Images and words from Beijing by a Sydney-based British journalist. Most photos were taken with an old Leica III or a Contax IIa, using print film or slides.
Thursday, October 01, 2009
List of DVDs
Swing Time (Astaire)
Top Hat
The Barklees of Broadway
Shall We Dance
Broadway Melody of 1940
Spellbound (Hitchcock)
Vertigo
North by Northwest
Stage Fright
Notorious
Giant (James Dean)
The Big Country
Treasures of the Sierra Madre (Bogart)
Malta Story
Fort Apache (John Wayne)
The Ice Harvest
Saving Private Ryan
City Lights (Chaplin)
Limelight
How to Marry a Millionaire
The Man in the White Suit
One of Our Aircraft is Missing
The Extra Man
Camille
Bobby
The Ghost Writer
Revolutionary Road
The Great Northfield Minnesota Riad
Away All Boats
The Philadelphia Story
Open City
Under Capricorn
The Red Badge of Courage
Stalag 17
Between Heaven and Hell
The Good Shepherd
Stromboli
Brute Force
Moulin Rouge (1950s version)
Spartan
Henry V (Olivier)
Island in the Sky (John Wayne)
The Enemy Below
Gran Torino
Arsenic and Old Lace
East of Eden (James Dean)
SummerTime
Tunes of Glory
A Place in the Sun
Zulu
The Way Ahead
Happy Go Lucky
Nowhere Boy
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
Clockwork Orange
The Godfather Part 2
Fight Club
Beautiful Kate
Wallace & Gromit - The Were Rabbit
Pygmalion
Red River (John Wayne)
Slingblade
Lawrence of Arabia
The History Boys
Gandhi
Citizen Kane
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Blood Simple
The Machinist
Stagecoach (John Wayne)
Sunset Boulevard
The Aviator
The Lives of Others
Come and See
Tora Tora Tora
Be Cool
Babel
The Lady Killers (1950s)
Che
The Fallen Idol
Doubt
Laughter in Paradise
High Noon
The Asphalt Jungle
Walkabout
Freeway
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
The Pianist
Children of Men
The Story of GI Joe
A Yank in the RAF
Mister Roberts
Adaptation
Volver
Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley)
The Bishops Wife
Days of Glory
Duel in the Sun
Grapes of Wrath
Valkyrie
Black Narcissus
Letters from Iwo Jima
They Were Expendable
North Country
Run Silent Run Deep
I’ll Be Seeing You
Flags of Our Fathers
Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Look Both Ways
Homicide
Sabrina
The Ox-Bow Incident
Land of Plenty
Brokeback Mountain
Notes on a Scandal
Life Aquatic
Henry VIII
The End of the Affair (40s)
All About Eve
His Girl Friday
Casino Jack
The Thin Red Line
WW2 in Colour
Empire of the Sun
Bottle Rocket
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Katyn [Polish only]
Dam Busters
American Graffiti
The Longest Day
I Love You Philip Morris
Body of Lies
Dark Blue World
Crazy Heart
You Don’t Know Jack
Crash Dive (40s)
The Ascent
Winters Bone
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Beijing residents read that their homes are to be demolished
Poster says that houses in the Nanluoguxiang district will be demolished to make way for subway line number 5
Sunday, June 28, 2009
A few pics from my recent sojourn through Beijing
I stupidly booked my stopover in Beijing during the middle of the anniversary of Tiananmen - arriving on the 6th of June. I just didn't think about it when i booked my tickets. I was also lucky to get into the country because I travelled at the height of the swine flu hysteria, when all passengers arriving in China were being tested for signs of a fever - and quarantined automatically for 7 days if they had so much as a sniffle or hot forehead.
Anyway, I made it in and had Saturday and Sunday to wander round a drizzly Beijing, including a trip out to my favourite temple, Jietai Si. I satyed at the Downtown Hostel on Nanluogu Xiang - excellent value, friendly service and right in the middle of the bar district. Highly recommended. (And you can book online).
Here's a few of the snaps I took with my Nikon 35Ti and the Leica R7, both mostly using Kodak Ektachrome slide film.
The new Beijing airport: nice building and everything runs smoothly, but you can't buy anything to read in English! Rubbish!
Masks are the big thing in China. But they still hoick and spit everywhere.
Nice arty shot of some ignorant peasants who took over the whole seating area to crash out, air their socks and generally deny the seating to anyone else. Twats.
The Pass By Bar - where I spent most of my time drinking zhapi (draught beer).
Street life.
Kids playing cards on the street.
Group waiting by the exit of the Forbidden City.
Forbidden City.
Hutong stuff.
Another tower.
Beihai Lake.
Anyway, I made it in and had Saturday and Sunday to wander round a drizzly Beijing, including a trip out to my favourite temple, Jietai Si. I satyed at the Downtown Hostel on Nanluogu Xiang - excellent value, friendly service and right in the middle of the bar district. Highly recommended. (And you can book online).
Here's a few of the snaps I took with my Nikon 35Ti and the Leica R7, both mostly using Kodak Ektachrome slide film.
The new Beijing airport: nice building and everything runs smoothly, but you can't buy anything to read in English! Rubbish!
Masks are the big thing in China. But they still hoick and spit everywhere.
Nice arty shot of some ignorant peasants who took over the whole seating area to crash out, air their socks and generally deny the seating to anyone else. Twats.
The Pass By Bar - where I spent most of my time drinking zhapi (draught beer).
Street life.
Kids playing cards on the street.
Group waiting by the exit of the Forbidden City.
Forbidden City.
Hutong stuff.
Another tower.
Beihai Lake.
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