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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.

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/  

Octopus, Inc*st, and Existential DreadTime to spin the wheel as Podcast Assemble dive into an all new Anthology (not that we need another)! This week we delve into DL's IMDb list and chose quite possibly the darkest flick yet to be watched. Before that the boys recommend the Disney series Hit Monkey, along with something to even you out after the Main Topic, with James May: Our Man in Japan. Then it's time to unpack Park Chan-wook's cinematic gut-punch: Oldboy (2003).Timecodes:Intro: (0:00)What have you been up to?: (8:29)MAIN TOPIC: Oldboy (2003): (23:04)Stupid Plot Summary: (24:11)Cast & Crew: (24:45)Plot: (25:13)What did you expect?: (28:03)Big Concepts: (35:57)Cinematography: (44:34)Concept of Truth: (46:17)Fight Choreography: (48:44)Tones & Themes: (53:57)3 Best & 3 Worst: (55:18)Critical Reception: (58:57)Better or Worse than Aquaman (2018)?: (59:50)Trivia True or False: (1:01:07)Wrapping Up: (1:03:53)Main Topic:Oldboy is a brutal, operatic revenge tale soaked in hammer fights, live octopus eating, and existential dread. Part noir, part Greek tragedy, the film follows Oh Dae-su - a man imprisoned for 15 years without explanation, then released into a mystery more disturbing than his sentence. DL's all in on the filmmaking masterclass. Tommy can't stop thinking about the hallway scene... It's stylish, shocking, and not for the faint of heart - or the spoiler-averse.Have you seen Oldboy? Did it scar you the same way it did the boys? Let us know at thepodcastassemble@gmail.com or hit us up on socials. Website || Instagram || Twitter || YouTube || Email****************************And while we've got you, we'd love it if you gave us a 5 star review ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ and let us know what you think of the show.#Oldboy2003 #ChoiMinsik #KoreanCinema #SouthKoreanFilm #RevengeFilm #HammerTime #Movie #Review #Podcast

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   

El fin de semana del 25 al 27 de julio se celebró la Comic-Con de San Diego, donde se presentaron cantidad de películas y series, como la segunda temporada de Peacemaker, los tráileres de Project Hail Mary y Welcome to Derry, el culebrón detrás de Coyote vs. Acme y el avance de Avatar: Fuego y ceniza. Además, os hablamos de lo próximo de Park Chan-wook, No Other Choice, también de Tron: Ares, Mortal Kombat II, el futuro de Marvel, una nueva versión de Juez Dredd, la nueva serie del creador de Breaking Bad, etc. Samuel Úbeda, Francisco Javier Santiago y Javier Muñoz recomiendan Superestar, Lazarus, Elio, la nueva versión de Sé lo que hicisteis el último verano y más películas y series en la sección de Cal y arena. Pero lo más importante... ¿Cuál es tu sabor de helado favorito? Grupo de Telegram: https://t.me/CineActual Nuestro Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cineactual Canciones inicial «Amanecer» y final «Ocaso» y melodía de «Cal y arena» compuestas e interpretadas por Laia Salvat, Francisco Javier Santiago y Albert Vilella, bajo licencia CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Russell does a shift with Cole and Gad. We talk the new Fantastic Four, all the controversy regarding Paramount and Trump, the new season of Sandman, and the top streamed shows of this year so far! Pre-order Shortstraw - Good Morning, Sunshine VinylHey did you guys see…South Park creators “apologise” for Trump episode…After making $1.5 billion deal with ParamountDeregulating AI, courtesy of Donald TrumpYouTube crackdown on AI videoThe new Jonathan Roxmouth showThe trailer for Pixar's next filmThe teaser for Park Chan-wook's next filmTim Burton directing Attack of the 50 Foot Woman… maybe Fantastic Four has $218 million opening weekend, slightly less than Superman's $220 millionWhat we've been watchingThe Fantastic Four: First Steps | In TheatresOcean with David Attenborough | Disney+The Sandman | Netflix LinksBluey's time signature… apparently

