Another short film by Park Chan Wook

Here is another short film by Park Chan Wook called "If You Were Me (NEPAL)". It is the true story of a Nepalese woman who was locked up in a Korean insane asylum because nobody could understand her. She was there for 6 years before they found someone who could speak Nepalese.

Odd shark movies

I thought that the trailer for Two Headed Shark would be the weirdest shark movie I discovered today. But Gyo PV is an anime about farting cyborg sharks attacking people on land. Originally seen on io9.com

Park Chan Wook's iphone film

In 2010 Park Chan Wook shot a 30 minute film using 8 iphones as the only cameras. He had a professional crew and so the film looks great. There are no subtitles but basically the movie breaks down to two stories. The first is about a fisherman who hooks a fish that turns out to be a woman. Then it switches to the fish/woman at a funeral for the fisherman.

iPhone Film Festival - Paranmanjang from iPhone Film Festival on Vimeo.

36th Precint (France, 2004)

In the last decade France has been making some of the best crime films in the world. But they don't get much distribution in the US. Seven years after its French release we are finally able to see Olivier Marchal's 36th Precinct. It is a gritty, police procedural film staring Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu. One of the reasons for the delay in releasing the film was that it was scheduled for a US remake, to star George Clooney and Robert DeNiro but that never got off the ground. 36th Precinct is recommend for fans of Michael Mann's movies or Michael Connelly's novels. It is streaming on Netflix.

Claymation version of John Carpenter's The Thing

I could watch a full movie of this.

Radio Soulwax punk mix

Radio Soulwax is back with another great mash up compilation. This time of punk and hardcore. As with their recent mixes it is worth watching for the manipulation of the cover art.

Hardcore or die from Radio Soulwax on Vimeo.

Savior Of The Soul (Hong Kong, 1991)

Savior Of The Soul starts out with an amazing sci-fi prison break, has a couple of good action scenes in the middle and ends with an innovative fight sequence but it is also full of bad low brow, not funny comedy scenes, that I would only recommend it to die hard Hong Kong film fans. Some Hong Kong films try to appeal to everyone. In the 80's and 90's it was common for entire families to go to the cinema together so film makers would have scenes for every member. Intense action for adult males, tear jerk romance for adult females, broad comedy to appeal to grandparents, and potty humor for the kids. One way to make films this way is to have multiple directors. In Savior Of The Soul you have Corey Yuen to oversee the intense action (with martial arts direction by Yuen Tak), Jeff Lau to direct the comedy and David Lai to do the rest. This can lead to schizophrenic movies. Sometimes very good schizophrenic movies. Savior of the Soul does not hold together as a whole film. Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok, Anita Mui, Carina Lau and Kenny Bee round out the cast. It is streaming on netflix. Here is the opening sequence on youtube.