Godo review, Frederik.
This was as a whole terrific but the conventional moments -- the lovers discussing their future over tea; the effete boy and his prostitute girlfriend -- were a drag. The horse-beating scenes were among the more wrenching I've seen in years.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
"the effete boy and his prostitute girlfriend"
That part of the story is absolute fire.
― xelab, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
The brothel scenes and Party chic worked.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 00:33 (ten years ago) link
for anyone in/near DC, this is showing at the Freer Gallery in a couple of weeks, with Jia and Zhao Tao in attendance:
https://www.asia.si.edu/events/films.asp?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D109070385
― Aglet, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
On netflix instant
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 22:35 (ten years ago) link
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― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, April 9, 2014 5:35 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
film culture in a nutshell, folks.
― espring (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
lol yeah.
in my defense i've written that date down and i'm gonna request that day off work to go.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 10 April 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
oh, i didn't mean it in a bad way.
― espring (amateurist), Thursday, 10 April 2014 01:33 (ten years ago) link
got tix for a screening of this next week, woohoo
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 November 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
That is sweet and sick
― 龜, Friday, 14 November 2014 17:27 (nine years ago) link
dunno what the venue will be like, it's a new-ish cafe-bar-performance space and i'm told it's pretty compact but a chance to watch this on a decent-sized screen is v. welcome, Hull's not been great for foreign language movies the last few years
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 November 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
This is definitely a big screen movie. God it is so shit Wessie side for these type of films, you have to travel to Manchester, Bradford or Leeds for foreign language movies. It is always too much train + bus action for my liking or finance.
― xelab, Friday, 14 November 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
I saw Platform at the end of the Chinese film fest - it was interestingly told, how Jia meshed both the personal lives of members of the company and the gradual shift of their repertoire. Change and more change. I was v tired that afternoon so didn't take it all in but I'd want to see it again anyway.
Fantastic thread, didn't know there was one for Touch of Sin, still one of the better films of the year.
I would say its still worth a watch on a DVD. You won't get be able to take in its look however it has a lot else to it.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 15 November 2014 10:11 (nine years ago) link
Touch of Sin was perhaps my number 1 film last year, would still go in a top 5 of the decade easily. Perhaps my favorite Jia.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 15 November 2014 16:39 (nine years ago) link
South Florida didn't get it until February so it's going in my best list.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 15 November 2014 16:42 (nine years ago) link
Very great film, but after watching The World I might prefer that one. Have the earlier trilogy on dvd on top of my tv-set.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 15 November 2014 16:55 (nine years ago) link
i really liked this
think the surround sound in the "cinema" may've been fucked? unless there's deliberate fuckery with the level of the dialogue in the Dahai section?
first thoughts have already been spoken upthread i think but i love how the film is structured as an accumulation of its parts, gaining a lot from their interrelations. and the final sequence was v. affecting.
also so much intertexuality happening
― maybes bakin' maybes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 November 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfF7ZmKMUX0
This is kinda really bad haha
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 January 2015 13:10 (nine years ago) link
Good film.
I assume the duck killing was totally real but it looked relatively quick (I hope), but was the horse really being hit that badly?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 16 March 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iaD6uBa.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 27 April 2015 12:05 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33059234
― 龜, Wednesday, 10 June 2015 11:00 (nine years ago) link
new one is a change of pace, more like Stella Dallas meets Giant, except with GoogleTranslate instead of oil
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
mountains may depart is fantastic
― 龜, Wednesday, 30 September 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
ooo
― crime breeze (schlump), Wednesday, 30 September 2015 05:07 (eight years ago) link
watched Xiao Wu tonight, it was v. good
― bonobo voyage (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/01/15/orange_truck_overturns.php
http://i.imgur.com/kFdnuz0.jpg
― 龜, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:41 (eight years ago) link
watching MMD tomorrow
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 March 2016 21:26 (eight years ago) link
I quite liked it, but not as much as A Touch of Sin
― calzino, Saturday, 5 March 2016 21:39 (eight years ago) link
Lovely until the last chapter, in which Jia falters with the use of English.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
didn't bother me much
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
at least not as much as the way no directors but QT and the Coens seem worthy of a new thread for each film
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 7 March 2016 19:53 (eight years ago) link
Start it!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 March 2016 22:01 (eight years ago) link
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, March 7, 2016 2:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
this was fine, and probably only resonates if you're someone with experience of ESL in the chinese community, and second-generation overseas chinese.
― 龜, Monday, 7 March 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
new one is accused of being "greatest hits" by some, i like it fine; wish i hadn't been exhausted.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
predictably great and at times transcendent. your man's gun falling out of his pants while dancing to YMCA was 10/10
― devvvine, Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:18 (five years ago) link
i thought it was just ok
― 龜, Saturday, 13 October 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
STILL LIFE getting a long-overdue Blu-ray release on December 1st: https://t.co/QDSt0wbJPn— Josh Martin (@MajorHints) October 30, 2020
― On average, this critic grades 8.3 points lower than other critics (Eric H.), Friday, 30 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
I like that post from morbs from two years ago, it's painful to think we will never hear from him in the film threads again
― Dan S, Friday, 30 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
All of Jia’s films are worth watching imo. Ash Is Purest White is the one I love the most, but also A Touch of Sin. Still Life was interesting to me, I didn't really get it at the time and want to see it again. Platform, Unknown Pleasures, The World - all great
― Dan S, Friday, 30 October 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
I've seen five of his films and heard him speak at a retrospective. My favourite was The World, maybe it had a slightly more hopeful air than the others.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 30 October 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
Our new poster for Jia Zhangke's SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE. Opens in theaters May 28. Exclusive trailer premiere @hyperallergic. https://t.co/eoheERX6B2 pic.twitter.com/ucK21B0CKq— Cinema Guild (@CinemaGuild) April 27, 2021
― calzino, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
<3
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
Watched A Touch Of Sin tonight and am stilll thinking about it and trying to articulate something more than "it's a grind house version of Ascension. Liked it, did not love it but am willing to change my mind. Mountains May Depart is still the masterpiece.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 24 December 2023 08:06 (five months ago) link