My Weekly Books and Films Update
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HAPPY THINGS:
1. Yummy classic ramen at Ippudo (here) - this place always has a long line, but we decided to give it the wait and it turned out to be a delicious delight
2. Picking up a lucky penny
3. Member's Preview night at SF MOMA - Silver Clouds from the Andy Warhol exhibit
Bought:
by Han Ong
-Literary, LGBTQ, Filipino | Goodreads
FOR a future Filipino themed self reading challenge.
Author event:
The Bindery hosted a reading and Q&A with author, Helen Phillips, to celebrate the release of The Need.
by Helen Phillips
-Horror, Thriller | Goodreads
Library:
by Andrew Sean Greer
-Contemporary, LGBTQ | Goodreads
FOR the hype and it is a Winner of the Pulitzer Prize 2018.
by Britta Röstlund
-Contemporary, France, Paris | Goodreads
One woman's journey from the fast lane
to a slow stroll in Paris
by Janice Macleod
-Memoir, France, Paris | Goodreads
BOTH for Paris in July. BTW: I updated the post with a couple pictures (here).
AND watched: in theatre
Director: Alan Grovenar
Featuring: Ed Hardy
-Documentary, Art | website | my rating: 5
The history of American tattoos is, like that of any other art form, driven through movements and generations. In TATTOO UPRISING, which carefully studies the work of extraordinary American tattoo artists such as Ed Hardy, Stoney St. Clair, and Jamie Summers, we see how American tattooing art and culture evolved and grew through these young visionaries and tattoo masters alike. Also featuring Werner Herzog and Les Blank.
WANTED to see this before going to the “Ed Hardy: Deeper than Skin“ exhibit at the de Young Museum, July 13, 2019 – October 6, 2019.
Wonderful dose of American history and culture of the tattoo phenomena.
Director/Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Actor/Writer: Uma Thurman
Based on book by:
Stars: David Carradine, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
-Action, Crime, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 5
After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
DID a re-watch to prep for the upcoming Tarantino release of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Loved this mashup of things western, Japanese and revenge.
AND watched: in theatre for Hong Kong Film Festival (here)
Director/Screenplay: Tsui Shan Tsang
Original story: Link Sng
Writer: Anna Yuet Shan Lai
Stars: Charlene Choi, Kang Ren Wu, Kwok Keung Cheung
-Drama, Hong Kong | imdb | my rating: 5
Siu Man is a nurse who has lost who she is as a person. Her marriage has ended partly due to her fear of intimacy and, having been abandoned by her husband, she now faces losing her father after he is hospitalised. Siu Man decides to reboot her life by taking over her father's restaurant but without the experience of being a chef, she has to hire someone. In steps Chia-hao, a Paris-trained cordon bleu chef, who is a free spirit but also treats cooking as serious philosophy and is able to recreate her father's culinary style. It seems that the handsome chef cooks up a storm in and out of the kitchen as he helps Siu Man learn to deliver delicious food and his delicious looks arouses her desire. Through him, Siu Man faces her fear of intimacy head-on and liberates herself.
LIKED how this character came into her own. Quite sexy with steamy scenes and I heard that some parts were edited out for some screenings in China.
* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently
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