Austyn Koch

Austyn 2022-07-13 22:05:19

Loneliness is the worst thing here

Austyn 2022-06-12 16:10:33

The First and Only Film of the New Sensation Film League

There have been a lot of screenings in the department recently. Tonight is a brand new 35mm screening of the Japanese 1926 experimental silent film "A Page of Madness". Four musicians, including Chicago-based director/musician Tatsu Aoki and Jonathan Chen, will accompany the show live, with instruments: shamisen, bass, violin, keyboard, Japanese drum taiko, narimono. Aoki said that he doesn't like the accompaniment of silent films from scratch, and likes to leave room for silence from time to...

Austyn 2022-05-10 16:17:06

[Film Review] La Pointe-Courte (1955) 7.2/10

In memory of Agnès Varda, on the occasion of one year anniversary of her departure (29th March), yours truly delves into her resounding debut feature LA POINTE-COURTE, shot in a shoestring and prominently for applying an avant-garde dichotomy in its contents, altogether the film heralds the pending French New Wave movement mostly on the strength of its camera’s unbridled mobility roving...

Austyn 2022-04-23 07:04:27

After watching the trip to Busan, I feel that Seoul Station is really many times worse.

I watched Train to Busan the day before yesterday, and I couldn’t wait to watch Seoul Station last night. I thought it was also a drama. Who knew it would be so bad! The turning point is too strange, obviously not his father, but desperately looking for the heroine, just because the heroine sent him money. But if a normal person encounters such a danger, can he still care about the person who is short of his own money, he would have run away by himself! And the IQ of the heroine in the whole...

Austyn 2022-04-23 07:02:38

Tsukishima Wen: Even if I encounter a B-drama

The moment Awen cried, my "Awen" was crying too. Word by word, her words hit my heart.
Thank you for saying something I didn't know myself. I understand why I have been living in fear of insecurity. His departure has completely confirmed my turmoil and doubts - "I'm not good enough, so I was abandoned".
Every time I hear Awen called in the film, it seems to be calling me myself. The last bicycle was also part of the best and most beautiful memories, and I couldn't help but cry. I have...

Austyn 2022-04-23 07:01:02

When dreams become reality

The film begins with a group of children who are terribly crazy in their childhood. Violence, rape, and sex are all things that do not belong to children's childhood. All appear on the big screen. The protagonist of the story, Evan, suffered from transient amnesia in his childhood, and those terrible images would automatically disappear in his mind so that his character was not distorted in the process of growing up. Childhood memories are devastated.
       When Evan was already a student...

Austyn 2022-04-22 07:01:54

Huang Zhengmin's eyes are as bright as fire

Finally found Uncle Huang Zhengmin's "International Market". I don't know if it's because of my recent aesthetic fatigue, and I don't think this drama is so unique. It's just a little story about the trend of the times. The beginning is similar to "Dunkirk", the middle is copied from "Forrest Gump", and the end is like "The Thief of the Years". The narrative is relatively complete, the main line logic is in place, the background is strong, and the filter technology is superb, so superb that...

Austyn 2022-04-22 07:01:50

russian nobility

I found that the navy uniforms of that era were really handsome. It turned out that the Russian aristocrats were also very elegant. It was far from what Jin Yong wrote. The heroine is very beautiful, she has a sweet dimple when she smiles, and when the champagne glass falls to the ground For a moment, the love between two people is like dry wood and fire destined to be destroyed. Anna's relentless pursuit of her love is difficult to see in today's realistic society... One of the dialogues is...

Austyn 2022-04-22 07:01:03

I'd rather all the actors in the world die and leave only one Nicholson for me.

"As Perfect":
1. I would rather all the actors in the world die, leaving only one Nicholson for me. I am truly honored to see him perform in my lifetime.
2. My love for Nicholson is not only because of his superb acting skills but also because I can always foresee my old age in his movies and worry about it. Because I'm sure there won't be a cute little girl, a kind girl, a cute pet, or a funny old man to take me out of the eccentric, stubborn, weird old age that extends from the...

Austyn 2022-04-22 07:01:03

Brilliant achievement and unbearable enduring

How much achievement a person achieves on the surface, how much effort he will put in behind the scenes. He needs an incomparably strong heart to withstand the doubts and obstacles from inside and outside. A rich boy did not choose to let the money lie in the bank, and his heart has already flown to the sky. He picks every shot carefully, he scrutinizes every drawing. He doesn't bow his head to any difficulty, but he doesn't know how to retain his feelings. He can see the trend of future...

Austyn 2022-04-22 07:01:02

"Vertigo", where is the mystery?

Hitchcock may have told us two ideas: What killed Judy in the end? What is Scotty's fear of heights? After watching this film, it should be analyzed from the film language itself, but the spiritual exploration space of this film seems to be more worthy of aftertaste. The use of Hitchcock's zoom lens allows us to feel a person's subjective emotions through the lens. When this language is constantly being created, it is a kind of impetus for the development of film history...

Austyn 2022-04-21 09:03:33

resignedly

An ordinary revenge story, full of helplessness in life. The music is very nice and has the desolate beauty of Japan. Most Japanese directors seem to be good at shooting indoors or in a controlled environment, and the theme of this love and honor is very suitable.

The first half of the film is very good, although from the beginning of the story you can guess that there are only two endings: eventually become the legendary blind swordsman or be crushed to powder. Personally, I prefer...

Austyn 2022-04-21 09:01:36

How should humans and nature get along?

Narnia is a legendary holy place, where the animals live a happy life in the green mountains and green waters, but the arrival of humans broke all this, the tree people fell asleep, and the dwarves and other small animals did not dare to live freely in the forest. Running inside until the horn sounded again, the kind children of Adam and Eve and the lion, the leader of the animals, united to fight together...
  Animals and humans are the masters of the earth, and they have the same right...

Austyn 2022-04-21 09:01:32

Regret is the foundation of life, the vanilla-colored sky exists only in dreams

The vanilla sky is the most dreamlike imagery I've ever seen. The sky full of moisture, the sunlight crushed by thin clouds, and a few twilights in the faint purple. There are no overly bright colors and no overly intense light in all spaces throughout the film, just like in a deep dream.

This dream is a dream of a frustrated person, about a love that has been missed by each other. He was a sad fragment of her life, frozen in her youth. And she was the only sweet dream in his long,...

Austyn 2022-04-21 09:01:12

Love and Sorrow in "King Kong"

After watching "King Kong", I was amazed by the stunts in it, but those were not what I liked. In the climax of the film, King Kong is making a scene in New York, the woman who is looking for it, and they find each other on a long foggy street. That moment touched me the most. The street market, which was still full of hustle and bustle, was silent all of a sudden, only the music of Youyou slipped from the sky, and the blonde beauty came in, her eyes full of sadness. The world suddenly slowed...