What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[sportsbeast]

If we are talking to recent times then i would love to say the name > John Wick: Chapter 4
This is my favorite movie off all time! Really I love this move like Titanic, Avatar, or Train to Busan..

 

[Meta not Meta]

Very interesting interview indeed, few (not really useful) takeaways from this.
I wasn't familiar with the guy and realized i already watched 3 of his 4 films.... i'm getting old.
For some reasons i don't particularly think he's a nice guy
His knowledge of eastern europe old obscure movies is super impressive
He's one of the first cinephile directors who doesn't seem to have any interest in French cinema, especially Nouvelle vague.
He's a very interesting guy to listen to.

Artsy types can be among the most obtuse, self-involved & obnoxious people you'll ever meet. But mostly he just seems obsessed with his art. Laser-focused, especially on an amalgam of folk traditions and horror. Nevertheless, he's far more interesting than Nolan, Villeneuve and even Cronenberg, who all mostly stick to rather obvious stuff in their talks.

For esoteric French horror, I think of Jean Epstein's silent classic, La chute de la maison Usher ... plus any number of soft-core but oddly poetic Jean Rollin films from the 1970s, especislly La rose de fer ... and Season 1 of Les revenants.

Recently ... rewatched PCW's Stoker, maybe not his best but still pretty good ... saw a 35 mm screening of Heat in Dolby Surround, which was just incredible, maybe the greatest crime film of all time ... and caught up with the new Mike Leigh movie, Hard Truths, which is grimly funny but undeniably moving, like much of his work.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Yeah, for sure! Lee, Park and Bong ... the holy triumverate of South Korean cinema.

I first saw Memories of Murder as a blind walk-in twenty years ago at Fantasia. Knew nothing about it. But it blew me away. Still does. It was at Cinema Moderne here in Montreal for several screenings at around the time of its Criterion double-disc release a few years back. Also played Parc recently.

I'm absolutely convinced Fincher was using the Bong film as inspiration for his equally great Zodiac, which was made a couple of years afterwards. Not just in the similarity of real-life subject matter. But in the psychologically damaging, obsessive effect suffered by characters attempting to find a serial killer who ultimately remains elusive.

To this end, both films are very philosophical in that they leave the viewer pondering just what it is we think we know, and not just about the serial killer of each film, but about anything, ourselves included.

I guess at some level all knowledge is provisional ...

And that epilogue, so hauntingly beautiful in all its ambiguity ...

I finally watched this movie last night. I enjoyed it very much but not a fan of the ambiguity at the ending. Then i read that the movie was based on a true story of South Korea’s first serial killer investigation. So thinking of the movie this morning i wondered why there was no mention of whether or not the murders continued? Anyways the two first cops investigating the case were so infuriating at times with their blatant incompetence & especially their arrogance. And how corrupt they could be in order to pin the case on their main suspect(s) in order to close the case & get credit for finding the serial killer. Anyways i’m glad i found this movie & have this site to thank for or else i never would have heard or seen this.