i'm glad someone else saw this! good drama w song kang-ho based on events of the gwangju uprising 1980
a guy with little interest in politics inadvertantly plays an important part by ferrying a foreign journalist to the scene
the driver's true identity wasn't known until publicity from this film prompted his son to get in touch so his story is invented
this made me cry. i didn't know anything about these events and on reading up OF COURSE the US backed the right wing coup that killed thousands of people in gwangju in 1980. very fine performance by song kang-ho who mostly avoids the sentimental traps set by the director
figures. i survived that so gonna try junk head (it's also on youtube!)
confused bc wiki and a few other sources say it's 2021 - but imdb has 2017 so it's fine!
i think ive had nightmares abt this place
can't summon the mood for sleep has her house i gave up after 10 mins but i'll try again...someday! you were never here looks like complete dreck and i am atp so sick of joaquin phoenix... on the beach at night alone it is! then i'm probably done. this many recent films in succession is kind of jarring
the florida project (baker)
on the beach at night alone (hong)
junk head (hori)
the bottomless bag (khamdamov)
heliopolis heliopolis (dornieden/gonzalez monroy)
western (griesbach)
twin peaks: the return (lynch)
thondimuthalum driksakshiyum (pothan)
paddington 2 (king)
zama (martel)
a taxi driver (hun)
drift (wittman)
good time (safdies)
el mar la mar (sniadecki/bonnetta)
the phantom thread (anderson)
(Oh, and what's the name of the Uzbek film? Looks like something I should seek out ASAP)
Estiu 1993 / Summer 1993 (2017, Carla Simón)
Visages villages (2017, Agnès Varda & JR)
Les garçons sauvages / The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico)
Happy End (2017, Michael Haneke)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, Yorgos Lanthimos)
Western (2017, Valeska Grisebach)
Mrs. Fang (2017, Bing Wang)
The Florida Project (2017, Sean Baker)
Song to Song (2017. Terrence Malick)
The Square (2017, Ruben Östlund)
Mother! (2017, Darren Aronofsky)
A Ghost Story (2017, David Lowery)
Der lange Sommer der Theorie / The Long Summer of Theory (2017, Irene von Alberti)
Zama (2017, Lucrecia Martel)
Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome / Night is Short, Walk on Girl (2017, Masaaki Yuasa)
Tesnota / Closeness (2017, Kantemir Balagov)
The Beguiled (2017, Sofia Coppola)
L'amant d'un jour / Lover for a Day (2017, Philippe Garrel)
Okja (2017, Joon-ho Bong)
Rey (2017, Niles Atallah)
Honourable mentions;
Dunkirk (2017, Christopher Nolan)
The Shape of Water (2017, Guillermo del Toro)
Phantom Thread (2017, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Dene wos guet geit / Those Who Are Fine (2017, Cyril Schäublin)
Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino)
The Death of Stalin (2017, Armando Iannucci)
Sueño en otro idioma / I Dream in Another Language (2017, Ernesto Contreras)
Vinterbrødre / Winter Brothers (2017, Hlynur Palmason)
Ava (2017, Léa Mysius)
Au revoir là-haut / See You Up There (2017, Albert Dupontel)
Good Time (2017, The Safdie Brothers)
Krotkaya / A Gentle Creature (2017, Sergey Loznitsa)
Un beau soleil intérieur / Let the Sunshine In (2017, Claire Denis)
Loving Vincent (2017, Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman)
Lady Bird (2017, Greta Gerwig)
Beach Rats (2017, Eliza Hittman)
Nelyubov / Loveless (2017, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Mariphasa (2017, Sandro Aguilar)
Una Mujer Fantástica / A Fantastic Woman (2017, Sebastián Lelio)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve)
The Captain (Schwentke)
November (Sarnet)
The Bar (de la Iglesia)
Phantom Thread (Anderson)
Thelma (Trier)
Twin Peaks: The Return (Lynch)
Lean on Pete (Haigh)
An Ordinary Man (Silberling)
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch)
Faces, Places (Varda, JR)
First Reformed (Schrader)
Blade of the Immortal (Miike)
Godless (Frank)
The Florida Project (Baker)
Handia aka The Giant (Arregi and Garano)
Radius (Leonard and Labreche)
The Party (Potter)
Django (Comar)
Werner We Love You (Barensprung and Epkenhans)
A Gray State (Nelson)
You Were Never Really There (Ramsey)
Cold Skin (Gens)
That Summer (Olsson)
The Girl in the Fog (Carrisi)
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rischka wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 6:38 pm
can't summon the mood for sleep has her house i gave up after 10 mins but i'll try again...someday!
omg, me too, I've tried about 6 times and I just can't stay awake...was gonna try again for the poll but he posted something idiotic about AI on twitter, so now I'm questioning his artistic understanding....
I also haven't been able to get through it yet. But the images, taken on their own as individual shots, are quite impressive to me. Especially as someone who also has shot a lot of footage on the iPhone 6. I've never been able to find a workflow that yielded anything close to those results which I find quite lovely... and keeps me interested in finishing the film some day.
watched some 2017 stuff and most of them good but doesn't change top 20
two train movies(not specifically a movie about trains, though..) were good
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also liked November(one of the weirdest movie of 2017?) and Beauty and the Dogs(most ACAB movie i've seen recently)
so-so Baumbach, Kaurismaki, bored Nobuhiko Obayashi, Scott Barley..
watched almost 250 from this year and not bad year:)
The Bottomless Bag
Chronicles of the Time of Troubles (Vladimir Eisner)
The Phantom Thread
The Square
Waiting for the Barbarians
First Reformed
Downsizing
How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure. - Johnson
Lady Bird (Gerwig)
Song to Song (Malick)
The Florida Project (Baker)
Logan Lucky (Soderbergh)
Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve)
Thelma (Trier)
Columbus (Kogonada)
The Other Side of Hope (Kaurismäki)
On Body and Soul (Enyedi)
Ex Libris (Wiseman)
Detroit (Bigelow)
The Meyerowitz Stories (Baumbach)
Get Out (Peele)
Happy End (Haneke)
The Death of Stalin (Iannucci)
Call Me By Your Name (Guadagnino)
Nelyubov / Loveless (Zvyagintsev)
Let the Sunshine In (Denis)
You Were Never Really Here (Ramsay)
First Reformed (Schrader)
Moriyama-San (Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine)
Little Crusader (Václav Kadrnka)
Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (Julian Radlmaier)
Natura Urbana: The Brachen of Berlin (Matthew Gandy)
Hello, Horse! (Laila Pakalniņa)
Waiting for the Barbarians (Eugène Green)
Wet Wedding (Jan Daňhel, Jakub Halousek)
Episcopi (Nick Collins)
Potamkin (Stephen Broomer)
Klipperty Klöpp 2 (Andrew Kötting)
Two Types: The Faces of Britain (Chris Hardy)
Dieste [Uruguay] (Heinz Emigholz)
Building Amidst Solitude (Pim Zwier)
The Garden of Delight (Michael Fleming)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)
Barbara (Mathieu Amalric)
Logan Lucky (Steven Soderbergh)
On Body and Soul (Ildiko Enyedi)
First Reformed (Paul Schrader)
Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)
Get Out (Jordan Peele)
War for the Planet of the Apes (Matt Reeves)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (Chad Stahelski)
Thelma (Joachim Trier)
The Post (Steven Spielberg)
The Farthest (Emer Reynolds)
Alien: Covenant (Ridley Scott)
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie)
Darkest Hour (Joe Wright)
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena)
Sweet Country (Warwick Thornton)
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci)
thx lencho
