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September 2011
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May 2011
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The FSLC new film center celebration! →
From Frederic Jameson discussion to NYFF opening night classics movie marathon. How much I wish to be there!
April 2011
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move yourself.
“You move yourself, It’s how to move anybody.” … “I do it, because I like it. That’s a wonderful way to spend your life.”
in the video, “The Last Word: Sidney Lumet”
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/04/09/obituaries/1194838961597/lwlumet.html
My favorite in his works. Running on Empty (1988).
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March 2011
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"the unique being" and extinction
Rereading: Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/26/roland-barthes-camera-lucida-rereading
…”as Michael Wood has argued, he was throughout his career a writer who engaged head and heart at the same time.”
…The last manuscript on which he worked (an essay on Stendhal, left on his desk on the day of the accident) had been entitled...
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LAX to SFO
“LAX to SFO 12:15pm.” My calendar shows this memo. Yes. I flew to San Francisco from the “desolate” downtown of LA today in last year.
Taken right before landing at the San Francisco International Airport. This photo always brings me to the moments when I sat by the window in full sunlight with anticipation of my first visit to the city. Looking at the photo, I feel...
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muteness
It has been an exciting week with Korean Cinema Blogathon. Thanks to Martin and Rufus! I just want to wrap up our blogathon by myself with my one of favorite scenes in Korean Cinema.
Eloquently muted moments - Christmas in August (1998) by Hur Jin-ho
Jung-won is sitting by window at a cafe. Da-rim is filming of traffic violators on a street as usual. (She is a policewoman.) Jung-won doesn’t...
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Unresolved Contradictoriness - HAPPY END
Celebrate Korean Cinema Blogathon 2011 hosted between Martin at http://NewKoreanCinema.com and Rufus at http://cineAWESOME.com!
Unresolved Contradictoriness -Narrative Analysis of Happy End
A man, named Min-ki is sleeping with his baby daughter on the floor in his sunny living room. Soon after he awakes and sits up. The viewer watches only his back, as the camera is fixed in the same...
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sigh
Re-read my old papers. It has just brought me the vivid realization that I haven’t made any progress from the point when I wrote them. Sad yet true.
February 2011
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GREENBERG
GREENBERG(2010) Noah Baumbach
“It’s not going away! It’s transforming.” Roger Greenberg
oh, Roger! I would probably get to think of you from time to time.
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converse
A converse day has finally come back to Seoul in, maybe, over than three months! At the moment when I stepped out with my black converse, I felt like I was flying. At the same time, looking down my shoes, I couldn’t help but think and/or miss my trip to California in last Spring.
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LATE AUTUMN
LATE AUTUMN(2010) Kim, Tae-Yong
The three sequences lingering in my mind, probably in a long long time.
# The fantasy sequence at the amusement park
: the last scene of this sequence in which the man and woman flies up. It reminds me of the painting, Birthday by Marc Chagall.
# The sequence in which Anna is looking for Hoon, holding two cups of coffee.
# The last scene
: while...
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