Happy to begin a new viewing/writing project! This is Hong Sang-soo Notarized, a full rewatch of his films accompanied by too-detailed tabulation of his recurring motifs, devices, and interests, along with some sketched notes on each film. The posts will all be threaded below:

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Something intriguing in the deliberately lopsided time given to the first target versus the others; lots of great digital transitions/superimpositions especially in their emphasis of the shared fecklessness between predator and prey; wish the family was integrated a tad better.

If you hear His voice today—don’t harden your heart. 🙏

NO OTHER CHOICE: Unfurls the far-reaching logical extent of its wicked and very modern scenario at a deliberate but still jam-packed pace; can be somewhat inconsistent but the ingenuity of Park’s sequences and images never truly flags; often quite amusing in its messiness.

Wouldn’t work half as well without Dafoe, who perfectly embodies the kind of relaxed quasi-naturalism that everyone else (especially Lee’s very curious but intentional performance) must bounce off of; some lovely interstitial shots of city life too.

LATE FAME: Endearing in the careful line that Jones walks (sometimes thrillingly unsuccessfully) between incisive satire of literary society’s feedback loop and a genuine belief in art’s ability to shape life in the modern city; a real treat.

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Hong Sang-soo’s What Does That Nature Say to You White Boy

Love how the cast (finally another great feature role for Cole Doman aka Henry Gamble) falls away around O’Connor and his perpetually watchful yet rootless demeanor, and this might be the best score in a year of great ones; absolutely insane opening credits choice.

THE MASTERMIND: Uses its would-be hero as both incarnation and witness to an especially pitiless landscape of dead ends and failed reinventions; the manner in which Reichardt’s rhythms drift between tight procedural and aimless rootlessness are fascinating.

this is how i figured out that the game Hou Hsiao-hsien watches on videotape in TAIPEI STORY [Edward Yang, 1985] is the California Angels at the Kansas City Royals on September 25, 1984

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Especially interesting to see Paula Beer in a much less forthrightly opaque emotional state than usual and how that interacts with the shifting stasis of the family; any film that implicitly places Frankie Valli’s “The Night” on the same level as Ravel is endearing.

MIROIRS NO. 3: A bit more narratively straightforward than usual for Petzold, but his eye for the details and behaviors that make up a space and family freighted with subterranean tension is as firm as ever, especially considering some superb tonal turns.

I wrote about One Battle After Another. Auteurism vs fandom, notes toward a new fatherhood, tunnels and the underground, and a lot more. Major spoilers are marked by a header, you can skip over them. Read 👇

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Taipei Mansions’s first time on a press badge, no place I’d rather it be at…

TV doesn’t get better than this

Time really is kind to all movies on here.

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everyone’s laughing and riding and having one battle after another except buster

Shiguéhiko Hasumi with Alain Robbe-Grillet, undated.