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Park Chan-wook's Thirst One of the great thrills of the past ten-plus years is the discovery of new, exciting, and challenging films. On this week's episode of WatchThis W/RickRamos, Mr. Chavez & I dive into the cinema of South Korea's Park Chan-wook for 2009s Thirst. It's fascinating to watch stories we believe we understand and are sure we have witnessed every variation. Park Chan-wook's Vampire story centers around a priest (Kang-ho Song) as he struggles with his beliefs and his slow transformation into the Undead. With an equally exceptional performance from Kim Ok-vin (as Tae-ju, the woman who fall in love with the priest with all of its complications), Chan-wook's film is a beautifully realized exploration of love, religion, death, and sin. Take a listen and let us know what you think. Questions, Comments, Complaints, & Suggestions can be directed to gondoramos@yahoo.com - Many, Many Thanks.  For those of you who would like to donate to this undying labor of love, you can do so with a contribution at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/watchrickramos - Anything and Everything is appreciated, You Cheap Bastards.

The return of pumpkin spice lattes on every corner might be the biggest sign that fall has returned, but for Sophia and Nick, the crisp air and earlier sunsets can only mean one thing: the New York Film Festival is back! They are excited to recap their first week of the festival on this week's spoiler-free episode, discussing multiple premieres like Amazon MGM's After the Hunt and Netflix's A House of Dynamite and Jay Kelly. They also discuss Oscar potential for the many films they opine, including Park Chan-wook's upcoming release and TIFF International People's Choice Award winner, No Other Choice. Stay tuned for some fun festival sightings and another recap on the rest of the fest next week! Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky, and TikTok @oscarwildpodFollow Sophia @sophia_cimFollow Nick @sauerkraut27Music: “The Greatest Adventure” by Jonathan AdamichMore content including updated predictions and merch @ oscarwild.squarespace.com

Martyn Strange (Filmsplaining) and Jared lost their day jobs, so they have no other choice but to kick podcasting into high gear and share thoughts on Park Chan-wook's latest social thriller. Please consider giving us a follow, rating, or review.Threads: @jaredconcessions @filmsplainingpodCheck out more of Martyn's coverage of TIFF50 here!

Josh and Jamie got invited to attend the Toronto International Film Festival as members of the press to check out and cover some of new international art and genre cinema that will be coming out over the next few months and awards season, including new films by Park Chan-wook, Gus Van Sant, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Guillermo Del Toro, Claire Denis, Jafar Panahi, Benny Safdie, Oliver Laxe, Matt Johnson, Lav Diaz, Mona Fastvold, Bryan Fuller, Romain Gavras, Laura Poitras, Kenji Tanigaki, Rian Johnson, Christian Petzold, Alex Winter, Chandler Levack, Ben Wheatley, Nic Pizzolatto, and more! We did our best to avoid spoilers and such but be warned. Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) + HIGH AND LOW (1963), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on Patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast Intro // 00:00-17:37 Day 1 -- SENTIMENTAL VALUE // 17:37-22:18 MAGELLAN // 22:18-28:24 SIRAT // 28:24-33:34 THE SECRET AGENT // 33:34-41:22 IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT // 41:22-51:00 HONEY BUNCH // 51:00-55:49 Day 2 -- MOTOR CITY // 55:49-1:04:52 NO OTHER CHOICE // 1:04:52-1:17:07 GOOD NEWS // 1:17:07-1:23:45 Day 3 -- THE LOST BUS // 1:23:45-1:26:38 UNIDENTIFIED // 1:26:38-1:28:46 THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE // 1:28:46-1:34:48 FUZE // 1:34:48-1:39:26 JUNK WORLD // 1:39:26-1:47:17 Day 4 -- DEAD MAN'S WIRE // 1:47:17-1:55:20 SACRIFICE // 1:55:20-2:00:48 THE FURIOUS // 2:00:48-2:07:26 ROOFMAN // 2:07:26-2:13:38 LUCKY LU // 2:13:38-2:17:22 HEDDA // 2:17:22-2:23:42 Day 5 -- THE BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER // 2:23:42-2:28:01 PROJECT Y // 2:28:01-2:29:42 GOOD BOY // 2:29:42-2:31:33 EXIT 8 // 2:31:33-2:32:45 ADULTHOOD // 2:32:45-2:36:20 TUNER // 2:36:20-2:43:32 Day 6 -- THE SMASHING MACHINE // 2:43:32-2:51:27 ORPHAN // 2:51:27-2:53:41 COVER-UP // 2:53:41-2:57:41 TRAIN DREAMS // 2:57:41-3:03:45 Day 7 -- RETREAT // 3:03:45-3:06:26 CAROLINA CAROLINE // 3:06:26-3:10:33 MADDIE'S SECRET // 3:10:33-3:15:23 IT WOULD BE NIGHT IN CARACAS // 3:15:23-3:17:17 NORMAL // 3:17:17-3:22:16 Day 8 -- FUCK MY SON! // 3:22:16-3:30:55 THE UGLY // 3:30:55-3:36:18 WAKE UP DEAD MAN (KNIVES OUT 3) // 3:36:18-3:42:00 THE FENCE // 3:42:00-3:50:24 OBSESSION // 3:50:24-3:56:58 Day 9 -- EASY'S WALTZ // 3:56:58-4:04:08 DUST BUNNY // 4:04:08-4:09:10 LITTLE LORRAINE // 4:09:10-4:13:14 FRANKENSTEIN // 4:13:14-4:23:13 Day 10 -- MILE END KICKS // 4:23:13-4:29:36 MIROIRS NO. 3 // 4:29:36-4:34:30 Day 11 -- NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE // 4:34:30-4:50:13 Outro // 4:50:13-4:53:46 NEW SLEAZOIDS SHIRT + HAT: https://blackbeltcinema.ca/search?q=sleazoids&options%5Bprefix%5D=last WEBSITE: www.sleazoidspodcast.com/ Pod Twitter: twitter.com/sleazoidspod Pod Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/SLEAZOIDS/ Josh's Twitter: twitter.com/thejoshl Josh's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/thejoshl Jamie's Twitter: twitter.com/jamiemilleracas Jamie's Letterboxd: letterboxd.com/jamiemiller

