Would you read a book if you’ve already seen the film that was based on it, and vice versa?
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Sacco E Vanzetti + La Pagode
I meant to write earlier about Sacco E Vanzetti after watching a restored version of the movie in Paris last month. But I didn’t know where to start. The film is based on the controversial murder trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the US in the 1920s. I was not familiar with the court case nor…
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Have you been to Paris, Texas?
A flash of hot pink caught my attention when I was in Paris last month. The words “Paris, Texas” and “version restaurée” were printed beneath the uncertain face of a beautiful blonde. In a corner of the poster was the Palme d’Or logo of the Cannes Film Festival. Back in AB’s apartment, I told him about this…
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Mysterious orange blooms and the joys of letter-writing
Dear Reader, Summer’s here. Sort of – it’s being pouring the last few days in Brussels. But at least flowers are abloom and getting all the water they need. Do you like flowers? I recently bought a bunch of flowers at the market. Most of them had yet to blossom, hidden within their green pods. The…
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New life for ABC, a former adult film cinema? // Une nouvelle vie pour l’ancien cinéma porno ABC à Bruxelles?
Last June, I wrote a post about old-school adult film cinemas in Brussels and Singapore. While this has not been outwardly one of my most popular posts (22 ‘likes’ at the time of writing), it is amongst the most frequently viewed articles on my blog. According to the statistics provided by WordPress, this post receives around 8-10…
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Facing Windows: Voyeurism or Art?
Recently I was thinking of a series of photographs that I took in Hong Kong of residential buildings across the street from the hostel room where AB and I were staying. After prying open the window, I had double-coiled my camera strap around my wrist and squeezed my Canon SLR camera pass the metal grill…
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Made in Hong Kong // 香港製造
Have you watched “In the Mood for Love“, directed by Wong Kar Wai and starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung? I love the film for various reasons including: the unconventional, bittersweet love story; the stellar acting; the gorgeous cinematography rendered in lush, sensual tones by Christopher Doyle; the soundtrack especially the haunting refrain in Shigeru…
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Old-school cinemas for adult films: ABC, Brussels + Yangtze, Singapore
When I first moved to Brussels, I stayed at the Sheraton hotel at Place Rogier for several weeks before I found an apartment and moved into it. Initially, I had no idea what the neighbourhood was like nor any inkling that Gare du Nord – just a few minutes away on foot from the hotel…
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那些年
香港，2004年11月 那些年错过的大雨 那些年错过的爱情 好想拥抱你 拥抱错过的勇气 曾经想征服全世界 到最后回首才发现 这世界滴滴点点全部都是你 +++ “那些年” (“Those Years”) is the title track of “那些年，我們一起追的女孩“, an endearing and nostalgic Taiwanese movie about teenage years gone by and ‘what-ifs’. Literally, the movie title would read “Those Years, The Girl We All Went After” in English; the official title in English is “You are The…
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