Sunday, December 17, 2006

Paris, je t'aime


"Paris je T'aime" has been the most worth-watching movie in all others played recently in Taiwan. Composed by eighteen stories directed by eighteen directors, respectively, "Paris je T'aime" makes itself a very special movie that differs from others in style. Sometimes freaky, sometimes touching. Maybe romantic, maybe thought-provoking. It's all because it's given birth by eighteen directors with completely distinctive genres.This film reminds me another one - "Love Actually". But actually I prefer "Love" to "Paris" in that the former is British English. ^_^ Just teasing. To be honest, "Love" is more complete and unabridged for the sake of plot. Whatsover they are both beautiful and intriguing.

Friday, December 01, 2006

BBC's recommended programmes of mine


Recently I am hooked to Elaine's Programme on BBC radio 2. There is another must-listen programme on radio 4 named "Just a Minute" hosted by Parsons. They are my sweetest desserts in my so-far bitter graguate life. Let's forget the bitterness, the sweetness is always the one that we are dedicated to pursue. Well, Elaine's programme is all about musicals or to be exact, Broadway.

Broadway has been my preference of musicals, especially for its type of music, i.e. theme songs of each famous Broadway musical, one of which is Déchire from Notre Dame de Paris which is also one of my favorite. Masquerade from The Phantom of The Operais much appreciated (at least by me). They are more and more and all in the list of CLASSIC. So, if any of you is appealed to it or my words arouses a little of your concerns or curiosities of it, then you may be happy to spare som time to listen to Elaine Paige on BBC radio two.

Another one that I have listened for long is Nichola Parsons's Just a Minute. As introduced by its title, every guset in the programme are given some successive topics and they hav the horrible task of speaking for one minute without hesitation or deviation by one of his school masters. It is soooooo hilarious to hear them breaking the rules! Though they speak in a very speedy speed (because they have to assert their ideas "in a minute") and thus gives rise to a lot of difficulty in understanding them, it is also a must-listen programme that I recommend much!