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distiller · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 249

The reason it's called Golden Chicken is because the Cantonese word for chicken, "guy", is slang for prostitute and in the film she becomes rich, hence Golden Chicken.

once again · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Posts: 815

Yep, I agree with you on all counts about the chicken movies, but for some reason I really liked them.
I forgot to mention the Mc Dull movies. They are social observation at its very best. Great stuff.

Mc Dull is a cartoon pig, that goes to kindergarten, where he has classes in "denying responsiblity" in his interview preparation for a job in the civil service.

nawlinsgurl · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 12:47 am Post subject:

It's not really local to my area, but my husband and I both loved "Beijing Bicycle". I'm not sure where the movie hails from but it is a great one if you are into indie films. Wink

ContemporaryDog · Joined: 21 May 2003 Posts: 1477 Location: Wuhan, China

spidey · Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:53 am Post subject:

Japan...

...Samurai Fiction
An artsy B&W movie made about 10 years ago. I think?

I watched it back in Canada, but I am yet to find it here in Japan.

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hamel · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 95

does anyone have a comment about the film Blue Velvet? strange but interesting film--not for family viewing--but dennis hopper is an interesting character.

waxwing · Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 719 Location: China

Blue Velvet is from the same director as Eraserhead, already mentioned on this thread. Namely David Lynch.

I think Blue Velvet is a classic, and just about accessible/understandable too (that's really saying something for Lynch). Deserved the Palme D'Or which was given a few years later to his 'Wild At Heart'.

I personally think Eraserhead, too, is a classic, maybe the best film I've ever seen - but it's nearly totally impenetrable to the rational mind. It's a credit to America that, for all our cynicism about its Big Mac culture, it can produce people like Lynch.

PS other Lynch movies to check out:
The Elephant Man
Twin Peaks Fire Walk with me.
The Straight Story
Lost Highway
Mulholland Drive

jpvanderwerf2001 · Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 1117 Location: New York

wax,

I am too a huge Lynch fan (see: my avatar). I have all of the "Twin Peaks" TV episodes on VHS (plus the movie), and think it's the best TV series I've seen (well, Seinfeld and Simpsons, but a bit of a different genre). I'm still searching for the episodes on DVD.
Have you seen the HBO show called "Carnivale"? It's a bit Lynch-esque, though easier to follow for most I'd reckon (I think of it as "X-files" meets "Twin Peaks").

Who was that guy in "Eraserhead"? You know, the dude sitting alone?

Lost Highway rocks.

hamel · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 95

local films? i've been unsatisfied with them for the most part.

i'd like to see some more humphrey bogart classics. Dark Passage is one of my favorites--pretty soon i'll take down The Grinch That Stole Christmas (not the jim carrey remake)and the johhny marks Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer to watch with my kids and maybe show to some of my students (though they hate anything without korean subtitles).

anyone like clint eastwood "spaghetti westerns"? they are shown sometimes here in korea.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

I don't know about Blue Velvet no being for family viewing.

When Dennis Hopper chased my 14-year daughter around the Santa Fe plaza with an old 16 mm camera, she told him that she thought he was playing the "pervert Frank" role offscreen....

Sadken · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 341

Totally wrecking the point of the thread here but, anyway, Dennis Hopper is possibly my favourite actor because he is quite clearly fucking insane. This is never so clear as in the documentary about Easy Rider when Hopper tells the story of how David Crosby or someone like that came to him after having heard about the film and schmoozed him in the hope of doing the soundtrack. Hopper tells this 5 minute long story about how Crosby drove him all around town in a limo taking him to bars, doing coke etc and then, as he is about to drop him off, says "so, Dennis, what do you think?". Hopper, when telling the story some 30 years later, snaps out of the genial anecdote telling mode he has been in for the whole time he has been recounting the story straight into Apocalypse Now-staring eyes-crazy *beep* mode and says, demonstrably as pissed off now as he was then, "*beep* you, man, anyone who rides around in a fucking limo doesn't get my fucking movie, man" and apparently strode off to catch the bus home.

When I saw that advert he made for Lexus or someone like that I nearly wept....another one bites the dust....

mehrlin26 · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 52 Location: South Korea

"When Dennis Hopper chased my 14-year daughter around the Santa Fe plaza with an old 16 mm camera, she told him that she thought he was playing the "pervert Frank" role offscreen...."

Shocked

Huh, I say wha'? Methinks 'nother explanation required.

guty · Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 365 Location: on holiday

I was invited to see Blue Velvet on a first date by a cute Spanish girl in London.
I thought it would be a family film about horses.
I was wrong

mehrlin26 · Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 52 Location: South Korea

I think you were confusing it with NationalVelvet. Smile

hamel · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 95

blue velvet was recommended by my father when it first came out. i think he knew it was not for general audiences, because it was very upsetting to my date--a very strange date indeed.