You're in Taiwan eating beef stew noodles? LUCKY!!! Are you in Taipei? OMG, there are times when I can't stop thinking about places we ate when we were shooting my thesis. Remember to eat eh-ah-jian and go to Shilin and eat hotpot. Hope the shoot went well, having that kind of endurance is impressive. Thanks for letting me know about the clip!
Hey, Eric, recently I was wondering about that old Chinatown movie theatre b/c I saw a film there with my grandparents once when I was six. I think it was the one and only time I ever went before it got knocked down. Made me wonder about your doc. Where can we see it? Take care.
Thanks for the thoughts on Eastern Promises. I think the way you broke down the structure of the script was right on - I wasn't focused enough to figure out why it felt more like a harmony - yes, somehow I felt that it was more of a sketch of the Russian mob in London world in a way that was merely descriptive, up until Viggo fights naked.
Watching him fight naked was pretty fascinating but really didn't make up for the whole film. I simply felt A History of Violence was, beat for beat, a melody in the opposite sense. All that said, I loved the production design and so many of the creative choices in this film. And I really did love the very sparsely built-up sexual tension between Naomi and Viggo, beginning with his sightings of her on motorcycle and strangely, advancing with that one shot of her sitting in the back of his car - and nicely, being resolved with the kiss over the baby.
The kiss over the baby reminded me so much the kiss between the two lovers over the husband, in the film 3-Iron. Do you know what I'm talking about? It was even similar in terms of its placement in the film.
As for the whole baby thing - something about that felt so much more conceptual than real - do you know what I mean? It seemed to reek of symbolism. We never really cared enough about it, yet it was the crux of the whole film.
Thanks again. So good to hear such incisive thoughts about film.
I just read about 'What remains' on the factory630.com and then saw the clip. It looks a lovely story. Sibling films always get me going. I hope I get to see it.
Nice meeting you here Eric
Regards
Naomi
Eric Lin is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. MUSIC PALACE, his Student Academy Award nominated short documentary, has screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, ...
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