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Bong Joon Ho’s Favorite Movies

Bong Joon Ho has long been one of South Korea’s best filmmakers thanks to acclaimed movies such as “Memories of Murder,” “Mother,” and “The Host,” but it wasn’t until 2019 that Bong become a worldwide cinema superstar. With “Parasite,” Bong vaulted himself permanently into the topmost echelon of the world’s best directors working today. “Parasite” world premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it made history as the first South Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or. The months that followed brought Bong to nearly all of awards season’s biggest festivals (Telluride, Toronto, NYFF) and ceremonies (Golden Globes, SAG Awards, DGA Awards, Critic’s Choice, etc.). Bong’s incredible journey with “Parasite” culminated in six Oscar nominations and historic wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. The drama is the first foreign-language movie to win Best Picture, and Bong is the first South Korean filmmaker to win Best Director.To get more news about cheap big bong, you can visit sharebongs.com official website.

With Bong now a household name across the world, it might be of interest to watch some of the films the South Korean auteur considers to be his personal favorites. Bong is a great director, but he’s also an avid cinephile who loves talking about films and raising awareness for some of the best Asian filmmakers who came before him, including Kim Ki-young, Shohei Imamura, and Keisuke Kinoshita. Check out a handful of Bong’s favorite movies in the list below.
As the #StopAsianHate movement took over the national conversation this year following a rise in hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans, Bong called on his fellow filmmakers to create art that meets the moment and singled out Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” as an example of the kind of art he wants to see.

“I think creators and filmmakers can be bolder with dealing with issues and they shouldn’t be afraid to confront them,” Bong said during an April 2021 masterclass with Chapman’s Dodge College. “‘Do The Right Thing’ came out in 1989; it was three years before the LA Riots but almost predicted the riots were going to happen. I think that’s the role creators and artists can play, not necessarily to predict what will happen in society, but to use your insight to portray the issues that are currently boiling underneath the surface of society that can explode later on.”
In naming 20 directors who will shape the future of cinema, Bong selected Italian film director, editor, and screenwriter Alice Rohrwacher. The filmmaker made her feature directorial debut with 2011’s “Heavenly Boy,” but it was her 2014 drama “The Wonders” that served as her filmmaking breakthrough. “The Wonders” won the Grand Prix at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. Rohrwacher’s third narrative feature is “Happy as Lazzaro,” winner of the Best Screenplay prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Bong told Sight & Sound magazine that “Happy as Lazzaro” is “an astonishing cinematic miracle.”

The 2020 Academy Awards were a full circle moment for Bong, as he landed in the Best Director race opposite two of his favorite filmmakers: Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. When Bong won the Oscar, he thanked Tarantino for always mentioning his movies on lists and in interviews as Tarantino’s love for Bong films helped raise Bong’s profile considerably in the United States. Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” was one of the more essential films Bong fell in love with during film school

“The film school that I went to, in the same building as my classroom, there was a screening room,” Bong told Collider. “I would open the door for my lecture hall, and go straight to the screening room and watch films. ‘Pulp Fiction’ was playing there, and I remember being so shocked at just the incredible screenplay of that film. These days, I’ve been running into [Quentin] Tarantino very often, at all of these awards ceremonies, so I’m very happy.”