I still need to finish Yi Yi. Probably rewatch it in it's entirety the weekend
Can’t lie, hated this movie. A Brighter Summer Day is the great Edward Yang film, imo
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Can’t lie, hated this movie. A Brighter Summer Day is the great Edward Yang film, imo
Yeah that's why I tapped out because I thought the movie was overkill boring
On top of that, the kid characters are all insufferable. The father is far from the sympathetic character he’s made out to be. The wife is a comically underwritten piece of narrative convenience. And the video game bit at the end is lazy, undercooked trash that would be rightly ridiculed if Yang wasn’t so highly regarded.
With all that said, A Brighter Summer Day is a truly great (albeit flawed) film that deserves way more attention than it gets.
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Never seen YiYi but ya'll got me sold on Brighter Summer Day 
edit: Oh and they got Realm of the Senses for the JBO brehs
edit: Oh and they got Realm of the Senses for the JBO brehs
Never seen YiYi but ya'll got me sold on Brighter Summer Day
edit: Oh and they got Realm of the Senses for the JBO brehs
30 percent of the Criterion section is dedicated to JBO.edit: Oh and they got Realm of the Senses for the JBO brehs
already have the blu-ray
(Oshima’s great)
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Why ain't yall tell me this movie is 3 hours and 56 mins long
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Insiang was dope as hell 
Ending
A story of revenge full of twists
This is what criterion is all about
Ending
A story of revenge full of twists
This is what criterion is all about
Insiang was dope as hell
Ending
A story of revenge full of twists
This is what criterion is all about
Agreed, any Lino Brocka film is great. Highly recommend Manila in the Claws of Light.
On that note, my favorite working filmmaker is another Pilipino, Lav Diaz. His films are amazing but fair warning, long (4 hours is a relatively short film for Diaz). Criterion hasn’t released anything of his yet but I figure it’s inevitable. Norte: The End of History is a great start point.
I binge watch the Columbian Noir collection last weekend. The Big Heat was that shyt brehs
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What's some of the best Samurai films on criterion? I've seen plenty but I'm probably missing some.
What's some of the best Samurai films on criterion? I've seen plenty but I'm probably missing some.
You welcome
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Yeah I've seen these. I'll start watching some of the more obscure ones and recommend them as I go along.Yojimbo