9 Songs

Hey, look, it’s Jessica Alba as a prostitute! A really classy looking prostitute, anyway. I was expecting truck stop dirty, but apparently Michael Winterbottom’s adaptation of Jim Thompson’s “The Killer Inside Me” is a period movie, with fedoras, classic cars, and movie picture shows and all that period stuff. From the guy who gave us “Nine Songs”, this is not quite what I was expecting. Aw, well, you can’t always get what you want. Some images from the movie, set for sometime in 2010, have surfaced over at Quiet Earth. Based on the novel by legendary pulp writer Jim Thompson, Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me tells the story of handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy Lou Ford. Lou has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his West Texas jurisdiction. And the fact he’s a sadist, »
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Chun Sue (left) and Taki Zhang in The Panda Candy
The Panda Candy is a quirky, unconventional film from Chinese musician/painter/filmmaker Peng Lei. Shot in a pseudo-documentary style with non-professional actors, the piece is certainly different, though audiences may disagree strongly on whether this is a good or a bad thing.
The story — such as it is — follows the adventures of two young women, played by Chun Sue (who penned the story that inspired the film) and Taki Zhang.
Taki’s character is a lesbian who floats around with the rock band New Pants (of which Peng Lei is the front man), dating all of the girls she meets as the band tours across China. The other woman, Chun, is more interested in guys, dating a string of men until she meets her apparent soul mate in Taki.
Instead of presenting a traditional narrative of the beginning-middle-end sort,
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