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lostinmac · 10 months

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A Sun (2019)

Dir. Chung Mong-hong

#a sun #taiwan #taiwanese film #Asian film #east asia #East Asian film #Ching mong-hong #yi-wen chen #shu-chin ko #chien-ho wu #greg hsu #family #drama

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ecrubluu · 6 months

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[OLD WORK] happy together x i'll get by

happy together (2019) dir. by wong kar-wai i'll get by (2018) by megumi acorda

#ecrubluu design #wong kar wai #film #poster #poster design #graphic design #design #megumi acorda #opm #east asian film #movies #music #fanart #tony leung #leslie cheung #art #artph #artists on tumblr #artists

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cloudtinn · 8 months

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Behind the scenes pic of 'In the Mood for Love' (2000), dir. Wong Kar-wai.

#movies #films #film stills #cinematography #cineshots #in the mood for love #wong kar wai #wkw #tony leung #maggie cheung #wkw universe #asian cinema #east asian cinema #cloud_tinn #behind the scenes

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lambotel · 2 years

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favourites.

#kotoko #fallen angel 1995 #fallen angel #march comes like a lion #parasite #movie covers #album covers #japanese film #east asian film

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peachfruitcake · 1 year

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celluloidrainbow · 1 year

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きのう何食べた? | WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY? (2021) dir. Kazuhito Nakae Kakei Shiro is a 45-year-old lawyer who works at a small law firm. He is good at cooking and a meticulous and thrifty person who keeps the monthly food budget to 25,000 yen. Shiro’s daily routine is to leave work on time and head to a discount supermarket nearby. His partner Yabuki Kenji is an affable hairdresser also in his 40s. They share a two-bedroom apartment and the finer points of two men living together come up at the dining table every day. Although two of them have been in a relationship for three years and Shiro's parents know of his sexuality, he never shares the fact that he is gay or Kenji is his partner to anyone. Based on the manga and series of the same name. (link in title)

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honeygleam · 6 months

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that day, on the beach (1983) dir. edward yang

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arthoehin · 2 years

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Tony Leung for K-100 magazine

#film #letterboxd #movies #wong kar wai #tony leung #in the mood for love #chungking express #chinese cinema #east asian #asian cinema #asian film

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stellacadente · 2 days

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돈 | THE MONEY (1958) dir. Kim So-dong

#q #the money 1958 #don #돈 #dailyworldcinema #film stills #cinemaspast #classicfilmsource #classicfilmblr #blackandwhiteedit #korean cinema #south korean cinema #east asian cinema #kim so dong #1950s #1958 #screencaps #film

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norfkid · 4 months

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not that the oscars should define or measure a person’s success, but how much longer do i have to wait for them to finally make a stunt performer/performance category??

#🛷#i still don’t watch the oscars & i literally Could Not Care about anything else #but man!! with the new wave of stunt performers turned filmmakers it’s about bloody time!!#and everybody in east asian ma/kung fu films since the 70s should get one by default bc they’re Just Built Different

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lostinmac · 8 months

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The Breaking Ice (2023)

Dir. Anthony Chen

#the breaking ice #Anthony chen #film #movie #chinese #chinese film #drama #romance #East Asian #yanji #zhou dongyu #qu chuxiao #Changbai mountains #china

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variousqueerthings · 5 months

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according to letterboxd i've watched 261 films this year (not counting un-logged films and the couple of weeks left to go)

so despite being tripped up in my plans by suddenly speedrunning doctor who these last couple of months, it's not been a bad year on the whole:

watched my first horror exploitation films -- "cannibal holocaust" and "last house on the left." I cannot say this genre will ever be a favourite, but there is a fascination to the uncomfortable feeling of realism in both of these

overall I watched much less horror this year, partially because I spent october travelling, so didn't do my usual one-per-day themed watch. out of these "lair of the white worm," (generally want to go down more of a ken russell rabbithole next year) "ravenous," (the best cannibal film that nobody's ever seen) and "nightbreed" (the other clive barker directed, which, listen, it may have flaws but it doesn't I tell you, this is a perfect movie!!!) stood out the most, but was also positively surprised by both "return of the living dead" (which, yes, was schlock, but very enjoyable schlock) and "the ritual" (I was expecting to like the ritual, but not for it to feel incredibly personal somehow -- the underrated of the two horrors I know of about english-speaking tourists with trauma trying to recover in the swedish wilderness, by far my favourite!)

also, finally watched the original "the exorcist" which... argh, you know when people say "this thing is really good" and you go sureeeee whatever, it's ruined by the hype and the way you talk about it makes me think I'm not gonna like it, and then you watch it and it's really good dammit!

also, i was convinced I watched "nope" last year, but it may be this year. I watched it three times this year, and I didn't log it last, so that means I get to go ohhhhh "nope" is just a movie of all time, it deserves the future cult status it's gonna have, I've been yelling about it with @le-red-queen because finally finally someone I know has also watched it why does it feel like my friends are sleeping on this film????

also! "prey"!!!!! ohhhhh the future of horror looks bright! my favourite predator film, including the first one. it made my brain buzz, it was beautiful, it's incredibly blunt statement that the predator is barely a threat compared to rapidly expanding colonialism, the lead's journey is stellar and painful and punch-the-air and... great film

I got to spend a lot of january watching a film festival that centred on movies by indigenous people "from Turtle Island and around the world" (as it says on the website -- definitely and understandably mainly around america and canada). favourite of these was "honey moccasin" a fascinating little comedy movie that maybe predictably hooked me because it also had a queer focus within its portrayal of community

also at a local queer film festival, got to see "wildhood" a movie about a gay multiethnic mi’kmaw teen, who goes on a roadtrip looking for his mother -- think this is probably one that would be difficult to find otherwise, so youknow... check out local film festivals you never know what you'll see!

