The Art House Cinema Meetup

One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 162 mins) is the American Indie filmmaker’s latest, fitting in with the genre’s postmodernist counterculture trademark. In this Thomas Pynchon adaptation, Di Caprio plays Bob, a drug-dependent, mixed-up revolutionary and anti-hero, playing out his activism on the US-Mexican border while also a single dad to his more mature sixteen-year-old daughter. While some of its paranoid action scenes border on to the farcical, the film tackles serious, contemporary issues. The high-energy soundtrack is by Radiohead’s Johnny Greenwood.

We’re meeting up again at BFI Southbank for one of the premiere screenings of the London Korean Film Festival — Frozen Window, the latest project by Kim Jong-kwan.
This anthology is composed of three episodes, each set in a different season in the Seochon neighbourhood of Seoul’s Jongno District. Delicate and witty, metacinematic and melancholic, it’s a Rohmer-esque love letter to Seochon, and to our capacity for both fickleness and profound change.

We’ll be meeting for the film, the Q&A, and a discussion of our own afterward.

My seat is L17 . Buying the ticket in advance is recommended.