看了這個解說，才真的覺得自已要去學電影。
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Journey From The Fall (2006)
- It's heartbreaking to watch this film!
- The boat people and the victims in the re-education camp!
- People in Hong Kong are having similar experiences, although in a less harmful way - still, it's heartbroken.
- Did the communist regime ever do good to their people?
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Rudyard Kipling - If 假如
If
假如
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
假如舉世倉皇失措，人人怪你，而你能保持冷靜；
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
假如舉世見疑，而你能相信自已，還能原讓他們的懷疑；
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
假如你能等待，而不怕等得累，
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
或受謗時不屑以牙還牙，
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
或被恨時不怨天憂人，
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
然而別看來太好，話也別講得太聰明；
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
假如你能作夢——而不成為夢的奴隸；
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
假如你能思考——而不只以思老為目的，
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
假如你能面對勝利和慘敗，而把這兩個騙子一視同仁；
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
假如你聽到你講的真話給壞蛋歪曲了去陷害蠢人，卻仍能泰然自持，
Twiseted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
或者你看到你曾拼命維護的珍貴東西破碎了而仍能彎下腰用陳舊的工具去修理；
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
如果在你把你贏的一大堆錢全部孤注一擲而不幸輸掉，
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
但仍能從頭幹起，並對你的失利三緘其口；
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
假如你能強迫你的心、勇氣和體力，
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
在它們早已枯竭時為你效勞，
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
因此當你一無所有，
Except for the Will which says to them: "Hold on!";
只剩下吩咐它們：「撑下去！」的意志時，你就這樣撑下去；
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
假如你能跟群眾講話而仍保持你的美徳，
Or walk with Kings -nor lose the common touch;
或者與帝王同行而不忘群眾，
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
假如敵人或摯友都不能傷害你，
If all men count with you, but none too much;
假如人人都依賴你，但沒有一個期望過奢；
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
假如你能用相等於六十秒的奔跑來填補毫不容情的一分鐘，
With sixty seconds worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
地球和它所有的一切，就是屬於你的，
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
而且——更重要的是——
兒啊！你將是個男子漢。
Saturday, April 2, 2022
The Criterion Challenge 2022 經典挑戰2022 [Keep Updated]
2021 年很失敗，只完成了三星期，然後什麼也沒有跟。2021年的challenge list ，在這裡看。
2022年，我決定再跟這個list，再來一次，可以的話，再補回去年的。
Helpful links:
The Complete Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection by Spine Number
Every Film Available on The Criterion Channel
1. Watch a movie from the year you were born. －IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Jan 2, 2022) ★★★★★
2. 1920s - The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) (Jan 7, 2022) ★★★★★
3. 1930s - The 39 Steps (Jan 8, 2022) ★★★★★
4. 1940s - Rope (1948) (Jan 30, 2022) ★★★★★
5. 1950s - No Way Out ★★★★ (Jan 9, 2022)
6. 1960s - Torn Curtain (1966) ★★★ 1/2（Jan 22, 2022)
7. 1970s - Family Plot (1976) ★★★★★ (Jan 19, 2022)
8. 1980s -
9. 1990s - The Virgin Suicides (1999) ★★★★★ (Jan 30, 2022)
10. 2000s
11. 2010s -
12. Genre: War
13. Genre: Science Fiction
14. Genre: Musical/Music Themed
15. Watch a film by a director whose work you haven't seen before
16. Directed by Chantal Akerman (Directed by Chantal Akerman)
17. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
18. Directed by Wong Kar-wai (Directed by Wong Kar-wai) - Days of Being Wild ★★★★★ (April 1st, 2022)
19. Directed by Claire Denis (Directed by Claire Denis)
20. Isabel Sandoval's Top 10 (Isabel Sandoval’s Top 10)
21. Bill Hader's Top 10 (Bill Hader’s Top 10)
22. Ana Lily Amirpour's Top 10 (Ana Lily Amirpour’s Top 10)
23. Richard Linklater's Top 10 (Richard Linklater’s Top 10)
24. Made in the United States - Marnie (1964)
25. Made in Poland
26. Made in Iran
27. Made in Mexico
28. Made in Senegal
29. Watch a film that has an out of print physical release (Out of Print Criterion Releases)
30. Watch a film from the "America Lost and Found: The BBS Story" collection (America Lost and Found: The BBS Story)
31. Watch a film with a spine #1-100 (Criterion Collection by Spine Number)
32. Watch a film with a spine #500-600 (Criterion Collection by Spine Number)
33. Cannes Film Festival Winners (Cannes’s Big Winners)
34. Midnight Madness: Watch a cult classic (Midnight Madness)
35. Growing Pains: Watch a coming of age film (Growing Pains)
