Still waiting for the spinoff… “BUTCHER’S CUT”

Alex. The most annoying Human Being of all time. 

- it was Mrs. Carmody from MIST

When Deadpool broke the fourth wall and spoke to me, my heart truly skipped a beat. A groundbreaking and memorable new breed of superhero.

The deep shadows cast near Disneyland feel like a gap between fairy tales and reality.

I'm quite confident that modern thriller films have undoubtedly been influenced by Seven.

Good thing: Watched Inception
Bad thing: Having already seen Inception

A textbook for family movies. Because there are no perfect humans, we need family.

I don't need anything else as long as this movie isn't Tarantino's last film. That's all I ask for. Really.

Loneliness, boredom, solitude. What humans truly need is humans.

Before <Whiplash>, we had <Black Swan>. The greatest enemy and the savior is always myself.

Sound of Silence.

“Though we got to say goodbye for the summer,”

The forms of love are truly diverse. There's a love that's willing to die in place of a lover, but there's also a love that's willing to kill those whom I love

Even a nerdy engineering student's startup story turns HIP and STYLISH when meeting David Fincher

Love may have an expiration date like a can of pineapples, but <Chungking Express> has no expiration date for sure. A classic that doesn't gather dust as time goes by.

GODFATHER of our time.

Every line in his movies is literally tasty.

After watching <The Green Knight>, I had this thought: Not shooting this film in IMAX is undoubtedly a serious crime.

As a fan who eagerly awaited her next work after <Happy as Lazzaro>, <La Chimera> did not disappoint my long-awaited anticipation. By utilizing various film formats, this film beautifully captures the textures of nature. In simple ways, the film can be said that the work overflows with visual delight. I will count the days until I can watch this beautiful piece again on an LG OLED.

If someone asks what the role of art is, we would probably answer that it's about posing questions. From this perspective, <Joker> delves deep into the question of why there had to be a Joker in Gotham City. Focusing on Joker's life rather than spotlighting his misdeeds, this film becomes the art.

What determines coincidence and destiny is nothing other than the attitude of our heart.

I love you because I love you.

The Symbolic Depth that a Genre called ANIMATION can achieve.

Thanks to Professor Fletcher, I now find myself unable to utter the word ‘Enough'.

One unique preference has become its own genre, and we've agreed to call it 'Quentin Tarantino'. People always seem to exert their greatest strength when doing what they love.

It takes ten more years to get an overnight success.

LOST dreams (x) 
FORGOTTEN dreams (o)

Differing from other romance films, the two main characters in <Decision to Leave> express their love through silence instead. Park Chan-wook, the greatest romanticist of the 21st century, once again expands the concept of love in this way.

Edgar Wright's creativity shines through in his method of first selecting the music and then devising the script and action sequences to match it. Thanks to the soundtrack that evokes nostalgia for iPods, I dug out my dusty iPod from the drawer after a long time.

Despite being released over 20 years, 'The Truman Show' still leaves a strong message in modern society. By the way, I had a crazy idea of what if the people in the village watched Truman's life on LG OLED.

A continuous stream of reverence and thrill akin to a religious experience. The beginning of another history that will be referred to as a classic in the future.

For Letterboxd users, it's always difficult to objectively evaluate movies like 'Babylon'. Films made for cinema often resonate deeply on an emotional level before being judged. If a movie like this were to come out against the backdrop of the present, scenes featuring Letterboxd MUST be included.

The beginning of love is sweet, but the end often leaves deep scars in the heart. Yet, despite that, we who cannot stop this love are truly insane. Perhaps painful memories fade away, but the emotions of love may linger in the heart for a long time.

First love is always intense. And that's why we can't help but love <Dogtooth>. The day we first saw this film is probably the day we fell in love with him.

You, who once predicted the death of cinemas, lift your head and watch <Dune: Part Two>. Then you will finally realize cinemas will never die. Even LG OLED would have to admit this. Don't regret it later; rush to the theater right now and watch this amazing movie on the big IMAX screen.

She The Grace, Her Majesty made me watch this again this Sunday. Long live Emma!

