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Who's misinterpreting auteur theory today?
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From any period or culture, who's the greatest general of all time?
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Critics are supposed to recommend weird stuff that regular people probably haven't heard of and don't know anything about. If they don't they aren't doing their job properly. It's what makes them different from corporate marketing departments.
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Miami Vice is pure propaganda. It’s impossible to make a good mojito under Castro’s oppressive regime and the idea that there could be women as beautiful as Gong Li in Cuba is a fantasy designed to lure gullible young people away from the purity of American corporate capitalism.
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@FCardamenis
I for one am shocked that professional poets seem to have an out-sized perception of their own importance.
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Hyperventilating over Blade Runner 2046 being in this group.
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12 Classic Chinese Films are Now Available for Free on YouTube with English Subtitles
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My girlfriend in high school told me that when she saw Bram Stoker's Dracula there was a man sitting next to her who, whenever something crazy would happen in the movie, would shake his head and sigh and say "Oh, Francis!" 27 years later I still think about this all the time.
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It takes Hong at most like two weeks to make a movie. If he makes three a year thats still 46 weeks for him to just be hanging around the house, going to cafés, and learning to play the guitar.
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The Hong Kong film industry has been giving out awards for action choreography for 40 years and their stunts have only grown more safe.
Here's the real reason why there's still no Oscar for Best Stunts.
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Setting aside the first obvious blunder here, it’s nice to see that Max is amplifying Asian voices by, uh, only having the English dub soundtrack on their Ghibli movies.
New MAX app keeping it real with noted Asian Americans, uh, … Hayao Miyazaki and, uh, … Bong Joon Ho. Real dumb.
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If Wong Kar-wai was an asteroid
NASA is tracking a new asteroid that has a chance of hitting Earth in about 20 years on Valentine's Day 2046.
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This is the greatest run by a movie director ever I don’t give a fuck
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Dielman: 35 -> 1
ITMFL: 24 -> 5
Beau travail: 78 -> 7
Mulholland Dr: 28 -> 8
Singin' in the Rain: 20 -> 10
Close-Up: 42 - > 17
Cleo from 5 to 7 and Meshes of the Afternoon move from outside the top 100 to 14 and 16, respectively.
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Peter Bogdanovich, Oscar-Nominated Director and Champion of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 82 via
@thr
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@kambrulee
@capybaroness
If you're unsure what he's trying to say, then by definition it's not propaganda, lol.
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New for everyone, I've updated the bibliography of books and websites I've found useful over the years on Chinese language film.
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Southland Tales, Miami Vice, and Speed Racer are an incredible trio of late 00s masterpieces that mainstream critics and audiences hated but which history is vindicating.
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I wrote for Criterion's Current about the Early Hou Hsiao-hsien films that are now playing on the
@criterionchannl
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I wonder if anyone knows for sure which Seattle theatre it was where Edward Yang saw Aguirre: The Wrath of God and decided to quite working in tech to become a filmmaker.
Do I have followers out there who frequented Seattle art houses in the 70s?
A word from Werner Herzog on the greatness of Edward Yang. 🥹
Join us at FLC from Dec. 22-Jan. 2 for the career-spanning retrospective, Desire/Expectations: The Films of Edward Yang. 🎟️ on sale soon.
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Genuinely don’t think there’s a singular cinematic high that rivals the reveal of the Doof Warrior in Fury Road
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Everyone's talking about the year's biggest Oscar snub: Hong Sangsoo for Best Cinematography for In Water.
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Hou has insisted that he hadn’t seen any Ozu films until the late 1980s, well after he made Green Green Grass. There’s a whole essay about Western critics’ insistence on linking the two, while acknowledging the lack of actual influence up to that point, in this book.
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Guy who’s only watched three horror films
I know this is a hot take but at what point do we declare Jordan Peele the best horror director of all time? Can you think of another horror director that had 3 great films, let alone 3 in a row? I can't.
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What if Christian Petzold made the best Hong Sangsoo movie of 2023?
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Four essential Eclipses
Speaking of, Criterion should really upgrade and continue the Eclipse series box sets.
Here are 4 that were foundational for me back in college:
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Donald Richie story about how Ozu got promoted to director.
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I think Deepika Padukone is the only member of this jury whose work I've both seen and liked.
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Looks like my Throw Down essay is up on the
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site. Check it out and also buy the movie.
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Thinking about this passage from JRo’s Movie Wars for absolutely no reason in particular today.
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Lou Ye is coming to the Criterion Channel in August, for those who like that kind of thing.
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Oh wow finally a new Hong Sangsoo film!
Hong Sang-soo’s Directors Fortnight Closing Film ‘In Our Day’ Picked up by Finecut (EXCLUSIVE)
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Everyone should watch all of these on The Channel in April
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In the ER with a high fever and an elevated heart rate. They think it’s just the flu, but I’d appreciate some good vibes.
