone starts to treasure or to realize the importance of things/ppl when they start to lose it...

instead of reminisces the past, maybe we should look forward and examine why we will lose it in the first place...

dont blame the change of viewing practise from cinema to dvd/cv or illeagal download ; ppl like to spend their money on other enterainment... these are just a bunch of old excuses....

how about using new maketing strategy to reach mass public... ... ? its not an easy answer ....

Just start thinking..think big..think the impossible and make it happen..like the character in " The Science of Sleep". Havent been in Cinema for a while , glad to catch a good one..




Saturday, November 18, 2006

a moment to remember...



Ting the dreamer posted a piece of wise word from Krishnamurti on the topic of "What is Love".i keep rethinking about it these days. " can i really do it?" " when can i achieve this state of mind?"

um, watching pairs of old couple dancing thru the jazzy nite, this is the moment where i can feel the meaning of "true love" which cannot discribe in word