DELICATE CRIME (2005)
Brazil 87 minutes
Directed by Beto Brant
Written by Marcal Aquino, Marco Ricca, Beto Brant
Based on a novel by Sergio Sant”Anna
Cast:
Marco Ricca, Lilian Taublib, Felipe Ehrenberg, Maria Mandella
Director Beto Brant weaves together a complex trio of characters who collide in a web of passion, control and manipulation.
THE WAYWARD CLOUD (2005)
Taiwan/France 112 minutes
Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang
“The most audacious film to date from the visionary director Tsai Ming-Liang.” [SFiFF Program Guide]
I won”t say that there was a story to The Wayward Cloud; there were scenes. Often the scenes were shot with a fixed camera, people moving within the frame—or moving in and out of the frame—and sometimes no people at all for minutes at a time, causing a palpable anticipation. We”re usually in a tall apartment building in Taipei, Taiwan, in an apartment, in the hallways, in the elevator, in the stairwell. A few scenes are outside the building; and the musical scenes are in fantasyland.
ALL ABOUT LOVE (2005)
Hong Kong 96 minutes
Directed by Daniel Yu, Written by Daniel Yu, Lee Hong Loh
Genre: Drama /Romance
Cast:
Andy Lau …. Ko/Derek
Charlie Yeung …. Tse Yuen Sam
Charlene Choi …. Zi Qing
This was the North American Premier of All About Love. The Director, Daniel Yu and star, Andy Lau did a Q&A after.
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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
A few weeks ago, Brad (Kelly’s brother, the restaurateur) emailed me and suggested we go over to Augusta for one or two practice rounds. I had always been under the impression that even practice tickets were allocated,that’s turns out to be true, but despite the lottery distribution, there are plenty being sold on the streets into the course. Who knew? Brad did, and he convinced me that it was a given that we would have no problem buying them (shades of my boast for the 1986 Super Bowl in Pasadena, Marcus?). He said they”d go for $100 each, but if I was OK with that, we”d plan to go. We cleared our respective calendars for the target days.
This past Monday afternoon, Kelly forwarded me an email from her boss asking “Does anybody want my Masters practice tickets for this year? I can”t go,”. How fast did I call him? Right. Got them. SWEET!
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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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