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 →

Tune in as Seth Vargas (Movie Friends) returns to the program to discuss Videodrome, the 1983 sci-fi body horror film about a TV station president whose discovery of an enigmatic and pornographic video broadcast drags his mind and his flesh down a spiral of terror. The David Cronenberg movie that Seth saw as a wee little child with his mom, recommendations for 1997's Hercules and the Black Mirror episode “Common People,” and the effect that horror and violent media can have on their audience end up being a few of the talking points for this episode.Written and directed by David Cronenberg, Videodrome stars James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwarz, and David Bolt.Spoilers start at 29:35Create your podcast today! #madeonzencastrHere's how you can learn more about Palestine and IsraelHere's how you can keep up-to-date on this genocideHere's how you can send eSIM cards to Palestinians in order to help them stay connected onlineGood Word:• Seth: the Vengeance trilogy from Park Chan-wook (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Lady Vengeance)• Arthur: A Simple PlanReach out at email2centscritic@yahoo.com if you want to recommend things to watch and read, share anecdotes, or just say hello!Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review on iTunes or any of your preferred podcasting platforms!Follow Arthur on Twitter, Goodpods, StoryGraph, Letterboxd, and TikTok: @arthur_ant18Follow Arthur on Bluesky: @arthur-ant18Follow the podcast on Twitter: @two_centscriticFollow the podcast on Instagram: @twocentscriticpodFollow Arthur on GoodreadsCheck out 2 Cents Critic Linktree

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.

I sat down with scholar, Nilesh Kumar to explore how Korean cinema has reflected shifting notions of gender, identity, and social structure across decades. From the angry men of the Korean New Wave to the defiant heroines of modern streaming hits, this conversation examines how bodies on screen become battlegrounds for power, memory, and desire. We begin by talking about how technology defines Park Chan-wook's groundbreaking movie Oldboy, as well as its absence of allegory, signaling the start of post-modern Korean cinema. Then, we explore three main themes in Korean cinema across time: Masculinity, femininity, and queer representation. The first section sees us discuss Chilsu and Mansu (1988), Peppermint Candy (1999), A Single Spark (1995), Whale Hunting (1984), Burning (2018), and Parasite (2019). We then turn our attention to Hostess Cinema (1974-1982), Yeong-ja's Heydays (1975), Right Then, Wrong Now (2015), Ballerina (2023), Han Gong Ju (2013), and My Sassy Girl (2001). Finally, we look at King and the Clown (2005), Moonlit Winter (2019), Mine (2021), The Handmaiden (2016) as well as the importance of Seo Dong-jin and Paul B. Preciado. I was particularly impressed by how Nilesh put each section in context, describing the importance of the socio-economic and political conditions of the time. Nilesh Kumar is from England, of Gujarati-Indian background, and is based in South Korea. He is a Film Curator and co-founder of the Seoul-based underground-movable cinema, STEAK FILM and the sexuality themed, STEAK CINEMA. His topics of writing have included contemporary queer South Korean culture, South Korean ‘hostess' cinema (1974-82), and 6th Generation Chinese Cinema. Selected work: https://novasiagsis.com/author/nileshp/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nilesh5739/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shanti.love.90 David A. Tizzard has a PhD in Korean Studies and lectures at Seoul Women's University and Hanyang University. He writes a weekly column in the Korea Times, is a social-cultural commentator, and a musician who has lived in Korea for nearly two decades. He can be reached at datizzard@swu.ac.kr. Watch this video next: https://youtu.be/L9azQpXZ2Rc Subscribe to the channel: @DavidTizzard/videos Thanks to Patreon members: Hee Ji Jacobs, Bhavya, Roxanne Murrell Join Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=62047873 Discussion Outline 0:00 Oldboy and Allegory 18:40 Angry Men in Korean New Wave Cinema 44:42 Hostess Cinema and Female Representation 1:12:25 My Sassy Girl (엽기적인 그녀) 1:37:30 The Queers are Here 2:33:46 Recommendations Music by Jocelyn Clark: https://youtu.be/IWVqqXT3TfY?si=wq2mcIIarE6JTqFS Connect with us: ▶ Get in touch: datizzard@swu.ac.kr ▶ David's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/datizzard/ ▶ KD Insta: https://www.instagram.com/koreadeconstructed/ Questions or Topic Suggestions: Write in the Comments Below #koreadeconstructed #davidtizzard Korea Deconstructed by David Tizzard ▶ Listen on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/kr/podcast/korea-deconstructed/id1587269128 ▶Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zdXkG0aAAHnDwOvd0jXEE ▶ Listen on podcasts: https://koreadeconstructed.libsyn.com 

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).