Dr. Carol Anderson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of several books including the New York Times bestseller White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, and One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. Her most recent book is The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Dr. Anderson has appeared on The Rachel Maddow Show, PBS NewsHour, ​The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and Democracy Now!. She has also been featured in the Huffington Post, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. In this wide-ranging conversation, Dr. Anderson explains how white rage, the color line, gun culture, and gun violence are knotted together in American history and life. She details how the Black Freedom Struggle -- and Black Americans' claims on their fundamental Constitutional rights, civil rights, and human freedom, including the inherent right of self-defense -- are often viewed as an existential threat by White America. This is especially true in the Age of Trump. Dr. Anderson also warns that America will never be able to end its epidemic of gun violence and mass shootings as long as gun ownership remains intimately connected to whiteness, white masculinity, and a fear of Black people and other non-whites as seen with “stand your ground laws” and other forms of State violence. Chauncey DeVega shares an update about his absence and how he has been experiencing his own version of the iconic hammer fight from Park Chan-wook's film Old Boy. In that context, Chauncey reflects on how America's collapse into mass disinhibition and authoritarianism has greatly accelerated because of last week's horrific events in Utah. And Chauncey goes for a walk around his neighborhood and shares some of the amazing, wondrous, and disturbing things he encountered. This includes offering pastoral care to an honored elder who hit a woman with his truck, and learning some life wisdom from a man who is dying from prostate cancer. This street prophet -- who had a plastic catheter that was visible outside of his pants -- was warning all the young men outside the local drug store to get their annual physicals or they could end up dying a painful death like him. This week's conversation with Carol Anderson is from the archives of The Chauncey DeVega Show and was recorded in July of 2021. I was saving it for an extreme crisis moment such as the one we "the Americans" are experiencing right now. This conversation is eerily and frighteningly prescient and timely.  WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE CHAUNCEY DEVEGA SHOW? Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thechaunceydevegashow  https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast

The fall of 2025 is shaping up to have something for everyone with a fresh Knives Out mystery, Guillermo del Toro's take on Frankenstein, and a new Emma Stone movie. We've got a guide of the TV and films we are most excited to see, including Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Bugonia, Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice and The Lowdown.To access bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening for Pop Culture Happy Hour, subscribe to Pop Culture Happy Hour+ at plus.npr.org/happy.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Our On-Screen Live coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival has Andrew, Eric & Chris breaking down new films from Gus Van Sant (Dead Man's Wire), Paul Greengrass (The Lost Bus), Alex Winter (Adulthood), James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg), Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), Ben Wheatley (Normal), Benny Safdie (The Smashing Machine) & more! We're talking about some of the films that just might be gracing people's year-end lists in a few months, but we're also talking about performances that could be bound for Hollywood's Biggest Night, includes turns from Russell Crowe (Nuremberg) and Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)—no, really! On-Screen Live will return Monday, September 29th with our coverage of this year's New York Film Festival! Be sure to pick up our digital show on Terminator: Dark Fate, available now in our Patreon shop! Don't sleep on snagging your tickets to our 15th Anniversary show this December where we're talking all things Arnold in Total Recall! It's gonna be a gas and we wanna see you there! Click through for tickets now! Throughout 2025, we'll be donating 100% of our earnings from our merch shop to the Center for Reproductive Rights. So head over and check out all these masterful designs and see what tickles your fancy! Shirts? Phone cases? Canvas prints? We got all that and more! Check it out and kick in for a good cause! Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

In questo episodio Leo e Sacco vi portano alla 82esima Mostra d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia raccontandovi alcuni film presentati dal festival.00:00:00 - Inizio puntata e introduzione a Venezia 8200:13:28 - Frankenstein di Gulliermo Del Toro & In The Hand Of Dante di Julian Schnabel00:24:24 - Bugonia di Yorgos Lanthimos00:32:39 - No Other Choice di Park Chan-work00:37:24 - After The Hunt di Luca Gadagnino00:45:08 - Mother Father Sister Brother di Jim Jarmush00:48:21 - Remake di Ross McElwee00:51:29 - La Grazia di Paolo Sorrentino00:58:28 - L'Etranger di Francois Ozon01:02:14 - Jay Kelly di Noah Baumbach01:08:22 - Mother di Teona Strugar Mitevska & (di nuovo) In The Hand Of Dante di Julian Schnabel01:10:54 - The Testament of Ann Lee di Mona Fastvold01:13:42 - Un Anno di Scuola di Laura Samani01:14:52 - La Valle Dei Sorrisi di Paolo Strippoli01:16:02 - Orfeo di Virgilio Villoresi01:16:56 - Agon di Giulio Bertelli01:17:45 - Carrellata di titoli: Barrio Triste, il nuovo di Herzog (bellissimo), il nuovo di Laszlo Nemes (deludentissimo), Di Costanzo e Marsco ne parliamo nella prossima puntata01:18:51 - Il Mago del Cremlino di Olivier Assayas

