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johnboy
Yang's The Terrorizers is also worth seeing (maybe this can also get Criterion treatment in the future). As far as the Taiwanese New Wave in general goes, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai, Millennium Mambo, and Three Times are all fantastic – I also like Rebels of the Neon God by Tsai Ming-liang. A Brighter Summer Day is definitely the greatest work of the whole movement, though. Leaves a major impression.
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Sorry, I don't know how the ''poz'' system works but I agree johnboy. Really every Yang film is worth watching, The Terrorizers is currently on Amazon Prime and Taipei Story was just released as part of a criterion boxset. It's a shame his other films don't have a quality release, I dream of one day owning every Yang film on blu-ray. I'd still recommend watching them if you can find torrents or rips online, especially his 1996 "Mahjong" which is shamefully underrated. I know it's a contrarian opinion but the only misstep in his career in my opinion is Yi Yi, it's just far too maudlin and filled with stock characters and histrionic melodrama, a weaker version of Ozu's family dramas. Your suggestions are excellent too, Flowers of Shanghai and Millenium Mambo are some of my favorite films. It's pretty incredible how a such a small country like Taiwan could produce two of the all-time greats with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Yang.

Content Creator

The Day of the Jackal because it is about the OAS hiring an assassin to kill de Gaulle and the attempts of Scotland Yard and the French authorities to stop the hired gun. And fuck de Gaulle basically

TQP

Hell or Highwater. Modern Western/heist movie that is well worth seeing.

Psammetichus

I'd imagine that Crazed Fruit is in the area of this board's æsthetic.

Cornelio
I disliked it enormously. Whiny and unbelievable. 5/10
Cornelio
T2: Trainspotting
Danny Boyle, 2017

Irvine Welsh published Trainspotting 's sequel, Porno , in 2002. I was a fan of his at the time, and I was so impatient to know what Renton, Sick Boy, et al, were up to, that I bought the book in the original — it was the first book I ever read in english (or rather scottish dialect). I remember liking it at the time, but trying to re-read it 5 or 6 years later, with some 300 more books under my belt, I realized that it was not so good. Welsh substituted insight and substance for outrage and pornography (*) , plus the plot was quite unbelievable. When I learned about T2: Trainspotting I wasn't too excited - if it was based on Porno , it'd probably be a bore. However, apparently Boyle decided to wipe his ass with Welsh's novel and get John Hodge to write something more palatable for the general audience and, in the end, just plain better.

Renton goes back to Leith, meets with his pals, some scams happen (the scene in the british nationalist association alone is worth the price of admission), Begbie gets out of control, etc. The film exploits 90s nostalgia, it is nothing too out of the ordinary, and the last 20 minutes drag a little bit, but all in all it is well done, funny, and even insightful at times. I liked it.
7/10


(*) This is exactly the same problem that burdens everything Chuck Palahniuk has written after "The Fight Club"
Jude

Layer Cake

Solid Brit gangster film. Pretty cliched, but to be expected.

Kebab Removal Service
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/UI1Ovh5JnOE

Hardcore Henry

Finished this movie a few minutes ago. What a ride. Basically a really simple, but highly entertaining action movie with a spectacular point-of-view .
It does everything what an action movie should do & nothing what it shouldn't (SJW politics, diversity cast, virtue-signaling) and that's quite a lot these days.
I'm really surprised why it didn't succeed big at the box offices, it might be a distribution/marketing problem (the same fate as The Raid )

8/10
perkunos

The Ice Storm

70s period piece about the death of a family in the decline of Western Civilization.

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