The Movies I Watched in May

Anatomie de l'enfer 2004  5/10 

Anora 2024  7/10

 

The Bad Seed 1956  7/10

 

Birth of a Pearl 1901  7/10

 

BlueBob Egg 2002  5/10 

Companion 2025  6/10 

A Complete Unknown 2024  7/10 

 

Darkened Room 2002  7/10

 

A Deadly American Marriage 2025  6/10 

El Eternauta 2025  6/10 

The Hunt 2020  5/10 

Industrial Soundscape 2002  6/10 

Karen Dalton: In My own Time 2020  7/10

 

Kes 1969  8/10

 

Kohayagawa-ke no aki 1961 7/10

 

Lady and the Tramp 1955  8/10

 

Liebes Kind 2023  7/10

 

The Line, the Cross & the Curve 1993  6/10 

Mean Girls 2004  6/10 

Millennium Season 2 1997 8/10

 

Moebiuseu 2013  5/10 

Môjû 1969  7/10

 

The Paperboy 2012  6/10 

Pygmalion et Galathée 1898  7/10

 

Quatre nuits d'un rêveur 1971  7/10

 

Rabbits 2002  !0/10

 

Requiem pour un vampire 1972  5/10 

Reservatet 2025  7/10

 

Safe 1995  7/10

 

Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai 2015  7/10 

 

Seeds 1968  6/10 

Silent Night, Bloody Night 1972  6/10 

Sinners 2025  8/10

 

A Star is Born 1954  6/10 

Sylvia Scarlett 1935  6/10 

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar 1995  6/10 

Out Yonder 2002  7/10

Unrelated 2007  6/10 

Unter den Brücken 1946  7/10

 

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 2024  7/10

 

The Wizard of Gore 1970  5/10

Yadon ilaheyya 2002  7/10

 

You 2ß25  6/10

New Stuff: Pieta

As addition to my Ki-duk Kim collection.

Ag-o (1996)

Violent thug Crocodile lives under a bridge by the Han River in Seoul together with a peddling boy and a homeless old man, soon joined by a suicidal woman.

Harrowing low-life drama depicting the helpless search for some redemption in a desperate world; in theme and atmosphere quite similar to its director's later work Paran daemun.

Paran daemun (1998)

A young woman moves into a boarding house run by a small family, but her presense threatens to destroy them all.

Gripping, but at times painful to watch epiphany of an 'innocent' prostitute transforming the people around her.

New Stuff: Hwal

As a fan I've been collecting all of Kim Ki-Duk's movies.

Hae anseon (2002)

aka
The Coast Guard France / International (English title)




At South Korea's border with the North troops guard the coast, and a single incident triggers a catastrophe among all involved.

A well-intentioned anti-war drama with a very splashy script. The director has done much better work since.

Recent Purchases

Till recently I didn't know this book existed and only found out, when Amazon recommended it to me. Sometimes the system works! It is richly illustrated and seems to be full of new information to me. However, although it is subtitled as a 'complete history of Japanese sex cinema' the introduction soon tells you that this is a study of pinku eiga only. But neverthless, I expect this to be an interesting read.



I'm collecting all of Kim Ki-Duk's movies, and till now I missed out ordering this one.