11 posts tagged “film”
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. A simple and pure love story that endures a lifetime, beautifully told. No one that I've shown it to has failed to be moved...
A son returns to his village in northern China for the funeral of his father. His elderly mother insists that all the traditional burial customs be observed, to honor her husband who has selflessly taught generations of children. While trying to arrange such a thing in modern times, he remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and fell in love.
The cinematography is wonderful, (as you would expect from Zhang Yimou) and the score by San-Bao brings so much to the emotional character of the film. In fact, I present you with a selection from the very hard to get soundtrack from the film. This piece is called Tear Drops - it contains some of the best elements of the entire score.
You owe it to yourself to see this film. I just happened to catch it one rainy afternoon a few years back at the local "art house" theater - And I'm so glad I did! :)
More from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235060/maindetails IMDb
More from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Home_%281999_film%29 the WikiPedia
The official http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/theroadhome/index.html Sony Classics web site
I got the soundtrack off my iPhone by Wi-Fi for the new movie of the book by Gabriel García Márquez Love In The Time of Cholera... Love it! Here's the opening tune by Shakira... Can't wait to see the film!
Love In The Time of Cholera US web site: HERE
Lyrics and English translation from HERE
Shakira - Hay Amores
Por tenerte un segundo, alejados del mundo
Y cerquita de mí
Ay! mi bien, como el río Magdalena
Que se funde en la arena del mar,
Quiero fundirme yo en ti.
Hay amores que se vuelven resistentes a los daños,
Como el vino que mejora con los años,
Asi crece lo que siento yo por ti.
Hay amores que se esperan al invierno y florecen
Y en las noches del otoño reverdecen
Tal como el amor que siento yo por ti.
Ay! mi bien, no te olvides del mar
Que en las noches me ha visto llorar
Tantos recuerdos de ti
Ay! mi bien, no te olvides del día
Que separó en tu vida,
De la pobre vida que me tocó vivir
Hay amores que se vuelven resistentes a los daños
Como el vino que mejora con los años
Así crece lo que siento yo por ti
Hay amores que parece que se acaban y florecen
Y en las noches del otoño reverdecen
Tal como el amor que siento yo por ti
Yo por ti...por ti...como el amor que siento yo por ti.
Can you please translate these lyrics for me to English... it's from one of her new songs that she recorded for the movie Love in the Time of Cholera. Thanks!
Oh my love! I’d do anything for you
to have you for a second, far away from the world
and close to me
Oh my love! Just like the Magdalena river
which merges into the sea sand,
I want to be one with you.
There are loves which become resistant to any damage,
just like wine improves its quality throughout the years,
in that same way my feelings for you grow ever stronger
There are loves which wait for the winter to bloom
and in the autumn evenings turn green again,
just like the love I feel for you.
Oh my love! Don’t forget the sea,
which has seen me crying at night
over all those memories I’ve got of you
Oh my love! Don’t forget the day
which separated your life
from this poor life of mine
There are loves which become resistant to any damage,
just like wine improves its quality throughout the years,
in that same way my feelings for you grow ever stronger
There are loves which seem to reach an end but then bloom
and in the autumn evenings turn green again,
just like the love I feel for you
I feel for you.. for you.. like the love I feel for you.
Just thought I'd pass this on... The Kite Runner is a wonderful book on many levels.
The Kite Runner: In Theaters November 2nd - Learn more at
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Dear Amazon.com Customer, As someone who has purchased literary fiction bestsellers, we thought you'd like to visit the official The Kite Runner club site for information on hosting a The Kite Runner screening for your friends and family in your hometown, or to win a book signed by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner, based on Hosseini's bestselling novel, opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, November 2.
Directed by Golden Globe-nominated filmmaker Marc Forster, The Kite Runner is an emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. Childhood friends in a divided Afghanistan on the verge of war, Amir and Hassan find their lives irrevocably altered by one boy's fearful act of betrayal. And after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's rule to face the secrets that still haunt him -- and to take one last daring chance to set things right.
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A very engaging film by the director of
The Story of the Weeping Camel.
This little-seen film from Mongolia will captivate even the youngest viewer. An English dub track is available, so even pre-readers can watch it, without the need for Mummy or Daddy to read the subtitles. ^^
Think I'll put this one in the lineup for the Princesses...
Here's a symopsis:
Equal parts documentary, children's story, and narrative drama, Cave of the Yellow Dog
is a beautifully filmed adventure that the entire family will enjoy.
It's unique on many levels, the most notable being that the charismatic
family portrayed in the film are an actual family, and none of them are
professional actors. The eldest daughter (played by adorable Nansal
Batchuluun) appears to be about 6 or 7 years old. Her life is nothing
like that of an American first grader. She goes away to school,
returning home during the summers. Nansal cares for younger sister and
brother, telling them about how homes in big cities have toilets in the
house. She collects dried dung for the family's fire pit and helps her
mother cook. And when her father goes to town for a few days, it is
Nansal who takes over his chore of leading a herd of sheep to graze in
a fuller pasture miles from her home. Nansal is mature for her age, but
she is still a child who can't resist cute animals. So when she finds a
small black and white pup holed up in a cave, she adopts him and names
him Zochor (the Mongolian equivalent of Spot). Her father--worried that
the dog may have grown up feral with a pack of wolves--forbids her to
keep the puppy and the viewer is never certain whether Nansal and
Zochor will be able to remain together. What sets Cave of the Yellow Dog apart from films such as Lassie and Old Yeller
is the breathtaking buttes, vistas, and scenery showcased in the film.
