Edward Yang edition
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Jayden Gonzalez
Angel Sullivan
movie?
Jack Martinez
Yi Yi
Chase Powell
bruh
Carter Harris
what?? it could be a brighter summer day, or terrorize, or taipei story, or confucian confusion
Wyatt Gonzalez
Look at dis film n00b
Easton Russell
Based OP, Yi Yi is awesome, should I watch all other movies by Yang?
Levi Rogers
Where does Yas Forums put HHH? I watched Assassin and pic related the other night, loved em but still couldn’t help but feel I was watching Crouching Tiger and Brighter Summer Day through an opiate haze. Is there one that shows more originality?
James Gray
so?
Charles Kelly
In an interview about the making of the Shining, Kubrick speculated that his cat Polly might be psychic:
>In addition to the great variety of unexplainable psychic experiences we can all probably recount, I think I can see behaviour in animals which strongly suggests something like ESP. I have a long-haired cat, named Polly, who regularly gets knots in her coat which I have to comb or scissor out. She hates this, and on dozens of occasions while I have been stroking her and thinking that the knots have got bad enough to do something about them, she has suddenly dived under the bed before I have made the slightest move to get a comb or scissors. I have obviously considered the possibility that she can tell when I plan to use the comb because of some special way I feel the knots when I have decided to comb them, but I'm quite sure that isn't how she does it. She almost always has knots, and I stroke her innumerable times every day, but it's only when I have actually decided to do something about them that she ever runs away and hides. Ever since I have become aware of this possibility, I am particularly careful not to feel the knots any differently whether or not I think they need combing. But most of the time she still seems to know the difference.
Cameron Allen
Kino.
Isaiah Ward
I'm only now discovering the films of Ōbayashi. Why has he been so overlooked compared to other Japanese greats? The 1980s really were a lost decade for their national cinema.
Grayson Martinez
>originality
Cringe
Jack Johnson
where should I begin with HHH? chronologically?
Carson Stewart
I only watched A Brighter Summer Day but it's outstanding
Dylan Ortiz
>Satantango.1994.1080p.BluRay.x264-USURY
Satantango.1994.1080p.BluRay.x264-USURY
Torrenting this behemoth right now. Will watch it soon. Using this guide to maximize my enjoyment.
Don't do editions. It will all be asian cinema, Bresson and Gallo edition.
Ayden Anderson
I fell asleep watching summer at grandpa's and not really a good first impression. it was such a fucking draggggggggggg
Oliver Williams
>Why has he been so overlooked compared to other Japanese greats?
Because he's not as good as the other Japanese greats
Ryan Stewart
>Satantango is 7 hours long
Jesus and I thought I'd have time watch it now before bed in 4 hours
Samuel White
>>originality
>Cringe
Hello read it.
Jaxson James
>Using this guide to maximize my enjoyment
Might as well not even watch it then
Alexander Butler
Caring about originality is literally the mark of the classic reddit hylic bugman
Julian Allen
yeah i'm never gonna watch that, 7 hours of nothing
Ayden Ward
The problem with HHH is that his films are stuck in "distribution rights hell" and thus might never see a Blu Ray release.
A City of Sadness is fantastic, but I had serious trouble seeing who was who in the enormous cast with the mediocre DVD quality of the film.
Other oldfags like me will probably remember the same problem from A Brighter Summer Day pre Blu-Ray restoration.
If HHH gets the redistribution treatment he deserves, then he should be up there with Yang and Tsai
William Evans
Cringe
Chase Flores
>In the "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens" everything is built according to canons that cannot be destroyed. Everything is already known in advance. The audience knows what is going to happen, but still watches as it all neatly resolves in typical Western manner. This is not art. This is a commercial enterprise, no matter what marvelous ideas you embellish it with. Everything is false and absurd.
>In Venice I saw the Anglo-American film "You Were Never Really Here", a tale about the love between a forty-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl. The film is empty from beginning to end, and I didn't feel anything but sadness and disgust as I watched it.
>"The Martian" is phony on many points, even for specialists – an intricate 'examination' of the technological processes of the future which transforms the emotional foundation of a film, as a work of art, into a lifeless schema with only pretensions to truth.
>"The Irishman" seems to me, in general, boring, unoriginal, and extremely unimaginative in its means of expression.
>I watched Mendes's "1917". Very weak lead actor and a misguided dramaturgy, like a cartoon.