Love Island Season 0 - "The Prequel"

Charlotte Wells's feature film debut <Aftersun> combines separated memories much like solving a fragmented puzzle. Memories may be blurry, but the love we felt remains vividly in our heart. profoundly sad yet stunningly beautiful piece of work.

Watched on Friday March 22, 2024.

Professor Spike Jonze's lecture on 'The Theory of Love' utilizing the theme of AI. The moment you view your beloved not as a subject but as an object, that love will no longer be the same as before. Well, love is always most difficult thing in this world.

A lovely film by Greta Gerwig that evokes memories of <Boyhood> for girls. Our past is always filled with regrets, but even if we were to go back, we would probably repeat the same mistakes. But it's okay. Growth always comes with pain. Someday, when those wounds heal, we will become adults.

Still Waiting for the Director's Cut as we always did....

This can be better with LG OLED. Remember. There's always a hope.

Emma Stone brought us back here again. Seven years after her first Oscar win, she clinched her second trophy through <Poor Things>, establishing herself as the undisputed representative actress of this era. Her acceptance speech after winning the Best Actress award at this year's Oscars was reminiscent of Mia, the character she portrayed in <La La Land>. Unafraid to dream, possessing sincerity in her acting, Mia may perhaps reflect Emma Stone herself. She will continue to act for this era, and her presence will serve as inspiration to all the DREAMERS living in this era.

A film like a piece of MODERN ART. The combination of unusual objects like eyes, bagels, and rocks, along with the director's creative imagination and a heartfelt message, has created a unique cinematic experience unlike any we have ever seen. It's an unexpectedly lovely sensation, similar to adding espresso to iced tea.

Christopher Nolan's films always prove why theaters MUST remain by our side. Not only do they deliver captivating stories, but they also skillfully utilize various elements to delight our senses of sight and sound. He is undoubtedly a filmmaker beloved by this era. And once again, <Oppenheimer> has become his showcase stage for proving this fact.

Congratulations on Christopher Nolan's first Oscars!

TIP: If you want to recreate the emotions you felt while watching Christopher Nolan's movies in the theater in your daily life, let's make it happen with LG OLED.

Of course, you can try. But NO. Not with OLED. NEVER EVER.

Yeah, Someone says this is THE BEST DATE MOVIE EVER.

In his previous work <Broker>, Koreeda Hirokazu seemed to have lost his way for a moment, but with <Monster>, he has returned to us in a way we remember. Rather than focusing on who the monster is, it creates a unique plot by focusing on the people who search for the monster. By the way, the ending scene, when the dreamlike moments meet Ryuichi Sakamoto's 'Aqua', left me breathless.

A love story of two laborers as chilly as autumn weather. Amidst their lonely daily lives, repetitive work, and the war news broadcasted through the radio, love is both hope and salvation for the two individuals. Like the arrival of spring after the autumn leaves fall, a spring day will surely come to their lives as well.

1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

   KOBA 🤬

2. The Silence of the Lambs

   Dr.Lecter 😬

3. The Dark Knight

   🃏

4. The Empire Strikes Back

   Lord Vader 💀

5. The Mist

   Mrs.Carmody 🫶

6. Gangs of New York

   The Butcher!

7. A Clockwork Orange

   Alex….Please….

8. Kill Bill: Vol. 1

   Too many Great Villains but “THE WHISTLE” 💉

9. The Lion King

   Scar and his gang!

10. Oldboy

    🧘

We've compiled a list featuring some of the best UK-based films of all time.

Compiled by our crew, be sure to read the notes for each film.

For UK-based readers, we're giving away a 10% discount coupon, valid only in LG UK for 10 members.

To enter:
— Comment your all-time favorite UK films
— Follow LG OLED’s HQ page
— share your full name and email address with us here.

T&Cs
— Open to Letterboxd members in UK only.
— Entries close on May 31, 2024.
— The winner will be chosen at random and contacted via Email.

• 28 Days Later

  A horrific experience that begins in a desolate London, where the British-ness of the setting is integral to the mood.

• A Clockwork Orange

  Stanley Kubrick's vicious satire of a futuristic Britain is funny, scary, and deeply disturbing. A singular film that genuinely feels like it was made by insane people.

• Shaun of the Dead

  A London town is overrun with zombies in this horror-comedy directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg as Shaun, who takes it upon himself to save those he loves. References to a number of horror films and video games are seen throughout, making this cult classic a must-see.

• Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  An absurdist piss-take that brims with plenty of belly laughs for all audiences. "It's just a flesh wound" is one of many jokes that still sticks the landing to this day.

• Love Actually

  An all-star cast fills this holiday favorite with multiple storylines about love, friendship, loss, and family.

• Paddington 2

  One of the best family films of all time, and quintessentially British. Paul King has created a world that's whimsical without being twee, funny without being try-hard, and heartwarming without being cloying.

• Weekend

  An intimate, moving, slice-of-life queer drama that represents the best of British indie filmmaking.

• Peeping Tom

  One of the first films to depict murders from the killer's perspective. It influenced the likes of 'Halloween' and 'Friday the 13th.' While it greatly damaged Michael Powell's career, it remains a timeless relic.

• Lawrence of Arabia

  I mean... we gotta, right? Epic filmmaking at its best... and those colors will look great on your LG OLED!

• The Zone of Interest

  Jonathan Glazer's depiction of a Nazi family is one of the most harrowing films ever made about WWII.

To commemorate the occasion, we put together 9 films that span genres and styles, from surreal fantasy to horror/comedy. Whether it's the unhinged classic Mommie Dearest or the infectious melodrama of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, you'll find a little something for everyone.

• Mommie Dearest

  Faye Dunaway's portrayal of Joan Crawford is nothing short of unhinged. Diving into Joan's personal life, the film explores the public scrutiny she faced, as well as her complicated relationship with her daughter.

• Lady Bird

  Mothers and daughters don't always like each other, but by the end of Lady Bird, you'll be overwhelmed by the love that exists between this rebellious teen and her mom.

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  This modern classic pings across multiverses to deliver a weirdly poignant tale about acceptance, love, and motherhood.

• Mother's Day

  If slashers are your speed, this messy and disturbing early '80s entry will inject a bit of chaos and terror into your Mother's Day celebration.

• Serial Mom

  In what is most likely Kathleen Turner's best role since The War of the Roses, this John Waters masterpiece brings together laughter, family, and, of course, murder... in less than 90 minutes.

• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

  The sequel to Mamma Mia! is even better than the original, celebrating mothers new and old, here and gone, substitute mothers, grandmothers, friends-as-mothers, and so much more.

• Mr. Mom

  While it doesn't really focus on a motherly figure, Michael Keaton, after losing his job, breaks all stereotypes and jumps in to the caretaker role (his wife's) while his wife finds a job. There are so many classic scenes, thanks to the fantastic onscreen rapport between Keaton and Teri Garr, as well as Keaton's ability to shine whenever onscreen.

• Pain and Glory

  Penelope Cruz has worked with Pedro Almodovar numerous times -- not least of which in All About My Mother and Parallel Mothers -- but it's her character in Pain & Glory that forms the beating heart of that movie. For anyone who wishes they could, in some small way, repay their mother's love.

• The Guilt Trip

  When you see Seth Rogan and Barbra Streisand together on the film's poster, you're expecting a full-on comedy. That's not the case here. The Guilt Trip is a heartwarming film that's about family and getting closer to understanding each other.

Chris Fujiwara, Executive Chairperson of Edinburgh Film Festival shares his Top 5 films of the 1990s with LG OLED Scores. Great Times with Great Movies, even with Great Insight! Have you watched any?

• Flowers of Shanghai

  In this ravishing object of wonder, set in a high-level brothel in late-19th-century Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien presents a world that is closed on itself in time and space. When not further isolating themselves with opium, its inhabitants amuse themselves with drinking games and talk about almost nothing but affections and disaffections; whatever may be happening outside is never mentioned—except in one scene in which noises in the street prompt a few of the characters to go the back of the set to look out a window. Their report when they come back is obscure—some people are investigating something in a back alley—but it satisfies everyone. Sex, if it happens, happens offscreen, and it is clear in any case that sex cannot be not the only reason for the women’s power to monopolize the attention and interest of the men. Everything in the film blends together—costumes, decor, props, the grace and naturalness of the actors—and everything glows with an intensity that might come from the viewer’s own longing to merge with the spectacle.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Khrustalyov, My Car!

