CJ: January 2008 Archives

    I put my name as normal, but I want to change it into initial.
    I found when I changed my profile, the name in entries which I already wrote was't changed.

    Then while later, I found it has been changed.

    Perhaps they need some time to change them, somehow.

Love and Other Disasters (2006)
Queen, The (2006)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brothers Grimm, The (2005)
Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
History of Violence, A (2005)
Interpreter, The (2005)
Blue Butterfly, The (2004)
Closer (2004)
Dear Frankie (2004)
Fakers (2004)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Man on Fire (2004)
21grams (2003)
Code 46 (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Down with Love (2003)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
Monster (2003)
Mother Teresa (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
Abduction Club, The (2002)
Bowling for Colombine (2002)
Four Feathers, The (2002)
Gathering, The (2002)
Impostor (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Phone Booth (2002)
Shooters (2002)
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Unfaithful (2002)
I am Sam (2001)
Very Annie Mary (2001)
Chocolat (2000)
Contender, The (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Gangstar No.1 (2000)
Gun Shy (2000)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Peaches (2000)
Small Miracles (Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The) (2000)
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Buddy Boy (1999)
Devil's Arithmetic, The (1999)
Heart (1999)
Ninth Gate, The (1999)
Sixth Sense, The (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Stuart Little (1999)
Three To Tango (1999)
Titus (1999)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Final Cut (1998)
Little Voice (1998)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Anna Karenina (1997)
Full Monty, The (1997)
House of America (1997)
Ice Storm, The (1997)
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
She's So Lovely (1997)
Jerry Maquire (1996)
Preacher's Wife, The (1996)
Trainspotting (1996)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Leon (1994)
My Life (1993)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Nikita (1990)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Rear Window (1954)

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
21grams (2003)
Abduction Club, The (2002)
Anna Karenina (1997)
Blow Dry (2001)
Blue Butterfly, The (2004)
Bowling for Colombine (2002)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Brothers Grimm, The (2005)
Buddy Boy (1999)
Chocolat (2000)
Chronicles of Narnia, The: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Closer (2004)
Code 46 (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Contender, The (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Dear Frankie (2004)
Devil's Arithmetic, The (1999)
Down with Love (2003)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Fakers (2004)
Final Cut (1998)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Four Feathers, The (2002)
Full Monty, The (1997)
Gangstar No.1 (2000)
Gathering, The (2002)
Gun Shy (2000)
Heart (1999)
History of Violence, A (2005)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
House of America (1997)
I am Sam (2001)
Ice Storm, The (1997)
Impostor (2002)
Interpreter, The (2005)
Jerry Maquire (1996)
Keys to Tulsa (1997)
Kinsey (2004)
Léon (1994)
Little Voice (1998)
Lost in Translation (2003)
Love Actually (2003)
Love and Other Disasters (2006)
Man on Fire (2004)
Monster (2003)
Mother Teresa (2003)
My Life (1993)
Mystic River (2003)
Ninth Gate, The (1999)
Nikita (1990)
Nurse Betty (2000)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Peaches (2000)
Phone Booth (2002)
Preacher's Wife, The (1996)
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Queen, The (2006)
Rear Window (1954)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)
She's So Lovely (1997)
Shooters (2002)
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Sixth Sense, The (1999)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Sliding Doors (1998)
Small Miracles (Testimony of Taliesin Jones, The) (2000)
Stuart Little (1999)
Stuart Little 2 (2002)
Three To Tango (1999)
Titus (1999)
Trainspotting (1996)
Unfaithful (2002)
Very Annie Mary (2001)
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? (1999)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

    Numb3rs was aired on FOX Japan before, but they created a new channel which is called FOX Crime, and then they switched airing Numb3rs to FOX Crime from FOX Japan. Unfortunately I have a contract with a CATV company and they don't supply FOX Crime, so I only watched Season one.

    Recently I got Numb3rs Season two in English and it made me happy, but I found that Terry had left and a new girl Megan, played by Diane Farr, had joined the cast, and she is one of my least favourite actress because of her way of talking.

    I'm not a person whose mother tongue is English and also I've never lived in an English speaking country, so I need to concentrate when I watch TV shows or films in English. I saw her in a TV drama which is called Rescue Me, and I had difficulty with her way of speaking. I'm not sure if it is a typical American accent or not, but anyhow I need to concente when she speaks.

    Frankly speaking I don't understand all of it.   Especially when they use technical mathematical terms a lot, I don't take any notice of them.    Because I think they are just talking about technical things in mathematics, Ha!

• Cast:
  Osheen Jones ... Young Lucius
  
  Anthony Hopkins ... Titus Andronicus
  
  Jessica Lange ... Tamora
  
  Raz Degan ... Alarbus
  
  Jonathan Rhys Meyers ... Chiron
  
  Matthew Rhys ... Demetrius
  
  Harry J. Lennix ... Aaron (as Harry Lennix)
  
  Angus Macfadyen ... Lucius
  
  Ettore Geri ... Priest
  
  Alan Cumming ... Saturninus
  
• Director:
  Julie Taymor
  
• Genre:
  Drama / Fantasy / Horror / War
  
• Plot Outline:
  This film is an adaptation of the Shakespeare play "Titus Andronicus." Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family. Who says revenge is sweet?
  
