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Taeksi woonjunsa (A Taxi Driver)

d. jang hoon

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

PS also enjoyed a western

gorgeous, weird and deeply silly. thx karl

still gonna watch at least one of them hongs

There's a rip on Youtube without the logo (search for Bottomless Bag) and a set of subs at KG that match up with it.

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)

Noticed I had not added my list yet!

(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)

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:49 pm
(Oh, and what's the name of the Uzbek film? Looks like something I should seek out ASAP)

Meshok bez dna d. Rustam Khamdamov

There's a rip on Youtube without the logo (search for Bottomless Bag) and a set of subs at KG that match up with it.

(thx karl)

i dreamed about claymation monsters from junk head thx lencho



wonder if we're ever getting part 2? he has to find the tree of life before they're all destroyed!!

https://youtu.be/dsuhOW56C9M

good news! pt 2 in 2025!

St. Gloede wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 1:49 pm (Oh, and what's the name of the Uzbek film? Looks like something I should seek out ASAP)

i think it's The Bottomless Bag

and there's a copy on youtube without the logo - sorry if it wasn't clear!

subs are at kg

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:27 pm pt 2 in 2025!

I'm glad he's still working (seven years for the first one, second one coming right on schedule...)

So that's good.

But I wonder if he can find anything new to include in this storyverse. Seeing the same stuff for two more hours wouldn't necessarily not be tedious.

Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 10:11 pm

rischka wrote: ↑Tue Jan 23, 2024 2:27 pm pt 2 in 2025!

I'm glad he's still working (seven years for the first one, second one coming right on schedule...)

So that's good.

But I wonder if he can find anything new to include in this storyverse. Seeing the same stuff for two more hours wouldn't necessarily not be tedious.

yeah you're probably right, i'll just imagine he saves world

Seen 164 from that year.

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)

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....

lol glad it's not just me. i saw someone described 'western' as a film where 'nothing happens' but this is on a whole other level

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (Eugène Green)

Sleep Has Her House felt like a student trying to imitate the masters without bringing anything new to the table. Quite forgettable.

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

Newsreel 63 – The Train of Shadows Something Useful 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

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)

Probably forgetting something, great year!

https://kinometer.com/?list=526

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)

Final list:

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)

Final list. I'm *this* unenthusiastic right now.

Junk Head -
The Traveling Soap Opera - Mr and Ms Ruiz

Baahubali 2 - Rajamouli
The Bottomless Bag -

Me Gusta Pero Me Asusta - Beto Gomez
The Shape Of Water -

If still allowed:


Western (Grisebach)
Good Time (Safdie, Safdie)
Martin Cries (Vinel)
Phantom Thread (PT Anderson)
After School Knife Fight (Poggi, Vinel)

First Reformed (Schrader)
The Burden (Lindroth von Bahr)
Transformers: The Last Knight (Bay)
Fajr (Patiño)
Nathan for You: Finding Frances (Fielder)