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There are no good movies coming up lately on cinema. The one I am really looking forward to seeing is The Queen. It won’t be on until March 8. We always have new movies come up at least one to three months later after those have been finished showing in the U.S. This is the least, but could be longer. The only type of movies we do show at the same time with the U.S; it must be movie like MI3 or any kind of international Hollywood movies. Hollywoodland finished showing in U.S since Nov last year, but I haven’t even seen it’s ads in our movie theatre. I guess we may not have it at all. I didn’t even know about this movie until I read this article back in Nov 2006. I always like acting of Adrien Brody. I am very surprise he didn’t do many good movies after Pianist. Pianist is a great movie same as Life is Beautiful. I am not sure if Hollywoodland was good, but definitely King Kong he did; it wasn’t very good at all. The movie itself wasn’t attractive anyway.

I haven’t seen Borat, but after I read an article about the story of it I don’t think I am interested in it at all. I thought it was a comedy, but actually was not. The story sounds so mean to many people, especially to the poor. The article stated the story actually tells the conflict between British and American towards various world issues in terms of culture, religion and politic. Well, I think I have seen the war scene enough these days on TV, so such movie is definitely not a good idea for “entertaining” the auidence.

So what’s the best to see next? Just wait to see “The Queen” I guess.

I watched Doctor Zhivago on TV last night. It’s a great movie, but too sad to watch. I doubt I want to watch it again as it’s too upsetting. The ending wasn’t under my expectation. The doctor lost his love during the wars, suffered from the wartime hardship, and died by heart attack on street in Moscow at last. Most of old films do have similar story backgrounds all about wars and sadness love stories. Some of them are very upsetting. I think I am a kind of person too easy to be touched so those stories I must remember well. I also love Casablanca, Gone with The Wind and My Fair Lady. There are series of old films showing on our English TV channel for almost two months. I can’t wait to see them all though several I did watch, I don’t mind seeing them again. The actors and actresses I like the most from these films are Clark Gable, Omar Sharif, Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn.
I always love old films. The spirit of these old films can never be found in the new films nowaday. I started to watch most of them since teenager. I was influenced by my Dad the most. My parents love to watch old western films. They were talking about it from time to time, so I started to watch them. My Dad used to love Superman, Superwoman, Charlie Chaplin and James Bond so I did see most of the related series and movies. Some of them were in black and white too.

The Banquet, was a pretty good movie. I like it. The story is not very special but the way they film worth watching it. I like the scene being very graphical. It’s like a piece of Chinese art included Chinese fighting, theatre and ornaments. The costumes are all beautiful made in details. All the actors acted very well. Zhang Zhiyi acted much better in this film compared with all her past works.

We went to see The Illusionist in AMC Theatre at Century City. I like the movie and the theatre but find the advertisments and trailers were playing too long before the movie actually started. It took more than 30 minutes for showing all of them.

After we watched the movie, we hanged around in Westwood. We had afternoon tea in Green Tea Terrace and shopped around in the supermarket. Green Tea Terrace offers various kinds of Japanese tea. Their ginger ice cream is very nice too. It’s also a typical student place where I can tell by the atmosphere.