quick reports:
lower city - pretty great. gripping love triangle set in brazil. the actress, alice braga (niece of sonia braga) was there for the q&a, and was nice and engaging, and managed to take even the stupidest questions and make them into interesting topics. hmc remarked, “she has really nice breasts.”
the glamorous life of sachiko hanai - it’s interesting how porn is funny to people until it crosses this invisible cultural line, which in this case is a depiction of rape. this is a pretty common porn fantasy in japanese, and here as well, although much less socially “acceptable” than it is there. sure, it’s hilarious to people when the hooker keeps getting fucked by the cloned finger of george w. bush (which takes forever to twist out of a lipstick case!), but when the bad guy rapes a housewife, it’s not funny anymore.
the eagle - what do you say about the 1925 rudolph valentino silent film screened with a live soundtrack performance, except that IT’S FANTASTIC. why this wasn’t sold out, i’ll never know.
the wayward cloud - for our second porn film in two days, it’s the new work from taiwanese director tsai ming-liang, who’s done two of my favorite ones, the hole and what time is it there?, and one of my hated ones, good bye, dragon inn. how can i describe this? it’s like lost in translation, if it was a porn film with really big musical numbers and a watermelon fetish. that about sums it up.
i would have seen more, but i opted to stay at home during the daytime to watch the opening weekend of the nba playoffs and watch the important parts of 7 out of 8 games. hallelujah!
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