I know this is SUPER last minute (I would have given a heads up way sooner, but I‘m in the middle of a movie, so hopefully you know how hectic that can be), but it’s the final Monday of the month, and now I'm screening TWO movies on the regular!
The theme (yeah, there's one each mont now) is "A DOUBLE DOSE OF HONG KONG BLACK MAGIC", which means I'm showing:
THE BOXER'S OMEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNkDmDJ6udc
and
SEEDING OF A GHOST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO1PuiCeGhQ
Watched Dead Man‘s Shoes last night. Very good! Could be a belated horror film recommendation, but I’d say if you like B/grimy/exploitation films this will be to yuor liking. Had one of the more disturbing sequences I've seen in a while
and everyone likes paddy considine
It's better than the trailer makes it appear of course but fyi
I‘d say it’s a soft PG-13 wrt violence. I half-mischaracterized it by calling it horror. Just energetic and skillful filmmaking + low budget and unpretentious.
@yeso#8960 I agree! I was asking because I also register it as horror even though I can see the different ways it tries not to be exactly “genre defined cinema” so to speak. And because this is exactly what I thought when @exodus said horror movies that look realistic, this one is that to me.
Was listening to the Kiyoshi Kurosawa podcast @yeso recommended me on the Seasonal games thread and suddenly remembered the super random copy of Grandia for the Saturn just lying there in one of the shots of Kairo (Pulse). Huge shout out to that.
@devilsblush#8815 Shin Godzilla was maybe the most fun I‘ve ever had at a theater. Just full of Eva and Godzilla nerds laughing and screaming and applauding through the whole thing. Felt like it was everyone’s birthday.
I know nothing about evangelion and next to nothing about godzilla, and I really really liked shin godzilla. The only other anno thing I’ve seen are his scenes in the ghibli doc in which Miyazaki is slightly mean to him.
@MichaelDMcGrath#8994 Shin Godzilla was also maybe the most fun I've had at a theater. I saw it in Japan at a 4D theater, so I even though I barely spoke any japanese I had a ton of fun sensory experiences to pick up the slack
Eva and Anno in general belongs more to the anime realm than the world of cinema, but if you are interested in him both Evangelion and Gunbuster are worth a watch. But he has also done some movie stuff that apparently is good, like Shiki-Jitsu and Love & Pop (haven‘t watched those yet so I can’t comment first hand, sorry).
is anyone familiar with hirokazu kore-eda? I thought shoplifters was great and watched the third murder last night, but didn't care for it. Worth looking more of his films or is shoplifters more or less the peak to date?
