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[cinemaspam]

“We broke up April Fool’s day, so I took it as a joke. I’m willing to humor her for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1st, because May loves pineapple, and May 1st is my birthday. I tell myself that if May hasn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too.”

– Takeshi Kaneshiro in Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[pierppasolini]

Looking out this window, there’s just one person in my thoughts.

Chungking Express (1994) // dir. Wong Kar-wai

[criterionfilms]

Chungking Express (1994)

[highvolumetal]

Chungking Express , Wong Kar-wai , 1994.

[filmreel]

Faye Wong in Chungking Express (1994) dir. Wong Kar-wai 

[bong-joonho]

미나리 / Minari (2020) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

[luntfontanne]

Minari 미나리 (2020) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

“You’re crying over anchovies?”… it felt so true and so human and something that expresses a lot of where Monica, the mother, is emotionally, how she’s been feeling, everything that’s been pent up inside of her as she’s missing home. … I didn’t know if anybody would really connect to it. But I’ve been surprised that lots of people have been crying about the anchovies, joining in with her. And that’s been a real joy because it’s not just the Koreans or the kids of immigrants, but it seems like everybody kind of understands that feeling. Food is powerful. You know, that really hits so close to home for all of us.

Lee Isaac Chung in an interview with NPR’s Fresh Air (March 3, 2021)

Being Korean-American seeing this film, you just didn’t realize that you were sitting on so much grief. And watching the film lets it go, a little bit, and I think for us it’s something really great to celebrate… I think this film is specifically talking to me. When Monica eats the gochugaru, I burst into tears because it’s something that is so specific, and it’s almost like, oh I never knew that I needed that gift.

Sandra Oh moderating a Q&A with the cast of Minari for Korean American Day (January 13, 2021)

[gessekaii]

In The Mood For Love (deleted scene).

[rosalielesbianhale]

[taissaifarmiga]

“UNIVERSAL CLASSIC MONSTERS”

[the-french-disconnection]

Charlotte Véry et Hervé Furic dans Conte d’hiver (Éric Rohmer, 1992)

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Conte d’hiver (a.k.a. A Tale of Winter) (Éric Rohmer, 1992)

[aqueleeme]

A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’ Été; 1996), Éric Rohmer

[freshmoviequotes]

A Summer’s Tale (1996)

[gigglespit]

indulging my misery with this 90′s gem

[giirlfriendinacoma]

“Worse still, I don’t even really love her. Not head over heels. Doesn’t matter that she didn’t write. We weren’t dating in Rennes, we just ran into each other. It became a habit. A “habit of coincidences”

— ERIC ROHMER

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