Burning @ The Metrograph
As I mentioned in my previous email, I'm away for a few days to see the eclipse in Burlington! So this week's screening will be on Wednesday instead of the usual Tuesday.
I am VERY excited for this screening. I'm seeing Burning at The Metrograph at 8:45!
If you only intend to come to one movie from these emails, this would be a good one. After Parasite came out back in 2019, some friends and I got on a South Korean film kick. Among the movies we saw was Burning. After seeing it, I had a strange feeling of simultaneously needing several days to recover from it and also that it was one of my favorite films. It's very dark, very intense, and very special.
The Metrograph has assigned seating, so if you're interested in seeing this film respond to this email by tomorrow at 2pm ET and I'll grab us all tickets so we can sit together! :) I'm very excited
Last week's screening of Le Samouraï was, as usual, excellent. Rarely have I seen a movie where the soundtrack made me say "wow". I was so entranced by it that the jazz keyboardist featured in it sounded almost non-diegetic.
WARNING: SPOILERS! I did love the film, but its ending frustrated me. After the film, I read lots of people's interpretations of the ending (something I also very rarely do), including Roger Ebert's review. His view of the final scene is essentially that the hero is carrying out the "chief business" of a samurai, that is, to die. But I still have yet to find a satisfactory explanation as to why it was driven by in-universe events. I can certainly hold it as a meditation and be satisfied, as Ebert seems to suggest is the best path. But in the moment I felt driven towards literal interpretation, due to everything else in the film feeling so direct. I left the theater disappointed.