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Best Movies of 2004: Oldboy A very long engagement Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Bad Education 2046 Kill Bill v.2 House of Flying Daggers 3-iron |
"2046"Directed by: Wong Kar-Wai (China)Showing: DVD, 2004 Set in late 1960s Hong Kong, the film catches up with Chow Mo Wan (Leung), last seen brooding over his never-quite-requited affair with Maggie Cheung's Su-Li-Zhen in In The Mood For Love. Then he was a buttoned-up married man, sad but stoic in the face of erotic repression. Now he's a lonely, boozy, womanising pulp writer, holed up in room 2047 of a cheap hotel and working on a sci-fi novel called '2046'. "He thought he wrote about the future," runs Chow's narration. "But it was really the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention: to recapture their lost memories." It took Wong Kar Wai almost five years, comprehensive re-edits, lots of waiting and a whole heap of emotional turmoil to complete 2046. The Winner Of European Film Academy Non-European Film In Cannes, most critics proclaimed it a masterpiece. You want to watch it once again, not just because it is remarkable, but also because the first time you didn't get even a half of important details. ************************************************************ " Kill Bill. vol. 2 "Director: Quentin Tarantino (USA)Showing: DVD Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her deadly pursuit of her former partners in the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, who, in a furious assault, attempted to murder her and her unborn child on her wedding day. As The Bride faces off against allies-turned-nemeses Budd (Michael Madsen) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah), she flashes back to the day of her deadly wedding, and we learn of how she was recruited to join the DiVAS, her training under unforgiving martial arts master Pai Mei (Liu Chia-hui), and her relationship with Squad leader Bill (David Carradine), which changed from love to violent hatred. Originally planned as a single film, Kill Bill grew into an epic-scale two-part project totaling more than four hours in length; In contrast to the film No. 1, this is not a Japan - Hong Kong bloody action movie, it is more like a spaghetti-western. There are many strong and even shocking episodes, but even more philosophical and sometimes ironic talk. Most remarkable and unexpected, the story of revenge turns to be a story of great love. ************************************************************
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