Part of our CINEMA IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS series. Saturday, June 6, 2020 @ 7p, Netflix Streaming Service: BURNING (2018 , Netflix, dir by Lee Chang-dong, streaming, 148mns)
HOW TO: While we all work to be socially responsible during the age of coronavirus, Secret Movie Club is experimenting with news ways we can all come together as a community and watch great movies.
We want to keep this very reasonable since folks have to have Netflix to start with. So donate whatever works for you. $1 is fine with us.
Just make sure you download NETFLIX PARTY on a Chrome Browser. You'll see the initials NP in the upper right hand corner of browser after a succesful download.
Secret Movie Club will email the link for the Netflix Party at 30 minutes before showtime using the email you provide here. Click that link then click the NP in upper right hand corner. This will synch you to our screening. We will start the movie at exactly 5 minutes after the hour.
There will be a chat function that allows everyone to comment as we go.
The Secret Movie Club team will be offering trivia, history, insights, articles, deep dives throughout the movie(s). We're going to work to make this as rich a feast as possible utilizing the technology at hand.
Then we'll want your feedback immediately on how we can improve/make it better! This also will allow Secret Movie Clubbers from all over the world to join in on a virtual screening!
This first week of June we are devoting our two Netflix Watch Parties to two amazing, celebrated, yet possibly lesser known recent works of South Korean cinema.
The Best Picture win for Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite in 2020 only confirmed what many moviemakers had known through experience for the past decade: that some of the most exciting, interesting, vital cinema in the entire world has been coming out of South Korea in the 21st century.
Burning tells the strange, unsettling story of Jongsu, a young deliveryman, who gets asked by childhood friend Haemi to watch her cat while she’s away in Africa. When she returns, she brings with her a mysterious man named Ben who turns out to have a very unsettling/strange hobby.
Interestingly, Burning is based on a short story by famed surreal Japanese author Haruki Murakami AND includes elements of a short story by William Faulkner. It was the first film in 8 years since Poetry directed by famed South Korean Lee Chang-dong and it has quickly become what many consider to be one of THE great movies of the last decade.
We wanted to screen this movie also because it’s a great example of vibrant, unsettling South Korean cinema outside the twin towers of Bong Joon Ho and Park Chan-Wook. It also develops its tremendous sense of unease to a startling/shocking climax through psychology and character as much (if not more) than genre.
Join us for a great night of South Korean cinema and discover what might become for you one of the greatest movies you’d never heard about. Then stay (if you dare) for the relentless South Korean zombie picture TRAIN TO BUSAN which we screen at 10p the same night.
Best always,
Craig Hammill
35mm Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer