a Ryûsuke Hamaguchi thread for all your Hamaguchi chat

maybe right when baku puts his hand down on the table, but before asako takes it. Or alternately ten minutes later when she says good bye and stares at the ocean. I didn’t like the resolution at the end.

As of today Happy Hour back on MUBI US too!

I got almost halfway through happy hour until I asked myself why I was watching it

Did you answer yourself and continue?

I thought the ending of Asako I & II was really affecting, the pleading for redemption, the wavering and the ambiguous ending

and the view of the river

to put it bluntly; i think he should go full rivette

Yes, while I was watching Drive my Car I was trying to make the experience more Rivettian, but all the plotty character stuff kept getting in the way, especially in the final third, where Hamaguchi was showing AND telling a bit too too much. I blamed Murakami!

All the Chekov stuff put me in mind of another good but narratively over-worked three hour art movie, Celan's Winter Sleep, even down to similarities in the landscapes.

― Ward Fowler, Sunday, 19 December 2021 bookmarkflaglink

Thought about Rivette a lot but also how it was a good departure to use that example to do something a bit different with the road trip film, by replacing those long train journeys. The delay-delay of getting to that long road journey where the duo confront what can't be was a long time coming, and was nicely shortened at the end.

Did you answer yourself and continue?

Almost done with happy hour
Now I wish it was five hours longer
The dance scene in the club was a pretty great cinematic moment

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy > Drive My Car

Need to watch the first one soon.

Yes xpost

HH > WOFAF > DMC

All three of those - (Happy Hour, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, and Drive My Car) are pretty great, as are Asako I & II and Heaven Is Still Far Away. It's hard to choose between them

thread revive because the shot in Drive My Car of Yūsuke & Misaki flicking their cigarette ashes out the sunroof is just really cool-looking

Can’t wait for his next five films

Can’t wait for his next five hour film

Can’t hardly wait.

Calling him “Oscar-nominated” is so funny. That is an image of him holding an Oscar. He won an Oscar. https://t.co/KH0LTLU3hn

— Nick Newman (@Nick_Newman) July 25, 2023

First runner up at Venice

saw Evil Does Not Exist last night. feels a lot colder than his other films, but I still really liked it. at times very slow and methodical, and the ending makes you rethink everything that came before.

Is that a new one?

Getting confused since there is an Iranian film with a title very much like that.