Only If You Run

Received some goodies in the mail today: Summer IFF tickets and screening tickets for School Days With a Pig

Edko always have the cutest screening tickets.  Here are some of the best screening tickets I've gotten during my two years at Beats.

Sparrow, the ticket was inside this cardboard wallet (it's a film about pickpockets)

My Blueberry Nights (still can't believe I watched a WKW movie in the same theater with WKW and Tony Leung)

I reckon if I put these on Ebay, some crazy teenage girl would bid decent money for it...

I'll never sell this: The Dark Knight screening tickets

I save all screening tickets and film stubs of films I like, one day when I have a legit place of my own I'm gonna have a cinemaphile wall of fame filled with these screening tickets.

500 Days of Summer tickets are ALL SOLD OUT for Summer IFF. Even Vengeance (which takes place a month before 500 Days) aren't sold out yet. What the? 500 is the most in-demand movie at the festival?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573XmVOdD2Q The opening of Watchmen, the best part of the movie. Check the JFK shooting, and Dylan soundtrack is always ace.

Speaking Dylan, here's an interesting article on happiness, The Dylan Paradox

Infernal Affairs Director hopes for hit in China

After the screening of Overheard this past weekend I had the chance to talk to directors Alan Mak and Felix Chong, aka two/thirds of the cats behind Infernal Affairs. Alan said IA never were released in China initially and most people saw a bootleg copy, there is a mainland version with a moronic alternate ending that caters to the commies. But just like Rocky V, that alternate ending has been erased from the history of all fans.

Anyway, Overheard is a great film. Has its flaws (not too climatic) and nowhere near IA-level but still, superb performances by all three leads, especially Louis Koo, and man Zhang Jingchu may be the most gorgeous Chinese actress in the world today. Her role here is one of them flower-vase-roles-pretending-not-to-be-one.

Here's a sad piece of the LA Museum of Art stopping its film program due to lack of profit. Sigh, in 2001 I hung around the Getty museum alot and that, along with the LA Museum of Art were always the coolest out of all the other pretentious ones. I remember the film lineup a few years back was amazing.

The death of the music magazine

Sad, especially after seeing Almost Famous, as Simmons put it, journalists will never get access like that again. Not in this day and age. I think people overrated to the death of Blender. Blender has ALWAYS BEEN CRAP, from day one, their stupid Maxim-men's-mag approach was stupid. But the death of Vibe and probably Spin soon will hit a chord.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt40__1OlqU

Julian Penti--Only If You Run.

NYC Post-punk goodness.