the prolific and formidable Korean filmmaker HONG SANG-SOO

haven't seen Grass but i think this might have the first vape in a Hong film

Hotel by the River opens in NY today

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

best film of 2018, roll on the poll

another lkff double bill in london on nov 5th - the day the pig fell into the well and grass

https://www.filmlinc.org/films/yourself-and-yours/

alas Simon A finds it 'punishing'

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/yourself-and-yours-movie-review-2020

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

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.

meant to say Hotel by the River is the most accessible drama of the recent run, but it's up there with RNWT.

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.

these films make me think of lydia davis more than anything else

I cried watching The Woman Who Ran.

He's got another out now.

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.

Clarification: Missed my chance to see the newer one, In Front of Your Face.

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?

I dunno...I'm beginning to think quantity has begun to outweigh quality.

Bunch of stuff on MUBI USA, some leaving soon.

don't know which are leaving, but think Right Now, Wrong Then and On the Beach At Night Alone are both great

Hills of Freedom leaving tomorrow, Woman on the Beach leaving later in the week.

FInished WotB. Still processing but was intrigued. Wonder which one I will watch next. Wonder if Morbius wrote anything long form about it.

I’ve got my eye on The Woman Who Ran.

Well, you know what I think.

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

(On the Beach At Night Alone)

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)?

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?

The Power of Kangwon Province

Yes. Kangwon Province by a mile.

Just saw In Front of Your Face, my first foray into this guys work. It sure helps to be a Rohmer fan.