#the great wall film

[pokimoko]

I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

[f0restpunk]

[originalaccountname]

who knew watching old and decayed abandoned buildings tours would actually inspire and motivate me to create stuff again

[bee-in-a-box]

okay I was goofing but I do have a genuine Mike fancast no one laugh at me I made wool hat edits of the kid from The Holdovers do you see the vision

[its-not-a-pen]

fifth generation film recs!! it’s a longer list than i usually compile (and i’ve still got more i wish i could include), but i hope this is a good resource as you look for films to watch

THE CONTEXT

the red detachment of women (1961) - third gen

two stage sisters (1964) - third gen

the last emperor (1987) - for a sense of the international film scene these directors were entering into (also director bertolucci apparently consulted a number of fifth gen directors about the cultural revolution while making the film)

the king of masks (1996) - fourth gen

EARLY FILMS

yellow earth (1984) - zhang yimou was the cinematographer for this one! (chen kaige directed)

the black cannon incident (1985)

dislocation (1986)

the big parade (1986) - i haven’t actually watched this one yet but it’s considered an important early work

red sorghum (1987)

ju dou (1990)

life on a string (1991)

raise the red lantern (1991)

farewell my concubine (1993)

to live (1994)

not one less (1999)

the road home (1999)

LATER FILMS

the emperor and the assassin (1998)

happy times (2000)

hero (2002)

together (2002)

house of flying daggers (2004)

curse of the golden flower (2006)

the founding of a republic (2009)

a woman, a gun, and a noodle shop (2009) - an adaptation of blood simple (1984), which i would recommend you watch first

sacrifice (2010) - a reimagining of the orphan of zhao, which i recommend you’re familiar with first

coming home (2014)

legend of the demon cat (2017)

shadow (2018)

the battle at lake changjin (2021) - also haven’t gotten around to watching this one, but like i know i ought to

BONUS FILMS

code name: cugar (1989) - it’s bad

the great wall (2016) - also bad. BUT it’s got pedro pascal

hope there are some films here you like!

WOW that was fast! Thank you so much this is such a great list!

[blacknarcissus]

Opfergang / The Great Sacrifice (1944)

[cuartoretorno]

Dia del Padre Malón! Barbies que fue? salen o no! nos vemos el fin de semana camaradas! rota el Cartí con sus chelas New Romantics! hablamos Love !!! Lima lo es todo (Casco Viejo) 16/06/24

[nine-frames]

The Great Wall (長城), 2016.

Dir. Zhang Yimou | Writ. Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro & Tony Gilroy | DOP Stuart Dryburgh & Zhao Xiaoding

[poorlittleyaoyao]

I’ve come to the end of myself, I suppose.

The Untamed vs. Lawrence of Arabia, or: if I had a nickel for every media property I'd cried over in which a main character has a trauma-fueled breakdown about his perceived mediocrity after being captured and tortured in a warzone, I'd have two nickels, but it's unfortunate that it happened twice.

[normalbrothers]

i found the husband less loathsome than some make him out to be, but she certainly didn't drive him to suicide lol

[comet-wire]

Have I mentioned I have this corner on my wall by my bed that is just printed out pictures of Cedric from my mini printer with an additional picture of this blue wizard with "AUTISM" text above said wizard which I call the autism wizard,that is above the Cedric pictures for a reason and that I printed it all out last year and I call it my Cedric corner

[livvyofthelake]

ohhhhhh my god my lead actress's big brown eyes...... girl you're killing me......

[orphudice]

bro sometimes me and my cohost will literally just be that one spiderman meme where theyre like.point ing at eachother.yk the one

[down-thedrain]

sitcom au episode where marks like wow! that sure was crazy! but you know what's even crazier? and he turns and stares deadpan into the camera and goes "how 150 people die from falling coconuts every year. hi, i'm mark heathcliff, and this-"

SOTOEJSEBAKDHSKRHEKR that honestly seems like. if not him then adam or jonah for sure would do that

[ambreiiigns]

hey i'm not too familiar with these bands but i got into ghost because of you and your last post got me curious about rammstein? what do you mean with porn music video? lol??

HEHEHEH FIRST OF ALL 🤭🤭🤭 GOOD JOB ME FOR BAGGING ANOTHER ONE AND GOOD JOB YOU FOR HAVING TASTE AND I'M A LITTLE BIT SORRY ALSO

secondly i mean rammstein mein teil music video one guy was getting his Dick sucked irl on that set bc the director didn't want it to be Fake he wanted it to be REAL (girl this is not a movie you are directing a german industrial metal music video. it is not worth it) and i also mean most famously the music video for their song appropriately named Pussy can only be found like on the pornhub and the likes bc it's just the band members' heads edited on top of actors who were performing like a bunch of cliches from porn videos or whatever so it's just. porn. can't be on youtube !! + clips of the band performing the song dressed up in the coolest outfits they've ever wore at the same time bc usually at least ONE bitch will look like absolute shit. this was the ONE time everyone looked COOL. and it happened for the PUSSY MUSIC VIDEO. but then i also mean the? or one of the? music video(s?) for the song Till The End (not technically rammstein it's one of the singer's side projects or smth) which is just him having sex w The Girls but it's also like kinda depressing in some ways idk. anyway rammstein weird as fuck but also at the same time they can make music videos like deutschland which is an iconic beautiful stunning masterpiece so if i got you into ghost trust me take the leap and get into rammstein too. it gets better

[artemisbarnowl]

So today we went to the museum that used to be the migrant/refugee camp my mothers family stayed in when they arrived in Aus. And like the sheer breadth of human emotion carried in this place was shocking. Australian govt pledges to accept 20 million people (lol) but being british at heart, and knowing "australians are unaccostomed to people who live differently to them" the immigration minister says we will take able bodied light skinned people. Especially single men.

These people, latvian engineers, yugoslavian doctors, ukrainian shop keepers, italian accountants, have lost their homes, and want to be any place that is away from the war, arrive in rural Australia. Where they are kept in uninsulated tin sheds on army barracks, with armed soldiers. Where orders are given in German!! Because that is what they were 'used to' :) where families are seperated and where they have no money and they are promised jobs but that engineer is now a sugar cane farmer, or a sheep sheerer, or a railway worker, and only if she can learn to speak english well.

The camp we went to today saw about 65000 refugees pass through, but right near the end there were more british settlers, who paid 10 pounds for the privilege to sail across to aus and have not a tin shed with 10 to a room, but insulated single family cabins, with flooring and curtains, where they would stay for 1 month tops.

Anway its most infamous for its food

Stefano, so true bestie!