DVD sale!

There’s a world cinema DVD sale happening at Borders this week!  And there’s lots of titles on sale that I’ve been coveting for ages! I’ve actually got quite a lot of foreign films on DVD now… though often it’s hard to find anyone who wants to sit down and watch them with me.

It seems that we only tend to get the absolute best foreign films being released here… someone, somewhere is weeding them out and we only get to see the creme de la creme of foreign content.  So if a foreign film actually ends up with a cinema release in Australia, it’s generally worth checking out, as it has to be pretty exceptional for them to bother marketing it to us I think.  We’re probably missing out on a lot of worthwhile films but it’s one of those things I guess.

 
I really enjoy world cinema, there’s always always some strange little cultural oddity that you notice, or sometimes the entire film is so bizarre when compared to your own life experiences and usually so disparate from the stereotypical American pop culture that we’re spoon fed constantly, that you can really feel like you’ve gained an insight into the lives and habits of people living in other cultures.  Only downside from watching foreign films is that I can’t watch and work on my embroidery at the same time!!!  I dont care how talented you are in the multi-tasking department – it’s absolutely fucking impossible to concurrently embroider and read subtitles….. unfortunately. 🙂  Though I’m finding more and more that my French is good enough that I can embroider and muddle my way through a movie without missing anything. 
Anyway must try and resist going down to Borders to spend a couple of hundred dollars on movies…. when I should be saving for travel.  🙂  Well maybe just one?  One little copy of ‘Farewell My Concubine’ … that’d be alright, wouldn’t it? 🙂
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Update:
I’m absolutely hopeless! Was killing time this morning waiting for the travel agent to open and popped into JB HiFi while I waited!  Didn’t even have to get anywhere near the Borders sale and picked up ‘The Wedding Banquet’ at the same price… sigh… wont have enough money for new Turkish rugs at this rate!
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