#kogonada
The premise of After Yang might require a mild digestif. A work of speculative science fiction from the video-essayist-turned-director kogonada, it concerns the inner workings of an unconventional family: adoptive father Jake (played by Colin Farrel), the proprietor of an artisanal tea shop; his wife Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), busy and detached; their daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), an adopted child from China; and Yang, the android they purchased to be her ersatz older brother. Near the film’s start Yang breaks down and, with Mika distraught, Jake must find a way to get him back online. On his travels he discovers that Yang’s hardware has been custom fitted to record and save a few seconds of video each day, a moment that the A.I. finds most valuable; or, in other words, to find evidence of an inner emotional life. Phew.
It is the second feature to be released by kogonada, a South Korean-born, American-based filmmaker who took to making features with consummate ease with his 2017 debut Columbus. A love story in hushed tones, it used the clean lines of that city’s famed architecture as a profound backdrop to the complicities of his characters’ desires—an allegory as neat as Saarinen’s spire. After Yang swings for a similar calm catharsis but fails to make contact. Though ambitious in reach, its tone is one-note, stilted, and saccharine sweet, its ideas as disjointed as they are ultimately unsatisfying.
Visto primer capítulo y promete, producida y dirigida por Kogonada…vaya, que el comienzo no ha podido ser mejor (ahora me alegro de no haber leído la novela)
Pachinko, S01E01, 2022
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After Yang (2021)
Director - Kogonada, Cinematography - Benjamin Loeb
“Is this something that you believe? That the end is also the beginning?”
Two official announcements
1) I will NOT be doing a Wes Anderson video essay. The market is saturated and I have nothing to add.
2) I do NOT take requests for video essay topics. Please stop flooding my inbox.
So since I’m not going to do one, here’s a bunch of Wes Anderson links.
Matt Zoller Seitz gets his own heading. He has written two books:
The Wes Anderson Collection
The Grand Budapest Hotel
He has also done thirteen (!!!!!) video essays:
Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style (five parts)
Bottle Rocket
Rushmore
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Darjeeling Limited
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Moonrise Kingdom
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Hard to tell, but Matt might like Wes Anderson.
David Bordwell has written several blog entires on Wes Anderson
Shot-consciousness
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Hard to tell, but he also might like Wes Anderson.
Kogonada
Wes Anderson // Centered
Wes Anderson // From Above
Jaume R. Lloret
Wes Anderson // Vehicles
Rishi Kaneria
Red & Yellow: A Wes Anderson Supercut
Paul Waters
Wes Anderson: A Mini Documentary
Way Too Indie
Mise en Scène & The Visual Themes of Wes Anderson
SNL
The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders
Alex Buono
Making of The Midnight Coterie (blog post)
Wes Anderson Screenplays
Every Wes Anderson script
Now, never ask me about Wes Anderson again. Please.
-Tony
