1/01/2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

I got this lovely card from my father. Wishing all of you a lot of happiness in 2008, and more and more happy years in the future.

12/24/2007

The Great Gatsby 華麗なるギャツビー


This is one of the most beautiful films to fill a movie screen. It might be true that the movie fails the book by F. Scott Fitzgerald(F・スコット・フィッツジェラルド). It isn't a perfect adaptation, but there are no overwhelming flaws, and it follows the book very faithfully. Robert Redford(ロバート・レッドフォード) gives his best performance. He is Gatsby(ギャツビー) in every aspect : handsome, mysterious, courteous, sometimes pessimistic, and very lonely. I think Mia Farrow(ミア・ファロー) gives an excellent performance, yet as I watch the movie I can't help imagining Faye Dunaway(フェイ・ダナウェイ) doing it better.

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11/24/2007

Green Card グリーン・カード


Do you accept paper marriages? Andie McDowell(アンディ・マクダウェル) plays Bronte. She is a young city gardener who wants a beautiful apartment with a greenhouse. The problem is she must be married in order to apply for it. Gerard Depardieu(ジェラール・ドパルデュー) plays an immigrant Frenchman looking to marry an American so that he can get permanent residency status in America. A mutual friend arranged a paper marriage between the two, and both of them got what they had wanted, but...

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http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=6431