have gone on several rambles about "great freedom" and "joyland," movies that I watched relatively close together that have basically haunted me all year, acting as comparisons to nearly everything else I've seen -- think they've put ideas about queer stories in my head that are exemplified in a lot of queer writing and avant garde film-making, but often isn't seen on such a big scale, budget and quality-wise (this not to say the small-budget films are less worthy, it was just a bit heady to get to see these two and be blown over by their largeness). also something about a film that takes place in post-wwii germany and a film that takes place in modern-day pakistan feeling like they belong together to me. they're thematic, philosophical, political kin

got to go deeper into todd haynes, with "safe" and "poison" (yes yes we're super late to the todd haynes dive, but sometimes you just want to rewatch velvet goldmine a million times forever, so it takes you awhile to get to his other greatest hits). very excited to watch his latest film, sad i can't see it in theatres

watched quite a few queer documentaries, including "lotus sports club" (about a football club in indonesia run by a trans man, that provides a safe place to lesbians and trans boys), "you don't know dick" (interviews with trans men in the 90s), rose von praunheim's "transexual menace" (a sprawling, seemingly random depiction of trans people in the US -- a million amazing portraits), and "kokomo city" (a documentary about black trans women sex workers, directed by d smith, who is herself a black trans woman, music producer, excellent writer -- the way this movie is edited is so Vivid and you can tell there's so much freedom to really say things than in work that isn't community led. the philosophy, the politics, chatting while in the bath, that familiarity, that openness!)

in more classic musical news, got to see "the court jester" (only mildly a musical), "on the town" and its thematic successor "it's always fair weather," (gene kelly on rollerskates), and fiddler on the roof (finally) -- enjoyed all of them! shockingly low on musicals this year, but I intend to get inspired by @fabiansociety's list for the upcoming one

a few surprises for me were "streets of fire," which I've become mildly obsessed with, for being simply The Coolest Film you never watched as a kid (baby willem dafoe biker gang leader + music written by the guy who wrote for meatloaf and fleetwood mac??) it's just a straightup good time and also did this thing of writing a male role, casting a woman in it, and accidentally giving us a butch lesbian (with a line to make it seem like she had a boyfriend one time, but like... that doesn't take away her butch cred),

and also scorsese's "kundun," which I had no idea what to make of, because it didn't feel like a scorsese film at all. I think I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with scorsese in that I think his movies are frequently gorgeous, but his focus is almost always to the left of the people that interest me (that is, everyone around the white guys with guns who yell a lot). kundun is about the dalai lama and it is. very very anti-violence in its depiction of the invasion of tibet, because the POV is a pacifist who's shielded from seeing the violence, so the three scenes that briefly depict it are all the more shocking. and like... scorsese seems to have been coming at this movie from the perspective of education/plea for the freeing of tibet? which, yay, but... unexpected movie, that is all. also they speak english, although the actors are tibetan, including the grand nephew of the dalai lama portraying the dalai lama (I think this movie shouldn't be in english, but that is very cool). strange film, definitely watched a bootleg dvd copy with a completely wack aspect ratio that I couldn't format on the screen, but sometimes that's how you've gotta see something

a few classics. saw "jeanne dielman" for the first time, then utterly failed to describe it for everyone I talked about it with. I feel like saying "three hour long movie about a woman's repetitive life that is slowly, but surely, about to explode" is... idk, maybe it's going too much into detail. pointing out the static camera, the near-lack of dialogue, the scenes that simply consist of her sitting, and people instinctively go "oh that's a gimmick." but I also think if one can herald something like "orphee" or anything bergman did or "stalker," then this is not so off-putting (I found stalker to be a lot harder to focus on actually, which surprised me considering its subject matter). I know a lot smarter people than me have pointed out that what may truly be disturbing to people is the fact that we're following a life in such detail that isn't considered a valuable/interesting life to follow, especially not for so long. and that is... well that is just our internalised sexism. it's a good movie

this turned out quite long, but wanted to sit with some of these movies for a bit. I'd rec all of them, depending on personal preference and limitations

#i think next year.... well i have a list ofc so there's the list #but specifically east and south asian cinema was quite lacking this year #watched a few favourites + another wong kar wai + joyland but i didnt go as deep as id have wanted to #and then also musicals would be nice #death in the gunj im still gonna see if i can get in this year #there's a few films that also really sat with me that i havent mentioned here because... idk.... indescribable feelings #i also had a point for truffaut but tumblr decided to cut me off after 14 for some reason? wouldn't let me hit post on anything longer so 😂#400 blows and small change were the ones -- movies with a focus on children's rights #literally wouldn't let me write any more within the points either... this is new...#cinema #film #queer cinema #me

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cloudtinn · 7 months

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Fallen Angels set pictures.

#movies #fallen angels wkw #fallen angels #fallen angels 1995 #wkw #wong kar wai #cinematography #cineshots #film stills #films #behind the scenes #asian cinema #east asian cinema #hong kong cinema #cloud_tinn

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ecrubluu · 7 months

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raise the red lantern dir. by zhang yimou

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gregor-samsung · 1 year

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La caméra de Claire [Claire's Camera] (Hong Sang-soo - 2017)

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celluloidrainbow · 8 months

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日子 | DAYS (2020) dir. Tsai Ming-Liang Under the pain of illness and treatment, middle-aged and middle class Kang finds himself adrift. He meets the younger Non for a massage appointment. They find consolation in each other, before parting ways and carrying on with their days. (link in title)

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