/lit/ - Literature

>>4783172
Actually I'm not that into him. What I like about the taiwanese stuff is the camera work and everything they capture is so exquisite, in the same vein as Kitano or Cronenberg. What I've seen of wkw (days of being wild, chunking express & fallen angles) has just been okay love/action stories in semi-evocative settings and a sort ugly-indie aesthetic. They're nice but didn't feel like great movies, I never really saw the appeal. The whole dirty underground setting of Fallen Angels isn't interesting to me unless they're going to take the narrative to a legitimate extreme (sexual or violent).

There's something about weerasethakul, he's got a silly, incredibly sincere outlook. It's very charming. Just the other day I read Tilda Swinton mention absolutely loving Tropical Malady in her State of Cinema address, so I think I'll try and download it soon. I've seen a vietnamese movie, Scent of Green Papaya, that was kind of similar in spirit. You know, they just don't have any second thoughts about spending the majority of a film focused on cooking and eating, with character plots delegated to the periphery. Very different to the dumb sort of 'sincerity' of american indie shit that places everything on top of the characters.
Revanche is just an extremely good movie, perfectly constructed. Gotz had another thing come out last year that looks really good but I haven't been able to find it anywhere... It's nice to be able to chat about movies, I gave up on /tv/ a long time ago.

OH, Like Someone in Love is a movie you should check out too. It's by Abba Kiarostami, who a lot of people are into but it's the only one I've seen by him. Usually his films are made in Iran, but this one is set in Japan. It's very good, very subtle and sparse but doesn't feel slow at all, great shots of cars (pic). Closer to Dust in the Wind than Vive l'Amour.

Taipei was fun. Ended up very drunk in a masseuse parlor one night and received a happy ending from a Taiwanese princess.