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The Recommendation Thread

 
 
pointless and uncalled for
08:56 / 07.07.04
The point of this thread is to recommend films although not nessecarily discuss them on the grounds that it may be too soon.

For instance, the below post is about a film I saw last year but is only just about to get national release. The release will probably not be that widespread or long running but I think a lot of you will enjoy it, therefore I am recommending it.

If this thread were in a tin the label would have an accurate decription.

Blue Gate Crossing

I saw this film at the '03 LLGFF and was suitably awestruck.

The best way that I can describe this is as the Taiwanese take on Fucking Amal. Although I have no experience of sexual confusion or teenage life in Taiwan, this film does appear to portray and deal with these subjects in a very real manner. Certainly those who would know seem to think so.

Anyway, the point of this post is that the film is coming out on general release and I highly recommend it to all.
 
 
pointless and uncalled for
07:46 / 23.07.04
2009: Lost Memories, a film by Si-myung Lee

is another that should be put on your "must see list". I watched this last night and can confirm that it is another piece of cinematic brilliance to emerge from Korea, which seems to be becoming the good Hollywood of the other side of the pacific rim.

For this film think time travelling Man In The High Castle meets Hard Boiled. Quite beautiful.
 
 
Foust is SO authentic
15:39 / 23.07.04
Seldom, is the IMBD reviewer correct about the Japanese in Lost Memories being cartoonish villians?
 
  
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