Tonight…well, I feel like we've talked a lot about vampire movies that feel too pg, that try to FEEL sexy without doing anything sexy in them. The weird crop of sexless vampire stories post Twilight. Well…this is not one of those. This is Park Chan-Wook's bloody, sexy, and devastating “Thirst”And our guest tonight, the writer of tons of comics including the series Wolfsbane and Infinite Dark, Ryan Cady. Director: Park Chan wookWriters: Emile Zola, Park Chan wook, Chung seo kungStars: Song Kang-ho, Kim ok-bin, Kim Hae Sook, shin ha kyunRyan - Lady Vengeance, Lost Souls by Poppy Z Bright / William MartinEmily- Only Lovers Left AliveBen - Future Diary?Jeremy - The HandmaidenSign up to support Progressively Horrified on Patreon for as little as $5 a month and get bonus episodes! https://www.patreon.com/c/progressivelyhorrified Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Herzlich Willkommen bei einer absoluten Sonderfolge der Kinotagesstätte! Marius war mit vier Freunden auf dem Filmfestival in Venedig und hat einfach mal das Mikrofon mit im Reisegepäck dabeigehabt. In verschiedenen Tagebuch-Abschnitten hört ihr von den Biennale High- und Lowlights wie z.B. zu den neuen Filmen von Park Chan-wook, Lanthimos, Baumbach, Bigelow, Guadagnino, Jarmusch oder Herzog. Nur die Eindrücke von den Kleidern am roten Teppich haben wir irgendwie vergessen… Dafür gibt es über 2,5 Stunden Gequatsche vom Festivalgelände über die großen und kleinen Filme der nächsten Monate. Viel Spaß beim Reinhören! Timecodes: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:05 Ghost Elephants 00:05:57 Orphan (Árva) 00:10:09 The Kidnapping of Arabella 00:12:27 Father (Otec) 00:18:23 Broken English 00:23:13 K.I. Filme in Venedig?! 00:28:56 Bugonia 00:37:23 Jay Kelly 00:39:04 My Tennis Maestro 00:43:13 The Souffleur 00:44:13 Motor City 00:50:01 Father Mother Sister Brother 00:57:58 The Hand of Dante 01:08:33 The Ozu Diaries 01:13:57 Cover-Up 01:17:15 No Other Choice 01:21:31 One Year of School 01:23:37 The Last Viking 01:28:08 Silent Friend 01:34:47 Dead Man's Wire 01:40:26 Frankenstein 01:48:43 The Stranger 01:54:57 After the Hunt 02:05:35 A House of Dynamite 02:14:44 The Smashing Machine 02:20:37 Festival Gewinner*innen und Recap

N'hésite pas à nous laisser une note ou un commentaire sur les plateformes de podcast si tu apprécies l'émission ! Les références de l'épisode : Kolkhoze (roman d'Emmanuel Carrère)Mickey 17 (film de Bong Joon-ho)Parasite (film de Bong Joon-ho)Vers la lumière (film de Naomi Kawase)The Fall Guy (film de David Leith)KPop Demon Hunters (film d'animation de Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans)Decision to Leave (film de Park Chan-wook)My Sunshine (film de Hiroshi Okuyama)Valeur sentimentale (film de Joachim Trier)Quartier lointain (manga de Jiro Taniguchi)Mister Nobody (film de Jaco Van Dormael)La Végétarienne (roman de Han Kang)Bird (film de Andrea Arnold)Clamser à Tataouine (roman de Raphaël Quenard)The Ugly Stepsister (film de Emilie Blichfeldt)Alpha (film de Julia Ducournau)Le Pavillon des hommes (manga de Fumi Yoshinaga)Beatmakers (podcast ARTE Radio)Moisturizer (album de Wet Leg)Samir Nasri : Rebelle (documentaire de Marc Sauvourel)Tu peux nous retrouver sur tous nos autres réseaux : Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/picturalthings/YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@PicturalThingsTikTok : https://www.tiktok.com/@pictural.thingsHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Der Film aus Asien hat schon lange seine Liebhaber. Egal ob Karate- und Kampfsport, Bollywood oder Anime, der Unterhaltunsfaktor war schon immer hoch. Aber immer vermeintlich eher etwas nieschig, nichts für die breitere Masse. Fürs große Kino gibts ja Hollwood. Doch sobald man mal anfängt mehr in Richtung Festivals und Kritiker-Stimmen zu hören findet man immer mehr auch Filme und Filmemacher, die es mehr als in sich haben. Egal ob Park Chan-wook oder Bong Joon Ho, um bei den großen Namen zu bleiben, bieten den Einstieg in eine andere Kultur, eine andere Sprache und andere Ansätze Geschichten zu erzählen. Wenn man viele Filme schaut spürt man sehr, wie erfrischend Filme aus anderen Kulturkreisen sind. Was uns von dem asiatischen Film überzeugt hat und was wir grundsätzlich darüber denken erzählen wir euch in unser ersten (eigentlich zweiten) Video-Episode :)#movies #cinema #kino #filmtipps

On Truth & Movies this week, we come to you live from the city that gave us Don't Look Now and The Souvenir, Venice, where we're here to report on the hits and misses from this year's Venice Film Festival, including new films by Benny Safdie, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Jenkin and Park Chan-wook. Joining guest host Hannah Strong are Rafa Sales Ross and Marshall Shaffer.Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth & Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news, and reassessing great films from days gone by with the Truth & Movies Film Club.Email: truthandmovies@tcolondon.comBlueSky and Instagram: @LWLiesProduced by TCO Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Die Sommerpause ist vorbei und das kann nur eines heißen: Janick und Jenny sitzen wieder im Gebüsch in Venedig und sprechen über Filme, die niemand von uns bisher gesehen hat. Sie aber schon! Außerdem greifen Insekten an, ein Geburtstag wird gefeiert und ein Motorrad fliegt auch noch vorbei! Es geht um: - "La Grazia" von Paolo Sorrentino - "Bugonia" von Yorgos Lanthimos - "After the Hunt" von Luca Guadagnino - "No Other Choice" von Park Chan-wook - "Frankenstein" von Guillermo del Toro - "Father Mother Sister Brother" von Jim Jarmusch - "The Wizard of the Kremlin" von Olivier Assayas - "The Testament of Ann Lee" von Mona Fastvold - "The Smashing Machine" von Benny Safdie - "A House of Dynamite" von Kathryn Bigelow - "The Voice of Hind Rajab" von Kaouther Ben Hania - "In the Hand of Dante" von Julian Schnabel - "Rose of Nevada" von Mark Jenkin - "Barrio Triste" von Stillz

Aus dem Concours vun der Mostra stellt de Marc Trappendreher "Jay Kelly" vum Noah Baumbach, "Frankenstein" vum Guillermo Del an "No Other Choice" vum Park Chan-wook vir. Ee roude Fuedem, dee sech duerch ënner anerem déi dräi Filmer zitt, ass d'Theema Identitéit. Beim Noah Baumbach sengem "Jay Kelly" féiert dat ënner anerem zur spéider Erkenntnis, datt den George Clooney ëmmer schonn den George Clooney war, esou eise Kritiker.

