May 24, 2017

Hey guys, @FilmAndWhisky and myself have decided to try another film club where we watch a movie weekly in order to introduce new movies and discussion around here. We will announce a film each week and anyone who wants to participate can watch it at any time during the week and come in here to share their thoughts.

Week 18: Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)



Week 17: The Village (M. Night Shyamalan)



Week 16: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes)



Week 15: The Ten (David Wain)



Week 14: Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)



Week 13: Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)



Week 12: Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet)



Week 11: Zvenigora (Aleksander Dovzhenko)



Week 10: O Pagador de Promessas (Anselmo Duarte)



Week 9: Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)



Week 8: Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondō)



Week 7: Temptress Moon (Chen Kaige)



Week 6: Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica)



Week 5: Pakeezah (Kamal Amrohi)



Week 4: Mundane History (Anocha Suwichakornpong)



Week 3: Swan Lake: The Zone (Yuri Ilyenko)



Week 2: Life and Nothing More & Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)



Week 1: Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)



Enjoy!

@Twan @Charlie Work @Pinhead

 

Jul 25, 2017

Now for some South American works.

Our film this week is O Pagador de Promessas, the only Brazilian film to ever win the Palme d'Or.




We will also be watching 3 shorts from Lisandro Alonso so long as they're available.
1. Lechuza (1min)
2. Dos en la Vereda (3min)
3. Sin Titulo (23min)

@Vahn @Twan @Charlie Work @Pinhead @coil @Radeem @RobTheDude @King V @Old_Parr @Moon Age @Sp00ky @Cunner

 

Jun 18, 2017

Though rather unassuming, Mundane History conveys this dreamy energy whose effects are felt for days to come. As the title commits, the narrative events are monotonous. Yet paired with a non-linear timeline, the blatant monotony becomes the driving force of reality and thus reveals the eternity held in single moments.

Charting how a single thought, or the birth of a thought, may draw a link with the infinite, Suwichakornpong consolidates notions between the micro and macro, the finite and infinite, and the inseparability among. Her psychedelic world holds meaning within and of itself; the death of a star is as meaningless as the birth of a child and the the birth of a child is as meaningful as the death of a star. All becomes one underneath this scape of life and all is relative.

The events depicted exist in a world of their own: the world of Ake and Pun and Ake's father. What is mundane in one life is is of great consequence in another. As historical fact, the significance of a star's life is made inert, but as a personal memory, the birth of a child is made significant. Loss of feeling, loss of passion, loss of limbs, lack of reciprocity; these events all contain an energy and life within them--proportion and relation are the evening forces.

We are all stars and all the stars are within us.

95/100 - Amazing.

 

Jun 12, 2017

We're gonna switch gears to Thai cinema for this week.

Anocha Suwichakornpong's Mundane History

 

May 24, 2017

Much appreciated!!

You can be in charge of letting people know how they can watch the films if you'd like haha.

 

Aug 25, 2017

Never posted my thoughts on BL...

highly stylistic drama in the vein of the Pusher Trilogy or Scorsese's Mean Streets. Like those, its affectations in mood and expressionism contribute towards a lasting aesthetic impact. Though at times over the top or on the nose, its narrative fails or triumphs are shrouded by emotion and therefore become a minor player of the film's cinematic reach.

81/100 - Great.

 

Aug 25, 2017

I saw this one back in my days, one of the Wayne's best, it is an unlikely skower paced film considering other Waynes works but still has the essence and you wouldn't expect the opposite from a director like Hawks. I would give it an 8.

 

Aug 6, 2017

Sorry been forgetting about this but Dovzhenko is one of my fav soviet directors. Earth was a life changing film for me. Zvenigora obvs is different but just as good. Feel it sets the pace for what Tarkovsky would do later as well if I dare say Malick's Thin Red Line? Perhaps those comparisons need more nauance but that's what I thought when viewing this a year or so ago. Probably my favourite era of cinema.

Have actually been binging silent films over the weekend and the use of the face and the eyes are a lost art for the most part in modern cinema.

 

Jul 17, 2017

And now for our first American film!

Peggy Sue Got Married (Francis Ford Coppola)



@FilmAndWhisky @Twan @Charlie Work @Pinhead @coil @Radeem @RobTheDude @King V @Old_Parr @Moon Age @Sp00ky @Cunner

 

Jun 14, 2017

This could very well be one of my new all time favorites.

There's one sequence in particular that is as beautiful and awe inspiring as the creation scene in The Tree of Life.

Life as cinema and cinema as life.

 

May 29, 2017

This is the first movie I've seen from Hong Sang-soo. I know of him cuz the local film fest gets a movie of his every year and I always say I'm gonna check it out but don't for some reason. But i definitely will now. Loved loved loved the camera work. The zooms and the patience with the camera. Letting the scenes breathe help in movies like this. Wasn't expecting to get laughs out of it either and definitely did although the laughs weren't prominent throughout the movie. I dunno it's like a competently made mumblecore movie (thematically and visually[not that there isn't those within mumblecore as a genre]) to me. Was trying to see if there was any similarities to the Renoir film of the same name but i couldn't really see any.

 

May 25, 2017

So this was my first watch of Woman on the Beach as it's one of the last few Hong films I still needed to catch up on. All in all, this was another great, confident entry in his filmography. What surprised me about this one was how much insight we had into the female characters' psyche, with what might be the only drinking sequence shared by only two women in any of his films. Hong is always very critical of his male protagonists in presenting them as selfish, manipulative cheats but here he hardly sympathizes with his male character at all, which I thought was cool. The more I explore his work, the more I realize that the claims that he makes the same movie over and over are pretty off base; it's true that he has an aesthetic that is easily recognizable throughout all of his films but he almost always takes different stances when it comes to the morals of his characters, they're nuanced changes but they always lead to new profound realizations about human nature. I'd probably consider this film a lesser work for Hong which is nothing but a testament to how strong his output has been since overall this is a great, resonating film that I can definitely see sticking with me over time.

Looking forward to your guys' thoughts if anyone takes the time to check this out this week and we'll announce the choice for next week this weekend

 

May 24, 2017

You're wasting op's time because you clearly didn't understand the concept of this thread lol

It's up to you to find out if you like it or not and share the thoughts with us.

 

May 24, 2017

This isn't available for streaming anywhere so here are some links: Public Torrent / GoogleDrive

 

Aug 25, 2017

Forgot to post the choice for the week again.

We going dusty on this one.

Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks)




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Jul 10, 2017

We gonna do sum good ol anime this week.

Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondō)



@FilmAndWhisky @Twan @Charlie Work @Pinhead @coil @Radeem @RobTheDude @King V @Old_Parr @Moon Age @Sp00ky

 

Jun 20, 2017

Loved Mundane History. Forces us to see everyday objects/sights from the perspective of someone who's entire existence has been shaped by them. Regular scenery like plants and books transform to individual pieces of Ake's life that are visual and interpretative signs of someone in isolation, someone who's been molded by page and screen over traditional external influences. Tragically confronts the melancholy of such a life until life itself envelops the screen and breaks down the idea of individual experience all together.

Through the Olive Trees was good too. Gonna watch The Zone next.

 

Jun 18, 2017

i used piratebay. My ratio is too low to use KG

https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/7035082/Mundane_History_(Anocha_Suwichakornpong__2009)

 

Jun 9, 2017

Swan Lake is purely aesthetic. Like I don't rly got any words to summarize my experience other than "d---."

 

Jun 5, 2017

Torrent - GoogleDrive