Shreeux's Movie Chronicles

[shreeux]

3-Iron...Kim Ki-duk unusual film is a magical love story that slowly enters our consciousness with little details and small incidents. Simply brilliant script great. Spectacular sound track, in short, a masterpiece of South Korean cinema.

3-Iron (2004) 7/10
"Bin-jip" (original title)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Romance | 15 October 2004 (South Korea)

 

[Faun]

Thats one of my fav movie. No need to have subtitles, it speaks louder than words.

Track is Gafsa by Natacha Atlas

Natacha Atlas - Gafsa - YouTube

 

[rhitwick]

3-Iron is my all time favorite movie. Ranks at no.1 in my list irrespective of genre, language, country

 

[Faun]

3-Iron is my all time favorite movie. Ranks at no.1 in my list irrespective of genre, language, country

Watching it now.

 

[shreeux]

Turning a real-life human trafficking tragedy into a comment on social inequality and the cost of survival.

A nautical thriller with a surprisingly nasty mean streak, Shim Sung-Bo’s Haemoo is an impressive debut feature for the South Korean screenwriter. Shim, who has a working relationship with director Bong Joon-Ho—Shim co-wrote "Memories of Murder"


Haemoo (2014) 7/10
111 min | Drama | 13 August 2014 (South Korea)

 

[shreeux]

Park Chan-wook's now comes a beautiful brutal vampire-serial-killer-noir. A brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic invention as well as a passionate and painful human love story.


Thirst (2009) 7/10
"Bakjwi" (original title)
R | 133 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 30 April 2009 (South Korea)

 

[shreeux]

Based on True Events..American filmmaker and journalist Charles Horman, who mysteriously disappeared during the 1973 coup in Chile. Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek give magnetic, emotionally commanding performances as Charles’s father and wife.,


Missing (1982) 6/10
R | 122 min | Drama, History, Mystery | 12 March 1982 (USA)

 

[shreeux]

A quiet slow and haunting film about slavery and about the lengths people will go to survive. Very well acted and directed.,


The Retrieval (2013) 5.5/10
R | 92 min | Drama, History, Western | 2 April 2014 (USA)

 

[shreeux]

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions. Pretty depressing, for some people maybe it's old sweet movie, uneven or whatever. But for me it's great, every frame, every sense, love. You'll notice when something bad happen on life, on your love, you must go on.


Perfect Sense (2011) 6.5/10
15 | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7 October 2011

 

[Faun]

^^Nice movie.

 

[shreeux]

The ultimate story of revenge with slasher flick some scene was insane end was not good.,


Dead Man's Shoes (2004) 6.5/10
18 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 1 October 2004

 

[shreeux]

"Thérèse Raquin," the 1867 Emile Zola novel upon which "In Secret" is based. A little research revealed that Zola's serialized story of adultery, murder and marriages, both arranged and desired. In Secret 19th century boasts vigor and thematic richness, that feeling of artists expressing something vital.



In Secret (2013) 6.5/10
15 | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 16 May 2014

 

[shreeux]

Park Chan-wook's film of a seductive slice of suspense titled "Stoker," and it is carried with head-spinning kinky stuff, even by Korean standards and Bloody, stylized with awesome cutscenes and a well done story of a sexually abused girl by his mom's lover. It's a slow burn, quality thriller.


Stoker (2013) 7/10
18 | 99 min | Drama, Thriller | 1 March 2013

 

[shreeux]

This is the background to the True story of Rocco Granata, who arrived in Belgium as a young boy from Calabria in 1949, when his very traditional father, who believes his wife and family should follow him everywhere because he is the man and it is his job to take care of them.


Marina (2013) 6.5/10
118 min | Biography, Drama, Music | 6 November 2013

 

[shreeux]

Zhang Yimou serves up Beautifully designed, visually stunning epic with impressive battle sequences, although the soap-tastic plot takes a while to really get going.


Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) 7/10
"Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia" (original title)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance | 13 April 2007

 

[Faun]

Watched "Blue is the Warmest Color" - Don't know how to rate it. But the movie is well made. And that climax sticks.

 

[amjath]

Watched "Blue is the Warmest Color" - Don't know how to rate it. But the movie is well made. And that climax sticks.

That climax scene in the restaurant is so real and excellent. Read the trivia and I was amazed.

 

[Faun]

That climax scene in the restaurant is so real and excellent. Read the trivia and I was amazed.

Director beat the living **** out of both actress that both will never work with him again.

 

[shreeux]

Mathieu Kassovitz (Actor+Dir) being a fame of Amélie,Gothika,Babylon A.D,Rebellion.....Excellent French criminal thriller! Absolutely worth watching. Film noir type of story Vincent Cassel and of course Jean Reno excellent acting.

I don't feel this movie was made 15 years back while watching...Great Cinematography and Location.

The Crimson Rivers (2000) 7.5/10
"Les rivières pourpres" (original title)
15 | 106 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8 June 2001

 

[shreeux]

Dante Lam's has another winner on his hands "The Viral Factor"After an explosive start, explosive action, explosive drama and explosive overacting carry and steal the show.Impressive blockbuster to Hollywood-level.,


The Viral Factor (2012) 7/10
"Jik zin" (original title)
122 min | Action, Drama, Thriller | 19 January 2012