>We attempted to watch "Marriage Story". I left in the middle. Monstrous boredom and a totally unglamourous actor [Adam Driver] who tries too hard to be charming.
>I watched the monstrously disgusting "Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi". Money, money, money, money... Nothing real, nothing true. No beauty, no truth, no sincerity, nothing. Made just for money's sake... It's unbearable to watch.
>"Parasite" – 4 Oscars, and so mediocre! Not terrible, but not very human either.
>I watched the much talked about "The Lighthouse". Scary stuff. Dafoe plays one of the leads. Very good.
>The brutality and low acting skills in "Alita: Battle Angel" are unfortunate, but, as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film pushes the frontiers of cinema as an art form.
Levi Brooks
No, it couldn't.
Hunter Kelly
Yes.
Ayden Hall
yeesh, I'm all up for some good satire, but this is fucking dreck. couldn't come up with something even half witty?
Camden Diaz
use the guide
Juan Wilson
I just laughed out loud at your ADHD.
Dylan Garcia
i still have a torrent i downloaded like way back in 2010 of brighter summer day split in 2 parts with worse than dvd rip quality and super murky subtitles.
Matthew Lee
Retard Alert!
Lincoln Martinez
This is IMO his best film (tied with A City of Sadness), it accomplishes what he set out to do best.
Ryan Gonzalez
>split in 2 parts
God damn. I remember downloading a torrent for pic related and somehow only getting the second half, thinking that the movie was far shorter than I thought.
Asher Richardson
Why is Kore-eda such a boss?
Owen Hill
How the fuck should i watch then? This guide is a lifesaver. Somebody should make one for all films of Lav Diaz and A Brighter Summer Day.
John Reyes
Does this belong here?
Henry Watson
I couldn't even finish that, zero interest in the relationship and in the characters, she was fucking hot tho
Levi Flores
Terrence Malick here, AMA!
Ayden Carter
>confucian confusion
Damn, that’s such a whimsical bit of serendipity. There’s no way they knew it was going to sound like that in English
Nathaniel Perez
it's a good film, but pretty much mass appeal melodrama
Nathan Walker
Polite of you to alert us of your presence
Lincoln Moore
She's so hot and kickass I bet she's small irl though
Alexander Taylor
Another webmless thread
Julian Thomas
It's not a literal translation. The Chinese title means "Era of independence"
Hunter Richardson
He literally pasted Tark's reviews of contemporary films with titles changed
Logan Wright
I'm thinking of making a chart of good soviet and post-soviet film directors, but I'm kinda lazy. Should I make it or whatever?
Jeremiah Wood
no because
drama ok but terrible terrible comedy bits, women can't into comedy
Christopher Ramirez
That wasn't a good choice of words on my half. What I mean is that he's been comparatively overlooked for all of his contributions to film - apart from House.
Cameron Young
OP is a webm you retard
Jose Kelly
Yes
Robert Moore
been wanting to watch this for years but can't find it anywhere
David Carter
You understand it’s a troll guide right?
Mason Rogers
Never seen any Yang before, is Yi Yi a good place to start?
Carson Russell
Why do these threads ought to have webms in them? It's not /webm/ general.
Nathan Cox
Taipei Story is shorter, so is a better one to start with
Wyatt Ortiz
The man saving Japanese cinema (almost) by himself, bless him. I hope Kore-eda inspires a new generation of directors in Japan.
Samuel Myers
It tries to be an Asian film but it's just doesn't have the same wholesomeness of a true Asian production, not westernised Asian.
Ryan Sanchez
>wholesomness
Lucas Roberts
Joshua Harris
To bad it's still him an shim alone and the Japanese cinema scene will remain dead while they pump out countless high school love stories
Sebastian Gonzalez
Just split it up into 7 one hour episodes, or 14 30-45 minute episodes like you’re watching game of thrones or something.
A lot of movies have a nice little lull when transitioning acts and you can find a good place to pause and come back later. I’ve been doing this a lot lately watching movies before bed that I know I won’t have time to finish
Oliver Lopez
and that's witty to you?
Liam Powell
Based
Josiah Hughes
I've seen this one a few times, some of these are shit, or mediocre. Plus I'm talking about directors chart, not movie chart.
Caleb Price
You understand it's being forced by one (1) poster right?
Zachary Robinson
I hated this movie and I’m a Chinese American. I hated it because the Chinese American part of the equation is pretty much null and void it essentially is a Chinese film, the American part is inconsequential. Fuck this crap and fuck Lulu wang for wasting an opportunity.