  In the 1990s, some in the West celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union by proclaiming it the end of history. It makes sense to start our cinematic time-machine trip to that decade with Aleksei German’s vision of a moment in Soviet history when which way things would go was just as unclear. German presents the Moscow of Winter 1953 (the time of Stalin’s death) as a grotesque carnival. Every scene overflows with clutter, as if a thousand cabinets, shut for half a century, were suddenly opened to let their contents spill over the screen. Once thought forbidding, Khrustalyov, My Car! has probably become more accessible today because of its game-like structure: the journey of the hero, a high-ranking brain surgeon who undergoes humiliation and rehabilitation in a single night, involves a series of micro-rituals of passage (such as climbing a wall on a ladder, sitting on top, and tipping over backwards). The ebullience of the film, shot in gleaming black-and-white with an improbably energetic camera, never flags.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Unforgiven

  In making Unforgiven, the most praised of the several good or great films he made in the 1990s, Clint Eastwood is conscious that he is not just making a good classical Western but summarizing and criticizing the American myth of the redemptive power of violence. The pervasive darkness of Unforgiven lingers in the mind—it is one of the most nocturnal of Westerns—but some of the film’s most defining moments are its simplest and brightest: Eastwood (playing a reformed bad man who is lured out of retirement) tenderly explaining to a scarred prostitute why he refused her offer of a “free one”; Gene Hackman looking forward to watching the sun set from the porch he’s adding to his ramshackle house; Morgan Freeman’s discovery that he can no longer kill. Quintessentially American, too, is Eastwood’s quick and elegant construction of images in which one person, one form, is played against another for maximum impact.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• A Tale of Autumn

  Eric Rohmer’s late-period masterpiece resembles Hou’s Flowers of Shanghai in that its characters are concerned mainly with love relationships between men and women. As Marie Rivière (as a bookseller who seeks to play matchmaker for her wine-grower friend) says at one point: “There are a thousand ways to waste time. This way is no more stupid than another.” A Tale of Autumn is grounded in the sunniness of Southern France and in everyday places and concerns: we visit Rivière’s bookstore, Béatrice Romand’s vineyard, and the apartment where Romand’s son studies; Alain Libolt (the widower whom Rivière ensnares with a personal ad) talks briefly about his work. This surrounding reality contrasts with the almost exclusive preoccupation of the dialogue with love, desire, or their possible emergence. Rohmer’s style achieves perfection: each shot opens toward something new, continuing a spiraling series of misunderstandings, riddles, and postponements.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• A Brighter Summer Day

  Edward Yang’s portrait of 1960 Taiwan provides the feeling of a complete view of a world whose essential characteristic is that it is incomplete. The teenage hero’s parents have carried with them to Taiwan their memories of their interrupted lives in China, along with a radio that, after a certain point in the film, ceases to receive signals. The younger generation form gangs and fight one another in pointless turf battles. Their culture is formed out of an American popular culture that they absorb and emulate in their own way (the English title of the film comes from the hero’s sister’s attempt to transcribe the lyrics of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” from the Elvis record). The characters of the film are no less stuck in a nightmare than those of Khrustalyov, My Car!, though the weather and landscape are subtropical, and the cruel authorities are anti-communist. Doomed never to master their world, the young protagonists possess a vulnerability that is indistinguishable from their ferocity.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

So, we've prepared four movies for you, the one embarking on a solo trip.

*Why don't you buy your plane ticket and fly away somewhere right now? And don't forget to bring these 4 films on your trip.

• Annie Hall
• Macadam Stories
• Lost in Translation
• Right Now, Wrong Then

• Fallen Angels
• Akira
• Top Gun
• A Moment of Romance
• Full Throttle
• Easy Rider
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• The Matrix Reloaded

NOTE: A side is our best recommendation.

NOTE: B side is like a mental-care center for you. It can BREAK or HEAL, or both.

• Bagdad Cafe
• WALL·E
• The Artist
• The Tribe
• The Turin Horse
• A Scene at the Sea

A silence in film gives the audience a chance to think and feel what they see and it will surely help us feel the movies more deeply.

Here are 10 films with minimal dialogue.

