Ho Lin
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Live Free or Die Hard (2007, Dir. Len Wiseman): “You’re a Timex watch in a digital world.” — Thomas Gabriel “Yippie-kay-yay, mother–” [gunshot] — Det. John McClane The two quotations…
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Ocean’s 13 (2007, Dir. Steven Soderbergh): Willie Bank: This town might have changed, but not me. I know people highly invested in my survival, and they are people who really…
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[Originally posted to the Camberwell Carrot blog] Songwriting’s a funny thing. And no, I’m not going to get all confessional and twee on you. I’ll let my bandmates Tim, Jason…
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Once (2006, Dir. John Carney): Once, Once I knew how to look for you Once, Once But that was before Once, Once I would have laid down and died for…
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): When you’re going downhill on skis at forty miles an hour and someone’s trying to put a bullet in your back,…
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The Other Half (2006, Dir. Ling Yiang) “Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.” — Henry Rollins On the face of it, this is…
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The Old Garden (2006, Dir. Im Sang-Soo): “Life is long, history is longer.” — Oh Hyung-Woo, The Old Garden One of the reasons modern Korean cinema is so popular, in…
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Singapore Dreaming (2006, Dir. Yen Yen Woo, Colin Goh) “We wanted to present Singapore family life today — which is quite screwed-up and dysfunctional.” — Yen Yen Woo I must…
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How Is Your Fish Today? (2006, Dir. Xiaolu Guo) “I think it must be nice because that’s how I imagine it.” — Tourist interviewed on train to Mohe What do…
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A Few Days Later… (2006, Dir. Niki Karimi) This is my lifetime’s work. — Female author, A Few Days Later… It’s been about a decade since Abbas Kiarostami put Iran…