This week and next, Film Comment is reporting from the picturesque shores of the Lido, where the Venice Film Festival takes place each year. This year's edition features new films by many major auteurs, including Noah Baumbach, Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Laura Poitras, and more. For our second episode from the city of canals, Film Comment Editor Devika Girish invited critics Tim Grierson and Katie McCabe to talk about recent festival premieres, including Guadagnino's After the Hunt, Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice, László Nemes's Orphan, and Poitras and  Mark Obenhaus's Cover-Up. Stay tuned for more Venice coverage, providing everything you need to know about the 2025 edition.

¡Ni el sábado descansa el más insigne, el más temido, el más reverenciado de los críticos cinematográficos! Don Carlos Rollero vuelve hoy con otra crónica del Festival de Cine de Venecia en la que nos habla de la última película del director coreano Park Chan-wook: No other choice. Y además nos ofrece su sabiduría en el análisis de After the hunt, película que dirige Luca Guadagnino y que protagonizan Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield y Michael Stuhlbarg.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

FRED interview with Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun for the "No Other Choice" film debut, years later from the last time the Director attended the Venice International Film Festival The post “No Other Choice”, interview with director Park Chan-Wook and actor Lee Byung-hun appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

Primo recappone delle prime visioni all'82° mostra del cinema di Venezia da parte di Marco e Matteo. argomenti:00:00 Intro00:38 La Grazia di Paolo Sorrentino05:36 La Gioia di Nicolangelo Gelormini10:38 Ghost Elephants di Werner Herzog14:14 Jay Kelly di Noah Baumbach17:37 Bugonia di Yorgos Lanthimos22:11 After the Hunt di Luca Guadagnino27:12 No Other Choice di Park Chan-wook32:03 Écrire la vie – Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et de lycéens di Claire SimonIl nostro canale Telegram per rimanere sempre aggiornati e comunicare direttamente con noi: https://t.me/SalottoMonogatariSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2QtzE9ur6O1qE3XbuqOix0?si=mAN-0CahRl27M5QyxLg4cwApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/salotto-monogatari/id1503331981Google Podcasts: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNmM1ZjZiNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==Logo creato da:Massimo ValentiSigla e post-produzione a cura di:Alessandro Valenti / Simone MalaspinaPer il jingle della sigla si ringraziano:Alessandro Corti e Gianluca NardoPer la gestione dei canali social si ringrazia:Selene Grifò

Park Chan-wook torna in grandissimo stile con un film che speriamo farà molto parlare di sé.

Carl & Eitan run through a variety of topics this week. They dive into the WGA's aggressive move to boot Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar; discuss the critical success of The Naked Gun; and look forward (...) to the new patriotic duty of subscribing to Paramount+ to watch UFC matches.

Eventually, we'll get "Golden" and "Soda Pop" out of our heads. But for now, we're giving into the insanely catchy delights of "KPop Demon Hunters" on Breakfast All Day. The animated Netflix phenomenon is coming to select theaters for one weekend only, Aug. 23-24, for sing-along showings. Find out here if it's playing near you. Until then, you can catch it streaming and catch up with our catch-up review. We also review "Nobody 2," the sequel to the 2021 action comedy "Nobody." Bob Odenkirk returns with his particular set of skills, but all he wants to do is enjoy a quiet vacation with his family. In theaters. We did Movie News LIVE! for a second week in a row. Lots to discuss as always, including the trailer for "Marty Supreme," Park Chan-wook, Tom Cruise and more. Join us on Fridays at Noon Pacific. And finally, it's our "Weapons" LIVE spoiler chat. We're placing this at the end in case you haven't seen the movie yet and don't want to hear us get into it. And we do get into it. Thanks for being here! Subscribe to Christy's Saturday Matinee newsletter: https://christylemire.beehiiv.com/  

Her hafta Canlı Yayında sinema ve televizyon gündemini konuşuyoruz, haftanın öne çıkan dizi ve filmlerini yorumluyoruz, ilgimizi çeken konuları tartışıyoruz, listeler yapıyoruz, goygoydan geri kalmıyoruz...00:00 | Giriş04:15 | Alien: Earth41:15 | En İyi 10 Komedi Dizisi1:16:00 | Weapons Sansürlendi mi?  1:26:35 | Zach Cregger ve Resident Evil 1:29:35 | DiCaprio'nun En Büyük Pişmanlığı1:31:15 | Bourne'un Hakları Universal'da 1:34:55 | Park Chan-wook WGA'dan Kovuldu 1:37:25 | Variety'nin Tartışmalı Weapons Yazısı 1:42:25 | Spike Lee'den Sinners'a Övgü 1:44:35 | Radu Jude'nin Frankenstein'ından Heyecan Verici Haber1:45:35 | Daniel Radcliffe'in Reddettiği Teklif 1:47:45 | Superman'in İkinci Filminin Senaryosu Hazır 1:48:20 | Denzel Washington'ın Oscar Açıklaması 1:49:25 | Uyarlamala Katilleri İş Başında  1:51:40 | Josh Safdie'nin Marty Supreme Filminden İlk Fragman1:54:00 | Daniel Day-Lewis'in Emeklilik Sonrası İlk Rolü: Anemone