[Things to NOTE]

(1)Especially the films by director Tsai Ming-Liang are the essence of quietude , so if you haven't seen them yet, be sure to give his movies a try (Please be careful not to fall asleep).

(2)Every single moment in Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a piece of ART. We highly recommend watching these beautiful scenes with LG OLED.

• Days
• The Woman Who Ran
• 24
• EO
• The Turin Horse
• Silence
• The Tribe
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Amour
• The Son

• Christmas in August
• Matinee
• You Are My Sunshine
• Bungee Jumping of Their Own
• Heavenly Forest
• Millennium Actress
• You Are the Apple of My Eye
• Daytime Shooting Star
• Someday or One Day
• Man in Love

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that burns everything in the end. Burn, Monday, Burn….

• Doubt
• Silence & Darkness
• A Hard Day
• Civil War
• All the Things We Never Said
• Fight Club
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Exhuma
• V for Vendetta

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

<LG OLED MIX> is a series where the editors of LG OLED MOVIE CLUB select movies for each theme. An interesting part of this series is that each playlist will have its own color according to our editors' tastes. Stay tuned, and let's see what series will come to us!

Our first topic is the 10 best films of the 2020s.
Even though now it's only 2024, we've selected 10 films from the numerous films we've encountered so far. 

The selection criteria: ONLY strictly follow the editors' tastes.

Editor Capo:

-Love Whiskey, Beer, Beef Jerkey & Movie
-MUST be BOURBON-Worthy Movies
-Loved MARVEL Franchises so much since kid, so really not trying to watch after Avengers disassembled

1. The Green Knight

   LOTR + Mystery + Epic Scenes. End of discussion. 

2. Nobody

   Adrenaline. 

3. Don't Look Up

   Great Movie that (almost) costs zero with a little help from my friend Netflix. 

4. TÁR

   She’s Insane. 

5. Blue Giant

   He’s insane, too. 

6. Dune

   yeah- “TYPICAL”. Then, Name a better one than this. 

7. Dune: Part Two

   yeah- “TYPICAL”. Then, Name a better one than this. 

8. The Last Duel

   I was literally THERE in about 152 mins. 

9. The Irishman

   GODFATHER of our time. 

10. Bullet Train

    Do not, never ever, judge this movie by ratings. One of the coolest movies that literally can wash your brain with beers. 

<LG OLED MIX> is a series where the editors of LG OLED MOVIE CLUB select movies for each theme. An interesting part of this series is that each playlist will have its own color according to our editors' tastes. Stay tuned, and let's see what series will come to us!

Our first topic is the 10 best films of the 2020s.
Even though now it's only 2024, we've selected 10 films from the numerous films we've encountered so far.

The selection criteria: ONLY strictly follow the editors' tastes.

Editor Zorba:

-Love Indie & Art Cinema
-Film Festival lover
-Can't watch the Horror movie alone (I'm afraid)
-Once lent a MacBook charger to director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (for real)

1. Drive My Car
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Aftersun
4. Poor Things
5. Decision to Leave
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. The Green Knight
8. After Yang
9. The Banshees of Inisherin
10. Past Lives

• The Affected
• A Little Love Package
• There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse
• Hear the Wind Sing
• Wild Grass
• Days
• Mercury 13
• Men, Women & Children
• In the Time It Takes to Get There
• Album for the Youth

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Demolition
• Dogtooth
• Take Shelter
• Farewell My Concubine
• Taxi Driver
• Helter Skelter
• Perfect Blue
• Hereditary
• J. Edgar
• We Need to Talk About Kevin

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Pi
• Black Swan
• Julia's Eyes
• Scarlet Innocence
• The Deep Blue Sea
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Shame
• Pisces

The theme of 'friendship' is a common subject in movies. Whether characters in films are overcoming their sadness, escaping from mundane routines for an adventure, or dreaming of an ideal future, there is always a friend by their side, supporting them.

Thanks to SHOWDOWN: Besties Besties Besties, we prepared 10 charming films about friendship.

Leave your comment for any recommendation!