Watching the apple-cheeked children squeal with laughter as they play
in front of their yurt--their collapsible and movable home--viewers get
the sense that they wouldn't choose any other life, even though theirs
seems filled with hardship for those of us accustomed to the comforts
of modern-day living. The Palme d'Or winner at the Cannes Film
Festival, this movie is heartwarming and pragmatic at the same time. --Jae-Ha Kim
Now, I want to read The Kite-Runner!
[Update:] I just bought it from Amazon Marketplace new for $3.99! ^^
KABUL (Reuters) - A man living in a graveyard in a rubbish-strewn, rundown Kabul district is the unlikely hero behind the scenes of one of Hollywood's most eagerly anticipated movies this year.
Noor Agha is widely acknowledged as the best kite-maker in Afghanistan, where flying and dueling with kites is the closest thing the war-torn country has to a national sport. He is also a champion kite-flyer.
"The Kite-Runner," based on the bestselling novel by an Afghan immigrant living in the United States, hits the screens in November, featuring hundreds of kites painstakingly made by Agha in his shack in a graveyard in Kabul's Ashiqan Arifan area.
He also spent weeks training the movie's teenage protagonists in kite flying and dueling, skills they used on camera when the movie was shot in China last year.
"I got $30 a day for 45 days, teaching them all I knew.
Sometimes I had to smack them when they didn't do well," Agha says, smiling and revealing a missing upper tooth.
He says he hasn't seen any rushes of The Kite-Runner, a story of fatherhood, friendship and betrayal which starts in 1970s Kabul and moves to California's Bay Area and back to Afghanistan when it was ruled by the Taliban.
"I am waiting for it, it's my movie," he says, taking time off from kite making for a cigarette and a cup of unsweetened green tea.
HALF AN HOUR
Agha, a 51-year-old balding and bearded man, makes his kites on a wooden pallet on the floor of his carpet-lined living room. For the simple ones, it takes just under half an hour, starting with pasting two strips of bamboo on a three-square-foot piece of brightly colored tissue paper, one straight across the diagonal and the other curved in an arc between the other two ends.
A string is then tied around the perimeter and pasted down. As a final flourish, each kite Agha makes carries a pasted paper cutout of a scorpion -- his trademark -- and his name in the Dari script, painstakingly snipped out of tissue paper and glued down.
The key to a good kite, Agha says, is in the glue he uses, a green paste which carries several secret ingredients besides paste and rice gruel. The quality of the glue allows him to make a kite with no wrinkles in the paper, keeping it entirely flat.
"It's a gift of Allah," says the kite-maker of his skills. These simple kites he sells to traders for $1 a piece, but he charges up to $200 for large kites with elaborate designs, including one with all the provinces of Afghanistan copied from an atlas on to tissue paper, cut out and pasted on the kite.
When the strictly Islamist Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they banned kite-flying. Agha says he worked underground for some time and then fled to Pakistan.
When he returned, the only land he could find was in the graveyard of the district he was born in, where he now lives with two wives and 10 children. And he doesn't want to move, despite his relative affluence.
"Even if you give me the whole of Kabul as a gift, I won't live anywhere else," he says. "This is my homeland."
Down in the Shoar Bazaar, the premier kite market in Kabul, Agha's kites are much in demand. They sell with at least a 60 percent mark up, and many customers will buy no others.
"People ask for his kites," said Sayed Khalil, surrounded by rolls of glass-sharpened twine and hundreds of kites in a tiny shop. "And they will buy 10 or 20 at a time."
CHAMPION
The Kite-Runner, written by Khaled Hosseini, tells the story of the lives of a rich Kabul businessman's son and his companion cum servant, who chases kites that are cut loose in duels by the glass-sharpened twine -- thus The Kite-Runner.
Written in 2003, it was received tepidly initially but became a runaway bestseller in 2005 and last year.
In the novel, Amir, the rich man's son, wins a Kabul kite-flying competition. Noor Agha has won it in reality several times, most recently this year.
Every Friday, he takes a break from kite-making to go to the Nadir Khan Hill in a Kabul suburb, where hundreds gather on the Muslim sabbath to fly kites, duel and chase those which are felled.
"This is my hobby," Agha says. "I am the champion, no one
can cut my kite."
This should be interesting! Should be hard to improve upon the original, I think!
My Sassy Girl (2007 film)
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My Sassy Girl is a remake of the highly successful 2001 Korean film of the same name. This is an American remake for an English-speaking audience starring Jesse Bradford and Elisha Cuthbert, and directed by Yann Samuell (Love Me If You Dare). It is scheduled to be released in 2007.
San Diegans: Some good stuff coming to town!
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This is a chance to see a Japanese movie on the big screen, instead of maybe a few years later - if the movie can get a US distribution for a Region 1 DVD... The UltraStar at Hazard Center mall is where the big Asian Film Festival is held every year in October, so you can master the geography early this way... See you there!
The San Diego Asian Film Foundation
presents a special screening of
LINDA LINDA LINDA
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What:
LINDA LINDA LINDA
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita
(2005 | Japan | 35 mm | 114 min)
When:
Thursday, March 1
7:30 PM
Where:
UltraStar Cinemas, Mission Valley at Hazard Center
7510 Hazard Center Drive
San Diego, CA 92108
(map)
Online Tickets: $8
General Admission: $9
Students/Seniors: $8
SDAFF members: $5
Become a member and start enjoying membership privileges.
About the Film:
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei (Yu
Kashii), drummer Kyoko (Aki Maeda of "Battle Royale"), and bassist
Nozumi (Shiori Sekine) are forced to recruit a new lead vocalist for
their band. They choose Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doo Na of
"Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance"), though her comprehension of Japanese is
a bit rough! It’s a race against time as the group struggles to learn
three tunes for the festival’s rock concert -- including a classic '80s
punk-pop song by the Japanese group The Blue Hearts called "Linda
Linda."
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