Happy Belated Halloween! I never knew how significant the celebrations are in the West till I spent my first Halloween in the US this past weekend. It might be interesting to do a study on why such a macabre festival is so popular here.
Been quiet here of late, mainly because I’ve been avoiding looking back as I go forward, this blog is one of those things I see at this point as a reminder of some of my past in Singapore. However, I am also aware that the only way to bring it back to the present is to continue posting entries, which is what I will attempt to do.
It’s almost the middle of semester and you can feel the atmosphere in school tense up as deadlines loom in the horizon. I’ve faithfully kept a list of films I’ve seen since I arrived in chronological order, I think I’ll begin a movie log like Ash does, the ones I really enjoyed are in bold:
1. Eyes Wide Shut – Kubrick
2. Rosemary’s Baby – Polanski
3. Calendar – Atom Egoyan
4. The Devil Wears Prada – David Frankel
5. Taking Woodstock – Ang Lee
6. Funeral Parade of Roses – Matsumoto
7. Little Children – Todd Field
8. Far Side of the Moon – Robert Lepage
9. Code Unknown – Hanake
10. Woman in the Dunes – Teshigahara
11. Ballad of Narayama – Imamura Shohei
12. La Promesse – Dardeene Brothers
13. The September Issue – Cutler
14. Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo
15. Cleo 5 -7 – Agnes Varda
16. Hard and Soft – Godard & Meville
17. Raging Sun, Raging Sky – Julian Hernanadez
18. Mother – Bong Joon-Ho
19. Night and Fog – Renais
20. A Place of One’s Own – Lou Yi An
21. Waiting for Happiness – Abderrahmane Sissako
22. Taxi Zum Klo – Frank Ripploh
23. V for Vendetta – James McTergue
24. Glengarry Glen Ross – James Foley
25. A Single Man – Tom Ford
26. Where the Wild Things Are – Spike Jonze
27. O Fantasma – Joan Pedro Rodriguiez
28. Blue Velvet – David Lynch
29. Antichrist – Lars Von Trier
30. The 5 Obstructions – Lars Von Trier & Jørgen Leth