Postby Oz » Tue Sep 20, 2011 5:33 pm
Lee Chang-dong's Poetry: Uplifting and enthralling, the final scene was extraordinary.
Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins: Miike delivers! Unquestionably a Miike film even though it has an atmosphere unlike his other films.
And with that, the festival is over for me. Let's see how fast I can write my report. As a short summary, here's some sort of an internal order (from best to worst) for the films I saw:
13 Assassins
Poetry
Cold Fish
Robot
The Borrower Arrietty
My Neighbours the Yamadas
Guilty of Romance
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
Milocrorze - A Love Story
I Saw the Devil
"I'd really like to have as much money as you have, Oz" - robersora
"No you wouldn't. Oz's secret is he goes without food to buy that stuff. He hasn't eaten in years." - Brikhaus
"Often I get the feeling that deep down, your little girl is struggling with your embrace of filmfaggotry and your loldeep fixations, and the conflict that arises from such a contradiction is embodied pretty well in Kureha's character. But obviously it's not any sort of internal conflict that makes the analogy work. It's the pigtails." - Merridian
"Oh, Oz, I fear I'm losing my filmfag to the depths of Japanese pop. If only there were more films with Japanese girls in glow-in-the-dark costumes you'd be the David Bordwell of that genre." - Jimbo
"Oz, I think we need to stage an intervention and force you to watch some movies that aren't made in Japan." - Trajan
Fazmotron wrote:Tarkovsky's Mirror - this was a really cool film, I was kinda mesmerised while watching it. Really interesting and awesomely filmed, I want to see more of Tarkovsky's stuff now.
