When I heard that today is famous French actor Michel Piccoli‘s 87th birthday, my first reaction was “What? He’s that old?”. Then I remembered that he had a cameo in the most controversial film of the year – Leos Carax’s Holy Motors, he played the boss who only appeared very briefly in a limousine scene, it was […]
Year: 2012
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10 Best European Movies – 2012 Roundup Three
Things are getting tough today, I have to choose 10 from the 70 plus European films I’ve seen this year. Ask me tomorrow, it would be a different list. 10. Naked dir. Mike Leigh A one-word title will suffice to describe this bleak and brutal London underbelly tale. I instantly fell in love with the David […]
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10 Best Asian Movies – 2012 Roundup Two
Today I will look back at the 10 best Asian movies I’ve watched in 2012. No Chinese movies will be included since I just composed a list yesterday. 10. Secret Sunshine dir. Lee Chang-dong According to Lee in the interview, the movie is not about religion but about the struggle of an ordinary person who fails […]
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10 Best Chinese Movies – 2012 Roundup One
From today I will embark upon my 2012 roundup series that will include all the terrific films I have watched in the calender year of 2012. Hopefully these roundup lists would be useful for you as good recommendations. Let’s begin with the best Chinese movies I saw this year. After watching 20-plus Chinese movies within […]
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December Film Recommendations
Since I’m gonna do a 2012 roundup series on this blog for the rest of December, the film recommendation of this month’s edition is earlier than last month.BUT I have more good film to recommend this time. ★★★★★ Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters This is a film Paul Schrader was born to make, […]
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Top 100 Films on Taste of Cinema
I made a top 100 favorite film list back in March this year to mark my 50th post. Now nine months have passed, and the posts on Taste of Cinema have reached 200,it is the time to adjust this “ever-changing” epic list. Ten changes have been made from the old list, that’s ten films dropped […]