Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing
@swen_ryan
Freelance film critic, @LAFilmCritics member, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of @24hourspod. USC JD, CAMS MA. Curator of @2022SightSound.
Happy to begin a new viewing/writing project! This is Hong Sang-soo Notarized, a full rewatch of his films accompanied by too-detailed tabulation of his recurring motifs, devices, and interests, along with some sketched notes on each film. The posts will all be threaded below:
Unfortunate that Metrograph Pictures is on (possibly permanent) hiatus, glad to hear that Sora Neo’s HAPPYEND already has a new distributor for the fall, hoping it gets the big run it deserves
Now (re)watching KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR on 35mm at the Vista.
Japan’s Master of Suspense Strikes Again! See Kiyoshi Kurosawa's new thriller CLOUD—a hypnotic, darkly funny action-thriller about a young black-market reseller—in theaters in NY and LA before expanding everywhere in August. cloudthefilm.com/buy-tickets @janusfilms @asideshowfilm
Spider breaking out the fire extinguisher because the wings are too hot
Over two years ago, Zoe Saldaña went on Hot Ones to promote Avatar: The Way of Water. Who would you like to see do the scorching ten wing challenge for this year’s Avatar: Fire and Ash?
I want the fine folks at Weta to have Jake Sully take on the challenge. Not Sam Worthington. I mean, Jake, in full mo-cap animation, trying the wings in character. Reminiscing about how it's the first earth food he's had in a long time, eco-friendly meals, military rations, etc.
Over two years ago, Zoe Saldaña went on Hot Ones to promote Avatar: The Way of Water. Who would you like to see do the scorching ten wing challenge for this year’s Avatar: Fire and Ash?
“Breathtaking. Wonderfully, terrifyingly strange.” -@nytimes CLOUD is NOW PLAYING in NYC and opening LA this Friday @NuartTheatre cloudthefilm.com
need Levon Aronian to pull off like a 2022 Pujols run and make it back to the Candidates
I think that one of the more subtly significant divides on the Internet is whether you were around for the heyday of Gawker; as someone who wasn’t…
A look at Jodie Mack's THE GRAND BIZARRE (2018) last weekend at @OffTheWall725! Stay tuned for info about our August shows!
Wonderful! Jarmusch’s seventh time in the Main Slate, but only his second gala slot after DOWN BY LAW opened NYFF a full 39 years ago, very exciting
We’re thrilled to announce Jim Jarmusch’s FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER as the Centerpiece selection of #NYFF63, making its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 3, with Jarmusch and members of the cast in attendance. #NYFF63 is presented by Film at Lincoln…
"Jim Jarmusch’s new movie is not just one of his very best, it distills everything we have come to love and value about this singular filmmaker’s work into one glorious triptych. FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is wise, generous, slyly funny, and enormously moving, and we are…
“I am so very proud of the long history of my work being presented at the NYFF and am now super honored that my newest film FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER has been selected for this year’s Centerpiece. The NYFF, the chosen church of my religion, has provided many of my greatest…
We’re thrilled to announce Jim Jarmusch’s FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER as the Centerpiece selection of #NYFF63, making its North American premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 3, with Jarmusch and members of the cast in attendance. #NYFF63 is presented by Film at Lincoln…
Jim Jarmusch’s 'Father Mother Sister Brother' is the Centerpiece selection of this year's @TheNYFF. Learn more: thefilmstage.com/jim-jarmuschs-…
there's a certain type of (leftist) person who sees an ad for the next installment of the marvel cinematic universe and thinks "they wouldnt allow this type of thing in the people republic of china" like a clueless moron
people in the replies really disappointed as if china and chinese people wouldnt be susceptible to generative slop is also a certain type of orientalism
there is so much AI art in mainland China now