A Hong Kong cinephile.
Favorite Films = the last four films I watched with a rating of 4.5-5★
Jean-Luc Godard’s sixth feature Contempt was his biggest film up to that point, an international co-production project with a large production budget and starring the biggest French star, namely Brigitte Bardot. It’s like a dream come true for Godard who had been fascinated by the Hollywood films and the ‘auteurs’ they labelled back when he was a film critic. But it turned out to be a production nightmare for Godard, the intrusion from the paparazzi and the interference of the…
Hirokazu Koreeda is easily my favourite director working today, I basically love most of his films and picking one Koreeda film to be my favourite is deemed impossible. Despite his latest film Monster does not fall immediately into the tight competition, it is still very close to the top, and I could see the potential of a higher rating after a rewatch when all the puzzle-solving mystery is deprioritised. Monster is Koreeda’s return to Japan after directing two foreign films (French and…
Run, Amiro, run. Orphan boy Amiro is not running to escape, nor running to win, he’s running to see how far he could go within, and perhaps one day beyond, the boundary of his underprivileged circumstances. He’s a boy of curiosity, temperament and vigor. The Runner is Iranian Amir Naderi’s semi-autobiographical retelling of his childhood, told through vignettes without a solid dramatic through line, yet it never lacks momentum.
The film is constituted by motions, the boys raced and followed…
I love the majority of Interstellar, all the hard science stuff and the thematic application of time and space overwhelms me. And when the emotional gut punch hits, it is brutal. But there are also many minor flaws, when added together, I just couldn’t ignore them and ultimately thwart me from fully embracing the film.
The emotional anchor for the audience as well as the main protagonist relies heavily on the father and daughter relationship, which is consistently confronted by…
I was speechless.
I am not a sporty person, I don’t even play basketball much, and not really a dedicated fan of Slam Dunk. I remembered watching some episodes of the anime when I was a child, but only till I was in high school did I catch up and finish the mange. I love the story and all the characters, and the ‘regret’ of the ending has transcended the entire series IMO. The last game between Shohoku and Sanno…
Added to: My 250 Favorite Films of All Time
Added to: Edward Yang Ranked
Ranked 93rd (32 critic votes, 9 director votes) in 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time Poll
The Rearward View of Life
Near the end of the film Yi Yi, there is a funeral, the little boy Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang) reads out the letter he wrote for his deceased grandma (Ruyun Tang), saying he would like to be a person of showing stuff others don't…