I only now figured out that The Day After is named after the nuclear apocalypse movie. Aptly named, at that.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
nice surprise to see there's a one off ldn screening of Claire's Camera next monday
― devvvine, Friday, 20 July 2018 16:15 (five years ago) link
loved Claire's Camera, curious which pre Right Now, Wrong Then films people would recommend?
― devvvine, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:17 (five years ago) link
Claire’s camera was great
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:19 (five years ago) link
Film of the year imo
Check out In Another Country.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
I will if I can!
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
xp thanks! probs mine as well, a shame it doesn't seem to be getting a release over here
― devvvine, Saturday, 18 August 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
nice runtime
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 18 August 2018 18:01 (five years ago) link
YESI was talking about it with a bartender & he was like “does that even qualify as a film?”
― jeremy cmbyn (wins), Saturday, 18 August 2018 18:04 (five years ago) link
The run time is a factor.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 August 2018 18:27 (five years ago) link
Still haven't had a chance to see Claire's Camera, or The Day After.
of the pre-RNWT films I really enjoyed Woman on the Beach
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 August 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
I think of what I've seen Right Now Wrong Then is my favorite though
― Dan S, Sunday, 19 August 2018 00:13 (five years ago) link
thanks for the rec Dan, will check it out. really loved In Another Country, never enough talk about how good Huppert is at doing natural goofiness.
― devvvine, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
some of the best are hard to see i think
Tale of CinemaWoman on the BeachHill of FreedomVirgin Stripped Bare by Her BachelorsWoman Is the Future of Man
and a very good 3-minute film called Lost in the Mountains. I am in full support of films of varying lengths.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
sorry, that's a 31-minute film
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 August 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
thanks Morbs, will do some scouring
― devvvine, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
Doesn't the MPAA (for what that's worth) define 40 minutes as the minimum runtime for a feature?
― Polly of the Pre-Codes (j.lu), Monday, 20 August 2018 23:05 (five years ago) link
watched On the Beach at Night Alone for a second time today, it really is pretty great. Min-hee Kim keeps getting better with each performance
― Dan S, Friday, 31 August 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
the mysterious guy asking her for the time, carrying her off the beach, washing the windows, and always seen from a distance…I liked that he was a surreal element representing a potential fulfillment of her unconscious desire
― Dan S, Friday, 31 August 2018 01:30 (five years ago) link
in case it's of interest to anyone, london korean film fest are screening The Power of Kangwon Province & Hotel By The River one evening next month
― devvvine, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
Hotel By The River is a change of pace from the "middle-aged horndog wiped on soju" template; I liked it.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 October 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
This site is surveying all of Hong's films:
http://inreviewonline.com/2018/10/17/hong-sangsoo-retro/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 October 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
also enjoyed Hotel by the River, saw a lot of talk about it being sombre so was glad how funny it was (the wood chopping!). interesting to watch it directly after seeing, and loving, The Power of Kangwon Province, which looked beautiful on 35mm; put me in mind of Nick Pinkerton's line about it being 'a cinema of diminished expectations'.
― devvvine, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
haven't seen Grass but i think this might have the first vape in a Hong film
― devvvine, Friday, 9 November 2018 09:31 (five years ago) link
Hotel by the River opens in NY today
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 February 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
I just saw Claire’s Camera, wasn't expecting an Instax camera. Kim Min-hee makes me fall in love with her no matter what role she’s in. I really liked this film
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
best film of 2018, roll on the poll
― devvvine, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
another lkff double bill in london on nov 5th - the day the pig fell into the well and grass
― devvvine, Thursday, 3 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/yourself-and-yours/
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
alas Simon A finds it 'punishing'
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/yourself-and-yours-movie-review-2020
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 June 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
Check out the disc for Grass if you can, the movie itself is not as good as some of the other recent ones, but it has a 2011 short called List that's phenomenal
― flappy bird, Friday, 5 June 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
I liked Yourself and Yours more than the newer black and white ones. it's definitely his most accessible 'comedy' of the last 5 years, maybe not his best. and I'd say Hotel by the River is the best of the recent run by some distance. he doesn't make many movies that are a good way in, and "you've got to watch 5 or 10 or 15 of them to really get it" is a tough sell. but Yourself and Yours is far from punishing, I'd say it'd win him some curious fans.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:55 (three years ago) link
meant to say Hotel by the River is the most accessible drama of the recent run, but it's up there with RNWT.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 9 June 2020 05:56 (three years ago) link
Looks like Woman on the Beach is getting re-released in "virtual cinemas" next Friday. Maybe a new disc on the way? I was able to snag a library copy off eBay, it's one of his best, glad it'll be widely available soon.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
these films make me think of lydia davis more than anything else
― plax (ico), Friday, 6 August 2021 05:48 (two years ago) link
I cried watching The Woman Who Ran.
He's got another out now.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
Apparently I just missed my chance to see it at MSPIFF. I regretfully hadn't paid attention this year, which is clearly as much the year of Hong Sangsoo as last year was the year of Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:46 (two years ago) link
Clarification: Missed my chance to see the newer one, In Front of Your Face.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link
The National Museum of Asian Art (formerly known as the Freer Gallery) has resumed in-person screenings with its annual Korean Film Festival (https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/films/). The programming will include In Front of Your Face and Introduction.
Tickets are free but you have to register online. Is anyone else going to any of these screenings?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 9 June 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
I dunno...I'm beginning to think quantity has begun to outweigh quality.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Sunday, 12 June 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
Bunch of stuff on MUBI USA, some leaving soon.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
don't know which are leaving, but think Right Now, Wrong Then and On the Beach At Night Alone are both great
― Dan S, Sunday, 12 June 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
Hills of Freedom leaving tomorrow, Woman on the Beach leaving later in the week.
― The Crazy World of Encyclopedia Brown (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 June 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link
FInished WotB. Still processing but was intrigued. Wonder which one I will watch next. Wonder if Morbius wrote anything long form about it.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 June 2022 17:05 (one year ago) link
I’ve got my eye on The Woman Who Ran.
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 24 June 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
Well, you know what I think.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 June 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
actually, see them all
they are all interesting
you should watch The Day He Arrives (2011) and Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
in retrospect On the Beach Alone at Night (2017) is still stuck in my mind, it was surreal in a way that was different for him
― Dan S, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
(On the Beach At Night Alone)
― Dan S, Saturday, 25 June 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
I think there is a film that he wrote and directed in which a woman says that she has had an abortion X times for the male protagonist. Why does the expression of affection (platonic or not) among Koreans seem so unnatural to me (horrible awful stereotype) and why is this comment made so casually in this film (as an indication of what)?
― youn, Monday, 27 June 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
If I only have time to watch one of the two about to leave MUBI, those being VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS and THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE, which is preferable?
― Huey “Piano” Smithers-Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 February 2023 00:36 (one year ago) link
The Power of Kangwon Province
― cakelou, Sunday, 26 February 2023 08:45 (one year ago) link
Yes. Kangwon Province by a mile.
― Cherish, Sunday, 26 February 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link
Just saw In Front of Your Face, my first foray into this guys work. It sure helps to be a Rohmer fan.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 22:13 (one year ago) link
https://silver.afi.com/Browsing/EventsAndExperiences/EventDetails/0000000121
Tales of Cinema: The World of Hong Sangsoo (May 5-June 10) has just started (screenings at AFI Silver, the National Gallery of Art, and the National Museum of Asian Art). I'm not sure if I'm going to any of these, but thought others might be interested.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 6 May 2024 11:52 (one week ago) link