Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing
@swenryan.bsky.social
Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
🎵Well things are getting tough without THE VROOM VROOM BOYS🎵
we all got that one friend who is supernaturally gifted at solving puzzling murders that we keep imprisoned in the basement of our feudal castle who may be using a series of elaborate mind games to betray us
An article about some of Aki Kaurismäki's movies from the 1980s and 1990s, written for a 2015 retrospective.
From Familiarity to True Vitality
On five Aki Kaurismäki adaptations
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Rob Tregenza’s FAST premieres @ MoMA this evening and screens through Tuesday, when @acropoliscinema.bsky.social will present it in LA. Then on 8/20, @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social will present Tregenza’s TALKING TO STRANGERS (1988) — www.criterion.com/current/post...
Next to last article on my Wiseman series. On Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library (2017).
Symbols of Celebration and Symbols of Dispute
Wiseman (XI): Ex-Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
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My series on Wiseman reach the end with Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros (2023)
Wiseman and his mirror
Wiseman (XII): Menus-Plaisirs, les Troisgros (2023)
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Some thoughts on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
Sexual Fears at the Seductive Movie Screen
On Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
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A few words on Dances with Wolves for Locarno’s Pardo Magazine:
Locarno Film Festival · Embracing the Western Frontier: On the...
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Really wonderful program of varied experimental shorts on 16mm; especially taken with Smith's hysterically playful "The Girl Chewing Gum," Hammer's atypically abstract "See What You Hear What You See," Jittlov's exuberant "Animato," and Worden's ecstatic "Throbs."
/EDGE OF TOMORROW/: Still find the first 30 minutes or so pretty dire with a lot of lazy set-up, but was more moved by the accumulating sense of weariness this time around and hints at all these past lives are subtle enough; gets closer to lightning in a bottle than it should.
WAR OF THE WORLDS: So viscerally upsetting in its first half, as Spielberg weaponizes the accelerating terror of the 21st century to make its extraterrestrial threat fully familiar, that even its weaker elements carry a modicum of dreadful uncertainty; potent stuff.
When BOYHOOD was first in theaters, I was lucky enough to moderate several Q&As with the creative team. On August 28, thanks to @amcinematheque.bsky.social and @lafilmcritics.bsky.social, I'll be joined by Richard Linklater at the Aero for a screening and conversation about his landmark film.
BOYHOOD - American Cinematheque
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One week from today! 🏎️ Following its world premiere at MoMA, Rob Tregenza's new feature FAST comes to @2220arts.bsky.social next Tuesday, Aug 18, followed by a prerecorded Q&A with Tregenza and Jonathan Rosenbaum. 🎟️: link.dice.fm/g212e5d7dd91
i heard that they smuggled the president out of turkey in a catering cart. well, i think that the president IS a catering cart! or i mean, i think that the catering cart IS a turkey. or actually i mean, i think that the uh, they smuggled him out of a country called turkey, so he is in fact himself a
it's 2:37 p.m. eastern. but at the same time, it's 2:37 p.m. eastern
it’s obvious to me that the nfl is planning another season this year. “bUt tHeY aLrEaDy hAd a sEaSoN lASt yEaR!” i know. they’re doing another one
they should make a star wars 2. how about one more trip around the galaxy for old times’ sake. come on
Hidden Gems: The Arrangement, The Strawberry Statement, Last of the Mobile Hot Shots, Topaz, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, The Olympics in Mexico Best Chinese Film: The Arch Hidden Gem: Good Bye! Darling Best Director: Costa-Gavras (Z)
Student writer John Woo's top ten films of 1970, in no particular order, from the Chinese Student Weekly (29/1/1971): (1) Zabriskie Point (2) Z (3) The Damned (4) Woodstock (5) Cul-de-sac (6) M*A*S*H (7) Midnight Cowboy (8) Women in Love (9) Contempt (10) Medium Cool
CENTER STAGE: As much about the interwoven yet separate golden eras of film industries as it is about the timeless actress(es) at its core; Kwan's maximal glamor acts as a revivifying force, a time warp only strengthened by its reminders of the present; completely stunning.
slammed the brakes so hard I flew through the windshield
