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My 2020 Letterboxd Year in Review + More!

January 16, 2021 — 4 Comments

My only Letterboxd anticipated message came in the other day, but I took a little bit longer to post because the better side of my OCD got to me.

But here it is!

I went on a Stephen Chow binge, and got to watch a bunch of Hrishikesh Mukherjee films for MUBI. Not to be the Debbie Downer of the terrible 2020, but I hope 2021 picks up. This is the first time in my movie-watching history that I only have one single 4-star rating in my Year Films Ranked list. Two titles if you consider Marona’s Fantastic Tale.

This 2021, I have decided to shut off social media and restart blogging once again. It doesn’t matter if it’s into a blackhole of information. I’ve started with this Spanish translation of a review for Zoya Akhtar’s Dil Dhadakne Do, since the film is in rotation at the Indian entertainment channel ZeeMundo. We also have a proper Spanish title for Haider (!).

Oscar Ballot 2020

January 13, 2020 — Leave a comment

I’m probably two weeks ahead, compared to my Ballot posting last year, which means my Independent Spirit Awards ballot is still halfway done, but my Academy voting ballot is pretty complete.

I might end up watching The Two Popes, but all I’m really waiting for to open in theaters is Bombshell (which opens this Thursday), Little Women and 1917. Harriet is never going to open down here, but I really got a soft spot for this type of movies.

I’m really REALLY surprised Girl in the Hallway didn’t make the cut. You can watch the short on Vimeo.

La Noria by Carlos Baena

It’s a beautifully animated and textured short. Spooky enough, but I’m not crying, YOU ARE.

Posted on October 30, 2019 In English, Sharing, Short Films, Spanish 3d animation, animation, reasons why my dad is cool, short film, spain

Possibly my Best Award Season Ballot~

January 28, 2019 — 1 Comment

I’m ready to vote! I received the most digital screeners this year so far, so it’s been easier (and it’s made it lazy-proof) to sit through dozens of screeners. Plus, Netflix has a lot of the nominated movies readily available too. This year is possibly my best award season ballot in my history of keeping up with ballots. lol

It’s not only my Spirit Awards ballot~

I also have a pretty complete Oscar ballot. lol

Oscar 2017-2018 Watched List

January 27, 2018 — Leave a comment

You know, for a year when I didn’t watch that many movies, I’m doing pretty good. LOL Confession! I haven’t been following award season, it does feel like it’s my second or third year already. I do know that people have been freaking out because all critic guilds and industry guilds have been awarding all different movies. As the saying goes~ todos parecen más perdidos que cuy en tómbola!

Here’s my Spirit Award one.

Light blue highlights mean watched, hot pink are pending, and green on the queue already.

My favorite competing film this year (so far) is Lady Bird coz it got me in the feels. I wouldn’t mind The Shape of Water winning, though. Considering BAFTA nominations (Producers’ Guild win and Directors’ Guild nom), The Shape of Water does seem to have a love more momentum than actors-backed Three Billboards, and this one also has a strong BAFTA showing.

Fun fact, yo! Darkest Hour, Phantom Thread and Victoria & Abdul are [most likely] the first Chinese-backed films that make it to Oscar. All backed by Perfect World Pictures (北京完美影视传媒) [1].

Oscar 2016-2017 Watched List~

February 26, 2017 — Leave a comment

Wow~ ~~it’s been AGES since I’ve done one of these~~ [1][2][3]. Most likely since The Academy decided to change their one-page printable ballot into a two-page one. But~~~ I feel this is my best watching year in a long time xD

Correction: I did one xD

The Bing Bong Feelings Are Real~

July 4, 2016 — Leave a comment

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So I finally re-watched Inside Out in Original English audio track, and the feelings for Bing Bong were more real than ever. When I originally went to the theater to catch it in one of the late at night shows, it was still presented in Spanish dub and parents with children were still there. One of them parents ruined the movie for me when, at the moment of said tears, his daughter (seating behind us) began to tear up. He did what parents shouldn’t do—- he shamed his kid saying “why are you crying? Is this a scary movie?”

Eff you, dad. Let your kid cry, it’s a freaking emotional scene in the movie. And who the eff cries in scary movies? Se dice “ya pasó, ya pasó” so you can calm your kid down.

Really makes me think of never ever going to big movies because people can ruin your experience.

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New Year Resolutions and Favorite Films!

December 25, 2015 — 1 Comment

Merry Christmas, everyone! I spent all day listening to Xmas music xD

During this year’s family dinner, I made a decision on my New Year resolution- I bow to try to not be a moral superior asshole in discussions. And I kowtow to those I had ugly discussions with (if any), if I ever made you scream at your screen- I’m sorry. I had an ugly discussion about food! FOOD! A discussion on food got ugly! LOL It was like being on an internet forum, and I kept feeding the troll. I’m sorry.

