My new love is Wong Kar Wai. I have just seen In the Mood for Love and, ah, loved it, and now I'm dying to see 2046 which seems to be a kind of sequel.
Of the Korean director Kim Ki Duk I loved Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and ... Spring and Bin Jip. They have a very special atmosphere and Kim likes to combine extreme violence with moments of perfect zen - very powerful stuff.
I haven't seen a lot of Zhang Yimou films, especially not his older work ("Raise the Red Lantern", "Yu Dou") that everyone keeps telling me is much better than his more recent films; but the one that I like best so far is Not One Less, about a fourteen-year-old girl who substitutes for a village schoolteacher in late 1990s China - the date is one to keep in mind while watching, because it takes some believing. Much more glamorous (and beeeauuutiful) is Shanghai Triad, with Gong Li ;).
A French film I'd recommend to everyone is Comte d'automne by Eric Rohmer. The (love) story is very simple and the characters are ordinary human beings, but the result is a film that is warm without being overly sweet. It's what my sister calls a "French Conversation Movie" ;).
From Nikita Michalkov: Soleil Trompeur and Urga. The latter has a really lame ending, but I love the rest so much that it's still one of my favourites despite that flaw. Soleil Trompeur suffers no such flaw, but is rather harsh(er) in its look at humankind.
As for bashing your tastes ;)... Um - Le Pacte des Loups?! O_o I guess I will never understand what you and one of my best friends see in that movie. It's on my "worst I have ever seen" list XD. I'm obviously missing something! *g*
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Date: 2007-02-11 11:57 pm (UTC)Of the Korean director Kim Ki Duk I loved Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and ... Spring and Bin Jip. They have a very special atmosphere and Kim likes to combine extreme violence with moments of perfect zen - very powerful stuff.
I haven't seen a lot of Zhang Yimou films, especially not his older work ("Raise the Red Lantern", "Yu Dou") that everyone keeps telling me is much better than his more recent films; but the one that I like best so far is Not One Less, about a fourteen-year-old girl who substitutes for a village schoolteacher in late 1990s China - the date is one to keep in mind while watching, because it takes some believing. Much more glamorous (and beeeauuutiful) is Shanghai Triad, with Gong Li ;).
A French film I'd recommend to everyone is Comte d'automne by Eric Rohmer. The (love) story is very simple and the characters are ordinary human beings, but the result is a film that is warm without being overly sweet. It's what my sister calls a "French Conversation Movie" ;).
From Nikita Michalkov: Soleil Trompeur and Urga. The latter has a really lame ending, but I love the rest so much that it's still one of my favourites despite that flaw. Soleil Trompeur suffers no such flaw, but is rather harsh(er) in its look at humankind.
As for bashing your tastes ;)... Um - Le Pacte des Loups?! O_o
I guess I will never understand what you and one of my best friends see in that movie. It's on my "worst I have ever seen" list XD. I'm obviously missing something! *g*