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A Matter of Life and Death 1946
It's brilliant and maybe I'll write more later, but I feel like it must be said the film's final trial, which briefly becomes a treatise on relations between England and America, is conducted by Roger Livesey, a Welshman, and Raymond Massey, a Canadian.
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Taipei Story 1985
"It cannot be said that Taipei is a modern and Western-style city, in the same way that one could affirm this of Shanghai, for example. Rather it is an example of some generally late-capitalist urbanization (which one hesitates, except to make the point, to call postmodern), of a now classic proliferation of the urban fabric that one finds everywhere in the First and Third Worlds alike." - Frederick Jameson, The Geopolitical Aesthetic
"How was Los Angeles?"
"It's just like Taipei."… -
Kicking and Screaming 1995
This is pretty much my life right now. No, not hooking up with Parker Posey, but the post-graduating living with your parents, jerking off every day, being unemployed, and getting drunk as much as possible hits so close to home. Also, it's really funny. I'm not sure how I'm going to go back to Rohmer for my talky sad comedies when Chris Eigeman isn't there.