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Turquaze
I had my first taste of a light hearted romantic romp at the HKIFF last night. I saw the Turquaze. It’s a film about the kind of changes in the lives of a trio of Turkish brothers in Flemish Gent … Continue reading
Cirkus Columbia
Last night was a Friday night that I shall never forget. I saw my third film of the HKIFF. I was deliriously happy about what I saw. It was a beautiful film in many ways. It starts with a shot … Continue reading
Beyond
My second film at the HKIFF is the Swedish Svinalängorna (literally “the Swine Rows”, the housing project where part of the film is set) or in its English name Beyond, directed and co- screenplayed by one of Ingar Bergman’s fomer … Continue reading
Dvorak in Hong Kong
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) is a Czech who devoted a great part of his life to colllecting of folk melodies of his native Bohemia and is considered by some as the father of its Czech national music. Two weeks ago, we … Continue reading
The Rites
Friday night was frightening. I saw a film. It was called “The Rite”, a film on exorcism based upon Matt Baglio’s book The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist, directed by Mikael Hafstrom, starring that excellent veteran actor Anthony … Continue reading
A View on Blaise Pascal.2
The talk on Pascal on Sunday was on his views on the Christian faith. It was given by Dr. Richard Lee, an assistant professor at Baptist University who obtained a Ph. D at the University of Leuven, Belgium. According to … Continue reading
Sheng Yen on Making Distinctions
Read another chapter of Sik Sheng Yen’s(釋聖巖) Zen (Chán) and Enlightenment (禪與悟) last night. During the process, something very peculiar happened. Before reading it, I was thinking that I would like to read something on the tendency our mind to … Continue reading
How to See God
Read another chapter of Krishnamurti’s “On God”. It is about sacredness and how to find God or the ground of our Being. It forms part of his talk at Saanen on lst August 1965. Krishnamurti thinks that when we listen … Continue reading
Chou Meng-tieh’s “Angling” 周夢蝶的『垂釣』
Attending a talk on Zen wisdom last night piqued my interest in Zen-ish poetry. So I read a short poem by a Taiwanese poet born in Xichuan county of Henan (河南省淅川縣) called Chou Meng-tieh 周夢蝶 (b. 1921) originally called 周起述. According to … Continue reading
Arthur Rimbaud’s “Après le Deluge” 阿爾圖.藍波的『水劫後』
Arthur Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) 雅塞.藍波 was 18 when he composed the famous suite of incomplete prose poems called Les Illuminations ( or colored plates) written in 1874-1875 and published later in 1886 by his patron and for a short time lover, … Continue reading
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