I remember sitting in a small classroom with two Koreans, a Japanese, a Swiss and a Mexican talking about movies we liked. This was probably 20 years ago.
Slowly the conversation drifted toward French New Wave, Quentin Tarantino, Wang Kar Wai and Korean gangster films. By that time it was just me and the two Koreans with the other students looking on as if we'd started speaking a different language.
Korean films aren't good because they aren't produced in a culture soaked in nostalgia. They're good because they're produced in a culture that, like all living cultures, treats past, present and future arts as alive.
The emphasis on NOW! doesn’t resonate. Anyone making a film that truly speaks to elements of the human condition will be appreciated now, then, and well into posterity.
A little thought about what you are putting on screen is the first order of business…
You lost me at Everything Everywhere All At Once. A vapid film in which a rock questions its own existence. For me EEAAO signals the year Hollywood left the audience in preference for their own lunacy.
Couldn’t agree more. Insipid and manic trash. And in what way would it qualify as an “independent” film? It certainly captured the Reddit zeitgeist I’ll give it that. Whether I would call that the cutting edge of culture…I can only shake my head.
I remember sitting in a small classroom with two Koreans, a Japanese, a Swiss and a Mexican talking about movies we liked. This was probably 20 years ago.
Slowly the conversation drifted toward French New Wave, Quentin Tarantino, Wang Kar Wai and Korean gangster films. By that time it was just me and the two Koreans with the other students looking on as if we'd started speaking a different language.
Korean films aren't good because they aren't produced in a culture soaked in nostalgia. They're good because they're produced in a culture that, like all living cultures, treats past, present and future arts as alive.
This essay speaks from the place of death.
The emphasis on NOW! doesn’t resonate. Anyone making a film that truly speaks to elements of the human condition will be appreciated now, then, and well into posterity.
A little thought about what you are putting on screen is the first order of business…
You lost me at Everything Everywhere All At Once. A vapid film in which a rock questions its own existence. For me EEAAO signals the year Hollywood left the audience in preference for their own lunacy.
Couldn’t agree more. Insipid and manic trash. And in what way would it qualify as an “independent” film? It certainly captured the Reddit zeitgeist I’ll give it that. Whether I would call that the cutting edge of culture…I can only shake my head.