We don't have a review as yet of state and main.  But we do think it was a wonderful brilliant, funny and moving film.  The ensemble cast was outstanding.  Rebecca Pidgeon was brilliant opposite the first time screenwriter character,  Phillip Seymour Hoffman.   William H. Macy was excellent, as always, as the panicking director, and Alec Baldwin was totally wacko as the Lolita fixated actor.  We will be seeing it again sometime soon, and recommend you should to.

This is Martainn's baby, the amount of times I have heard him cooing and oohing about this film you would not believe!  I like it too, but for Martainn it is a real love affair.   Brilliant performances all round by the wonderful cast.  And well does not everybody in the business know that Ellen Burstyn should have got the Oscar last year for her fucking amazing performance in this film?  But well hey like they are gonna give it to a brilliant food, coffee and tv addicted performance, and not to some bimbo in a short skirt?!  Well shit of course they're not!  But well everybody knows that the Oscar should have went to Burstyn for this, but hey that's Hollywood!
 

Well I was kind of stuck for best foreign film of the year, struggling between this and Amores Perros 2001.  And I like them both a lot, but well I think Amores Perros has already been given enough recognition, and well I don't think Tears Of The Black Tiger has had nowhere near enough.  What's the story, ok, well it's a western made in Thailand, with an absolutely sumptuous job done on the cinematography, the colours in this film you will not believe it until you see it, and the only time I have seen colours like this in a film was in a recent viewing of St John's Wort 2001, which was equally beautifully shot.  But of course St John's Wort, is a horror movie, and Black Tiger, is a brilliant Thailand Western (yeah I know!!, Ok an eastern) and love story, with brilliant bad guys and good guys, amazingly squelchy Peckinpahesque gunfights that are an absolute feast for the eyes to behold.  Miss out on it, and miss out on easily one of the best films of the last ten years, and an amazing but strange entry in to the Western genre.
And here are some helpful informative links, since we don't have a review for it.

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