![]() ![]() ![]() You look up the net again and it says that it’s an erotic thriller. But wait, Killing Me Softly is by Chen Kaige? The same guy who made Farewell My Concubine? But this seems to be an English film starring Heather Graham and Joseph Fiennes. What about a Zhang Yimou? A friend was telling me that Cronica De Una Fuga is an interesting Argentinean thriller. But hang on, it’s more than three hours long not today. But wouldn’t the 1967 Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman be a better bet? What about Bunuel’s The Mexican Bus Ride, a film that I have never seen before? That can wait, let’s check out Amadeus again it has been a long time since I had seen and loved that film. Jeesuz, the man is still alive and making films! No, let’s watch the French Entre Les Murs instead, the 2008 winner of Palm d’Or in Cannes. Will it be Carol Reed’s Odd Man Out or Clint Eastwood’s 1971 Play Misty for Me this time? Or should it be a Korean film that vies with an obscure Portuguese film for your attention? You look up the net to check its credentials it seems promising but before you make up your mind, your focus has already shifted to the latest from Costa Gavras. On a rain swept evening, sitting inside your living room with a glass filled with Old Monk, recuperating from a hard day’s work, you decide to watch yet another film.
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