Koi No Yokan: Films

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2010-10-14

mirada

15
28 Days Later
3 Iron
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Akira
Amores perros
Amélie
Army of Darkness
Audition
Away With Words
Babette's Feast
Bad Education
Banquet
Battle Royale
Be With Me
Beat That My Heart Skipped
Big Boss
Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Blue Spring
Blue Velvet
Brazil
Caché
Calamari Wrestler
Cat Soup
Children of Men
Chungking Express
City of God
City of Lost Children
City of Lost Souls
Class
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Curse of the Golden Flower
Dancer in the Dark
Delicatessen
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
District 9
District!
Dogville
Dr. Strangelove
Electric Dragon 80.000 V
Elephant Man
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Enter the Dragon
Eraserhead
Even Dwarves Started Small
Evil Dead
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fist of Fury
Funky Forest: The First Contact
Funny Games
Grizzly Man
Happiness
Happiness of the Katakuris
Hero
History of Violence
Host
Howl's Moving Castle
I Stand Alone
Ichi the Killer
In the Mood for Love
Infernal Affairs
Irreversible
JCVD
Joint Security Area
Josée the Tiger and the Fish
Kingdom
Kung Fu Hustle
Last Life in the Universe
Last Night
Let the Right One In
Linda Linda Linda
Lost Highway
Love Exposure
Machinist
Man Bites Dog
Memento
Memories of a Murder
Milk
Millennium Mambo
Mind Game
Mission
Mister Lonely
Mulholland Drive
My Scary Girl
Nobody Knows
Oasis
Old Boy
Once
Pan's Labrynth
Persona
Pi
Pianist
Piano
Piano Teacher
Primer
Quiet Family
Raise the Red Lantern
Reflecting Skin
Repulsion
Ring
Rosemary's Baby
Run Lola Run
Russian Ark
Saddest Music in the World
Save the Green Planet!
Science of Sleep
Series 7: The Contenders
Serious Man
Seven Samurai
Shaolin Soccer
Shower
Spider
Spirited Away
Story of the Weeping Camel
Strawberry Shortcakes
Suicide Circle
Survive Style 5+
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Syndromes and a Century
Synecdoche, New York
Tekkon Kinkreet
Tenant
Tetsuo: Iron Man
There Will Be Blood
Throne of Blood
Time
Tokyo Story
Tower of Death
Tropical Malady
Twin Falls Idaho
Up
Versus
Vie en Rose
Visitor Q
Volver
Waltz With Bashir
Way of the Dragon
White Ribbon
Wild Zero
Wings of Desire
World Sinks Except Japan
Wrestler
Y tu mamá también
Zebraman

2010-03-12

Despite the unexplained strangeness of its beginning and the placidly casual inconclusiveness of its ending, A Serious Man is probably my favourite Cohen Brothers film and it might be their best. The picture is as blackly humorous as it is profound and it's as measured and restrained as it is relentless. The ensemble cast is perfect; the performances all are extremely marvelous and I was as entertained and engaged as I was distressed and disturbed. A Serious Man is admirably well-written, excellently well-performed and skillfully well-executed. It's also thought-provokingly existential, artistically shot and richly told. This film's a wonderfully worthwhile experience and a very recommended one. Especially if you're serious. And if you're Jewish.

