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Stray Dogs directed by Tsai Ming-liang - 6/10 The first Tsai film that didn't really do it for me. This has the most extreme form of his style in the form of an approximately 20 minute static long take shot with no dialogue and two characters that are practically not moving. Rather than being a...

Yeah, pretty much. The Wind Rises directed by Hayao Miyazaki - 10/10 A great swansong for a master filmmaker, this time Miyazaki moves away from more magical adventure stories to more realistic human drama. Yet it is still filled with dreams that add that uncontainable creativity that Miyazaki...

The Battle Of Midway directed by John Ford - 4/10 Good war footage, bad narration. Salomé directed by Pedro Almodovar - 7/10 Interesting debut short film, I love the way it portrays and ridicules a religious story at the same time. Attack On The Bakery directed by Naoto Yamakawa - 8/10 Insane...

Captain EO directed by Francis Ford Coppola; starring Michael Jackson - 6/10 OK so I don't know what the heck this is about, nor do I even really care. The crazy special effects, sci-fi setting, and Michael Jackson singing and dancing is just awesome so time flies by with this short film...

Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino - 8/10 This is more like it! I actually liked this film a lot, it's just a lot of fun and yet it has a more serious tone than other Tarantino films. My only problem would be the music choices (they just feel inappropriate for this kind of film, I...

Yeah I love To Live as well but not quite as much as Raise The Red Lantern. Really you can't go wrong with any Yimou from 1987-1994, and then selections from later in his career. I saw To Live when I was much younger, so I can't wait to re-watch that and see what I think of it now, I remember...

Death Proof directed by Quentin Tarantino - 4/10 So far my least favorite Tarantino film, and I hated the Kill Bill films. This film just doesn't really do anything and isn't fun enough to justify that. The chase scene at the end was awesome, but the film just completely shifted styles a few...

Haha thanks, I'll try my best to recommend what are actually the essentials (since I'm so obsessed with this stuff that I know nearly everything is essential to me haha). The first thing I'll have to say though is that when discussing Chinese cinema, we have to break it down to three distinct...

Yeah I've read about Wiseman's other films and that's the one with the subject matter that interests me most. I'll give it a watch when I can! I haven't posted in a while so I have seen a ton of films since my last post, I'll just basically give ratings with little to no writing on the films...

Will do, I didn't mean to hijack the thread, I just wanted to make a comment or two with APE. Thanks.

Yeah I did notice that the role of sound designer was developed throughout several films, although it's interesting how it's a relatively recent development (in terms of overall film history, the late 70's and 80's aren't that long ago even if we just limit film history to the sync sound era)...

Laborer's Love directed by Shichuan Zhang - 7/10 The earliest surviving Chinese film is actually a pretty fun silent comedy with one extremely memorable gag. The film runs on a bit too long for me, particularly the beginning which I didn't find to be as interesting, but the second half is pure...

I see, yeah I suppose it is off-topic although I think it is a very important thing to talk about. Thanks for letting me know, I look forward to hearing from you!

A Girl At Dojo Temple directed by Kon Ichikawa - 8/10 Wow so this movie is actually pretty amazing. Kon Ichikawa's first film is a short film of traditional puppetry, and Ichikawa treats his puppets as if he were shooting anything else with really beautiful compositions, nice use of shadows and...

Yeah that's what I meant, specifically about the Sound Designer role. But many great directors already cared about sound, and to add a non-Anglophone one you can include Kurosawa in that list. Yeah but he was making mainstream films, I didn't necessarily mean Hollywood mainstream. American...

Yeah what APE said is true and I think it's pretty interesting, I've been studying how ever since the original Star Wars, the game was completely changed when George Lucas hired a sound designer long before getting the film into production. Now it's standard practice for Hollywood films to have...

I assume by near silent, you mean no dialogue because even films with no dialogue do have sounds and often times music. I think doing a film that way can be good, but it depends on what story you are trying to tell. Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang uses the lack of dialogue and music...

Yeah I was planning on watching it yesterday, but I was a bit tired. I'm going to watch it tonight! IMO, anything that's actually directed by Jackie is gold (same goes for Sammo Hung). The Wizard of Oz directed by Victor Fleming, Norman Taurog, King Vidor, Mervyn LeRoy, and George Cukor - 8/10...

HHH: A Portrait of Hou Hsiao-Hsien directed by Olivier Assayas - 8/10 Good documentary about a master filmmaker. It's really cool to see Hou just sing karaoke and be an ordinary guy, he's one of the most down to earth 'arthouse' directors I've seen. La Cortina Del Palacio directed by Carlos...

I think re-watching depends on the individual. I have way too many films that I want to watch that I just am not very interested in re-watching films a lot, and yet I always have a list of films that I say I definitely want to re-watch. I generally don't re-watch very much, but there are three...