...useless miscellany


 Sunday, October 06, 2002


It's no wonder it won Best picture.  Excellent story... incredible acting.
7:46:53 PM      



Catching up on my movie watching now that I have the time...

An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when she meets a bisexual English translator who wants to be her canvas instead. An assault on the senses in the best Greenaway tradition, featuring frames-within-frames, elaborate costuming and production design, painterly shot composition, and utterly frank scenes of nudity and violence.

Wow!  Erotic body painting and frank scenes of nudity... balanced with an artsy shooting style.  Very interesting to watch, but perhaps a bit longer than it needed to be.  I've been this 'eastern' cultural kick since The Matrix and Crouching Tiger.  Movies like this and W. Gibson's novels are just more fuel for the fire.


7:39:20 PM      



"A deeply troubled small town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while events occur that cause him to mentally disintergrate."

Excellent acting... a descent into madness that I bought into hook, line and sinker.


7:24:46 PM      



Finally completed the online course I started about 8 weeks ago.  That's quite a load off.  Time for some major R & R now.
7:14:06 PM