Send us a textOn the podcast this time, Steven and Sean are out for revenge after being locked up for way too damn long. We watched the 2003 film from Park Chan-wook, Oldboy.I think it's safe to say that this is the only movie in existence that suggests that being forcibly imprisoned for fifteen years without any explanation is somehow not the worst thing that could happen to a person. It's quite the feat.If you thought that our previous fucked-up movie episode was, indeed, really messed-up, then prepare yourself for this one. It's a heck of a wild ride.(Recorded on June 30, 2025)Links to Stuff We Mentioned:Oldboy - The Movie Database (TMDB)Oldboy trailer - YouTubeChoi Min-sik — The Movie Database (TMDB)Yoo Ji-tae — The Movie Database (TMDB)Kang Hye-jung — The Movie Database (TMDB)Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) — The Movie Database (TMDB)Lady Vengeance (2005) — The Movie Database (TMDB)I Saw the Devil (2010) — The Movie Database (TMDB)Marvel's Daredevil (TV Series 2015–2018) — The Movie Database (TMDB)Follow Us:Give us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!Sean's Letterboxd profile!Steven's Letterboxd profile!Our Buzzsprout site!Our Instagram profile!Support the show

Join hosts Justin Morgan and Chuck Phillips as they dive into the alluring depths of Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave. This South Korean mystery masterfully weaves themes of obsession, longing, and moral ambiguity into a slow-burn tale of love and betrayal. In this episode, the hosts unpack the film's Hitchcockian echoes, its hypnotic visual style, and the poetic ambiguity of its unforgettable ending. From character motivations to narrative misdirection, this discussion is an essential listen for cinephiles and fans of moody, intricate storytelling. Hosted by Justin Morgan Co-hosted by Charles Phillips Mixing by Scratchin' Menace Music by Song Chang-sik Follow us on Facebook and Bluesky for updates. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and all major platforms. Please subscribe, rate, and review—we appreciate the support!

We continue our Blood Sucker Summer with a review of 2009's Thirst. After a botched medical procedure, a man of God finds himself a vampire and must navigate his new found life and desire for human blood. Directed by: Park Chan-wookWritten by: Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyungInspired by Émile Zola's “Thérèse Raquin” Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin, Kim Hae-sook, and Shin Ha-kyunCome on in and have a listen! What do you think of this movie? What are others like it you enjoyed? We'd love to hear from you! Please like, follow, subscribe, share.

Send us a textThe theatrical landscape of 2025 tells a fascinating story through its box office patterns and creative trends. Animation continues its unstoppable theatrical dominance across multiple studios, while long-running franchises like Mission Impossible and Jurassic World show unmistakable signs of fatigue. Has the time come to put these decades-old properties to rest?Our midyear film roundup reveals a striking preference for original storytelling over franchise continuation. From the breathtaking coastal beauty of Paolo Sorrentino's Parthenope to the inventive shark thrills of Dangerous Animals, our top picks demonstrate cinema's continued ability to surprise and captivate. Steven Soderbergh's spy thriller Black Bag showcases masterful craftsmanship, while Tim Robinson's Friendship brings his distinctive comedic sensibilities to feature length with remarkable success.The conversation turns passionate when discussing Ryan Coogler's Sinners and Ari Aster's Eddington – films that blend genres with extraordinary confidence while delivering profound thematic depth. Both represent bold, auteur-driven visions that resonated deeply with audiences seeking thoughtful, challenging cinema.Looking ahead, the remainder of 2025 promises an embarrassment of riches from acclaimed filmmakers including Park Chan-wook, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Jim Jarmusch. Their upcoming works, alongside anticipated releases like Edgar Wright's The Running Man and Blumhouse's Weapons, suggest our year-end lists may undergo significant transformation.What films have captured your imagination in 2025? Join our conversation about this remarkable year in cinema and share your own discoveries and disappointments. The theatrical experience continues to evolve, but the power of original storytelling remains undiminished.Support the show

Swallow that octopus and run away from those ants because we're discussing Park Chan-wook's 2003 masterpiece Oldboy!Join us as we discuss the origins of Oldboy, from its manga source material to the changes Park applied to this adaptation, before going all in on this spider's web of a revenge plot. It's a film known for its big twist, but there's so much more to appreciate here!Plus: that hallway fight scene, Manic Pixie Sushi Dream Girls, questionable CGI, death by CD-ROM, hypnosis as a plot convenience (but who cares?) and debating whether or not this is a "film bro" movie. Questions? Comments? Snark? Connect with the boys on BlueSky, Instagram, Youtube, Letterboxd, Facebook, or join the Facebook Group or the Horror Queers Discord to get in touch with other listeners.> Trace: @tracedthurman (BlueSky)/ @tracedthurman (Instagram)> Joe: @joelipsett (BlueSky) / @bstolemyremote (Instagram) Be sure to support the boys on Patreon!  Theme Music: Alexander Nakarada   

