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   ahh I was wrong in the email I sent you about this movie. I thought it was his 5th film. I actually have taken this movie out twice from the library in the past couple of months but had to return it without watching each time. I was just too busy to watch it.

   Wow just looking over his filmography the only one I’ve seen is the 7th movie. I really have to fix this… especially seeing how I have copies of his 9th, 10th, 11th and 14th films.

   Comment by John Allison — May 1, 2008 @ 7:26 am

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   You emailed me about this or are you talking to yourself again?

   I guess: Spring Summer, Fall, Winter…. and Spring.

   Comment by Andrew James — May 1, 2008 @ 8:54 am

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   Actually the email was to Kurt. I took a look at the picture before it went live so I was seeing if I knew it then. I was wrong.

   Comment by John Allison — May 1, 2008 @ 9:21 am

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   I’d guess the same as Andrew, but I don’t remember that scene in the film and I just saw it a few months ago… odd.

   Comment by Shannon the Movie Moxie — May 1, 2008 @ 9:29 am

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   It’s not Spring, Summer…

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 1, 2008 @ 9:30 am

6. 

   Lust, Caution?

   Comment by Fletch — May 1, 2008 @ 10:26 am

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   Now That’s an interesting guess. Note that Lust, Caution is Lee’s 11th film, and he has always been respected and rewarded in Taiwan.

   Note that this filmmaker is lucky to have is films play on more than a handful of screens in his homeland (and that for only a week or so), yet tends to accumulate awards on the festival circuit and have a pretty large international reputation.

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 1, 2008 @ 10:32 am

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   Is it Samaritan Girl? I remember seeing the DVD in a store once and the cover of it is kind of reminiscent this screenshot.

   Comment by Ross Miller — May 1, 2008 @ 10:54 am

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   It is really quite amazing how people visually latch onto South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki Duk. It is indeed his 12th film which is none of those mentioned above, but rather “THE BOW” which thematically and structurally is a great companion piece to Spring, Summer, Fall… (particularly the main location being a man-made ‘island’ on water) and 3-Iron - insofar as all three films focus on transcendence of one sort or another.

   The use of music and imagery in The Bow are well worth a look, and if anyone can exactly figure out and align all the symbols in the closing 15 minutes of the film, well, I’m all ears!

   The girl is the same actress from Samaritan Girl though.

   Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 1, 2008 @ 10:59 am

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    Yeah that’s what I probably linked it by. The cover of the Samaritan Girl DVD has half of the actress’s face with a pure white background.

    Comment by Ross Miller — May 1, 2008 @ 11:17 am

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    Just curious, since I’ve only seen Bad Guy how do his other movies compare to that one. The Bad Guy is pretty dark. 3-Iron just doesn’t look like ti would be dark.

    Comment by John Allison — May 1, 2008 @ 11:29 am

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    The misogyny is held somewhat in check in 3-Iron, but there are certainly moments of the lead female characters trauma at the hands of her husband, as well as some spurts of violence. But overall it’s more uplifting than most of Kim Ki Duk’s work. 3-Iron is my favourite film of his ouevre, but I found the symbolizing and unpredictability and striking images in THE BOW to be very, very encaptivating.

    Kim Ki Duk loves to probe morality in a glass jar removed from a lot of societies norms and conventions. Since people tend to degenerate/let-loose/etc. when not being observed by society as a whole, I’d say that ‘the darkness’ of which you speak is at the heart of all of his work. It is also the reason why he tends to polarize folks who do not like to look at morality in a vacuum.

    Comment by Kurt Halfyard — May 1, 2008 @ 11:39 am

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    I had no idea what number film Lust Caution was amongst Ang Lee’s filmography - it was a shot in the dark guess based on the picture and clues. He may not be notorious, but if I recall, LC caused quite a stir upon its release.

    Comment by Fletch — May 1, 2008 @ 11:48 am

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