Jackslackofconsent wrote:sofia is cinema royalty fr!!! especially lost in translation is inspired by wkw but i find her movies to be structurally be very different from wkw.. anyways im defending marie antoinette til the day i die ppl who hate that movie hate themselvesdoes anyone watch movies here? like quite often? have a letterboxd whatever. if so do you have any suggestions? favourite director?I adore Wong Kar-Wai and I would suggest Sofia Coppola, they have a similar vibe. All her movies are amazing except for On The Rocks and The Bling Ring, which aren't bad, but aren't anything special either. Also An Elephant Sitting Still is another amazing Chinese movie which has a similar vibe to WKW, but the director committed suicide after finishing it so it's his only movie. And just in general some unrelated movies I've watched recently and would recommend are The Picnic at Hanging Rock, High Life, The Love Witch, The Power of The Dog, Spencer, Titane, Hole (or Dong, from 1998). Probably some more that I can't think of rn
personally i love wong kar wai
geez its hard picking faves cuz i'm just someone who's very enthusiastic about a lot of movies, I've just got to complete the aforementioned toshiaku toyoda's Ressurection trilogy the other day so it got me rewatching Blue Spring, because everytime i watch something of that director i jsut have to go back to Blue Spring... I feel to get out of this all easely, I'll just pick whichever movie I've most seen of each the lads I mentioned earlier, which would no doubt be Confessions (tho no doubt Kamikaze Girls is riiiiight next to it, I've just watched both these so much..), Phoenix, Save the Green Planet, Nostalgia de la Luz and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (or Lady Vengeance? both of those got me tight in their hold, though I know its more popular to name the Handmaiden for fave PCW, I just have a soft spot for these two of the vengeance trilogy -dont care about oldboy tho cuz i'm so special ig- but since there's no disagreement overall on the handmaiden i feel i can give more rep n love to my lil ones. also- i'm a cyborg but that's ok is fucking bonkers and the real underrated gem of this guy's filmo if i do say so myself, the experience of Rain yodeling while a gigantic cg ladybug flies around carrying im soo jung around....a moment a moment...WAIT SHIT n thirst too....goddam i really am just enthusiastic about some guy's work ig...). +the ones i mentioned in the prev post ofc. Ressurection trilogy n the harder they fall...my beloveds <3oh my god thanks lol so many movies i havent watched yet ill make sure to check em out asap
For movies from other directors cuz once again there's not just these few lads in here and i contain multitude, the Bad Genius movie (it had a show remake not long ago, hated it they jsut went on n added more straight drama, who needed that? no one. wake up. ur main girl's a lesbian), Dear Ex, The Merciless, The Fall (2006), Antique, Guns&Talks, Jawbreaker, After Life, Lost and Found (1996) (if ur a takeshi enthusiast, that one's real great...his character there is....yea....yea....manic pixie dream boy era man...), Blade, One Cut of the Dead (its so special to me, so dumb so fun, so cheap but so full of heart i cant explain my very special love for this little dumb movie...), Lola Rennt (was obsessed with it at 14, now more or less 10 years later im circling back to it...), Tampopo, Linda Linda Linda, The Favourite, Confessions of a Shopaholic (one my most favest romcom its just so...so much...), Tokyo Drifter, and most recently I caught Sorry to Bother You and well I was already half sick that day so it may have helped with it but that shit made me so hysterical...
also cuz i study animation ig i Have to namedrop some animated movies [rolls my eyes] ugh fiiine i'm a sucker for Night is Short Walk on Girl, n Ruben Brandt collector has been the most recent case of movie that reminded me that maybe i hadnt made a mistake in picking my major cuz they do still make cool movies that dont look boring and arent afraid to do something different stylewise after all..........Also the first Spongebob Squarepants movie legit invented cinema, had to show it to a friend who missed out on it cuz her parents were the kind of bitches who thought spongebob made kids dumb n it reminded me that rly that shit went hard. also her reactions of "wait that stuff's scary tho kids watch that?" got me to reevaluate that damn, right, that is technically some scary shit huh.... i guess..... mentally stronger thanks to that franchise ig cuz it never hit me before her outsider perspective.
I gotta be forgettin lots of things... these r just the ones that are in my thoughts atm...
Also anyone who disagrees that the Lego Movie is a masterpiece knows nothing. Speak the truth!!!! Its a fuckin masterpiece!!!
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