No.1375
I really want to get into Ho Hsiao Hsien's work, but I have no idea what to start with. A City of Sadness or Millenium Mambo? Or do I do it chronologically?
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No.1378
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No.1387
>>1375>Or do I do it chronologically?I did it this way, but good luck in finding all his movies (unless you have a KG account). "Taipei story" and "A Time to Live, a Time to Die" are very good, but "A City of Sadness" is the best.
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No.1388
i'd start with Flowers of Shanghai.
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No.1391
Aren't his first few movies complete shit?
I don't see why you would want to do that unless for historical interest.
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No.1488
Fuck Ho Hsia Hsien, seriously, not a good taiwanese filmmaker.
Check out Edward Yang, much much better director, I can't say enough about him, probably one of the best, shame he died so young.
Check out Yang's The Terrorizers, Taipei Story, YiYi, and A brighter summer day.
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No.1510
>>1488I plan to see Yi Yi, and I've already seen ABSD (which is one of my favourite films ever). Yang is a director I really like but I want to explore as many Chinese, Hong Kong, Taiwanese directors as I can. HHH is a director I'm really curious about
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No.1528
>>1387>tfw no private tracker accountsJust fucking kill me already.
I personally liked Millenium Mambo a whole a lot. Nice and minimalist film.
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No.1540
>>1528>>tfw no private tracker accountsSame, kek
>no kg account>go on /tv/, see kg thread where someone is giving out invites but only to people with patrician taste>no patrician taste because no private tracker accountsWhat a vicious cycle
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No.6660
what did you guys think of this?
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No.6663
>>1540
>No Pass The Popcorn either
Do i really have to pay for these goddamn
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No.6664
>>6663
PTP takes a lot of effort to get an invite for someone else
You're not on any private torrent sites?
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No.6705
>>1488
Yang's nice but kind of shallow/restrained, both thematically and formally, compared to what HHH and Liang offer. I've loved Liang for a long time but after seeing some of Hou's films screened, I'm starting to really appreciate him.
There's something different about Taiwanese 2nd wave, I mean, it stands out apart from all cinema. Though only subtly.
>>6664
I've been using rutracker since highschool. Someone promised me a KG account here last summer, did the whole good taste top 10 but never gave it.
Tell me, is KG hosting a Harun Farocki archive?
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No.6710
>>6705
> Someone promised me a KG account here last summer, did the whole good taste top 10 but never gave it.
Is that post still here somewhere? KG was granting invites for a few months but now they stopped again.
I used to give them out like candy. So my invite tree is full of disabled accounts, which looks bad since they've gotten stingy about granting invites.
Farocki, yeah, there are 70 torrents for him.
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No.6711
>>6705
>Someone promised me a KG account here last summer
are you the guy who had the Oman flag at one point? And I think had Querelle in your top 10?
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No.6717
>>6660
I had high hopes, but I was honestly pretty bored by it. I'm by no means opposed to slow movies (Lav Diaz is one of my favorite directors), but this one just didn't seem to do anything to justify the glacial pace of a lot of the shots. I remember one shot in a palace with a transparent curtain being particularly punishing and masturbatory. I also found it hard to care about anything that was happening because I couldn't understand the story or any of the motivations of the characters, there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to any events. There were a few nice shots, especially the title shot and the black and white one towards the end with the girl standing on the windy cliff, but overall I came away from it disappointed. The only other HHS film I've seen is Millennium Mambo, which I liked but also found to be a bit needlessly slow at times. From what I can gather neither that nor The Assassin are really typical films of his (at least in terms of the time they take place in), so I still need to check out some of his other stuff before I can pass judgment on him as a filmmaker.
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No.8108
>>6660
>>6717
It's a gorgeous film but I couldn't get into any of the substance either. I had difficulty differentiating certain characters, let alone knowing who they were in the first place. I think a second viewing would help but I really don't see the point.
And a 22 year old girl as a disturbed loner superninja is a tough sell, especially given the ponderous tone of the rest of the film.
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No.8109
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No.8139
80s HH > 90s HH > not watching HH > 00-10s HH.
Sorry for edge.
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No.8142
>>1488
Hitler post of truth
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