Put this on freaking DVD already!

There is a bevy of surprising and powerful poetry laced into the historicity of this film, which is both a sprawling and intimate treatment. It contains images and music that remain forever with me. I cant say much more, for the films is of such scope and complexity, that I wont do it justice. Simply watch it!

Where's THE SECRET OF ROAN INISH!!?

I love a film that has little desire in resolving itself, but is more interested in the immediacy and ephemerality of moments, of accumulating details whether they constructs something or not, and in our experience of its characters. Happy-Go-Lucky is one of these films. It just sort of happens. It sticks in you somehow, even if you dont have any idea what you just watched. I've confronted so many vehemently angered reactions to this film and its "pointlessness," or "plotlessness," but i seem to be enamored of it for all those same reasons :)

It is like an infusion of Oldboy's staunch brutality into the stillness of Melville's Le Samourai. The correlation between Byung-hun Lee's "Sun-woo" and Alain Delon's "Jef Costello" is tactile. The film resonates with existential sensibilities, not as an intellectual exercise, but as a physical and emotional one. Kim Ji-woon contains a flash-boiling combination of honor, loyalty if not filial piety, emotional irrationality, moral hypocrisy, and the feeling of being caught up in a powerful current of causality that must be seen to the end; by the characters and the spectators alike.

Best continuous crane shot ever? Pretty damn close.

the image posted for this film is taken from Hou Hsiao-hsien's THREE TIMES.