Bong Joon-Ho is a fantastic filmmaker. His greedy revelry in icky and tense moments gives his movies a moody, panicky pace rendering them utterly enchanting. Add to that his almost slapstick sense of physical comedy–usually intruding into said tense moments–and you get this wonderful shimmering life that makes his characters human and his world entirely [...]
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Tokyo! and the Multi-Director Movie
March 2, 2009 – 1:42 pm
Tokyo! is the newest example of a peculiar genre of film: the multi-director movie. Of course co-direction is as old as cinema itself (cf. the Lumière brothers), but the true multi-director film is rare. It typically consists of three or four loosely connected mini-movies, each one directed by a different director and parceled together as [...]
