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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

shirin - 6/10

This whole film is like the screenshots above. It's 118 different women staring at a theater screen. The only "Action" is the dialogue/sound effects from the movie they're watching on the screen (which is never shown), and their faces.

Yet it was quite compelling and brilliant, if "difficult" hah.

Looking forward to seeing this, have you seen Five?

never heard of it!

Er, unless you mean 5 Dedicated to Ozu..

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

Also, I've decided to make a my-favorite-movies-from-each-country list:

Korea: Ki-Duk Kim
France: Jean-Luc Godard
U.S.: Jon Jost
England: Alfred Hitchcock
Japan: Takeshi Kitano
Italy: Roberto Rossellini
Sweden: Ingmar Bergman
Germany: R.W. Fassbinder
Vietnam: Tran Anh Hung
India: Satyajit Ray
Finland: Aki Kaurismaki
Egypt: Youssef Chahine
Czech Republic: Milos Forman
Cuba: Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Brazil: Glauber Rocha
Canada: Atom Egoyan
Iran: Abbas Kiarostami
Taiwan: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Russia: Andrei Tarkovsky
Yugoslavia: Dusan Makavejev
India: Satyajit Ray
Thailand: Weerasethakul Apichatpong
Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai (also Johnnie To)
Denmark: Lars Von Trier
Poland: Roman Polanski
Spain: Pedro Almodóvar
Turkey: Yilmaz Guney
Greece: Theo Angelopoulos
Italy: Michelangelo Antonioni
Mexico: Alendjro Jodorwsky
Belgium: Chantal Akerman
Australia: Fred Schepisi
Senegal: Ousmane Sembene
Austria: Fritz Lang
Switzerland: Alain Tanner
Denmark: Carl Dreyer
Portugal: Manoel de Oliveira
China: Chen Kaige
Philippines: Lino Brocka
South Korea: Im Kwon-taek
Israel: Amos Gitai

I know I'm forgetting some countries.

You said Italy twice and Hong Kong isn't a country! haha!

Oh and I watched Bad Timing and was really bored by it. I'm aware that it's character-driven but Art Garfunkel is such a wooden actor.

I was conflicted on Italy.

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

never heard of it!

Er, unless you mean 5 Dedicated to Ozu..

Yes, that. I've been wanting to buy it but I haven't seen it on sale for a good price anywhere, reading the back of the box the descriptions make it sound like five static shots with little to no narrative what so ever, so I'm quite intrigued to see it as I love Ozu and Kiarostami.

Yeah, I d/led it, it's very good; since you love Ozu, you HAVE TO Hou Hsiao-Hsien; specifically, Cafe Lumiere. Definitely the best Ozu-ish stuff I've seen that isn't the master himself. (also, I always got a very distinct Ozu vibe from some of the later period Kitano things, like Achilles and the Tortoise)

Yami utsu shinzô - 7/10

Interesting little film that is a remake of the same film from 20 years earlier, by the same director, with the same actors, with behind the scenes footage and all sorts of other nonsense, used to deconstruct the idea of remaking a film, and whatever. Interesting. I'd never watch it again though.

Suicide Club.

Thought it was fucking great.

Yeah, Sono's a really interesting director, isn't he? Really like Noriko's Dining Table and LOVE LOVE LOVE Love Exposure, probably one of the top 10 best films of the '00's. Wasn't too big on Hazard, but Strange Circus sure is completely fucking insane. I hated Exte. And I got Be Sure to Share d/l'ed.

because dead.
because dead.
because dead shine all night long.

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Suicide Club.

Thought it was fucking great.

that's the only film I can think of that made me physically queezy.

ok i just watched suicide club.

absolute fucking brilliance.

theres no chance the director was reading tiqqun since it was all written before 2002 and hasn't been translated into japanese even now but the whole I AM I stuff and everything... it really reminded me of tiqqun/tci.

its totally on the same wavelength and you can read it as a critique in a similar way.

actually now that i look into it apparently there is some sort of buddhist thing going on that would only be apparent to japanese people.

seriously wow. i don't think his point was some sort of suicide glorification. i think his point was that the compromises the self has to make in the modern world require a degree of suicidalness. i don't know really. that scene on top of the school, i was thinking "is this some kind of play on taking irony too far".

I'M THE CHARLES MANSON OF THE INFORMATION AGE!

whoa.

his point was to make me queezy.

just a director masturbating on celluloid

Daybreakers was one of the worst films I've ever seen. I couldn't tell if Willem Dafoe was being serious, he was that goddamned bad.