It’s a terrible fact of the film industry that the best of world cinema never makes it to most cinemas around the world — and will likely never reach Australian audiences.
While multiplexes are flooded with the licensed products of Marvel and Disney, there’s a whole universe of wonderful films you might want to watch if you were able to. The most interesting and challenging movies are out there – but in Australia, they’re not at the cinema.
1- Entertainment
dir. Rick Alverson, USA, 2015
2-Paradise
dir. Sina Ataeian Dena, Iran, 2015
3- Right Now, Wrong Then
dir. Hong Sang-soo, South Korea, 2015
4- Schneider Vs. Bax
dir. Alex van Warmerdam, Netherlands, 2015
5- BONUS FILM: Haemoo
dir. Sung Bo Shim, South Korea, 2014
This one’s a bit of a cheat — you can get it on DVD and legally online — but one of the actual flat-out best titles that played film festivals this year isn’t getting a theatrical release.
Co-written and produced by Bong Joon-ho, the guy who made Snowpiercer, Haemoo is a high IQ, super-tense thriller from Korea about a people-smuggling mission gone wrong (sound relevant to Australian politics?) — with a super-creepy spiritual undercurrent. It’s unusual to see a genre film that is so entertaining but also so confronting: teeth-grindingly stressful but also amazingly gratifying; an action film that’s actually about something. Haemoo is also co-written and produced by Bong Joon-ho, the guy who made Snowpiercer.
Distribution status: It’s out on DVD, GooglePlay and iTunes.
Read more at : junkee
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