For this Sunday Kino Night, we’re continuing through this year’s Oscar nominations with Past Lives (2023), a romance from Korean-American director Celine Song, and her best-known and best-reviewed work to date. A Korean woman emigrates to New York and leaves behind her childhood friend, and then, surprise, they meet again as adults, except now she’s married and they’re woogin’ for each other. Will cheating happen? I guess we’ll find out. A simple premise, but one apparently good enough for the movie to be nominated for dozens of awards (including the Best Picture Oscar), and to be listed at #217 on Letterboxd’s Top 250 films of all time. Let’s watch. After that is Taiwanese food-themed comedy Eat Drink Man Woman (1994), a comedy from Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon [2000], Hulk [2003] Brokeback Mountain [2005]) about a master chef whose three grown daughters all start to break away from him as they find love. Will the family survive? I guess we’ll find out. This is one of the highest-rated Taiwanese films on Letterboxd.

We’ll start at 9PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Past Lives: https://letterboxd.com/film/past-lives/
• Eat Drink Man Woman: https://letterboxd.com/film/eat-drink-man-woman/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Past Lives: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/1025804
• Eat Drink Man Woman: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/117695

CWs for Past Lives:

• Alcohol.
• Drunkenness.
• Cheating.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Implied sex. Not depicted.
• Honking car horns.

CWs for Eat Drink Man Woman:

• Dead animals.
• Carnism.
• Meat preparation shown in detail.
• Vomiting.

Links to movies:

• Past Lives: https://vimeo.com/911734313
• Eat Drink Man Woman: https://vimeo.com/911737510