Directed by The Cohen Brothers
[Via] BTJunkie

2010-03-08

das weisse band

Starkly solemn and unsparingly sinister, Das Weisse Band is a gorgeously shot and masterful work by an exceptional director who is potentially my favourite (Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Aleksandr Sokurov, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Áron Gauder, Brad Anderson, Chang-Dong Lee, Coen Brothers, Daisuke Gotô, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch, Fernando Meirelles, Fritz Lang, Fruit Chan, Gen Sekiguchi, Hayao Miyazaki, Hiroshi Inagaki, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Hirozaku Kore-Eda, Il-Gon Song, Ingmar Bergman, Ji-Woon Kim, Joon-Ho Bong, Joon-Hwan Jang, Juzo Itami, Kaneto Shindo, Katsuhiro Otomo, Kazuaki Kiriya, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kenji Yokoi, Ki-Duk Kim, Kinji Fukasaku, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Koji Wakamatsu, Kouki Tange, Mamoru Oshii, Masaki Kobayashi, Masaaki Yuasa, Michael Arias, Minoru Kawasaki, Nagisa Oshima, Nobuhiro Suwa, Pedro Almodóvar, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Peter Greenaway, Peter Weir, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Roman Polanski, Seijun Suzuki, Shinji Somai, Shinya Tsukamoto, Shohei Imamura, Shuji Terayama, Sogo Ishii, Stanley Kubrick, Takashi Miike, Takashi Shimizu, Terry Gilliam, Todd Solondz, Toshiaki Toyoda, Tsui Hark, Werner Herzog, Wong Kar-Wai, Yang Zhang and Yasuzo Masumura notwithstanding). But back to Haneke. Das Weisse Band is a powerfully beautiful, quietly terrifying film. Haneke at his finest. Very recommended.

Directed by Michael Haneke
[Via] BTJunkie

2010-02-05

kanani

Last night we attempted to watch Avatar and after about eleven disastrous dismal minutes, we simply wholly failed to deal. I heard myself say something like [as far as films go]: I always thought Americans were stupid retarded, now I know they are. And then I retracted the statement (the words) because I know that’s not a succinctly fair or totally accurate thing to say. Plus there’s a great many Americans I very much like and there’s a handful of American films I do genuinely admire, enjoy and appreciate.

Still and/but just the same:

Avatar is terrible. We neither of us anticipated much but we were unprepared for the film to be worse than our expectations (which all were openly low). Least it wasn’t as unrelentingly melodramatic, rapaciously extravagant and ruthlessly stupefying as Lars von Trier’s Antichrist was... Though if I had to choose, I’d probably choose Antichrist. [And Lars von Trier is certainly not his name anymore, I now call him LVT. Cause Antichrist is not so much a film as it is a kind of magnificently inconceivable catastrophe].

_CHAOS
REIGNS.

Today’s Favourite Song: Spinnin’ by Speech Debelle
Some Men I Love: Bertrand Russell, Viggo Mortensen, Voltaire, Bruce Lee
Tonight’s Event: Synkro at Nocturne

Fahung baadaluvang

2010-01-23

the greatest distraction

THE BEAUTIFUL GIRL IN THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURE

Appears to be Devon Aoki. I am unsure who is responsible for the perfection of the shot; I don’t know who took the
picture or who worked the wonders of the details that the picture contains. The image of course is a loveliness and
the hair especially is a dream.

ART IS A LIE THAT MAKES US REALIZE TRUTH

STORY — Anton Chekhov. The Duel

FILM — Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Syndromes and a Century

BOOK — Haruki Murakami. Norwegian Wood

SONG — Of Porcelain. The Greatest Distraction

EXCITING.1

Norwegian Wood has been adapted into a film to be released this fall and stars Rinko Kikuchi as Naoko. This film has chances then to be as quietly devastating and beautifully restrained as the book is. Norwegian Wood is not my favourite Murakami but I did really love and admire it: Murakami’s writing often is a a kind of slow hypnosis, the worlds he creates are lonely, sleepy and surreal. Norwegian Wood might be his most honest and most personal work and it ends with such mesmerizing inconconclusiveness that the whole weight of sadness and beauty contained in the story is delivered hauntingly and most fully in the final line.

EXCITING.2 

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao is also going to be made into a film and I hope it will at the very least do the book sufficient justice. Walter Salles is directing the film and while I’m not overly familiar with his work as a director, I did enjoy both The Motorcycle Diaries and Linha de Passe. Generally it seems Salles’ films are beautiful to look at,
the camera work and moving photography always are excellent and gorgeously very precise. He at least is visibly competent, I just hope everything else falls flawlessly into place. I’m curious to know who will be cast as Yunior, Lola and particularly: who will be Oscar. I’m sure Junot Díaz is similarly curious [though he’s probably as ’worried’ as he is excited].