10. Follow My Voice (Catherine Linton)
9. Love for Share (Nia Di Nata)
8. Little Miss Sunshine (Dayton and Faris)
7. Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell)
6. Stephanie Daley (Hilary Brougher)
5. Inside Man (Spike Lee)
4. Madeinusa (Claudia Llosa)
3. The Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou)
2. Inland Empire (David Lynch)
1. United 93 (Paul Greengrass)
Saturday, March 24, 2007
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it's rather pathetic that i've only seen 3 of them.
wow. can you tell me why curse of the golden flower was good? because i went to it expecting greatness and was struck only by how much it seemed to suck.
I enjoyed it as a kitschy, campy, hyperbolically melodramatic film, where the excesses of style (décor, acting, lighting and color) are almost Sirkian. The excesses seemed parodic to me, and thus to critique the nationalism of some recent epic Chinese cinema.
upyernoz, actually that's pretty good if you saw 3 of them -- i saw several of these at festivals and they didn't screen widely.
maybe, but there's still several on your list (#2, 3, and 7) that i could have seen but didn't. so i can't completely escape the lameness label.
i probably would have seen "the curse of the golden flower" but i heard too many bad things about it. also i didn't really like "the house of flying daggers." (though it was pretty)
i really liked house of flying daggers as a film with a political plot that ended up being a film about how love is an antipolitical force. plus it was pretty. as was hero. but curse of the golden flower only had one or two scenes that filled me with that pretty-film wonder... flying daggers and hero had so many more such scenes. i can see the point about sirkian melodrama. but i was too disappointed by other factors to find that engrossing, i suppose....
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