Film Hong Sang-soo (Future Hendrix of the Film Game)

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  1. Vahn
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    Mar 3, 2017
    This thread might be a little premature in this series since majority of people don't know this filmmaker but I saw young @Charlie Work attempting to explore his work so I figured I'd spark a conversation about him.

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    This man is the Nayvadius of film, dropping hit after hit, never missing a year and often dropping several films a year. He's like early Woody Allen but more of a savage. I know South Korean cinema is prob the most readily accessible to casual American watchers because of pop culture filmmakers like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho but this man is rly the truth of South Korean filmmaking.

    Discuss your favorites or start feasting on this filmography of gems.

    1. Right Now, Wrong Then
    2. Tale of Cinema
    3. Hill of Freedom
    4. On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
    5. Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
    6. Night and Day
    7. Like You Know It All
    8. The Day He Arrives
    9. Our Sunhi
    10. In Another Country

    His 2016 film, Yourself and Yours, is out online but no subtitles yet. Plus he's got two films dropping this year, On the Beach at Night Alone & Claire's Camera, the former is being praised as his best and the latter is a reteaming with Isabelle Huppert. It's safe to say bruh is in peak form and shows no sign of slowing down.

     
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    I only read one Slant review for Oki's Movie, but the writer heavily implied he has Xavier Dolan syndrome. Are his movies very limited in scope?
     
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    Mar 3, 2017
    I'll be sure to check his films out. I've always enjoyed Korean cinema.
     
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    Oki's Movie is one of his lesser efforts, bad to start with imo, check out something that's higher up on my list.

    People say he makes the same movie over and over, but to me it's fascinating that he's essentially exploring similar scenarios and characters time and time again but often coming up with different revelations. His works are definitely verging on autobiographical so I guess you can compare him to someone like Dolan but they're worlds different in terms of ideas and filmmaking.
     
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    It was his most well regarded movie on Amazon Prime. Just wanted something convenient. I'd rather start at the bottom than the top anyway. The Future comparison is even stronger now since he makes the same s--- over and over.
     
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    Mar 4, 2017
    He's the Descartes of CInema... Hendrix.. why? n----- aint dead bro
     
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    Hendrix as in Future Hendrix m8

     
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    Mar 4, 2017
    I thought I've seen more of his films but guess not...

    1. Right Now, Wrong Then
    2. The Day He Arrives
    3. Night and Day
    4. Woman on the Beach
    5. Woman is the Future of Man
    6. Yourself and Yours
    7. In Another Country
    8. The Power of the Kangwon Province
     
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    Watched The Day He Arrives last night.

    My second outing with Sang-soo feels strangely familiar, as intended. The Day He Arrives is definitely a better funded project than Oki's Movie, but it's the same base equation with some variables changed. From the reviews I've read, that is the point. Sang-soo is a filmmaker who can accurately be described as narrow and repetitive, thus making him the perfect candidate to inspect the meta of the Groundhog Day style purgatory which he inhabits. It's a Choose Your Own Adventure exercise in Chaos Theory. It's fractalized narratives projecting every dimension of his identity. Admittedly, I do enjoy thinking about them a bit more than sitting through them, but unlike with Xavier Dolan per say, watching this guy make the same movie over and over serves a grander purpose. It's ingenious really.

    I should've elaborated on that purpose more, but within in the small context I have, it's... a virtuous exercise in drawing every conclusion instead of being boxed in by a single line of thought. Cultivating wisdom. Also very neat how deeply his subject and structure are interconnected.
     
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    It's also worth noting that he has the best drunk scenes in all of cinema.
     
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    That scene where the kids all have packs of cigarettes and he runs away :'(
     
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    I need someone to make subs for Yourself and Yours, this wait is getting a little ridiculous now.
     
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    Do you have an AvistaZ account? That's where I'd look.
     
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    Yeah, but it's still dry last time I checked. My ratio is so trash on that site lmao.
     
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    Well I know a movie weeb obsessed with Sang-soo. I'll see if he knows anything.
     
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    Like You Know It All is very major Hong, d---. Perhaps his most naked and self critical work.
     
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    Some updates:

    Hong's masterpiece, Right Now, Wrong Then, is now available on blu ray; everyone should watch this.

    I caught one of his lesser talked about films last night, On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, and it's an absolute classic that ranks among his very best.

    He will have two films playing in competition at Cannes this year, The Day After & Claire's Camera, in addition to On the Beach at Night Alone which dropped at Berlin a few months ago, that makes 3 features this year. On the Beach leaked online as well, but there aren't any subtitles for it yet and probably won't be for a while as we're still waiting for subtitles for his 2016 film :emoji_slight_frown:

    Also, my recent rewatch of Hill of Freedom bumped it up into my top 3 Hong so that being one of his most recent pretty much cements that he's in his prime right now and he's working faster than ever. What a time :sweatt:
     
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    Yourself and Yours & On the Beach Alone at Night subs are out!

    Finally a reason to start watching movies again :rejoice:
     
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    I can't find them :emoji_slight_frown:
     
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    They are on KG, I will upload them for you. Do you have the films themselves or do you need the film and subtitles?
     
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