A Curator
Yuki Ando
East Asian cinemaJapan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong; emphasis on the past three decades
"My mother is Korean; my father is Japanese; I grew up in Tokyo and in Busan in alternating years. I am at home in both, which I suppose means I am at home in neither, which is, I think, why I love films about people in transit — Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Lee Chang-dong, Hirokazu Kore-eda. People who are mostly somewhere they are not."
"Many of the films I send are quiet, and many of them are about families that almost work. I find that the most interesting place in a film is the moment just before a difficult conversation."
— Yuki
From recent slates
This one is about a brother and a sister who have not spoken in eleven years. They speak in the second-to-last scene. I would rather you arrive at it than know about it.
Hou Hsiao-hsien. Long takes, almost no music, a city at night. If you find your attention drifting, drift with it — this film rewards drifting.
A Korean film from 2019 that I have been sending to almost every new member. It is about a family meal, mostly. Almost everything happens at the table.
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