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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
Comments about some movies I've seen recently:
Burning - Probably my favorite film of the year so far, overtaking Paul Schrader's First Reformed. The film was directed by Lee Chang-dong, who you may know as the director of Poetry and Secret Sunshine, and is his first film in eight years. I like how the movie can be viewed like Sluizer's The Vanishing (a protagonist who becomes obsessed about finding out the fate of his girlfriend who disappears without a trace) or like Antonioni's Blow-Up (a paranoid mystery as to whether the protagonist witnessed a murder or is seeing things that aren't really there). Very topical given the recent mass shootings in Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Tallahassee -- which I think is deliberate as Lee does depict the protagonist's growing isolation and make references to Donald Trump. How many of those shooters saw themselves as Nick Carraway-type figures pushing back against the Gatsbys of this world? Very impressive debut performance by Jeon Jong-seo as the eccentric and alluring woman the protagonist becomes obsessed about.
Mid 90s - Exactly the same storyline as This Is England (a film I adore) but replace the neo-Nazis from that film with the cast from Paranoid Park and you will have Mid 90s. I really appreciated how the movie was shot like Slacker because it made the movie feel like it was some lost artifact from the mid 90s. I have a feeling that 10 to 15 years from now, this film will be grouped amongst the best gen-x/slacker films (Slacker, SubUrbia, Kicking and Screaming, Before Sunrise, Clerks, etc.) even though it was made some 20+ years after those other movies.
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I'm guessing you're not based in Calgary? I can't find a showtime for Burning. I was annoyed when it wasn't coming to CIFF. Now, it's not even listed under the coming soon section for Cineplex.
This Is England directed by Shane Meadows? If so, would you recommend '86, '88, and '90?
Anyone using Letterboxd?
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