https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogM-3LkiFAw
Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Friday, 13 October 2023
Sing High Notes in Chest Voice Correctly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTDtiaVeEJY
How to Sing High Notes in Chest Voice How to Sing High Notes in Chest Voice Correctly (for advanced singers) | Singing Lessons
Ep. 1: Pulling Chest vs Belting vs Mixing Explained -- The Path to Vocal Mastery
"Ip Man, birth of a legend", principal actor. Dennis To Yu-Hang 杜宇航
"IP Man, a legend is born" , lead actor : Dennis To Yu-Hang 杜宇航. World champion martial arts and HK actor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKFr4Scg7Y
NoteBene: Ip Man's real son Ip Chun plays Leung Bik, in pharamacy scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jod2TyUOnXs 葉準 V.S. 杜宇航, pharamacy scene
writer:Shuen-git ChowAt the screening, there were some high school kids, v tall high school kids! This was part of their cine club outing from school, where over one year, they watch 14 films from around the world in their original languages, such a great idea. Bravo for the teacher! The teacher presented their school club program which is the only one in france; the next film they will see will be Finnish. The high school is Paul Claudel in the 7ème arrondissement. After the screening, the whole class scrambled on stage willy-nilly to have their pictures taken with the star in ad hoc small groups.
Of course, I also got mine taken before the kids while there was a chance. The star and the president of the film festival Madame Deana Gao, a few steps higher than the floor. The star extended his hand to pull me up!! So friendly and easy going. So, exceptionally I will post this cool pic here. The rare time I asked to take pic w a movie star - due to shyness. But I am a big fan of kung fu so, there you go.
You can watch this movie on youtube, if you are impatient and must see it immediately, but a large wide screen is better for this fine action film, slightly in the style of the 80s. There has been many versions of the Ip Man story made. This is the first film I watched and in a festival framework with real life champion and star doing live demo.
I often buy dvds of films - sometimes duplicates by error even - i think i would watch and they often stay for years before i come to it. This is the kind of movie goer I am.
Lovely actions and beautiful girls, with rich merchants setting and chinese courtyard house in southern Lingnan style. Just looking at the setting is a pleasure for me, and the costumes of course, and most importantly the acting and story logic.
There is one outstanding scene of the movie, from acting, to dialogue delivery - the way the actor speaks is a such a wonderful well paced - old style Cantonese way without rush, without attack, but smart alecky all the same, v common, like those smart old folks often uses to corner a younger person with words, which is totally correct to the character he played - This is the famous scene of the pharmacy, the old man doing a "parrying" session with Ip Man.
The character is played by the real son of Ip Man, at the time he was 86 already. Smooth in speech and action, with just the right amount of humour. Imagine, this old man doing kicks and arm locks, all the time saying becareful dont break my teabowls, dont mess up my medicine cabinet.... Outstanding scene.
The rest, is simple and straight forward enough, how the story goes with traitors, spies, evil cloaked female fighter, love interests, dainty love triangles, guy meets girl and how to get her name, in a very genteel way - they take a walk down a pretty tree lined garden path, and talk softly to each other, without getting her name! Taking time to slowly bantering... this is also a good scene.
Many good scenes, watch the movie yourself.
After screening
At the end of the screening, there was also a demo of where the fist is held just slightly above the waist, so the arm movements starts from the behind shoulder plates for power, because this type of fighting is best for short range, close up combat. You dont have the length like in boxing. So, you work your back shoulders, Mr.To, world champion in martial arts, showed and explained, wow such beautiful in the quick punches. Beautiful.
More
94 year old Ip Chun
Michelle Yeoh Wing Chun | Full length movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMOcAtHu3TE
杨紫琼大战飞天猩猩/咏春
Thursday, 12 October 2023
"Looking for a man", *** dir Tang Danian
"Looking for a man", *** dir Tang Danian
11oct-19oct2023 http://www.festivalducinemachinoisdeparis.com/
writer: Shuen-git Chow
The film opens with a v willing cheerful but not too peppy but rather very kind and considerate office lady in modern day Beijing. Its a story of complicated unspoken intriques, why must she go look for a husband? Because she got pregnant by ex husband who decidedly to disown being the father of the baby. Lady lives with an old kindly peppy grandfather. So she goes off to interview who the possible candidates in todays world of "husband" material.
I like the movie because I get to see contemporary Beijing, in the highrise residential estates with long open balconies - in the same set up as early 60 low rental housing in HK. However to own an apt in these high rise is not really low end, its the hard work of office people, just like our office lady.
She had won a big prize of a fancy car, a BMW? red, for the use of it for one year. She is an honest kindly person with upright sense of what is right and what is not right, however, this does not guarantee her getting the same treatment in return by the system or the people around her.
This movie straddles between the old, the new, the contemporary, the realities of middle class folks.
The movie itself is kind of trite in the use of jokes, the acting, very has been. However, the story is new, the details are full of life, somebody wants to tell a story.
The movie gets younger and younger as the sceneries change from hutongs, to high rise, to very pretty touristic settings hotels in Yunnan, where the hotel hosts has a sense of kindness and old days sensitivities unlike the reality of everyday real life at the office.
The "kidnapped" husband to be - who was a candidate for mariage by convenient fluke - gets better and better, instead of driving his 3 wheel moto taxi bike, he has a small white taxi car, and they joke around he is also interested in the baby, and accepts with natural good humour, gd human kindness, no prejudice if he were really the father or not unlike the real father, they will make it because they are both truly kind at heart.
I now skip over a lot of details, which is the joy of watching this movie. You must watch it to catch everything. There are open mike singing, vomitting at the club, etc etc. No, its not your best movie of the year, because on many levels its not polished enough, but very nice to watch all the same.
Also, there are many hidden non spoken realities that only someone who knows Beijing and contemporary history would have understood, why this why that, and the bitter sad unfair situations placed on the young baby bearing people.
If the woman did not keep this baby, she would not have had another chance, the social and legal rules made it that, it would have been over for her, shes not so much looking for a husband, she earns well enough on her own, she is looking for a way to have the baby and stay within the proper rules.
The actress is not your super cutie as usual, but someone believable, warm like a real human being, that in itself is a big risk and a sign of the quality of this movie.
"Turning 18", director Tchao-Ti HO
"Turning 18", director Tchao-Ti HO . For some reason, I don't see it as v hopeless sad and as terrible hardship as the presentation had hinted. It rather came through as a calm, rippling effect of how young people grow up in families that are not presented with a slick façade. The director has a v gd aesthetic sense, it's sets the tone v well right from the beginning w a yg adolescent girl sitting on a wooden bench rocking on it slightly listlessly. This sets the tone of the lives of the families we are about to see. And other shots of water reflection, the surface is moving but there is a shadow that remains in the same spot while the water surface moves on and on... the two young girls both are gd looking. One had a baby w an equally YG bf - also gd looking. The underlying hint seems to me to be that with the proper setting / supports these young people could have such a better future through better adult guidance. All this is v soft, no big violence, just like wasted time wasted opportunities. I did not feel deep sadness or shock. Maybe because in a North American setting much tougher scenes have been shown, both in docu and fictions. However, I still want to watch the movie v carefully. The ambiance the details the people, they are pure and not twisted w perversion. It's almost like, it's natural like wild flowers wild plants, without specific care it will grow as it can with all the luck or lack of luck in natural dosage, with time.
People grow up.
Tuesday, 10 October 2023
Sunday, 8 October 2023
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)