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Feb 5, 2010

"Down" Mashup of Top 25 Billboard Hits - Editing with cause

...made me smile.


:-)


Somehow, a little distillation of its crude, mash-up lyrics, a message can extracted: no need to worry when you're down, down, down. Enjoy!

Be happy always!
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Feb 2, 2010

My Secret, my Obsession, my Life! | Claire Denns on Ozu

... this is to publicize some of the hidden treasures kept in my dorm room...


From left to right: (1) A Biographical Dictionary of Film 3rd ed (1994) by David Thomson, (2) Research stuff, (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) My priceless film notebooks where my thoughts about certain films left untouched, includes my notes on local premiers of Filipino art films, (9) Breaking the Glass Armour (1988) by Kristin Thompson, (10) Poetics of Cinema (2007) by David Bordwell, (11) Journal 1 [2007 - 2008], (12) A New Cinema: French New Wave, collection of criticisms by Nouvelle Vague filmmakers, (13, 14) Bounded filmbooks (untitled), (15) The Filmmaker's Handbook by Steven Ascher and Edward Pincus, (16) American History/American Film edited by John O'Connor, (17) Film Script of Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game (1939) in English, (18) Masculinities by RW Connell, (19) The Classical Hollywood Cinema by Bordwell et al, (20) Film Art, 5th Ed by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, (21) Diary 2 [2008 - onwards], (22) Anatomy of Film 3rd ed. by Bernard Dick, (23, 24) Bounded film books [untitled].



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A Slice of my Chemical Engineering Life : (L-R) (1) New American Bible, mini-version, my most favorite version, (2, 3, 4) Blue feather notebooks for my majors, (5) Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics by SVA, (6) Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering by McCabe (7) Chemical Reaction Engineering by Levenspeil, (8) Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook 8th ed. by Robert Perry.


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My Life: (L-R) (1) Soul Mountain by Gai Xingjian, (2) The Age of Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre, (3) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man & Dubliners by James Joyce, (4) Ulysses by James Joyce, (5) The Waves by Virginia Woolf, (6) Mrs. Dalloway by Woolf, (7) My very old Concise Oxford Dictionary, (8) A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrund Russell.


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Some supplements: (L-R) (1) Brokeback Mountain Screenplay, (2) My new Film notebook, (3) Orson Welles Biography, (4) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, (5) My Starbucks Planner, (6) Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch, (7) Fact in Fiction by Joan Rockwell.


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from Stanford

Pulling an all-nighter, hope i don't look like a vegetable tomorrow! zzzzzzzzzzzz......

Ciao!
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Claire Dennis on Yasujiro Ozu.


I had the same reaction.

Ciao!
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Jan 31, 2010

BFI's TOKYO STORY (1953) Trailer

...gave me goosebumps...


With subtitles.

I've been meaning to watch this, but haven't got a chance. The BFI made it even greater. Enjoy!

Ciao!
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I have it! got it for $5.91 on a booksale last night.

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David Thomson said:
"The two things said about Setsuko Hara are that she was Ozu's favorite actress, and Garbo of Japan. Certainly she was Ozu's favorite --- she appeared in six films for him between 1949 and 1961, and they were close offscreen as well. And, like Garbo, she retired at the height of here popularity: in 1962, she announced that she had never enjoyed making films and secluded herself in an elegant suburb of Tokyo. She is still there, spending time with family and school friends and remaining an object of curiosity and affection of the public. Like Garbo, hara came to represent an ideal of womanliness, nobility and generosity."

--- from A Biographical Dictionary of Film, 3rd Ed. p 312

Setsuko Hara, immortalized in a celluloid by Ozu.

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Ciao!



Jan 29, 2010

I love David Lynch!

...his full-mouthed "bullshit" illustrates the totality of human experience...



Got it from Craig at Cinemasparagus

Okay! Just kidding! I love him for this! The AFI Interview is a total LOL, i wonder how the interviewer felt. Watch the next video!


His response to the questions re: "bullshit!"

Have a nice day!

Ciao!
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SUNDANCE 2010 | Twitter Activated

...Jan 21 - 31, 2010, at Park City, Utah

Catch 'em now or never, Sundance will close this Sunday.


Sooo many films to watch...

Go!

Ciao!
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Add me on Twitter guys! I hope i can use their mobile thingy here in the Philippines!
It seems unavailable. here.


Ciao!
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Jan 24, 2010

Beau Travail (1999 or 2000)

... a certain amount of incredible flexibility

Sentain.

I have to admit, the driving force of Claire Denis' Beau Travail (1999) comes from somewhere else. Has there been a collision with nature? What form is she trying to suggest? What are her materials for building such a film with grace and poetry?


Let it be for Galoup!
Ciao!
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