It's our 250th episode, and we bring you another neo-noir movie review - but this time its set in South Korea, and one from the director of OldBoy, Park Chan-wook . Plus we are joined by special guest Tom Jolliffe to discuss its Hitchcockian vibes, the deeper meanings behind what are two leads represent, and just a general appreciation for subtitled films!-------------------------------------------------------Don't forget to follow us on social media in the links below, and let us know your thoughts and recommendations for the future!  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/sp_filmviewers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠x.com/SP_Filmviewers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠letterboxd.com/SP_Filmviewers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠-------------------------------------------------------Rating and reviewing the show is a great help too! Please feel free to do so with these helpful links below:Goodpods: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://goodpods.app.link/pkE7J2T6ykb⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Podchaser: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.podchaser.com/users/sp_filmviewers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sp-filmviewers/id1485548644⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Lastly, we now have a Patreon you can join, for as little as £1/$1.50. More details in the link below:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://patreon.com/spfilmviewers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 

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

The first entry into our Batshit Crazy mini series, 2016's "The Handmaiden" is a South Korean psychological erotic thriller from Park Chan-wook, and boy does it deliver on assaulting the senses. The mind reels, the loins tingle, and the ears are bombarded by heaps of wet, writhing soundscapes.The boys discuss what makes this movie a true batshit entry; from it's non-linear storytelling devices, to it's downright over-the-top use of sensual erotica, it will get it's hooks in to take you on a journey and talk you through it. Park Chan-wook obviously loves looking at the uglier side of humanity (re: The Vengence Trilogy), and The Handmaiden is no different. Familial wickedness, the art of deception, and what it means to break generational curses and taboos all play a part in this film.Tune in next time where we look at Justin's Batshit Crazy submission: 1985's "Pee-wee's Big Adventure"!--We are Uncultured Universe - the podcast where we introduce movies, tv, music, and books to each other to get a little bit more cultured. Remember to like, review & subscribe!--Stay up to date on all new episodes here: https://linktr.ee/uncultureduniverse

This week on Drinks and a Movie, we're diving into Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area (2000), a gripping mystery-thriller set in the heart of the Korean DMZ. When a fatal shooting leaves two North Korean soldiers dead and a fragile peace hanging by a thread, a neutral Swiss investigator is sent to unravel the truth. What unfolds is a tense, emotional, and deeply human story about friendship, loyalty, and the devastating consequences of division.And what better way to pair a film about international tensions than with a whiskey that brings a unique twist to a classic? We're tasting the Jack Daniel's Sherry Finish Distillery Exclusive, a bold Tennessee whiskey finished in Oloroso sherry casks. Does this special release live up to the hype? And how does Joint Security Area hold up over 20 years later? Pour a glass and join us for the conversation!

Relecture violente et nihiliste du COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO, OLD BOY de Park Chan-wook traverse les décennies avec aplomb, et vient tout juste de fêter ses vingt ans avec une ressortie en 4K chez Metropolitan Vidéo. C'est l'occasion pour Stéphane Moïssakis et Julien Dupuy de discuter de ce film ensemble, peut-être bien le seul film du cinéaste coréen qu'ils apprécient tous les deux !Pour nous soutenir, il y a deux adresses.PATREON : https://www.patreon.com/capturemagTIPEEE : https://www.tipeee.com/capture-magPour acheter notre mag CAPTURE MAG N°1 - LE CINÉMA DE WILLIAM FRIEDKIN, rendez-vous chez votre libraire ou site marchand (Fnac, Amazon, etc.).Akileos : https://bit.ly/AkiFriedLibrairies indépendantes : https://www.librairiesindependantes.com/product/9782355746161/Pour acheter notre livre CAPTURE MAG 2012-2022 : NOTRE DÉCENNIE DE CINÉMA, rendez-vous chez votre libraire ou site marchand.Akileos : https://bit.ly/CapMookLibrairies indépendantes : https://bit.ly/AchTMookRetrouvez toutes nos émissions sur http://www.capturemag.frEn MP3 sur Acast : https://bit.ly/3v6ee7sSur SPOTIFY : https://spoti.fi/3PJYnF3Sur DEEZER : https://bit.ly/2wtDauUSur APPLE podcasts : https://apple.co/2UW3AyO#oldboy #parkchanwook #choiminsik Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

You can now text us anonymously to leave feedback, suggest future content or simply hurl abuse at us. We'll read out any texts we receive on the show. Click here to try it out!Welcome back to Bad Dads Film Review!This episode is packed with legendary warriors, epic battles, and high-stakes drama as we explore the art of precision, the horrors of war, and the supernatural forces of feudal Japan. We begin by taking aim at the Top 5 Archers in Film & TV, followed by an in-depth look at the South Korean war epic Uprising (2024), and finish with a deep dive into Netflix's much-anticipated anime adaptation of Onimusha.