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薄面佬 [Mee Pok Man] (Eric Khoo, 1995)
May
24
National Caterers Appreciation Day
Bunny (Michelle Goh) leaning on a small table littered with empty beer bottles. Mee Pok (Joe Ng) is to her left, holding a stack of dirty dishes. In the background, a large pile of noodle boxes leans against the restaurant wall. DP: Yoke Weng Ho.
At night, a small group of prostitutes frequent a local 面薄 / mee pok #restaurant. One of them, Bunny (Michelle Goh), caught the hawker's eye, but she's not interested in the “mee pok” (the “fish ball”, as they call the vendor) (Joe Ng) and besides she has a boyfriend. Then, a car crash. Bunny is left for dead in front of the eatery. He takes her in, preparing endless meals
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Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962)
Feb
11
Global Movie Day
Nana (Anna Karina) crying in a dark movie theatre while watching Carl Theodor Dreyer's La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928). DP: Raoul Coutard.
A fascinating overlap with The Savage Eye (1959), a film #Godard must have been familiar with in 1962.
“Maybe I'll get into the movies.”
– Nana
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Françoise Durocher, Waitress (André Brassard, 1972)
Feb
9
freebie: Customer Service Day
23 actresses and one person in drag play the part of Québécois waitress Françoise Durocher in seven monologues.
“One grilled cheese, two slices of toast, two coffees. One pepper steak no chili and a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. Two glasses of milk. One plate of spare ribs. A chicken in a basket with three cups of honey. One lean smoked meat sandwich with pickles and mustard. One two-cream coffee and two club sandwiches. Two clubs.”
– Françoise Durocher
Watch the short on the NFB website.
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にっぽん戦後史 マダムおんぼろの生活 [Nippon Sengoshi – Madamu onboro no Seikatsu / History of Postwar Japan (Shōhei Imamura, 1970)
Jan
17
Customer Service Day
