Sushiesque: In The Mood For Love at the Harvard Film Archive

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Akash: Half of the world. What is it ? The world is divided up into seas and continents. There are hot places and there are cold. There are many religions in the world. There are animals, insects, fish etc. There are gases, liquids, metals etc. There is man and woman. There is good and bad. There is happy and sad. The answer is non of the above or even closely related to the above. need help with this one and ASAP....

rick: wait, is the name of your font "big gay"?

sushiesque: currently, the name of my font is "this is a test". I've only done I, J, and H (in that order), and it gets bigger and gayer with each successive letter.

Quise: Ok I have a riddle for you all. "my presence is needed, even though many do like like me around, I can create life and sound but also cause fear..... what am I?

Jack Morava: You might like `The Crying of Lot 49' by Thomas Pynchon (nowhere near as good as Valis, tho). There's a huge wiki page about it... (:+{)}

chris: You should submit this to "Why a Tittle?" ! I'm a huge fan of your page.

obo: Wheeeee! http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/le_petit

infinityisalie: The Rather Difficult Font Game http://fontgame.ilovetypography.com/

name: eh, je cherche killme (yeah), ca fait un moment (yeah baby) qu il ne répond plus (yeah), j ai peur qu avec ses rhumatismes (roll over yeah baby) il soit rester coincé (yeah) dans sa chaise (yeah bab’) :)

Wong Kar-Wai makes films in which absolutely nothing happens, and it's always a gorgeous, gorgeous nothing.

In The Mood For Love is a film about Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung passing like (elegantly-coiffed) ships in the (grungy-staircased, plucked-stringed) night, and until they (very slowly) fall in love over martial arts serials and sesame syrup and Nat King Cole records in Spanish. They rehearse lines for their not-affair, ride in taxis not-holding hands, and take pains to cover up their not-trysts (and have the hottest not-sex I've seen since seasons five and seven of Buffy). Their less scrupulous spouses take frequent "business trips" to Japan and carry on the actual affair, which one imagines to be not a fraction as intense.

I would die for Maggie Cheung's dresses with their tall collars and their intensely-patterned fabrics. As much as I want them, though, and as much as I want her stockings with the seams up the back, and her red trenchcoat, what I want more is the way she wears them, and the way she climbs the stairs, and the sway of the turquoise thermos she carries around Hong Kong. Ditto for Tony Leung's suits, and more so, the way they get soaked in slow-motion rainstorms, and the way he leans against a wall. If I could smoke cigarettes the way Tony Leung smokes cigarettes, I would take up smoking and let it kill me.

In The Mood For Love is set in Hong Kong in the sixties, but one gets the sense that even if these people existed right now, anywhere, they'd be just the same, exemplifying the advice of Achewood's Ray: "Be the new cool. Be the coat and tie in the sea of exposed thongs and boxer shorts."