For Episode 452, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, and I recap and break down this massive week of film festival announcements including the full lineup for the 2025 Venice Film Festival, a majority of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) lineup, the Opening and Centerpiece announcements for the New York Film Festival, and what this all means for the Telluride Film Festival. For this week's poll, for Venezia 82 (mainly because we at least have the full lineup for this one), we ask, "Which Film From The 2025 Venice Film Festival Are You Most Looking Forward To?" And for last week's poll, for the first time this season, we asked, "Which Film Do You Feel Will Be The Next Best Picture Oscar Winner?" and we reveal your top 10 early results for this almighty important question. We also share our reactions to the trailers for Park Chan-wook's much-anticipated "No Other Choice," Aziz Ansari's "Good Fortune," Clint Bentley's "Train Dreams," Oliver Hermanus' "The History Of Sound," Rob Reiner's "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues," the A24 English dubbed re-release of "Ne Zha 2," reveal the 2009 NBP Film Community Award Nominations, answer your fan-submitted questions, and more! We will post the 2009 NBP Film Community Award nominations on the site for you to vote on tomorrow. Thank you all for listening, supporting, subscribing, and voting. You're all the very best fans we could ever ask for, and we look forward to seeing you all again next week! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We discuss the Venice Lineup + our early guesses at who could win some awards. Then we dive into the most humongous What We're Watching segment in the history of MMO. 54 Separate Films or Television Series are review from Eddington & I Still Know What You Did Last Summer to a Stanley Kubrick double feature to an Arnold triple feature to Final Destination: Bloodlines & Bring Her Back to Elio & Superman rewatches to Bird, starring another dancing Barry Keoghan. THE 2025 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP: The Alexander Payne Jury & what films they might select - 3:14 In Competition Headliners - 6:36 Jay Kelly, A House of Dynamite, Frankenstein, The Testament of Ann Lee, Bugonia, The Smashing Machine & La Grazia. Other Notables In Competition - 12:30 The latest from directors of Personal Shopper, Four Daughters, Son of Saul and Only Lovers Left Alive. No Other Choice than to review the teaser for this Park Chan-wook movie with a thoughtful discussion on werewolves - 17:32 Why After The Hunt is playing Out of Competition + its NYFF Opening slot - 21:05 Other Out of Competition Films from Dead Man's Wire to Late Fame - 25:04 What's NOT Going To Venice - 29:04 BOX OFFICE UPDATE AlsoMike's Superman rewatch & week 2 bobo - 33:15 I Know What You Did Last Summer reviewing grinds us to a halt - 38:19 Eddington makes us mad that it makes us mad - 41:16 M1's Elio review and the rest of the Top 10 - 45:06 What We're Watching Newish Horror Films - 47:34 Final Destination: Bloodlines, The Shrouds, Bring Her Back, The Ugly Stepsister, Opus. New Comedies, Docs & KPOP Demon Hunter Films - 55:19 Magic Farm, Friendship, Pavements, KPOP Demon Hunters, My Mom Jayne, The Luckiest Man in America, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, Apocalypse in the Tropics, Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything, Restless, Sally, and Surviving Ohio State. AM's Blind Spots & M1 Goes Artsy Fartsy - 1:13:36 Black Coal Thin Ice, Sabrina, Hard Boiled, Invention & Bird. AM's Rewatches - 1:20:31 Emma, Bull Durham, The Birdcage, Closer, I Saw The Devil, The Chaser. M1's Quickies - 1:23:28 American Splendor, Smile 2, Heretic, Dream Scenario, A History of Violence, Prince of Darkness. The Start of AM's TV Watching + M1's Arnold-a-palooza + Tuesday - 1:26:12 Dept. Q, Fred & Rose: A British Horror Story, Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, True Lies, End of Days, Commando and Tuesday. M1's Kubrick Double Feature + Past Contendres & The Rest of AM's TV Watching - 1:31:48 Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, September 5, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bad Thoughts, Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life, Untamed, Aftersun, Dexter: Resurrection. OUTRO: We attempt to avoid jinxing anything in the future. But stay tuned to more episodes, eventually or immediately, whatever happens. Oh, and go and listen to the Poop Cruise Jen Baxter interview from our friends at Chaz & AJ in the Morning https://www.wplr.com/2025/07/14/pod-pick-poop-cruise-director-jen-baxter/

