No.2684
This month Film Club features a pair of films set during the winter holidays. First up is this Chinese wartime black comedy, which won the Cannes Grand Prize of the Jury in 2000.
> This second feature by actor-turned-director Jiang Wen—set in the shadow of the Great Wall during the final months of the Japanese occupation—keeps up a pummeling tempo and bawdy, throttling energy that prompted the disapproving Beijing Film Bureau to remark, "In general, the style of the film is vulgar." Indeed, this is a Chinese period piece more inclined to burn barns than raise red lanterns. Scored to farmyard squawks and a marching band, the movie barrels from frisky Ealing horseplay to cackling Kusturica farce. ~~ Dennis Lim, The Village Voice
> With its vertiginous black-and-white cinematography, narrative leaps and starts, twisty story and large pool of characters, Devils on the Doorstep, […] is not an easy movie. But in its dry and forceful way, it delivers the same message as Jiri Menzel's Closely Watched Trains and Danis Tanovic's No Man's Land. While acknowledging that war is hell, it goes further to suggest it is ludicrous. ~~ Stephen Holden, New York Timeshttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245929/referencehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_on_the_Doorstep ____________________________
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No.2685
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No.2707
I plan to stream this tomorrow at noon eastern time Sat.
>tinyurl.com/filmstream1
Huey
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No.2709
>>2707thanks for the stream. watching it now. Will you be able to replay it tommorow?
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No.5594
BAMP
This is a great one that more people should comment on. Especially if you're from Japan or China because I'd like to hear your perspective. It's banned in China for some reason.
Plot is good, keeps you guessing throughout, although I don't how closely it resembles reality. It's cool to see a war movie in a different setting… not rehashing the same conflicts you've already seen 100 times.
There seemed to be a gentle caricature of Japanese honor culture, so I was wondering if Chinese view them as uptight. Or maybe that was part of portraying the enemy in a war film.
My main disappointment was I didn't find a very good rip so the blacks weren't deep enough.
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No.5599
>>5594
This film is one of my favorites and it has the best ending to a black comedy that I had ever seen.
This film was praised in Japan because because of it's realistic potrayal of the Japanese forces during the occupation on China.
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No.5601
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>>5599
Ah, okay. I read that China's gov't prefers war movies where Japanese are portrayed as completely deranged monsters instead. That's part of the reason it was banned.
What are some other movies you like about Imperial Japan?
It's interesting to talk about this film now since China had a massive commemoration for the 70th anniversary of the end of the war last week. This event did not get much news coverage at all over here.
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No.5637
>>5601
I can recommend you Caterpillar (2010) directed by Koji Wakamatsu one of my favorite directors.
It's kind of a hard watch but a very good film.>>5601
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No.6671
>>5637
If you're still there can you recommend some more films? i'm really interested in that place/time period.
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No.6876
I think this clip is from A City of Life and Death
Added to watchlist
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No.11453
>>5601
>What are some other movies you like about Imperial Japan?
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No.11744
>>5601
>>6671
Fires on the Plain is another essential film about Imperial Japan and WWII. It takes place as Japan has all but lost control of the Philippines. The exhausted soldiers have no food and little hope of survival. The story follows a lone soldier as he wanders through the nightmarish, inhuman scenario.
I think Kon Ichikawa's films have a unique visual impact, as the director used his background in manga to carefully storyboard all of his shots.
I attached this scene where a group of soldiers must sneak across a marsh, road, and meadow under cover of darkness.
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