I’ll have my week 3 movie over the weekend

Week 3: Ugetsu (1953)

Ugetsu contains themes of greed, love, gender roles, spirituality, isolation from the familial unit and displacement from home among others. Some of which were pleasantly surprising to me considering the time this film came out. Couple these with at times striking visuals and you have the makings of a great cautionary fable.

Week 4: The Brown Bunny (2003)

I like this movie and the fact he used Jackson C Frank on the soundtrack is

I rewatched this recently, pretty good dreamy movie

Head game trash/10

Week 3: About Elly (2009)

Asghar Farahadi is 2 for 2 in my book so far. this one doesn't reach the same heights as A Separation but I did enjoy the suspense of this and the pure despair although things do get a bit convuluted by the end and that kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Overall, I enjoyed it and love how naturalistic all the performances are.

Week 3: The Housemaid (1960) Directed by Kim Ki-young

Been meaning to check out Kim Ki-young's films since the post Oldboy interview last year where Park Chan-wook talked about directors who influenced his work. I didn't know what I was in for but what I got was a crazy Hitchcockian erotic crime thriller full of cleaver and dynamic camera techniques. The ending could have easily been a cop out but actually recontextualizes everything you just saw and how you felt about it.

I'm pretty sure this is the first movie I've seen out of the Martin Scorsese World Cinema boxsets from Criterion. Two of the reels were lost and they had to do some crazy scrubbing on whatever footage they could find to fill in the gaps, while you could easily tell when the quality dips the majority of the story beats and scenes were in tact and easily to follow.

Week 4

Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

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week 4: blackbird blackbird blackberry by elene naveriani

still going through 2023 films on my radar and this was recently put up on mubi. nothing too profound but honestly pretty fun and feels humble and authentic, pretty good formally too outside of some digital zooms that felt unnecessary. there's a lil subgenre of these small eastern european movies from the last few years that feel heartfelt and accessible, watched with my mom and grandma and they were loving it.

Week 4: Out of the Blue (1980) directed by Dennis Hopper

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@proper unlock shards thread its still happening

Week 3: Happy Together (1997) directed by Wong Kar-wai

i don't think WKW is for me lol

Week 4: Blue Jasmine (2013) directed by Woody Allen

fye af

Week 3: The Wild Goose Lake

non stop cool ass movie. plot wise it does start to drag by the last act, but it makes up for it with how well its shot

Yeah sounds about right

It looks like a NWR film but it’s a pretty standard straight forward crime story

If this director adds more abstractions to his films he could cook up something special in the future

already downloaded his first film "Black Coal Thin Ice" which people say is better

Id say they are pretty equal

Goat pick . I’m going to keep the theme of getting necked and choose ….

This movie is very eerie , every man in this movie is so monster like

I don’t think 99 is dust but since that’s the cut off I chose happiness

Asia week