36. Stage to Screen: Watch a stage adaptation (Stage to Screen)
37. Out at Criterion: Watch an LGBTQ film (Out at Criterion)
38. Watch a film on the Summer Travels list (Summer Travels)
39. Watch a film on the Hollywood Classics list (Hollywood Classics)
40. Watch a film from the Animation Before the 2000s list (Animation Before the 2000s)
41. Starring Catherine Deneuve (Starring Catherine Deneuve)
42. Starring Anna Karina (Starring Anna Karina)
43. Starring Jeanne Moreau (Starring Jeanne Moreau)
44. Paul Dano's Closet Picks (Paul Dano’s Closet Picks )
45. Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman's Closet Picks ( Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman’s Closet Picks )
46. Michael K. Williams’ Closet Picks (Michael K. Williams’ Closet Picks)
47. Sean Baker's Closet Picks (Sean Baker’s Closet Picks)
48. Amy Heckerling's Closet Picks (Amy Heckerling’s Closet Picks)
49. Agnes Varda's Closet Picks (Agnès Varda’s Closet Picks)
50. Random number generator (Google random number generator, set values from 1 to whatever number Criterion has listed last here. This number will change as more releases are announced so please keep up to date by using the link I have provided as I will not be updating each time Criterion makes announcements. Watch whatever movie corresponds to the spine number you are given.)
51. Watch a film featured in any of the Essential Art House box sets (Essential Art House Films)
52. Any Criterion film on your watchlist - Rear Windo (1954)
Friday, April 1, 2022
Fricatives by Eric Yip
香港少年真係好叻！ 好詩欣賞！ Fricatives by Eric Yip To speak English properly, Mrs Lee said, you must learn the difference between three and free. Three men escaped from Alcatraz in a rubber raft and drowned on their way to Angel Island. Hear the difference? Try this: you fought your way into existence. Better. Look at this picture. Fresh yellow grains beaten till their seeds spill. That’s threshing. That’s submission. You must learn to submit before you can learn. You must be given a voice before you can speak. Nobody wants to listen to a spectacled boy with a Hong Kong accent. You will have to leave this city, these dark furrows stuffed full with ancestral bones. Know that death is thorough. You will speak of bruised bodies skinnier than yours, force the pen past batons and blood, call it fresh material for writing. Now they’re paying attention. You’re lucky enough to care about how the tongue moves, the seven types of fricatives, the articulatory function of teeth sans survival. You will receive a good education abroad and make your parents proud. You will take a stranger’s cock in your mouth in the piss-slick stall of that dingy Cantonese restaurant you love and taste where you came from, what you were made of all along. Put some work into it, he growls. C’mon, give me some bite. Your mother visits one October, tells you how everyone speaks differently here, more proper. You smile, nod, bring her to your favourite restaurant, order dim sum in English. They’re releasing the students arrested five years ago. Just a tad more soy sauce please, thank you. The television replays yesterday on repeat. The teapots are refilled. You spoon served rice into your mouth, this perfect rice. Steamed, perfect, white. https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/fricatives/ //The title, Fricatives, comes from the term given to a type of consonant made by the friction of breath in a narrow opening, producing a turbulent air flow, including the sounds “f” or “th”, such as in “free” or “three”. Benson said: “Fricatives is an immensely ambitious and beautifully achieved poem. It puts its reader into the position of a student of English as a second language, the fricative consonants tangling our mouths as we speak the poem, and intriguing us with the alternate meanings that rest precariously on the pronunciation. ‘Proper’ achievements – the correct pronunciation, the good education abroad, and the proud parents – are countered by an underworld of political prisoners and risky, grim sex.” She added: “This is an incredibly powerful, vulnerable story of an uneasy assimilation, and of government surveillance… It’s a poem of poise and counterpoise, and is personal, political and acutely musical. What a tensile, high-wire reckoning.”//
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