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2020 Movie Diary
BradWesley123's Movie Screenshots: Vol. 24 (50 movies items)" Director: Lulu Wang Cinematographer: Anna Franquesa Solano Other Images "
Movies watched in 2020
“The tone is perfect, between tenderness and anthropological touches to understand chinese migrants in America going back to an artificial lying farewell of grandmother. All the group playing a game with their arms, is a touching drunken scene” read more
Preliminary 2019 Academy Awards Predictions (21 movies items)"1.Noah Baumbach- Marriage StoryReally, the order of #1-3 don't really matter; each are 100% locks and any could win. Hell, maybe even two of them could tie. 2.Quentin Tarantino- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 3.Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won- Parasite 4.Lulu Wang- The FarewellNot quite a lock, the first three are just such a murderer's row that anything else could gain and/or lose momentum if they're out of a voter's mind for a second (also, women get passed over in favor of male writers all th"
Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)"A rather melodramatic exploration of death, family and health care in China. Bears a fair amount of similarities with other films on the topic of not telling a loved one of their fatal condition, but quite the number of those movies are Japanese, and this being Chinese is more than enough to cause a significant separation as the angle is very, very family-centric. As a result it's much warmer and emotional, some of which is good enough to forgive some of the melodramatic tendencies. Terrific per"
Movies Watched in 2019 (58 movies items)"2019-08-31 @AMC Portage 10 Theater 1, Seat D11 via A-List A different fish-out-of-water story, with an interesting alternate perspective of how different cultures view sickness, death, and other things."
Films watched in 2019
Movies the giraffe watched in 2019: August (27 movies items)"First viewing - Aug. 3rd This is just a total crowd-pleaser and I couldn't help but enjoy it. The cast is excellent and drew me into the characters, plus the subject matter which could be rather dark is played mostly light in the most endearing ways. I wasn't as emotionally affected as I thought I might be, but I deeply appreciated the film and would gladly sit through it again."