Whelming and uneven, but its technical generosity along with some transparency within genre subject matter from Mainland China is refreshing, especially during what can only be called a lull of independent voices as of late.
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Bunco Squad 1950
Could have used Turhan Bey in a turban, but what exotic con-game movie couldn't? I'm not sure it was designed to be as much fun as it has become over the decades, but we should be grateful to find fun anywhere I suppose, even in Bunco Squad. 1950 Los Angeles locations are a prize attraction, seconded only by the gorgeous '40's cars and the Rama Society set decor. Has an informal touch of Ed Wood to it, which I mean in a good way.
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All About Lily Chou-Chou 2001
Teddy bears and semi-hard dicks and kites and bullies and the school nurse fanning an under-worked imagination, and emo pianos and thin soporific voices and let's take a dreamy vacation and vomit on the floor and piss from the bridge and break shit and look stupefied for years and hold a green apple and sing like little angels and get all video camera saturated and digital camera misty and forget where we are and follow cul de sacs into nowhere…
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The Merchant of Four Seasons 1971
I don't believe anyone has the right to comment on this film with any possibility of authority unless that person realizes (even if hidden from view) that he or she is a pig. Me, I'm something of a pig, but unfortunately don't have any faith that anything I say will help us out of our universal barnyard predicament, but I can recommend this film very highly to those who think too much, take long walks alone through the city parks,…