The story is about how a woman who thought she was dying in three months time followed her passion to learn the piano. FYP stands for "follow your passion".
Liked the good chemistry between the protagonist and her piano teacher!
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Sunday, October 30, 2016
Sweet Day
The story is about how a band struggled to stay together after many years.
Liked the little details that showed the bond among the band members and how they managed to keep their passion alive!
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Liked the little details that showed the bond among the band members and how they managed to keep their passion alive!
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God Knows
The story is about how a man fell in love with a deaf girl who plays in a band.
Was really surprised by the twist in the middle of the film! The director tried to explain what really happened towards the end but didn't think it was too convincing.
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Was really surprised by the twist in the middle of the film! The director tried to explain what really happened towards the end but didn't think it was too convincing.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Florence Foster Jenkins
The story is about how a rich amateur singer called Florence Foster Jenkins loved operas and sang to a large audience despite negative reviews.
Liked the positive can-do attitude of the protagonist played by Meryl Streep! Thought the singing lessons would start from basic, so was surprised that she knew quite a bit of the song already!
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Liked the positive can-do attitude of the protagonist played by Meryl Streep! Thought the singing lessons would start from basic, so was surprised that she knew quite a bit of the song already!
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016
La Ronde
The film consists of several inter-connected short stories about affairs by different couples.
Liked how everyone was linked together in one big circle! Thought the maid and the girl who loved to eat looked quite pretty!
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Liked how everyone was linked together in one big circle! Thought the maid and the girl who loved to eat looked quite pretty!
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Friday, April 08, 2016
Our Time, Our Story
This is a documentary about Taiwan New Wave cinema that is packaged together with the "A Brighter Summer Day" criterion DVD.
Liked the interviews and the old film clips that showed how people lived more than twenty years ago! Learnt quite a bit about Taiwan film history from this documentary!
Liked the interviews and the old film clips that showed how people lived more than twenty years ago! Learnt quite a bit about Taiwan film history from this documentary!
Saturday, April 02, 2016
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The story is about how Prince Achmed fought against a wizard to save a beautiful princess with the help of a witch.
Liked the interesting shadowy effects in the animation and the exciting fight scene towards the end!
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Liked the interesting shadowy effects in the animation and the exciting fight scene towards the end!
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Sunday, February 14, 2016
Cybercrimes with Ben Hammersley
This is a British documentary on different types of cybercrimes around the world.
Liked how the presenter slowly introduced the audience to the subject on location and the interviews with the relevant people!
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Liked how the presenter slowly introduced the audience to the subject on location and the interviews with the relevant people!
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Somm
This is a documentary on how a group of young men prepared for the master sommelier exam, one of the most difficult test in the world.
Read about the exam in the newspaper some time back so was interested to learn more about it. Liked the glimpse into the history of wine making around the world!
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Read about the exam in the newspaper some time back so was interested to learn more about it. Liked the glimpse into the history of wine making around the world!
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Blind Date
The story is about two neighbors falling in love with each other despite not having seen each other. Their wall is not sound proof and they could talk to each other.
Liked this charming little film! Can't really tell how great the piano performance was though except through the audience's reaction.
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Liked this charming little film! Can't really tell how great the piano performance was though except through the audience's reaction.
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After Porn Ends
This is a documentary on a group of people formerly from the porn industry.
Liked to hear how different people coped with the stigma of being in the industry and it affected their relationship with friends and family! Quite amazed to hear that one of them even ran for the governor of california elections!
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Liked to hear how different people coped with the stigma of being in the industry and it affected their relationship with friends and family! Quite amazed to hear that one of them even ran for the governor of california elections!
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Monday, February 08, 2016
Tesla: Master of Lightning
This is a documentary about Tesla the scientist who enabled electricity to be distributed to the masses in the early 20th century and who was a pioneer in radio communications.
I have seen the lightning demonstrations at Science Center but didn't realize that they originated from Tesla. I was impressed by Tesla's contributions but I thought some of his ideas could be far too ahead of his time to be implementable.
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I have seen the lightning demonstrations at Science Center but didn't realize that they originated from Tesla. I was impressed by Tesla's contributions but I thought some of his ideas could be far too ahead of his time to be implementable.
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Saturday, February 06, 2016
Why Planes Vanish
This is a documentary about the science behind the mystery of the disappearance of flight MH370.
Liked how the scientific principles of airplane tracking are explained in simple terms for the layman to understand! Didn't realize that there were so many gaps with present technology!
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Liked how the scientific principles of airplane tracking are explained in simple terms for the layman to understand! Didn't realize that there were so many gaps with present technology!
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Airplane!
The story is about how a series of incidents almost led to an air disaster.
Liked the visual gags and the play on words comedy! Might be a little bit politically incorrect at times but the auto pilot looks quite cute!
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Liked the visual gags and the play on words comedy! Might be a little bit politically incorrect at times but the auto pilot looks quite cute!
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Sunday, January 31, 2016
Fantastic Mr Fox
This is an animation film adapted from Roald Dahl's short story of the same title. It describes how a fox family managed to outwit a group of business owners.
Liked the nice stop motion animation and how the wild animals worked together as a team!
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Liked the nice stop motion animation and how the wild animals worked together as a team!
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
Particle Fever
This is a documentary on the large hadron collider (LHR) at CERN and how it helped to discover the Higgs Boson in 2012.
Liked the interesting computer animation of how the LHR worked! Thought the acne spot on one of the postdoc's face was a bit distracting though.
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Liked the interesting computer animation of how the LHR worked! Thought the acne spot on one of the postdoc's face was a bit distracting though.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Secrets of Her Majesty's Secret Service
This is a documentary about the British Secret Service MI6.
Liked the account of the cracking of Enigma during Second World War and the interviews with the former agents!
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Liked the account of the cracking of Enigma during Second World War and the interviews with the former agents!
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Monday, January 25, 2016
Back in Time
This is a documentary on the "Back to the Future" series.
Learnt about many interesting "Back to the Future" related events such as theme parks and car shows!
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Learnt about many interesting "Back to the Future" related events such as theme parks and car shows!
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Sunday, January 24, 2016
Atari: Game Over
This is a documentary about the rise and fall of the video game company Atari.
Liked how the director presented the view points from different groups of people: fans, programmers and historians! Quite amazed by how the protagonist could develop a game in just five weeks!
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Liked how the director presented the view points from different groups of people: fans, programmers and historians! Quite amazed by how the protagonist could develop a game in just five weeks!
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Friday, January 01, 2016
Goodbye CP
This is a documentary about cerebral palsy in Japan during the early seventies.
Liked how the director dived deep into the personal lives of a few individuals to show us how it was like to be inflicted with cerebral palsy! Felt sad for one of them who had to cancel his poem reading session as the authorities called it a freak show.
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Liked how the director dived deep into the personal lives of a few individuals to show us how it was like to be inflicted with cerebral palsy! Felt sad for one of them who had to cancel his poem reading session as the authorities called it a freak show.
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