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For this Friday Movie Night, first up is Yi Yi (2000), a Taiwanese slice-of-life drama following the individual struggles of a middle-class family; one is a failson, one is in a coma, one is going through an existential crisis, and in the middle of all of them N.J., the protagonist, who tries to weave through it all as he tries to succeed at business. This is considered one of the best Taiwanese films of all time, and arguably the best film of director Edward Yang’s career, as well as one of the best films of the 2000s; it is currently ranked at #11 on the Letterboxd Top 250.
After that is Point Blank (1967), a gangster thriller starring Lee Marvin as a bank robber who is double-crossed by his partner-in-crime and left for dead. He decides he wants share of the loot, and so he shoots his way through the rank of the gang that organized the heist, trying to someone, anyone who will give him his payout. Director is John Boorman, whose sci-fi film Zardoz (1973) we previously watched; he also did Deliverance (1972) and Excalibur (1981), which we have not. Great reviews for this, so let’s check it out.
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:
https://blorp.zapto.org/o/visual_cuisine
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- Yi Yi: https://letterboxd.com/film/yi-yi/
- Point Blank: https://letterboxd.com/film/point-blank/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- Yi Yi: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244316/parentalguide/
- Point Blank: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062138/parentalguide/
CWs for Yi Yi:
- Kissing.
- Nudity.
- Panty shot.
- Fistfighting.
- Profanity.
- Alcohol.
- Smoking.
CWs for Point Blank:
- Nudity.
- Kissing.
- Implied sex.
- Gun violence.
- Fistfighting.
- Beatings.
- Blood and gore.
- Drug overdose.
- Alcohol.
- Smoking.