When the Academy asked director Bong Joon-Ho to recommend films for aspiring filmmakers to watch, he got a bit overwhelmed and didn't want to attempt to list five favorites. Instead, he narrowed his focus to three movies about moviemaking itself.Director Bong, a Korean filmmaker known for genre-spanning hits like Mickey 17, Memories of a Murder, and Okja, made history as the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture with Parasite.Watch the video from Director Bong belong, then learn about the films he recommended. - YouTube youtu.be His three picks were Federico Fellini's 8½, François Truffaut's Day for Night, and Tom DiCillo's Living in Oblivion. Together, they form a chaotic but loving picture of the reality behind the camera.Let's dive into each.8½ - YouTube www.youtube.com Fellini said in I, Fellini, "In the case of 8½, something happened to me which I had feared could happen, but when it did, it was more terrible than I could ever have imagined. I suffered director’s block, like writer’s block" (via Cinematic Scribblings). He became a film director who didn't know what he wanted to direct. The 1963 film follows Guido (Marcello Mastroianni), a director suffering creative paralysis while trying to make his next film. The film Guido struggles to make is essentially 8½ itself. Fellini channels his own crisis into the film's surrealist sequences. The resulting movie won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and remains what many consider the definitive film about director's block.Day for Night...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 23 September