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Tue, Jan. 27th, 2004
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Tue, Jan. 27th, 2004 05:57 pmI was going to write up a big depressing post on work, but instead:
Squee! Johnny Depp was nominated for Best Actor!!! Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider!!!
Am I mean and petty when I am kind of glad Last Samurai and Cold Mountain didn't get that much?
The others were more expected, although there was a lot more of Seabiscuit than I thought.
Sadly, I have no idea what's going on with the primaries. I am a bad citizen. But the Oscars, see, the Oscars excite me ;).
Squee! Johnny Depp was nominated for Best Actor!!! Keisha Castle-Hughes for Whale Rider!!!
Am I mean and petty when I am kind of glad Last Samurai and Cold Mountain didn't get that much?
The others were more expected, although there was a lot more of Seabiscuit than I thought.
Sadly, I have no idea what's going on with the primaries. I am a bad citizen. But the Oscars, see, the Oscars excite me ;).
We went to watch Tokyo Godfathers in Berkeley on Sunday, the newest movie from Satoshi Kon (Kon Satoshi? I think Kon is the surname, but I'm not sure). He also did Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress (Sennen Joyuu), but I've only seen Perfect Blue. I had to kind of check around online to see if I wanted to watch it, because I was sad and homesick and Perfect Blue isn't exactly the most happy or optimistic or even sanest movie around. Haven't seen Millennium Actress either, but anyhow, the summary of Tokyo Godfathers looked pretty safe.
Anyhow, it was a really fun movie. ( Tokyo Godfathers )
Tonight the boy and I watched Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou. I have to look up what he did -- I keep getting him mixed up with Chen Kaige since they came from the same class of directors in the seventies. Ok, courtesy of IMDB: he did Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern and To Live, all with Gong Li. Anyhow, Hero is an absolutely gorgeous movie. I swear, it should have won some sort of award in cinematography at least, and it could have had the stupidest plot in the world and I probably would have watched it several times just for the visuals. I like to pretend that Zhang Yimou made it because Ang Lee was getting so many kudos for Crouching Tiger and Zhang Yimou wanted to make a really Chinese martial arts movie. Well, the story for Crouching Tiger is more typically martial arts, seeing how it was taken from the most famous writer of martial arts stories' book. But Hero has got the whole historical background, cool politics going for it.
( More on Hero )
( Little quibble, with spoilers )
Anyhow, it was a really fun movie. ( Tokyo Godfathers )
Tonight the boy and I watched Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou. I have to look up what he did -- I keep getting him mixed up with Chen Kaige since they came from the same class of directors in the seventies. Ok, courtesy of IMDB: he did Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern and To Live, all with Gong Li. Anyhow, Hero is an absolutely gorgeous movie. I swear, it should have won some sort of award in cinematography at least, and it could have had the stupidest plot in the world and I probably would have watched it several times just for the visuals. I like to pretend that Zhang Yimou made it because Ang Lee was getting so many kudos for Crouching Tiger and Zhang Yimou wanted to make a really Chinese martial arts movie. Well, the story for Crouching Tiger is more typically martial arts, seeing how it was taken from the most famous writer of martial arts stories' book. But Hero has got the whole historical background, cool politics going for it.
( More on Hero )
( Little quibble, with spoilers )