#349 - Have I Seen That Hong Sang-soo Film?

The Important Cinema Club

Justin Decloux and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.7 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We discuss the career of Writer/Director Hong Sang-soo, the extremely prolific South Korean auteur. Join the Patreon now for an exclusive episode every week, access to our entire Patreon Episode back catalogue, your name read out on the next episode, and the friendly Discord chat: patreon.com/theimportantcinemaclub Subscribe, Review and Rate Us on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…ub/id1067435576 Follow the Podcast: twitter.com/ImprtCinemaClub Follow Will: twitter.com/WillSloanESQ Follow Justin: twitter.com/DeclouxJ Check out Justin's other podcasts, THE BAY STREET VIDEO PODCAST (@thebaystreetvideopodcast), THE VERY FINE COMIC BOOK PODCAST (www.theveryfinecomicbookpodcast.com) and NO SUCH THING AS A BAD MOVIE (@nosuchthingasabadmovie), as well as Will's MICHAEL AND US (@michael-and-us)

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0:00.0	Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.
0:08.9	And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And today, we're talking about film festival
0:13.6	darling, Hong Sang-Su. That's right. We are inaugurating Festival Month here at the
0:19.0	Important Cinema Club. We will soon be talking about this year's installment of the Toronto International Film Festival.
0:24.1	But before and after that, we will be talking about filmmakers whose work really could only
0:29.7	exist in film festivals.
0:30.9	Well, I'm sorry.
0:32.1	Could Hong Seng Su survive if he didn't have a festival circuit to hit?
0:35.8	It's a good question.
0:36.8	It's an open question.
0:37.9	Certainly filmmakers.
0:39.1	Certainly filmmakers whose work haunts festivals, who you associate with fun animals.
0:43.6	Hong Han-Seng-Su has an automatic pass at film festivals, I feel.
0:48.4	Well, seemingly every single one debuts at like one of the big four.
0:52.0	Can he have an out of focus hour long movie and get it to play
0:56.6	a film festival? Of course he can. Why yes. In fact, his movie in water showed at the Berlin Film
1:03.0	Festival. So, you know, Hong San Su, he just got it. He's got a golden ticket, which makes him the
1:09.2	perfect film festival director. Well, this great
1:12.1	South Korean O tour is a relatively recent interest of mine. According to Letterbox, I've seen
1:16.8	10 of his 30 feature films. So that's where I'm at in my Hong journey. As we'll talk about
1:22.1	today, I've seen some that I haven't logged on Letterbox and that watching them this week,
1:26.2	halfway through, I went, I've seen this. I saw it I saw it at tip that's right well I've mostly seen them in the last year and a half
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