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Watched Transformers Digital version with my friend, XY at The Cathay.

This digital projection version costs us $7.00 each. According to him, it is clearer than the analog one he watched 4 days ago, in terms of graphical resolution and sound effects.

Live action film! Catch it at the cinema, of course, unless you have a really powerful audio / home theater system.

I then came to know that digital version is a type of video recording system that works by using a digital, rather than analog, representation of the video signal.

Quote Wikipedia,

Digital video was first introduced in 1983 with the Sony D-1 format, which recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the high-band analog forms that had been commonplace until then.

I guess given a choice, you will opt for the digital projection version.

Just finished watching The Lin Family’s Shop 林家铺子 DVD. This film was adopted from the same title chinese classic written by Mao Dun 茅盾.

Simple introduction by PRCmovie.com:

n 1930s, many small businesses had a hard time surviving with the confusion generated by the political uncertainty of the time. Whose law is to be followed, the Japanese occupation forces or the bureaucrat nationalist government? Lin, who owns a family shop, racks his brain to save himself from bankruptcy. He tries everything, even cheats a poor widow out of the meager saving she deposited in his store, but finally loses everything.

Produced in 1959 and of course, this film is a resemble of the 30s in China. The sad episode at the end of story describes the harsh reality of that era’s society, on how constrain or repress one’s emotions can be, when facing it.

This film won the Special Jury Prize at the 12th Fegladafuz International Film Festival, Portugal in 1983.

Just finsihed watching Sayew.

This movie tries to explore adolescent sexual confusion and the historical moment in the early 1990s when an entire sector of the Thai yellow press went into eclipse.

The story goes as follows:

Tomboy student Tao (Pimpaporn) supports her studies by writing for her uncle’s racy magazine ‘Sayew’ (’Tickle’), but faces the sack unless she can sex up her prose to help fend off the challenge from glossy ‘adult’ photo mags.

Some site reviews that:

The film hits a viable balance between caricature and satire in its double-edged ‘tribute’ to yesterday’s porn. Without belabouring the political context, the directors have set the film just before the 1992 ‘Black May’ incident, in which the army violently attacked pro-democracy demonstrators: a time of economic difficulty when, they note, ‘everybody suffered stress’

TV is publicizing Jack Neo’s latest movie, One More Chance. Any more new jokes that resemble something to excite our mind? That’s the first thought of mine.

I missed his 2005 chinese new year film, “I Do I Do”. I am deeply dissapointed with “home run”, which I am tired with the “mature dialogue” from the mouth of a group of kids.

Go back to his old genre again hah, like Money No Enough (1998), Liang Po Po: The Movie (1999), That One Not Enough (1998)…

Catching it in cinema, I must think first. For synopsis, go here.

It’s great watching Ong-Bak, esspecially every shot without stunt. You feel the purist and originalist in it. The crowd in the cinema cheered and atmosphere was intermixing between amazing and hilarious. The film blends Khao San Road bustling feeling experience and tuk-tuks chasing, and this bring the audience to Thailand.

Another Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan in making? Wow!

After a long wait, now comes Ong-Bak 2, known as Tom-Yum-Goong (Spicy Prawn Soup).

Looking forward to this!

The long awaiting finally over. I have watched the Star Wars Episode III.

The whole picture become so clear at last, with the unveiling on how Darth Vader gets his mask. You can read more about his injuries.

Too tired, may the force be with me.

Note: Re-write on 17 May 2005

Too tired on Saturday night 07 May and didn’t have additional energy to carry on my struggle on typing, decided to paste something simple first, as follows:

A MALAYSIAN INDIAN STORY
An Indian film without singing and dancing, Chemman Chaalai is a film about Malaysian Indians told in a Malaysian way.

MORE COMING SOON…

Now they are here… (17 May 2005)
It was a week after I watched my last film in Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) 2005, Tropical Malady, somehow this year I didn’t manage to catch any Malaysian film due to the clash of the film screening time with my work schedule. Alas, the intricateness between missing something local and confusing myself with the relationship development of Keng & Tong (see Tropical Malady), made me searching around for Malaysian films that have been screened in film fest, aimlessly, perhaps.

Found Chui Mui’s 24 min short film - A TREE IN TANJUNG MALIM.

Further searches resulting the film stated above.

She quoted:
“A race of people is like an individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in it’s history, expresses its own culture and affirm its own selfhood, it cannot fulfill itself” - Malcom X

I sank into the thinking blues that night.

Notes @ 28 May 05

A gay-themed romance between a soldier (Lomnoi) and a country boy Tong, wrapped around a Thai folk legend involving a shaman with shapeshifting abilities - IMDB

Malady = A disease, a disorder, or an ailment. I got to know CLASH, a thai band from this movie.

Wong Fei-hung, also known as Huang Fei-hong is one of the most revered folk heroes in Southern Chinese culture. This figure has been immortalized.

What does he look like?

The photo of real Wong Fei-hung:

(Source: http://www.xicn.net/life/culture/item/2003-03-13/109916.html)

Tonight: Mainly cloudy. Low 74F. Winds light and variable.

Four star for this real-life movie. Enjoyed very much the historical flashback on how determine is Choi to become the very best fighter. Snippets on his training in woods to gain incredible strength and later, defeat many martial arts challengers to become a master of martial arts, then founder of Kyokushin karate, definitely full of breath-taking action and heart.

Masterpiece of work in slow motion action and camera positioning, beautiful with fast and slow pace intersetting in between, but I would like to get more traditional korea drums or hitting rhythm accompied along the fighting scene.

You not going to miss this, right? Aside of Kung Fu Hustle…