EL CINE PARADISO- LAUNCHED!!!!
There is no greater way to celebrate my love for glorious and distasteful cinema with a web blog exhibiting my uneducated thoughts on selected (lucky) films.....
Slagging off films can be fun, but I don't want to sound like a well-aged film critic venting her frustration at the stale state of contemporary cinema.
Stale? Hardly.
As colouful as popular films strive to portray, even some shit films can trigger an outburst of euphoria. By this I mean that some films can be so bad that they are actually worth laughing at.
Some films deserve to be immortalised for their stupidity.
And they will be spoken of in generations to come.
Such humour is vital when you are living in a culturally deprived country such as Malaysia. Why?
Because Spinning Gasing is a crap film. *
Because Actor's Studio preaches arrogance as high culture. *
Because many local 'film' students thought that Andrei Tarkovsky was a Baroque composer.
Last but not least, the Censorship Board was given a pair of scissors to make collages out of film reels.
The cultural salvation? Your local Ah Beng* DVD vendor.
Why? Because he smuggles art films mistaking them to be porn.
There is even a pirated Criterion copy of the Seventh Seal mistaken for a horror flick.
Quality DVDs for a measly £3!!
Oh Malaysia... how I love you.
Agree or disagree with my thoughts, that is your problem. El Cine Paradiso is here for your reading pleasure. Bienvenida!
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* Spining Gasing - a Malaysian film aimed at the foreign market but failed miserably. Bad actors. Misrepresentation of cultural identities.
* Actor's Studio- A miserable theatre space generally regarded as the culture hub in Malaysia. The ticket operator is the Queen of Sulk.
* Ah Beng- A Malaysian Townie.
Posted at 10:10 am by slamducky
