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.
Love's labor's lost: on Lee Chang-dong's magnificent POSSIBLE LOVE, which features the acting ensemble of the year — Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Cho Yeo-jeong and Zo In-sung. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Fragile Unions of “Possible Love”
In Lee Chang-dong’s brilliantly acted new film, “Possible Love,” a community’s devastation plays out through a documentary lens—and through a tale of two very different couples.
newyorker.com
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE: Conceives of filmmaking as a truly communal effort, where even non-cast/crew can get swept up in the creative spirit, from which Greaves crafts the right atmosphere for harmonious confusion; knotty yet free and light.
ROSE: Sometimes a bit too removed for its own good, but works well as a portrait of an unyielding presence who can nevertheless do only so much when pitted against natural and manmade forces; Schleinzer has a good feel for balancing the poetic and prosaic.
I disliked JOJO RABBIT without completely loathing it. But Taika Waititi's KLARA AND THE SUN is the worst kind of sentimental, quirky/cutesy drivel.
Review: Jenna Ortega plays a sad robot in the shamelessly programmatic 'Klara and the Sun'
An android story that could use a little more intelligence, artificial or otherwise, Taika Waititi's new film strikes an overwhelmingly sentimental tone.
latimes.com
Woke up the morning after the Blazers' season opener and their head coach has not, to my knowledge, been arrested by the FBI so we're already in better shape than last season.
POSSIBLE LOVE: Unfathomably exact and assured in its mining of every implication of social and cinematic connection and separation generated by this four-way dance; Lee’s vision is passionate yet filled with a startling equanimity, ideal for a genuinely inmense cosmos.
Members of a now-defunct movie chat group have been voting on new releases for the past 26 years and YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is now the highest-rated feature-length film (out of 5,035). Doubt it’ll stay there, comparatively few votes as yet, but damn.
We also voted to add a new award, for Costume Design! We'll vote on the year's best achievements in filmmaking on Sunday, December 6th, and will announce the winners live here on Bluesky and Instagram (@lafilmcritics).
A truly unprecedented and worthy choice(s)!
Los Angeles Film Critics Association@lafilmcritics.bsky.social · 4d agoWe are thrilled to announce that LAFCA has chosen Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego as the co-recipients of this year’s Career Achievement Award. We look forward to honoring them at our awards dinner on January 9th, 2027, alongside this year's best achievements in filmmaking.
Ecstatic that we, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, have chosen Mexican masters Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego to receive our Lifetime Achievement Award. They’re the first Latin American artists awarded this honor. I’m so proud to have advocated for them! 🇲🇽🏆
We are thrilled to announce that LAFCA has chosen Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego as the co-recipients of this year’s Career Achievement Award. We look forward to honoring them at our awards dinner on January 9th, 2027, alongside this year's best achievements in filmmaking.
Glad to be back helping @lafilmcritics.bsky.social at @egyptianla.bsky.social with this Gus Van Sant MALA NOCHE Q&A
LA BOLA NEGRA: Has its moments, but Calvo and Ambrossi struggle to make all but the most archetypal narrative (wartime desire/struggle with identity) work, and the effect is compounded by generally unenlightening cross-cutting; not without interest but clumsy.
NAZA: Hard to think of a documentary this sobering and damning that is also this visually astonishing. A film to watch late at night. Did you dream the whole thing? Were those horrible stories you heard real? You could just go to bed, pretend it didn't happen. But the movie demands you wake up.
It's been eight years since we've had a new Lee Chang-dong film. Thank god he's back. Here's my review of the marvelous POSSIBLE LOVE.
‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The 'Burning' director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
screendaily.com
A sneak peek at the five (5!) different types of glasses that will be needed to watch @astrostic.bsky.social’s curated program of 3D shorts at @2220arts.bsky.social tonight co-presented by @la3dspace.bsky.social; tickets still available! link.dice.fm/G60533763b9e
Today! ✨ Join us at 5pm at Culver Theater as we welcome Blake Williams (@astrostic.bsky.social) for a double bill of the co-directed 3D feature A WOMAN ESCAPES and the filmmaker’s stereoscopic shorts. A rare chance to see these films properly projected! web.theculvertheater.com/films/A-Woma...
alright this is one of the funniest ends to a half i've ever seen. panthers gain 9 yards, 4th and 1 from their 45, ~30 seconds left in the half. guy was ruled out of bounds but the clock keeps running for some reason, nobody on either team cares, nobody calls a timeout, clock runs out, halftime
every single week i am nothing short of amazed by what the nfl red zone channel is able to pull off. logistically speaking it's a brilliant feat of engineering. 22 guys on the field, probably two or three costume changes per minute. astounding
“you can see everything” should have been called “you can see the movie.” as a matter of fact, that should be the title of every movie
“n.c.a.a.”? “w.n.b.a.”? “m.l.b.”? after i’m finished watching all of today’s sports, i’m going to need a “n.a.p.”!
imagine how much amazing chaos we could sow into the game of football if we awarded 9 points for a doink. talent evaluation for kickers would go completely upside-down, teams would bring in doink specialists, some offenses down 8 would call in the kicker at 4th and goal on the 1. let's do it