Anyway~

Today I decided to not stress over my End of the Year list any longer, so I finally published my list of Favorite Films of 2015~

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I managed to get 195, without counting the films that I didn’t rank because I don’t rate certain documentaries. I managed to squeeze in Carol, The Revenant, and Spotlight… which did almost crack my Top10 Films in English. I wonder if I hadn’t post the list, if it would’ve placed differently.

Oh, that also means that, just like my movie collection, I’ve segregated my lists by languages. There’s a general list, but also included lists for films in English, Chinese/Mandarin, Indian, Latino and Miscellaneous languages, which includes all languages that I didn’t watch enough films for a proper Top10.

Best 100 Films of this Decade so Far

Well~ that was a LONG process. Buth ere it is, after nearly four months of movie-watching and voting… the YAM Magazine team’s favorite movies of this decade so far~ Hope you find one you like, discover one… and that we included some of your favorites!

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Do your thing~

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The Show-Off Film Collection List~

Oh, Happy Chinese New Year! Let’s start my (supposedly) bad-luck Goat Year with the now-mandatory Letterboxd list of my film collection~

I have a really weird history with films– born in the late 80s, you’d think I would’ve grown watching loads of 90s kids stuff, but I actually grew up with a lot of Silly Symphonies (which were released in the 30s) and loads of Disney 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s stuff, plus a lot of more grown up 80s movies. Poltergeist, The Thing, The Fly and The Stuff were particularly scary stuff (and I’m pretty sure I was scared of yogurt or white stuff at some point).

I don’t ever remember buying any original VHS tape, except for the rare birthday gift of a Disney’s Sing-Along Songs chapter or that X-Men tape I have. My first DVDs buys were Coyote Ugly, She’s All That and Loser — you can’t blame me. I was a 15-year-old girl. The collection grew bigger, and possibly exploded during my years abroad. I’m nearing my 500th movie.

Posted on February 19, 2015 In Chinese, DVD/BR, English, Films, French, Japanese, Korean, Misc., Russian, Screencaps, Sharing, Spanish, Swedish 2d classical animation, 3d animation, adele, alfonso cuaron, amy adams, amy poehler, amy wong, ang lee, animation, anna kendrick, aoi miyazaki, audrey tautou, ayumi ito, bae doona, baz lurhman, ben affleck, bibi chow (zhou bichang), bjork, brad pitt, brendan fletcher, bruce lee, bryan fuller, canada, carly pope, cate blanchett, celtic woman, charlize theron, chiaki kuriyama, china, christian bale, christina aguilera, christina applegate, christopher nolan, chulpan khamatova, concert, contemporary classics, daniel radcliffe, danny boyle, darren aronofsky, david fincher, dead like me, diablo cody, disney, documentary/making-of, dr. horrible's sing-along blog, eason chan, eita, ellen degeneres, ellen page, emma watson, eric bana, eva green, evan rachel wood, ewan mcgregor, fandom, faye wong, firefly, france, gael garcia bernal, gong li, greta garbo, guillermo del toro, gwyneth paltrow, harry potter, hayao miyazaki, heath ledger, helena bonham carter, his dark materials, hugh jackman, independent, india, jake gyllenhaal, japan, javier bardem, jean pierre jeunet, jena malone, joan crawford, joe odagiri, joseph gordon-levitt, joss whedon, juhi chawla, julianne moore, juliette binoche, jurassic park, kate winslet, kenichi matsuyama, kore-eda, korea, kou shibasaki, kwai lun-mei, lars von trier, latin america, madhuri dixit, maggie cheung, maggie gyllenhaal, marion cotillard, martin scorsese, mary-louise parker, matt damon, mcdull, meryl streep, michael arias, michel gondry, michelle williams, mikako ichikawa, miki nakatani, movie classics, mtv, musical/choreography, naomi watts, natalie portman, neil patrick harris, nicole kidman, nobuhiro yamashita, olivia williams, performance, peru, philip pullman, pink, pixar, quentin tarantino, rachel weisz, rani mukerji, ranveer singh, rie miyazawa, roman polanski, russia, ryan gosling, ryo kase, salyu, sanjay leela bhansali, saoirse ronan, sarah michelle gellar, sarah polley, scarlett johansson, shahrukh khan, shakespeare, shinobu yaguchi, short film, shu qi, shunji iwai, silent films, spain, spike jonze, steve carell, studio ghibli, sweden, tabu (actress), taiwan, tetsuya nakashima, tim burton, toni collette, tony leung, ueno juri, vh1, vidya balan, vishal bhardwaj, wong kar-wai, yu aoi, zhang yimou, zhao wei (vicky zhao)

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