CJ: January 2007 Archives

Little Voice

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  • Cast:
    Brenda Blethyn .... Mari Hoff
    Jane Horrocks .... LV
    Ewan McGregor .... Billy
    Philip Jackson .... George
    Annette Badland .... Sadie
    Michael Caine .... Ray Say
    Jim Broadbent .... Mr. Boo
  • Director:
    Mark Herman
  • Genre:
    Comedy / Drama / Romance / Music
  • Tagline
    Finding your own voice can be magic.
  • Plot Outline
    The pathetically shy LV (Jane Horrocks) lives the life of a recluse listening to her late fathers...
  • Comment
    It was a strong Northern English accent. A little difficult to catch, but anyhow, there were Japanese subtitles.

    The story was interesting.

Gangstar No.1

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  • Cast:
    Malcolm McDowell .... Gangster 55
    David Thewlis .... Freddie Mays
    Paul Bettany .... Young Gangster
    Saffron Burrows .... Karen
    Kenneth Cranham .... Tommy (as Ken Cranham)
  • Director:
    Paul McGuigan
  • Genre:
    Crime / Drama / Thriller
  • Tagline
    It's not who you know, it's who you kill.
  • Plot Outline
    Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.
  • Comment
    Because it is an English film, I watched this, but to tell the truth, I didn't get satisfaction.

About Anna Karenina

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    Actually I haven't read this novel yet. I like reading books and I've read most of famous novels, but of course, not all of them. I read other Tolstoy's novels, but not this one.

    Anyway it's a story in Russia, so it must be spoken in Russian, but starring was Sophie Maruceau and Sean Bean. French and English.
    I know this kind of thing happen all the time anywhere, and they speak their, I mean actor and actress, languages.

    I just only know Sophie Maruceau as her name, and I know La Boam made her very famous. I think French actors and actresses can speak English well, but I think French people are very proud of their language, so they keep thier language first.
    Sophie's English was perfect, I think. Just I know a few actors who spoke English in Films. One of them is Olivier Martinez from Unfaithful. I couldn't catch some his lines, because of his French accent. The other one is Jean Reno. I only saw one film, but he didn't speak much, so it was OK. And some other people who are not famous or I don't know well, mostly I could tell they were French by their sounds.

Anna Karenina

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  • Cast:
    Sophie Marceau .... Anna Karenina
    Sean Bean .... Vronsky
    Alfred Molina .... Levin
    Mia Kirshner .... Kitty
    James Fox .... Karenin
  • Director:
    Bernard Rose
  • Genre:
    Drama / Romance
  • Tagline
    In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart.
  • Plot Outline
    Anna (Marceau) is a wife and mother who has an affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Bean). Based on the novel by Tolstoy.
  • Comment
    I felt a little strange with this film, but it always happen anywhere. Strange thing is the situation. This is based on Tolstoy novel, and it must be written in Russian I guess, but starring were French and English. Of course I know a lot of films which had such kinds of situations, for instance, Japanese China film, Japanese American films.

Code 46

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  • Cast:
    Tim Robbins .... William Geld
    Togo Igawa .... Driver
    Nabil Elouhabi .... Vendor (as Nabil Elouahabi)
    Samantha Morton .... Maria Gonzales
  • Director:
    Michael Winterbottom
  • Genre:
    Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
  • Tagline
    How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?
  • Plot Outline
    A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
  • Comment
    This is a Sci-Fi film.    Samantha Morton is excellent!    I decided to watch this film, because the main starring is Samantha Morton from In America (2002), and also it is an English film. 

The Preacher's Wife

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  • Cast:
    Denzel Washington ... Dudley
    Whitney Houston ... Julia Biggs
    Courtney B. Vance ... Reverend Henry Biggs
  • Director:
    Penny Marshall
  • Genre:
    Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Comedy
  • Tagline
    They needed help. What they got was a miracle.
  • Plot Summary
    Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance) finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia (Whitney Houston) is flagging...
  • Comment
    It was a fantasy.

Spelling

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    When I was watching a Yahoo movie news, I heard "third consecutive year", and I wanted to find this spelling out, but I couldn't find the spelling.
    I checked first "concective", then "consective", but I couldn't find it, so I tried to find on the web dictionary which is http://dictionary.reference.com/, and finally I found the spelling as "consecutive".

    Sometimes it's not difficult with me to guess from their sound, but sometimes very difficult to guess, and sometimes it's not so difficult but I can't find it.

Happy New Year

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Happy New Year.
May it be a great year for you.