A Single Spark was the first Korean film I saw in a cinema. No subtitles, so a student activist friend interpreted for me the whole way through. Afterward, we went for a stroll around the Peace Market area, where the sweatshops depicted in the film had operated
What an amazing experience!
Thanks!
Yes, very!
What series, do you mind sharing?
I finished watching the final movie on the list, A Single Spark, last night.
Some of my personal favorites and recommendations from the list are: The Flower in Hell, The Seashore Village, The Age of Success, Hometown of the Heart, and Seopyonje.
I created a Letterboxd list for the guide here:
My love of Korean movies is heavily slated towards the new and popular movies of the past couple of decades, so I was really excited when I discovered this excellent list of recommendations spanning the history of Korean Cinema, all available on the Korean Film Archive's YT channel.
#filmsky
Precisely! Support local coffeeshops!
Let me tell you how my day just started: I just attempted to pour ten cups of water into a coffee maker that already had ten cups of water in it. Then, when I hurried to lift up the toaster behind it to mop the flood: the crumb catcher flap fell open and I flung toast crumb sprinkles everywhere.
My best work buddy/peer is from Cuba and her parents fled Cuba under those circumstances as well. They live in Florida though. :)
Wow!
Fidel gave a speech to Harvard Law School in 1959. Which is wild to me!
Thanks, both! We watched this late 1950s CBC interview (starting at about the 1 minute mark) along with clips from Castro's 1959 Face the Nation interview as part of our homework this week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd0B...
I'm trying to go at least once a month since Baxter closed.
The Christophers. Showing at The Speed Cinema this weekend!
Now I want a sandwich.
Thanks for the tag, Eileen! I see a book I need to order. :)
Hey historians (with apologies to Gil Scott-Heron): was the Cuban revolution the first widely televised revolution?
(A question I am left wondering about after finishing my LatAm history homework this morning.)
Noisy cardinals make me happy.
A rose bush in bloom with dark green leaves and three or four big red roses with pink tones.
Coffeeshop alley roses make me happy.
5:45am and I am ordering books online in bed, squinting with one eye because my glasses are over there somewhere.
And a very good one!
A squirrel, on a porch railing, nibbling on a squirrel length¹ taquito. ¹Tail excluded.
I guess my squirrels are doordashing taquitos now.
Oh yes, the way I totally wanted to start the weekend was to have the world's largest mosquito land on my forehead and leave me with a swelling bite welt at least the size of a nickle.
Thank you, mosquito.
We'd all be psychologically healthier if we got 20% less weird about casual nudity and 20% less tolerant of casual violence.
Amen!
This is how I feel about the approximately shoulder-height window in my shower. I like seeing light. I like seeing the backyard. I spend exactly zero minutes fretting about the possibility that a neighbor on the other side of the block might at some point catch a glimpse of skin from a distance.