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Oh man. An icon. An all-time great. RIP.
Cheng Pei-pei, the Chinese-born actor who starred in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and King Hu’s “Come Drink With Me,” has died. She was 78.
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Problem is the influence is gonna be sophomoric antics mixed with banal homilies rather than what’s actually good about the movie (the actors and the action).
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2003 was such a a cursed year for film, just no true masterpieces
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Some news…
***NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming to Blu-ray 12/19 from Metrograph Films
Made in Hong Kong (1997)
Extras:
Audio Commentary By Film Critics Sean Gilman And Ryan Swen
Interviews With Director Fruit Chan, Producer Doris Yang, And Producer Daniel Yu
Re-release Trailer
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On the other hand, Donnie Yen's very recent comments in support of the police crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong should probably disqualify him from this kind of googly-eyed fawning.
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Reminder that while Parasite is a legitimate hit as a foreign language film in the US, it's still made almost $100 million less than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon did twenty years ago.
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Banning TikTok will be a great step toward radicalizing my daughter and her entire ballet school.
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The first five Endy nominees for Best Actor are:
1. Oscar Isaac, The Card Counter
2. Yu Hewei, Cliff Walkers
3. Nishijima Hidetoshi, Drive My Car
4. Lakeith Stanfield, Judas and the Black Messiah
5. Dhanush, Karnan
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#Oscars
2022 will be a three-act show with a different host helming each hour.
Which three people do you think have been tapped to host this year?
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Corey Yuen’s one of the all-time greats. From his time as a stuntman in the 70s in films by king Hu and Joseph Kuo and more to his work as choreographer and director, pioneering the Girls with Guns genre among other things, he was always the craziest of the Little Fortunes.
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The 2020s have been rough for Chinese language film thus far, aside from the odd Tsai Ming-liang or a handful of other movies.
But in 2023 we've already had 100 Yards, Full River Red, Mad Fate, A Guilty Conscience, and The Hidden Blade.
We are, as they say, so back.
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480p dvd screener really the ideal way to get awards voters to consider your Michael Mann movie.
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I don't know why people on tmdb are doing this, taking a perfectly normal poster and scrubbing all the names off, but it's making my plex files look awful.
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(Sir) Paul McCartney turns 79 today! Aside from their films (Hard Day's Night, HELP!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, Let It Be), what do you think is the best use of a Beatles song in a film?
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It's true. What they want now is Hou Hsiao-hsien's Shulan River, starring Shu Qi as a lonely river goddess whose waterways have now been covered by modern roadways.
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The reason Warren is out of this race is because the Democratic establishment chose to back zombie Joe Biden over her.
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Tsui Hark got 8 votes this time (up from one in 2012, for Once Upon a Time in China 2):
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Before Boyhood all stories occurred in a simultaneous, eternal present.
New releases 'Bill & Ted Face the Music' and 'Cobra Kai' use temporality as a storytelling device, following the pioneering lead of Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood,' the 2014 feature that the Texas filmmaker shot over twelve years.
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The cultural impact of the first Avatar wasn’t memes it was a decade of terrible post-converted 3D and the death of 35mm film exhibition.
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Watching a Tsai Ming-liang Walker film and hooting and hollering every time the monk shows up. There he is! That’s my guy! Walking slow!
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I’m seven minutes into Ann Hui’s Visible Secret. In her first scene, Shu Qi is wearing an eye patch. In her second, she’s wearing a hat. Great movie.
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Now that Emily Blunt is finally an Oscar nominee, who is *that* actor who you can’t believe doesn’t have an Oscar nom yet?
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100-250 in the critics poll is up on the S&S site:
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Read a book
What’s something film twitter needs to be told, but doesn’t want to hear
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A Blood Meridian movie, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, has been considered "unfilmable," but a director is finally attached to the adaptation.
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Despite 2023 being the best year for Chinese language film in maybe a decade, the various best of the year lists I've been seeing don't seem to include any. What's up with that?
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But in 2023 we've already had 100 Yards, Full River Red, Mad Fate, A Guilty Conscience, and The Hidden Blade.
We are, as they say, so back.
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Nick and Nora Charles are truly the ideal couple. All they do is drink and solve mysteries and hang out with their amazing dog.
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Had to look up what film Audiard won the Palme d’Or for because no one has ever mentioned that movie in since 2015.
Meanwhile The Assassin and Mountains May Depart remain touchstone masterpieces of 21st century cinema.
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The Criterion edition of Throw Down is Out of Stock. Clearly there is a high demand for high quality editions of Hong Kong films with liner notes essays written by me.
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