The cinema thread

[Staton Viguier]

[klangspiel]

Klang/Ace any more good korean films you guys would recommend ?

if you loved spring, autumn, winter..., then bae yong-kyun's why has bodhi-dharma left for the east? should be your next port of call for viewing. i really hate to use the word "zen" to describe anything (it's such an overused term these days and often oversaturated with facile and less-than-helpful connotations) but you'd be hard-pressed to find a film approaching the grit and essentiality of "zen" than bae's first film.

as for other korean cinema, here are names that (conveniently) rattle off my head:

yoo hyeon mok (one of my favourites - a legend of s.korean cinema),
im kwon taek (another legend with films dating back to the 60s - most are of a historical or "period film" flavour)
jeon soo-il (with the girl of black soil, destination himalaya)
hong sang-soo (his first film the day a pig fell into the well is a must-see. turning gate, woman on the beach, a tale of cinema, virgin stripped bare by her bachelors are his other films i'd recommend)
lee chang dong (secret sunshine, peppermint candy, oasis, poetry)
park ki-yong (motel cactus, camel(s))
park chan-ok (paju)
zhang lu (korean-chinese filmmaker - films have an ethnographic disposition to them),
yang ik-joon (breathless)
kim in-sik (road movie)
il-gon song (spider forest, feathers in the wind, flower island),
lee yoon-ki (this charming girl, my dear enemy),
jang sun-woo (a petal, hwaomkyung/passage to buddha)
so yong kim (treeless mountain),
roh gyeong-tae's land of scarecrows
park kwang-su (to the starry mountain, a single spark, black republic)
kim su-yong's the seaside village
park chan-wook (not a fan but you may have heard of oldboy or joint security area)

[MASUGNEN]

J.M.G. Le Clézio writes extensively on Korean cinema in his Ballaciner (2007). Chan-wook Park, Chang-dong Lee and Jeong-hyang Lee are interviewed.

[Fade to Black]

what is that, wire? looks intriguing.

[Ohntitel]

what is that, wire? looks intriguing.

It's Zigeunerweisen by Seijun Suzuki

[Chinorlz]

I've got a copy of Tae Guk Gi coming to me via netflix. Have only heard great things about it and I love me some war films.

Will check out that film Faust! Sounds good hehehe

[Acéphale]

[Karamazov]

Pickpocket (1959, directed by Robert Bresson)



I quite love this film... That balance between stillness and movement is really something.

[laughed]

Holy SHI**!
Finally got around to see Enter The Void - best opening title sequence EVER. great movie too.

[Enaml]

Holy SHI**!
Finally got around to see Enter The Void - best opening title sequence EVER. great movie too.

Watched it last week. Pretty interesting portrayal of drug use, etc. I've been told I kinda look like the main character hah.

[Faust]

Fantastic Mr. Fox. Adorable.

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

The Birds(1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock


I took the dramatic license of not having the birds scream at all

- Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock François Truffaut(1967)

When Hitchcock does birds, he does not reproduce
bird calls, he produces an electronic sound like a field
of intensities or a wave of vibrations, a continuous
variation, like a terrible threat welling up inside of us.

- Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari A Thousand Plateaus(1980)

[Acéphale]

[docus]

^^^ It's a great one, and I'm not surprised that you like it, with your Dostoyevskyan username, since Pickpocket is so full of reverberations from Crime and Punishment!

[Karamazov]

Haha, docus, it's nice to see someone picked up on that! There is a special place in my heart for Russian writers, but that's for another discussion. I really liked Bresson's treatment of the story, making it about a petty criminal whose troubles are the same as those of a murderer.