“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, language is crucial. Part of the way that states and authoritarian regimes exercise their power is not just through physical violence and intimidation, but through a maltreatment of language itself. Trump is a perfect example of this. Everything that comes out of his mouth in terms of language is horrifying for anybody with any sensitivity to language. The excesses of his language in terms of insults and hyperbolic praise for his fans are perfect examples of how language is used by an authoritarian and by the state to obfuscate reality and intimidate people. That language is ugly from my perspective, and there is something about being committed to literature and to art that awakens us to the importance of beauty.I think about what John Keats, the poet, said: beauty is truth, truth beauty. You can't separate these kinds of things. If you're committed to the beauty of language, you're also committed to the idea that language has a relationship to truth. You can see that authoritarians don't have a relationship to truth. They have a relationship to the abuse of truth and to lying, not only in content but in the form of their language as well. There is a crucial role for writers here in our relationship to language because language is one of the most crucial ways that authoritarianism extends its power. What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook.He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, language is crucial. Part of the way that states and authoritarian regimes exercise their power is not just through physical violence and intimidation, but through a maltreatment of language itself. Trump is a perfect example of this. Everything that comes out of his mouth in terms of language is horrifying for anybody with any sensitivity to language. The excesses of his language in terms of insults and hyperbolic praise for his fans are perfect examples of how language is used by an authoritarian and by the state to obfuscate reality and intimidate people. That language is ugly from my perspective, and there is something about being committed to literature and to art that awakens us to the importance of beauty.I think about what John Keats, the poet, said: beauty is truth, truth beauty. You can't separate these kinds of things. If you're committed to the beauty of language, you're also committed to the idea that language has a relationship to truth. You can see that authoritarians don't have a relationship to truth. They have a relationship to the abuse of truth and to lying, not only in content but in the form of their language as well. There is a crucial role for writers here in our relationship to language because language is one of the most crucial ways that authoritarianism extends its power. What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook.He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, language is crucial. Part of the way that states and authoritarian regimes exercise their power is not just through physical violence and intimidation, but through a maltreatment of language itself. Trump is a perfect example of this. Everything that comes out of his mouth in terms of language is horrifying for anybody with any sensitivity to language. The excesses of his language in terms of insults and hyperbolic praise for his fans are perfect examples of how language is used by an authoritarian and by the state to obfuscate reality and intimidate people. That language is ugly from my perspective, and there is something about being committed to literature and to art that awakens us to the importance of beauty.I think about what John Keats, the poet, said: beauty is truth, truth beauty. You can't separate these kinds of things. If you're committed to the beauty of language, you're also committed to the idea that language has a relationship to truth. You can see that authoritarians don't have a relationship to truth. They have a relationship to the abuse of truth and to lying, not only in content but in the form of their language as well. There is a crucial role for writers here in our relationship to language because language is one of the most crucial ways that authoritarianism extends its power. What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook.He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, language is crucial. Part of the way that states and authoritarian regimes exercise their power is not just through physical violence and intimidation, but through a maltreatment of language itself. Trump is a perfect example of this. Everything that comes out of his mouth in terms of language is horrifying for anybody with any sensitivity to language. The excesses of his language in terms of insults and hyperbolic praise for his fans are perfect examples of how language is used by an authoritarian and by the state to obfuscate reality and intimidate people. That language is ugly from my perspective, and there is something about being committed to literature and to art that awakens us to the importance of beauty.I think about what John Keats, the poet, said: beauty is truth, truth beauty. You can't separate these kinds of things. If you're committed to the beauty of language, you're also committed to the idea that language has a relationship to truth. You can see that authoritarians don't have a relationship to truth. They have a relationship to the abuse of truth and to lying, not only in content but in the form of their language as well. There is a crucial role for writers here in our relationship to language because language is one of the most crucial ways that authoritarianism extends its power. What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook.He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, but to become a writer who could talk about those issues was also a lot of fun. Writing The Sympathizer was a lot of fun, and I hope that the novel was enjoyable and humorous to read as well, despite its very serious politics. When I wrote The Committed, I also had a lot of fun as an outsider to France. In writing the novel itself, The Committed, there was a lot of humor, satire, and these kinds of tools to confront the tragedy of othering. This is very important to me as literary and political devices. I think I could do that in both The Sympathizer and The Committed because I had a lot of distance from the time periods that those novels described. My challenge right now is to try to find my sense of humor in describing what the United States is undergoing and doing to other countries, its own immigrants, and its own people of color, and minorities in the present. That's proving to be a little more challenging at this moment.The whole power of the state is geared towards dividing and conquering, whether it's domestically within a state or whether it's exercising power overseas, including things like colonization, which is all about dividing and conquering. In the face of that, to engage in expansive solidarity and capacious grief is to work against the mechanisms of colonialism, militarism, and the state. It's enormously difficult, which is why it has to be rebuilt from every generation, as every generation is subject to the power of the state and its ideologies and mythologies. I think the lessons that I've extracted from this book, To Save and to Destroy, where I talk about expansive solidarity and capacious grief, are lessons that have been learned by other people before me, but lessons that I had to learn for myself and to put into my own words how I came to those lessons.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook. He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, but to become a writer who could talk about those issues was also a lot of fun. Writing The Sympathizer was a lot of fun, and I hope that the novel was enjoyable and humorous to read as well, despite its very serious politics. When I wrote The Committed, I also had a lot of fun as an outsider to France. In writing the novel itself, The Committed, there was a lot of humor, satire, and these kinds of tools to confront the tragedy of othering. This is very important to me as literary and political devices. I think I could do that in both The Sympathizer and The Committed because I had a lot of distance from the time periods that those novels described. My challenge right now is to try to find my sense of humor in describing what the United States is undergoing and doing to other countries, its own immigrants, and its own people of color, and minorities in the present. That's proving to be a little more challenging at this moment.The whole power of the state is geared towards dividing and conquering, whether it's domestically within a state or whether it's exercising power overseas, including things like colonization, which is all about dividing and conquering. In the face of that, to engage in expansive solidarity and capacious grief is to work against the mechanisms of colonialism, militarism, and the state. It's enormously difficult, which is why it has to be rebuilt from every generation, as every generation is subject to the power of the state and its ideologies and mythologies. I think the lessons that I've extracted from this book, To Save and to Destroy, where I talk about expansive solidarity and capacious grief, are lessons that have been learned by other people before me, but lessons that I had to learn for myself and to put into my own words how I came to those lessons.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook. He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, but to become a writer who could talk about those issues was also a lot of fun. Writing The Sympathizer was a lot of fun, and I hope that the novel was enjoyable and humorous to read as well, despite its very serious politics. When I wrote The Committed, I also had a lot of fun as an outsider to France. In writing the novel itself, The Committed, there was a lot of humor, satire, and these kinds of tools to confront the tragedy of othering. This is very important to me as literary and political devices. I think I could do that in both The Sympathizer and The Committed because I had a lot of distance from the time periods that those novels described. My challenge right now is to try to find my sense of humor in describing what the United States is undergoing and doing to other countries, its own immigrants, and its own people of color, and minorities in the present. That's proving to be a little more challenging at this moment.The whole power of the state is geared towards dividing and conquering, whether it's domestically within a state or whether it's exercising power overseas, including things like colonization, which is all about dividing and conquering. In the face of that, to engage in expansive solidarity and capacious grief is to work against the mechanisms of colonialism, militarism, and the state. It's enormously difficult, which is why it has to be rebuilt from every generation, as every generation is subject to the power of the state and its ideologies and mythologies. I think the lessons that I've extracted from this book, To Save and to Destroy, where I talk about expansive solidarity and capacious grief, are lessons that have been learned by other people before me, but lessons that I had to learn for myself and to put into my own words how I came to those lessons.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook. He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, but to become a writer who could talk about those issues was also a lot of fun. Writing The Sympathizer was a lot of fun, and I hope that the novel was enjoyable and humorous to read as well, despite its very serious politics. When I wrote The Committed, I also had a lot of fun as an outsider to France. In writing the novel itself, The Committed, there was a lot of humor, satire, and these kinds of tools to confront the tragedy of othering. This is very important to me as literary and political devices. I think I could do that in both The Sympathizer and The Committed because I had a lot of distance from the time periods that those novels described. My challenge right now is to try to find my sense of humor in describing what the United States is undergoing and doing to other countries, its own immigrants, and its own people of color, and minorities in the present. That's proving to be a little more challenging at this moment.The whole power of the state is geared towards dividing and conquering, whether it's domestically within a state or whether it's exercising power overseas, including things like colonization, which is all about dividing and conquering. In the face of that, to engage in expansive solidarity and capacious grief is to work against the mechanisms of colonialism, militarism, and the state. It's enormously difficult, which is why it has to be rebuilt from every generation, as every generation is subject to the power of the state and its ideologies and mythologies. I think the lessons that I've extracted from this book, To Save and to Destroy, where I talk about expansive solidarity and capacious grief, are lessons that have been learned by other people before me, but lessons that I had to learn for myself and to put into my own words how I came to those lessons.”Viet Thanh Nguyen has spent much of his life exploring the stories we tell—and the stories we erase—about war, migration, and memory. His 2015 debut novel The Sympathizer, about a communist double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, won the Pulitzer Prize and a long list of other major literary awards. In 2024, The Sympathizer was adapted into a critically acclaimed HBO series directed by Park Chan-wook. He followed it with The Committed, and his latest work, To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, a meditation on writing, power, and the politics of representation.Nguyen is also the author of Nothing Ever Dies, a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction, and the short story collection The Refugees. He's edited collections like The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives, and most recently the Library of America volume for Maxine Hong Kingston, who was once his teacher.He was born in Vietnam, came to the U.S. as a refugee, and is now a professor at the University of Southern California. He's received Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships, honorary doctorates, and has been named a Chevalier by the French Ministry of Culture. Today, we'll talk about his books, America's forever wars, and how the act of writing—across fiction, memoir, and scholarship—can become both a form of resistance and a way of making sense of being, as he puts it in his memoir “A Man of Two Faces.”Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast

