PERPETUAL MOTION (2005)
China 90 minutes
Directed by Ning Ying, Written by Ning Ying, Liu Sola, Hung Huang
Cast: Hung Huang, Liu Sola, Li Qingin, Ping Yanni, Zhang Hanzhi
Perpetual Motion was introduced as “a sassy film” and indeed, it started off with a bang.
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Last summer my friend Michael leveled with us: “You GOTTA get a better toilet…” He would know, because he builds houses for a living. We knew that our main toilet sometimes had trouble “processing batches,” but I thought that might have more to do with the drain pipe plumbing not providing the appropriate amount of action to pull things through. “No,” Michael assured us. “Your toilet sucks. Any modern low-flow model would beat the shit out of yours.” Literally, I suppose.
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HARD CANDY (2005)
Directed by David Slade, Written by Brian Nelson
Genre: Drama /Thriller
Plot Outline: A provocative drama about a 32-year-old man who takes home a 14-year-old girl he meets on the Internet–with surprising consequences.
Credited cast:
Patrick Wilson …. Jeff Kohlver
Ellen Page …. Hayley Stark
Sandra Oh …. Judy Tokuda
Jennifer Holmes …. Janelle Rogers
MPAA :Rated R for disturbing violent and aberrant sexual content involving a teen, and for language. Runtime: USA:103 min
Hard Candy was at Sundance last year and was picked up for distribution by Lion’s Gate. This film was a pre-festival freebie. The Director, David Slade and principal actress, Ellen Page did a Q&A after.
Awesome.
Hard Candy opens in San Francisco April 28, 2006
EDEN (2006)
Written and Directed by Michael Hofmann
Credited cast:
Josef Ostendorf …. Gregor
Charlotte Roche …. Eden
Devid Striesow …. Xaver
Runtime: 98 min
Country: Germany /Switzerland
Language: German
Eden has been released in Europe and is playing at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) in its North American Premier. I saw it as a bonus for the SFIFF volunteers on Orientation Day. The Program Director who introduced it called it “A culinary story of the power of love.”
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Marc had a question that I think other Rectors might be interested in:
What’s the name and the spelling of the first thing you’re served at a fancy restaurant, complements of the chef?
–dad
Below are a group of photos forwarded to me by our friend Kareem who sometimes works in Paris (he composes and arranges film scores –among other music projects — check out his latest effort for a film called “Encounter Point” that was recently shown at the Tribeca film fest, and will be shown at the SF Intl Film Fest May 1 and 3):
April In Paris…
…well… at least the hotel rates will be cheap.
These are some photos from my friend Bruce who lives
there.Kareem
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Subject: FW: boulevard Saint Michel
From: “Bruce”
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 08:44:11 +0200
To: “Bruce”Sorry if I sent these already. Just thought you might be interested. These
pictures were taken by a friend (of a friend) of mine who is a photographer
for the Associated Press in Paris.
All of these photos (layed out in no particular order that I can tell) were labeled “Boulevard Saint Michel” and a few were also labeled “Saturday” which I assume indicates the location and date of the images.
Can you fill us in, Bro?
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From the 2005 Game:
We all get the list of the top ten ranked players at the tournament, and then pick the number of shots behind the winner that each of the “usual suspects” will wind up (with zero indicating your pick to win). Points are based on the difference between your pick, and the actual figure at the end of the final round. Winning player is the one with the fewest points (i.e. most accurate guesses). Players missing the cut are assigned 10 points…likewise, if you think a player will miss the cut, assign him a 10
Following are the top ten players in World Rankings according to ESPN as of Monday:
1 Tiger Woods
2 Vijay Singh
3 Retief Goosen
4 Phil Mickelson
5 Ernie Els
6 Sergio Garcia
7 Jim Furyk
8 David Toms
9 Luke Donald
10 Chris DiMarco
Post your picks as comments below; for BONUS, pick a player ranked 20 or lower in the world who will be in the final top ten.
–E
Results after the Link:
Dinner Club + Sue at Oliveto
The left coast branch of Rectors and those with a few degrees of separation, convene occasionally to try new restaurants, revisit certain favorites, or even partake of one another’s cooking and hospitality. We like this.
Sue Berard, Eric’s mother-in-law, was in town recently so we dragged her along for a Dinner Club at Oliveto, in the toney Rockridge section of Oakland. Carol and I had been there, with Eric; I think about the time Paul Bertolli, the original chef/owner was passing the spoon to Paul Canales, the current chef. Paul Bertolli, who was the original chef at Chez Panisse, is now focused on his new salumi business, Fra”Mani. National distribution should begin this spring or summer, so keep an eye out for it.
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Carol gave me this dog comb thing for Christmas. She said it was supposed to massage my dog, and pamper him while I freed my home of wandering dog hair. It seems to work! Thank you Carol. love Corky
There’s a stark black screen with two bright white, luminous, almost pulsating, roundish images where eyes would be if the screen were a face. The titles come in to the lower left in a fat serif typeface. Daylight comes swiftly and the white images become blue sky through openings in a rock formation of Monument Valley, Utah. It’s the kind of photograph Wim Wenders might include in one of his photography books of the West. The camera slowly pans around 360 °and then tilts downward to expose an ugly array of white trailers, booms and trolleys of a movie setup. A horse with rider gallops at speed out of the valley, up an incline through the red rock and disappears over the horizon. That is Howard Spence (Sam Shepard), an over the hill movie star cowboy, coming off a binge of drugs, booze and debauchery. Two whores are still in his trailer.
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