• Comment:
  This is Shakespeare, so it looked like a theater play.  At the beginning, I was a little confused and difficult to understand.  It's mixed time with using car but very ancient.

    Sadly Heath Ledger from Brokeback Mountain passed away on the 22nd January 2008.

    According to some web resources, the cause of his death seems to be an excessive intake of the medicine (sleeping pills).

    Since I watched his film, Brokeback Mountain, very recently, I was surprised when I knew he passed away.

    He is only 28 years old, and he has a two-year-old daughter with Michelle Williams who was a fiance before.

    I haven't watched his films much, I only watched "The Four Feather" and  "The Brothers Grimm".

    Anyways I liked his play in Brokeback Mountain, he played like as a real gay person who had to be sealed in their time being, it was evil. I watched Brokeback Mountain with English subtitles because it was a lot of mumbling in the very beginning of film, so I needed to put it on.   Because of that reason, some of the part of this film, I couldn't get precise things, but I felt he (Ennis who was played by Heath Ledger) was a gay since his childhood, but he had to hide it because of the era. I don't think it was mentioned he was a gay in this film. But when I saw the scene after finishing their job in Brokeback Mountain and they had to depart into their own life, Jack (who was played by Jake Gyllenhaal) showed his sadness, but Ennis hid it and cried in shade. It makes us to realize he was a real gay from his childhood but had to hide it, so he couldn't show Jack his grief.

    I should've written this on Brokeback Mountain, should I?

• Cast:
Matthew Rhys ... Nick Edwards
Kate Ashfield ... Eve Evans
Tom Chambers ... Tony Evans
Tony Haygarth ... Phil Norris
Art Malik ... Foster Wright
• Director:
Richard Janes
• Genre:
Comedy / Crime
• Plot Outline
FAKERS is a sharp, fast moving tale of blackmail and forgery set in the upper echelons of the international art society. Set in present day London and 1911 Italy.
• Comment
A lot of fun! It's very speedy and twisty. Especially car action scene is fun. And the end is not as usual. You must see it.

• Cast:
  Siân Phillips ... Mam
  
  Steven Mackintosh ... Sid
  
  Matthew Rhys ... Boyo
  
  Lisa Palfrey ... Gwenny
  
• Director:
  Marc Evans
  
• Genre:
  Drama
  
• Plot Summary:
  Boyo lives with his brother Sid, his sister Gwenny and their elderly mother Marlene in an economically depressed area of South-West Wales.
  
• Comment:
  I think this is a very dark story. I just wanted to see this because of Matthew Rhys is in it. I couldn't get their conversation because of their accent in some of the part though, it wasn't matter.

    I've just created a new blog.

    I'm not sure I can keep writing here though, I'll write something here as a sort of monologue.    Actually I have several websites and some of them have blog or diary.

• Cast:
Anne Parillaud ... Nikita
Marc Duret ... Rico
Patrick Fontana ... Coyotte
Alain Lathière ... Zap
• Director:
Luc Besson
• Genre:
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Romance
• Plot Outline:
Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.
• Comment:
I'll write more later.

• Cast:
  Harvey Keitel ... Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
  
  Tim Roth ... Mr. Orange / Freddy Newandyke
  
  Michael Madsen ... Mr. Blonde / Vic Vega
  
  Chris Penn ... Nice Guy Eddie Cabot
  
  Steve Buscemi ... Mr. Pink
  
  Lawrence Tierney ... Joe Cabot
  
  Randy Brooks ... Holdaway
  
  Kirk Baltz ... Marvin Nash
  
  Edward Bunker ... Mr. Blue (as Eddie Bunker)
  
  Quentin Tarantino ... Mr. Brown
  
• Director:
  Quentin Tarantino
  
• Genre:
  Crime / Drama / Thriller
  
• Plot Outline:
  After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
  
• Comment:
  Which colour do you like? Actually I like Orange guy.   Because of being a justice person, I feel sympathy.

• Cast:
  Denzel Washington ... Creasy
  
  Dakota Fanning ... Pita
  
  Marc Anthony ... Samuel
  
  Radha Mitchell ... Lisa
  
  Christopher Walken ... Rayburn
  
  Giancarlo Giannini ... Manzano
  
  Rachel Ticotin ... Mariana
  
• Director:
  Tony Scott
  
• Genre:
  Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
  
• Plot Outline:
  In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.
  
• Comment:
  I'll write more later.
  

• Cast:
Natalie Portman ... Alice

Jude Law ... Dan

Julia Roberts ... Anna

Clive Owen ... Larry

• Director:
  Mike Nichols
  
• Genre:
Drama / Romance

• Plot Outline:
  The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
  
• Comment:
I think this film is quite popular. There are two couples of British guy and American girl. Clive Owen and Jude Law were quite fit in their roles, and Natalie Portman was perfect.

• Cast:
  Heath Ledger ... Ennis Del Mar
  
  Jake Gyllenhaal ... Jack Twist
  
  Michelle Williams ... Alma
  
  Anne Hathaway ... Lureen Newsome
  
  Linda Cardellini ... Cassie
  
• Director:
  Ang Lee
  
• Genre:
  Drama / Romance
  
• Plot Outline:
  Based on the 'E. Annie Proulx' story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.
  
• Comment:
  It was beautiful. I didn't know much about this story so that I could have a lot of fun. I've never thought about such ending.