Today is a special day-International Women’s Day, so I’d like to recommend a special film for all the women.

Film: A Good Woman
Director: Mike Barker
Cast: Helen Hunt/Scarlett Johansson/Tom Wilkinson

A Good Woman is a drama film adapted from Oscar Wild’s famous play Lady Windermere’s Fan.
I just want to comment on a few insightful sentences in the movie.

1. Marriage is based on mutual misconceptions.
How many secrets husband and wife keep from each other, though some of them are out of good intentions? Sometimes the good intentions cause greater hurt rather than telling the truth. Robert doesn’t want to reveal the identity of Mrs Erlynne to Meg just because he doesn’t want to shatter her fairy-tale imagination of her mother. But what is the price? Meg is crazy that her husband falls in love with another woman. She is at the verge of being seduced by Lord Darlington if not her mother finds out her in time. Maybe others would put the blame on Meg, why she just simply believes in her husband?
I think it’s easy to say and hard to do. How can you judge whether your sweetheart betrays you? Wait and see? Actually Meg has seen it by her own eyes that her husband stays with Mrs. Erlynne and gives her money. If I were Meg, I would not believe Robert, either. I think Robert is the one who to blame, why doesn’t just tell Meg the truth? Is it so difficult to put it straight rather than seeing their marriage destroyed? Talked about Meg, the fault is that she wants to revenge, to get Robert’s notice again by plunging into another man’s breast. Anyway, I should say, people become real fools when they fall in love, so whether we’ll make the same mistakes is hard to say.

Scarlett Johansson in the film

2. Before you get married, you have to keep your eyes open widely and after marriage, only half open.
Actually not only the marriage, but all the important choices in life should be considered carefully beforehand, and after you’ve made the choice, you’d better do your best to make it as good as possible, not to regret, because that’s only waste of time

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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis/Marion Cotillard/Penélope Cruz/Judi Dench/Stacy Ferguson/Kate Hudson /Nicole Kidman/ Sophia Loren

“They are the only movies telling the truth about the modern world: the death of religion and sexual revolution” the most memorable line from the glossiest film of the year of 2009-Nine, which is also considered with the best cast of the year.

“Nine,” from the Broadway musical, is a movie about a famous director’s creative blockage and sexual confusion, but not quite in the way it wants to be. Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” (its putative inspiration) than a travesty.
“I can’t make this movie,” the director sings. It seems that he is busily doing everything but making a movie. Escaping from the news conference, dating with his mistress, and keeping falling into nostalgia. The only hope to save him from such messy situation lies in his wife.  His name is Guido, and while his co-workers and admirers call him Maestro, his mastery is purely notional. He made some great films in the past, apparently, but now, in Rome in the mid-1960s, he finds himself in a professional and personal ebb just as his new project, the vague-sounding epic “Italia,” is about to commence shooting.

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“My husband makes movies,” sings Marion Cotillard, with upswept Audrey Hepburn hair and an air of resignation. She was once mistaken Guido’s behaviors on the casting day was especial for her. And when he asks the heat-broken wife for help, her sympathy and love push her to the fickle husband. But again and again, he breaks her heart consciously or unconsciously. And finally, she left him and get together with another man happily.
None of the rest of Guido’s ladies are so lucky. It must be said that “Nine” is an impressive feat of casting, with a shocking number of Oscar winners and nominees assembled in the service of its dubious and incoherent cause. Judi Dench is Guido’s costume designer and confidante. Penélope Cruz is his super-seductive mistress, Carla, a married woman with serious mascara issues. Nicole Kidman is a Nordic actress meant to conjure memories of Anita Ekberg, though sadly she does not walk around with a kitten on her head. Sophia Loren is Guido’s Mamma, and Kate Hudson is a Vogue reporter who flings herself in his direction.

Edward & his wife

Film: Big Fish
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor/ Albert Finney/ Jessica Lange/ Helena Bonham Carter

Do you want to see something special? Possibly something that will have you look at relationships and life in a slightly different way.
If you are, then Big Fish could be just the thing you are after.
It is a gentle and whimsical story of Edward Bloom (Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor) whose tall tales of his life makes him attractive to almost everybody.
One person who is not so keen on the stories is his son Will who has kept distance from his dad because he doesn’t believe Edward is being truthful with him.

