After Jon gets all his Parasite Oscar excitement out of his system and Jess takes a deep dive into the economic situation in South Korea, we go British with a look at Guy Ritchie's new film The Gentlemen and an old British classic, Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Show rundown:
Oscars talk: 0:00-13:25
Our thoughts on The Gentleman: 13:30-26:46
Talking Kind Hearts and Coronets: 26:49-4505
Outro / next week's movies Bad Boys For Life and The Lodge: 45:19-46:30
If you want to check out more Korean films, Jon's suggestions include:
Oldboy
The Handmaiden
Burning
Mother
The Host
The Wailing
I Saw the Devil
Memories of Murder
Here are the links and stories we mentioned this episode:
Justin Chang on what Parasite's win means for the movie industry
Joseph Kahn's take on Parasite and North Korea
The trailer for another Bong Joon-ho joint about class, Snowpiercer
A good read from IndieWire on some of the old movie influences of Wes Anderson
Some background on the novel Kind Hearts and Coronets is based on, Israel Rank
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