Roger Ebert, clearly does not understand East-Asian film, clearly a moron

here's a segment of what this idiot had to say about "All About Lily Chou-Chou:"

"Either you make an experimental film that cuts loose from narrative, characters and comprehensible cinematography, or you do not. Iwai seems to want to tell the story of his characters, and it could be a compelling one (some of the scenes are poignant or wounding), but he cannot allow himself to make the film in a way that can communicate. That would be, I guess, a compromise. He has made a film that few reasonable ticket-buyers will have the patience to endure. It will be appreciated by a handful of highly evolved film watchers who can generate a simultaneous analysis in their minds, but what is the point, really, in making a film that closes out most moviegoers?"

Ticket-buyers?! Moviegoers?! Highly evolved film watchers?! Why the hell is this man such a famous film critic if he can't understand the value of a film on a human level? All that matters is ticket sales? What the fuck! It's not about ticket sales dumbass, it's not about appealing to the masses, it's not about being avante-garde, IT'S ABOUT LIFE! It's about being human! It's about how painful it is to be alive sometimes, and about the beauty of everything, it's about having faith even if it's in some goofy (possibly made-up) pop star, as long as we have something then that's something we can find meaning in in a world that makes no fucking sense most of the time. Roger Ebert, pull your head out of your ass, Martin Scorsese's ass, and the "ticket-buyers" (aka, your-book-buyers) and come back down to Earth. I'm never reading an Ebert review again, what a waste, and I know it's not just contemprary Japanese film that eludes him, he trashed Blue Velvet too! I mean, I'm not a huge fan of that movie but at least I can see the value in it. I'm gonna kick your ass someday Roger Ebert you fat idiot.

this kind of life keeps breaking your heart.

UPDATE! FIRST IN A LONG TIME!

Well what's new. First, I've made an album on Facebook of some production stills of anyones interested, just a few up now, but i'll keep adding.
Second, been using last.fm to discover all sorts of new music, well actually one main sort really, it's found me a bunch of Japanese post-rock/ambient/experimental/instrumental/electronic stuff that I've then been proceeding to download. I'm happy about it, I always love finding new music. Suggestions for you:
- Haruka Nakamura
- I Am Robot And Proud
- Akira Kosemura
- Te
- Motoro Faam
- Takahiro Kido

Yeah, and also Hammock, I sent you all links to a couple of their videos, stuff is so good. the title of this blog entry is the title of one of their songs I'm really loving.

Otherwise things have just been crazy. Chugging along with shooting, really nothing to report, same old tune: working at it, slow going having to work around my schedule and everyone else's but that's just the way it's gotta be. uhhhh, MOVIES!

Lately I've seen a couple movies worth noting, ok first I'll talk hollywood movies. "2012," uhhh, I don't know, you know why I had to see it, end of the world thing, but yeah. It was pretty bad of course, but special effects were good and Woody Harrelson was a nice surprise. Also saw "Law Abiding Citizen," again, just because, just for entertainment, which it was entertaining so that's all I really have to say about that. Then I also finally saw "Where the Wild Things Are," and I don't quite know how to feel about that one... I think I need to see it again. It was kind of overly depressing and dramatic throughout the whole film with these little breaks now and then with a fun little montage of them romping about having fun. It's just such a downer the whole time, but it wasn't emotional at all really except for a few parts, it was like trying so hard to be sad that I just felt completely uneffected by most of it. But of course the cinematography was great, the locations and costumes were all really great. Music got a little old by the end. I'll have to see it again probably, but at the same time, I don't really want to sit through it again and just feel the same again afterwards sooo...
Asian films worth noting: "Hana & Alice" by Shunji Iwai, and also "All About Lily Chou-Chou" by the same director. I've heard of the latter film many times but hadn't ever taken the time to watch it. They are both very great films about youth(high school) in modern Japan. Not so much of the bright natural light that draws me to other similar films, still natural light but it's the darker side more, more gloomy. Japan obviously has just as many gloomy days as it does bright so it makes sense to mix it up or show one or the other primarily. One interesting notable shot from "Lily Chou-Chou" is from the back of what's probably a truck while 3 boys ride bikes following, it's shot in the green night-vision with a large spotlight on the boys, pretty interesting. Otherwise many similar motifs: trains, family life, odd camera angles, desaturation, odd characters. I like 'em, another director to add to the list!

ALSO: this probably won't reach anyone in time, but a reminder I'm organizing the screening of "Bright Future" tomorrow (today technically, 1:07am) at Irving amphitheater @ 7:00PM! I think Claire's the only person who's seen it, so hopefully I'll see some-most of you there so you can see a full-length example of where I'm coming from. If not, I'm going over the idea with Cyan about turning this into a regular thing every week or every other week or something, screening East-Asian films or just foreign maybe, of course I'd prefer only Asian but we'll see how it goes.