The two are reunited when Ed falls critically ill and Will returns from France with his wife Josephine to spend time with him.
Through a series of flashbacks the tale of Ed Bloom’s adventurous life is told and the essence of it is his fidelity for his

Colorful Life of Young Edward

wife.
Big Fish is a quiet and colorful film that includes mysterious villages, circus acts, giants, witches, strange things, and true love. You are pretty sure that Ed’s tales are fictional, but then in a Burton movie you can never tell. You may feel this film is the illusion of Burton’s ideal life. That’s also my guess. The fearless, persistent Edward is just the ideal image of Tim Burton. If so, I will love Tim Burton more than ever
The cast is superb with both Finney and MacGregor (who plays the younger Ed) performing brilliantly. The video transfer is exquisite and the soundtrack is very harmonious.
Big Fish an exceptional tale that will leave you feeling pleasantly surprised. It is a movie that should be seen by absolutely everyone – young and old.

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Here comes Valentine’s day, I’d like to recommend a classic affactional film for you and your lover. Enjoy~

Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

Adapted from a bestselling novel, The Notebook is the simple story of a privileged young woman who falls in love with a inferior boy.
The story has an unusual framework: it begins at a nursing home, where an elderly woman suffering from dementia is paid a visit by a man who offers to read her a story. As the film develops – mostly in amber-hued flashbacks to the 1940s – it becomes apparent that the older man and woman have a pivotal stake in the following story. The main action revolves around 17-year old Allie Hamilton, a free-spirited young woman whose rebellious instincts are tempered by her strict, domineering parents. While summering in the town of Seabrook, Allie catches the eye of one of the local boys, a charismatic lumberyard worker named Noah Calhoun .
Despite their wildly different backgrounds,  it is not long before the two become inseparable, much to the horror of Allie’s upper-crust family.
Eventually, Allie’s mother intervenes, insisting on an end to the romance and dragging her daughter back to the family home in Charleston. While Allie is reluctantly shipped off to university in New York, Noah stays in Seabrook, writing his beloved letters every day for a year. Thanks to Mrs. Hamilton, the letters go unread, and Noah decides to give up. Shortly thereafter, he enlists in the army and goes off to Europe to fight in the war.
Once the war ends, Noah decides to put his all into building the dream house that he and Allie spoke of in their youth. His discovery of Allie’s engagement to a rich, handsome war veteran only fuels his determination, and it is not long before the two cross paths meet again.

the most romantic scene

To be fair, the story is filled with enough clichés to sink the boat that Noah is seen doggedly rowing in order to vent the frustrations of his lost love. The Notebook is a soapy, glossy drama that gives the audience what it wants and then some.
Taking this into consideration makes the performances of the lead actors all the more remarkable. Making a boat ride in a lake filled with swans seem like a true-to-life experience is a considerable challenge, and it is to the director and actors’ enormous credit that they actually pull it off. In the overtly emotional role of Allie, Rachel McAdams gives a career-making performance, filling each scene she’s in with a warmth, energy, and spark. Without Gosling, McAdams, Rowland, and Garner, The Notebook could have easily dissolved into a syrupy mess. It is their conviction and dedication that pulls it back to earth each time it teeters on the edge of sentimentality, and that ultimately makes it one of that year’s more enjoyable Hollywood delicacies.

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Portman/Fatih Akin/Joshua Marston/Randy Balsmeyer
Cast: Bradley Cooper/Hayden Christensen/Natalie Portman/Orlando Bloom/Christina Ricci/Maggie Q/Olivia Thirlby/Julie Christie/Shia LaBeouf/Chris Cooper/Cloris Leachman

Countless skyscrapers, flowing vehicles, here is New York-the incredible city. You may call it as you wish: The Big Apple, The Concrete Jungle, and The City That Never Sleeps. The charm of this city is as various as its name. People with dreams come from different places, in every walk of life, happen to meet in pubs, or walk by under streetlamps. Curious, they chat to each other; lonesome, they fascinate each other. Exotic romances play on this full-of-coincidence city-New York.
This film is a collective work of twelve short films, with each segment running around 10 minutes long. Some of the actors have international status (Natalie Portman, Shia LaBeouf, Hayden Christensen, Orlando Bloom, and Irrfan Khan), with each shooting

Director: Nora Ephron

Actors:Tom Hanks …..Sam Baldwin
Meg Ryan …..Annie Reed
Bill Pullman …..Walter
Ross Malinger …..Jonah Baldwin
Rosie O’Donnell …..Becky

Nora Ephron’s “Sleepless in Seattle” is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It’s a stunt, but it’s a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect. Not since “Love Story” has there been a movie that so shrewdly and predictably manipulated the emotions for such entertaining effect. Be warned, though: “Sleepless in Seattle” is a movie you may hate yourself in the morning for having loved the night before.

The situation is this: the recently widowed Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks), a successful architect, has moved to Seattle from Chicago to try to assuage his sorrow. One night, his 8-year-old son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls a late-night radio talk-show psychiatrist. It is Christmas, and the boy is worried about his dad. The furious, embarrassed Sam then gets on the phone. Before he realizes it, he’s talking about his perfect marriage before a large portion of the United States population…?