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Four Favorites with So Yun Um: Fellini, Wong Kar-Wai, Justin Lin and Keanu

Season 3, Episode 15

Filmmaker and Letterboxd member So Yun Um joins hosts Slim and Gemma for a chat about her new Tribeca sell-out documentary Liquor Store Dreams, and her four Letterboxd faves: Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love; Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow; Federico Fellini’s 8½ and the Wachowski Sisters’ The Matrix. Plus: throwing caution to the wind and becoming a filmmaker, the fleeting moments that give us life, getting around Netflix’s screenshot ban, sexy noodles, who we would date from the Better Luck Tomorrow cast, So’s Johnny Tran prequel pitch, making dads proud, neo-realism vs French New Wave, all our fave Keanu movies, neighborhoods, high grades, parents who just want you married off, how The Matrix broke down barriers at high school and the Danny-from-Liquor Store Dreams spinoff we want to see.

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Horror Every Way.

Valerie Complex explores the perverse joys of genre-fluid horror films, signing off Hallowe’en 2020 for us with a terror-ific selection of recent horror-hybrids for your ongoing scream needs.

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Glass, Darkly.

Rose Glass, the writer-director of long-awaited A24 horror Saint Maud, tells Valerie Complex about finding comfort in psychological thrillers, being terrified of gremlins, and drawing from Joan of Arc’s story for her expressive, bold debut.

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Common Language.

With her third feature, Lingua Franca, now on Netflix, Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval talks to Valerie Complex about undocumented immigrant workers, sensual cinematography, taking narrative risks and Steven Soderbergh’s sexiest film.

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Stanning the Ancients.

Valerie Complex probes the intersection of Greco-Roman mythology and queer experience in Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Neon Demon, Jumbo and Midsommar.

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