Simon and Rachel speak with the novelist and academic Viet Thanh Nguyen. Born in Vietnam, Viet came to the United States as a refugee in 1975. He completed a PhD in English at Berkeley, moved to Los Angeles for a teaching position at the University of Southern California, and has been there ever since, now as a chair of English and Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity. Viet's first novel, "The Sympathizer", published in 2015, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and became a New York Times bestseller. HBO also turned "The Sympathizer" into a TV series in 2024, directed by Park Chan-wook. Viet's other books include "The Committed", a sequel to "The Sympathizer", "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" (a finalist for the National Book Award in non-fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award) and "Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America". We spoke to Viet about branching from academia into writing fiction, "The Sympathizer", and "The Cleaving," an anthology of work by Vietnamese diaspora writers.  We've made another update for those ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠who support the podcast on the crowdfunding site Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. We've added 40 pages of new material to the package of successful article pitches that goes to anyone who supports the show with $5 per month or more, including new pitches to the New York Times, the Washington Post and the BBC. The whole compendium now runs to a whopping 160 pages. For Patreons who contribute $10/month we're now also releasing bonus mini-episodes. Thanks to our sponsor, Scrivener, the first ten new signs-ups at $10/month will receive a lifelong license to Scrivener worth £55/$59.99 (eight are left). This specialist word-processing software helps you organise long writing projects such as novels, academic papers and even scripts. Other Patreon rewards include signed copies of the podcast book and the opportunity to take part in a monthly call with Simon and Rachel.A new edition of “Always Take Notes: Advice From Some Of The World's Greatest Writers” - a book drawing on our podcast interviews - is available now. The updated version now includes insights from over 100 past guests on the podcast, with new contributions from Harlan Coben, Victoria Hislop, Lee Child, Megan Nolan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Philippa Gregory, Jo Nesbø, Paul Theroux, Hisham Matar and Bettany Hughes. You can order it via ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Amazon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Waterstones⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.You can find us online at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠alwaystakenotes.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, on Twitter @takenotesalways and on Instagram @alwaystakenotes. Always Take Notes is presented by Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, and produced by Artemis Irvine. Our music is by Jessica Dannheisser and our logo was designed by James Edgar.

Welcome back to the show friends!  We explore some Korean horror this episode with a review of a Park Chan-wook film, OLDBOY!  Stay tuned for our Summer of the Giallo episodes next!

HORROR WITH SIR. STURDY EP 552 SEOUL STATION (2016) REVIEW & THE OUTBREAK BEFORE THE TRAIN   What's good, Horror Fam?! Tonight on Horror With Sir. Sturdy, we're takin' it back to where the infection began with a deep dive into Seoul Station (2016)—the animated prequel to Train to Busan.   This film packs all the tension, heartbreak, and horror you'd expect from the franchise, but through the unique lens of animation. It's gritty, socially charged, and completely underrated.   Joining me for this one:

Hello listeners and welcome back to the Experience Grind Podcast! This week, Ryan tasked us with watching some softcore…wait no. Ryan tasked us with watching the Park Chan-wook 1930s period romance/thriller/rollercoaster of a movie. What did we think? Tune in … Continue reading →

Mark and Zanandi talk about the 2013 thriller Stoker. Directed by the legendary Park Chan-wook, and starring Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska, and Matthew Goode, the movie focuses on what happens when a shifty uncle stokes up a bunch of problems for a grieving family. In this episode, they also talk about piano scenes, new shoes, and the overall excellence of Stoker.

Have You Ever Seen's 656th podcast begins our 3rd (Annual, probably?) Revenge Month and Oldboy's plot o' vengeance is particularly sinister. Park Chan-wook's sadistic South Korean thriller has several unforgettable moments, including the one-take hallway hammer fight and the shocking, blood-soaked climax. Choi Min-sik is quite terrific in the lead role, an ordinary man who's forced to live in the solitude of a private prison for 15 years, not even knowing why. He loses his freedom, his family and nearly his mind. Once he's unexpectedly let out, he goes on a vicious rampage as he tries to figure out who locked him up and why...only to finally learn the reason in an "I never saw THAT coming" twist. So get your fried dumplings and live octopus ready to eat while you also try to avoid various forms of mouth trauma as Ryan solos on a podcast about Oldboy. Sparkplug Coffee is our sponsor. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes". Using that "HYES" discount code will result in a onetime savings of 20%. Rate and review our podcast in your app, but also find us on YouTube (@hyesellis is the link on YouTube). Comment about the episode, like it...and subscribe as much as you possibly can. Contact us by email: haveyoueverseenpodcast@gmail.com. Or find us on Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis) or on Bluesky (ryan-ellis and bevellisellis).

Sean and Amanda return to continue their year-long project of listing the 25 best movies of the 21st century so far with a discussion of Park Chan-wook's ‘The Handmaiden,' the 2016 erotic thriller period piece starring Kim Tae-ri and featuring some of the best camera work and production design of the century. They talk about Park Chan-wook's incredible ability to complicate simple stories with depth of design, how it portrays the complicated power dynamics of sex, and why its layered portrayal of shifting psychological perspectives is so impactful. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices