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Park Chan Wook, known for beloved films like Old Boy, Lady Vengeance, Handmaiden and my personal favorite film for 2025, No Other Choice, seems to be preparing a Western film with well-known Hollywood actors! Let's hope we finally see him at the Oscars because his last movies totally deserved more recognition and nominations.

The Brigands of Rattlecreek” is described as “an iconic tale of vengeance and retribution set in the American West.” A synopsis of the project explains: “A capstone of the themes Park Chan-wook has plumbed across his entire body of work to date, the film is an emotionally explosive and visually stunning meditation on the consequences of violence, the value of family, the power of memory, and the true cost of life.”

I organized an AMA/Q&A with Johnnie Burn, Oscar-winning sound designer, editor, mixer, and supervisor. He's known for his work on The Zone of Interest (which he won the Oscar for), Hamnet, Poor Things, Under the Skin, Bugonia, Nope, The Favourite, The Lobster, Waves, 28 Years Later, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and tons more. He's probably the world's best working sound designer.

It's live here now in r/movies for anyone interested in asking a question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1tjiitz/hi_rmovies_im_johnnie_burn_oscarwinning_sound/

He will be back at 3 PM ET today to answer questions. I recommend asking in advance. Please ask there, not here. All questions are much appreciated!

His new movie, Tuner, is out in theaters everywhere next week, starring Leo Woodall, Havana Rose Liu, and Dustin Hoffman, directed by Oscar-winner Daniel Roher.

Trailer:

https://youtu.be/rdlOZhl-nSA?si=fl-EMvv72dK-vdFS

Synopsis:

With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki’s safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory. Blending romance, drama, and the taut suspense of a heist thriller, Tuner also features performances from Tony Award®-winner Tovah Feldshuh, Lior Raz, with Jean Reno.

Thank you :)

How incredibly Mr. Jack Nicholson goes overboard at the given shot of acting blending his character, Jack Torrance, and wearing it off to cut it so easily shading himself back to his persona in a blink, and the same goes with Mr. Stanley Kubrick who directs Jack Nicholson in all of this without fumbling through in his groundbreaking creativity, and extending himself into so much labour laying down, holding a torch to get a lightening focus on Jack's terrifying face and correcting him prompting his delivering dialogue. That's how cinema runs blatantly through Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson, just forget about their very lust over anything beyond it. Their punctual attitude grasped towards the cinema built the craft all over again in an intriguing advancement of storytelling, far away from an otherwise lazy, conventional dramatic presentation. #theshining talks about such an endeavour taking you to an absolutely gripping and thrilling event, with such an enlarged colour grading, set never before 1980.

My favorites are the first two Iron Man movies, Chef, The Jungle Book and The Lion King!!!!

Can't wait for The Mandalorian and Grogu!!!!

Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, based on the novel by Rex Pickett

One of the late great Val Kilmer's best thriller performances! Iceman!!

Not sure which one of these I should watch next. All 3 seem interesting.

Warrior

Dragged Across Concrete

Strange Days

I’m starting to think people are judging Nolan’s The Odyssey way too early.

A lot of the backlash seems to come from people assuming this is meant to be a direct, traditional adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey. But from the trailer/screenshot, I’m not convinced that’s what Nolan is doing at all.

This shot, for example, doesn’t really look like a clean ancient-Greek period costume. The outfit feels more modern, or at least deliberately out of place. That makes me wonder if the film is going for something more layered ,maybe people in a modern setting entering dreams, memories, simulations, myths, or past lives and “playing” these characters.

Something almost like Cloud Atlas, where the same souls, identities, memories, or archetypes echo across time. In that case, The Odyssey may not just be about Odysseus literally sailing home, but about a psychological or spiritual journey through identity, memory, and rebirth.

Obviously, this is just a theory. But I don’t think Nolan is careless enough to make a basic Homer adaptation and knowingly turn it into a culture-war mess for no reason. He knows how people react to casting choices and “DEI” debates. So maybe the point is that this isn’t the traditional Odyssey people expected.

Maybe people are getting offended because they think Nolan is changing Homer directly, when the actual film might be using The Odyssey as a framework for something more modern and meta.

I could be wrong, but I doubt Nolan looked at one of the most famous stories in history and thought, “Let’s just do a simple remake and annoy half the audience.” There’s probably a bigger structural idea behind it.

I watched this with my son this past weekend. I remember enjoying this attempt at a 1990s Animal House when it came out and haven''t seen it anywhere since. He liked it and it was as decent as I remembered. It did introduce my son toe George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic, so it was a win all around.

Jon Favreau and David Spade are super young and (somehow) Jeremy Piven has more hair now than he did 30 years ago.

yeah, i once read that Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was inspired by this art experiment
where people would receive a message saying they had been erased from someone else’s memory

and honestly… that alone already says a lot about how we deal with connection and loss

what’s even more interesting is that the title actually comes from a poem by Alexander Pope
which kinda idealizes forgetting — like this peaceful, “clean” mind without pain

but the movie almost feels like it’s arguing the opposite

it also made me think of something from Call Me By Your Name:

“if there is pain, nurse it.
and if there is a flame, don’t snuff it out.
don’t be brutal with it.
we rip out so much of ourselves to be cured faster
that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty
and have less to offer each time we start with someone new.”

and yeah… that’s exactly what this movie feels like

we act like the goal is to erase, move on, forget
but maybe the point was never to avoid the pain

maybe it was to actually feel something real, even if it ends

so yeah… what other movie made you feel like this?