• mid90s
• Stand by Me
• Drive My Car
• Thelma & Louise
• Red Rocket
• Kill Your Darlings
• Stranger Than Paradise
• The Eight Mountains
• The Dreamers
• Bleak Night

Any better recommendation? OR Please let us know other streaming platforms to review! 💬

1. The Dropout
2. The Beatles: Get Back
3. Dance Dance Danseur
4. Light & Magic
5. Hamilton

Any better recommendations for Netflix, Please drop them in the comments 💬 We'll back with other streaming partners very soon!

1. Us and Them
2. NYAD
3. Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?
4. Nowhere
5. First Love

• Twin Peaks: The Return

  Got a light? A project long anticipated that, at the same time, had no legitimate right to exist, David Lynch’s magnum opus is the landmark work of the decade: a pure gift to cinephiles, it brought us back to the future, ignited the present, and, in an era of “peak TV,” further blurred the boundaries between what is cinema and what isn’t. What to highlight in describing the wonderful world of Lynch? The rebirth of Kyle MacLachlan’s Special Agent Dale Cooper from his Dougie slumber? Laura Dern’s at-long-last appearance as Cooper’s secretary Diane (albeit, as a “tulpa”)? David Bowie reincarnated as a massive teakettle? Or you can just put the explosive Twin Peaks origin story that is the miraculous Part 8 on an infinite loop on your TV, or at least one lasting as long as Oppenheimer. Writing this makes me want to watch it all again, right now.

  
  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

  All hail the Apichatpalme, an event that, likewise, was inconceivable then and will probably never be duplicated. To my knowledge Joei has never made television, but does more than dabble in the world of fine art—the early part of this century saw the need for cinema to reach out to the gallery, as for most filmmakers the financial burden of major productions impinges on their impulsion for creative expression. A 16mm-shot experiential journey of reincarnation and transformation that closed Apichaptong’s multi-faceted Primitive project, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Liveslanded like a UFO from outer space at the turn of the decade and led Apichatpong to meme-level cinephilic repute, emblematized by its Lynchian scarlet-eyed “monkey ghost.” I even put it on a T-shirt.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Leviathan

  The title is, of course, Biblical, referring to a great fish that eventually came to symbolize evil in the Christian Era. This Leviathan is the locale for slaughter, for blood, for heavy metal mechanical mayhem; via the many GoPros of anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, it’s immersive documentary filmmaking by way of Baroque painting and slasher cinema. The title also brings to mind Hobbes, whose Leviathan was the State; he also philosophized that all ideas are derived from sensory experience. Marking the explosion of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab into prominence, Leviathan remains a stunning and unparalleled work, one which discovers new forms. Fun fact: Apichatpong Weerasethakul was President of the Locarno jury that completely ignored Leviathan, possibly due to the screening taking place in a cinema that was the auditory equivalent of the hull of a ship, volume cranked by the filmmakers to deafening heights. Or maybe he just thought it was too fishy.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★

• Right Now, Wrong Then

  While the Hong Sangsoo slot on this list could be occupied by almost any other film from his 2010s output—from Oki’s Movie, the film that changed it all in terms of his production process and the centering of the female perspective, The Day He Arrives (also a masterpiece), Hill of Freedom, through to On the Beach at Night Alone (which appeals to me for more than just personal reasons)—Right Now, Wrong Then is the best representation of the repetitive Hongian multiverse, in its literal bifurcated inscription of “infinite worlds possible.” Despite its unique (for Hong) high-concept premise, there is something universal—if not magical—about this philosophical treatise that elevates it to a higher level. It’s also the only film of his to win the top prize at a major festival (again, Locarno). Also, even though he was still employing a cinematographer back then, I must admit that most Hong films look better on smaller screens.

  
  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★

• Tabu

  An impressively dense yet fleeting concatenation of doomed love, colonial guilt, a reflection on the changing aesthetics and characteristics of cinema, Tabu is a deeply emotional and heartbreaking experience; like its female protagonist Aurora, it’s bipolar, both depressive and ecstatic. Like all of Miguel Gomes’ films, it is preoccupied with storytelling and the perceptual contrast between “reality” and “fiction,” taking the form of a cinephile’s bastard child fever dream that combines Godard, Out of Africa, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Mogambo, Errol Flynn, Crocodile Dundee, a whole lot of Portuguese cinema I can’t place, and, of course, F.W. Murnau, stunningly shot on 16mm monochrome by Rui Poças (before Gomes moved on to employing Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, the DP of, you guessed it, Apichatpong). The imaginary is key to Tabu, like it is to most fiction cinema that matters in the tradition of Méliès, and I’m going to stop over-intellectualizing a filmic version of saudade that still strikes me as impossibly moving.

  
  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  *Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Any better recommendations for Apple TV+, Please drop them in the comments 💬 We'll back with other streaming partners very soon!

1. The Tragedy of Macbeth
2. The Velvet Underground
3. Tetris
4. Hijack
5. Cherry
6. Black Bird

   Special Thanks to @Jerry_Lyn

• On the Beach at Night Alone
• Sing Street
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Worst Person in the World
• Thelma & Louise
• Two Days, One Night
• Never Rarely Sometimes Always
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Frances Ha
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door

• TÁR
• Poor Things
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Zero Dark Thirty
• La Femme Nikita
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1
• A Simple Favor
• Lady Vengeance
• Miss Sloane

YES, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO PICK THE BEST, but just for fun 🤩

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2. The Matrix Reloaded
3. The Dark Knight
4. Dune: Part Two

Here are 10 Biographical films about musicians 🎧

If you have any other recommendations that come to mind, please leave a comment!

• Buena Vista Social Club
• I'm Not There
• Supersonic
• Maestro
• Leto
• La Vie en Rose
• Amy
• Ray
• Bird
• Shine

• The Kid
• The Phantom Carriage
• Häxan
• Safety Last!
• The Freshman
• Master of the House
• The Kid Brother
• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
• The Cameraman
• Lonesome

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Introducing the jewel-like female indie directors of Korea. Movies with fewer than 25,000 viewers gathered in Letterbox, where all cinephiles come together, might be pearls in the mud. Who knows, perhaps these directors will follow in the footsteps of filmmakers like Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook someday.

• Maggie
• Fanatic
• The World of Us
• The House of Us
• Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
• Our Body
• Next Sohee
• Moving On
• Microhabitat
• Lucky Chan-sil

Finally, all the winners of the 96th Academy Awards have been announced. This year's Academy was filled with exceptional films once again, and we sincerely congratulate all the winners!

Congratulations <Oppenheimer>🖤 🎬

• Oppenheimer

  <Best Picture>
  <Best Director>
  <Best Actor>
  <Best Supporting Actor>
  <Best Original Score>
  <Best Cinematography>
  <Best Film Editing>

• Poor Things

  <Best Actress>
  <Best Costume Design>
  <Best Production Design>
  <Best Makeup and Hair-styling>

• Anatomy of a Fall

  <Best Original Screenplay>

• The Holdovers

  <Best Supporting Actress>

• Godzilla Minus One

  <Best Visual Effects>

• The Boy and the Heron

  <Best Animated Feature Film>

• Barbie

  <Best Original Song>

• American Fiction

  <Best Adapted Screenplay>

• WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

  <Best Animated Short Film>

• The Last Repair Shop

  <Best Documentary Short Film>

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Up the Academy
2. Baby It's You
3. Firstborn
4. Tuff Turf
5. The Pick-up Artist
6. Less Than Zero
7. 1969
8. Johnny Be Good
9. Chances Are
10. True Believer

...plus 52 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

What will you START / SAVE / SELL?

• In the Mood for Love
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Godfather: Part II

1. Men, Women & Children
2. Spinners
3. Worst Friends
4. Interstellar
5. One & Two
6. Love the Coopers
7. The Adderall Diaries
8. Call Me by Your Name
9. Lady Bird
10. Hostiles

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Today, We are with Carolyn Hinds, a freelance Film Culture Critic and Journalist, and host of the [Carolyn Talks] - Interesting Filmmaker Interview Podcast & Youtube. Here, she shares some of her top films of the 2000s and LG OLED Scores with sharp insights

• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  Directed by Ang Lee and adapted for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, Tsai Kuo-jung, and James Schamus, this martial arts epic based on the novel by Wang Dulu, is a standout homage to the Wuxia genre of Chinese folklore and martial arts films. It introduced international audiences not familiar with them to the particular style of fight choreography incorporating the use of aerial acrobatics known as ‘wire fu’, and the stellar cast of Asian screen legends Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen.

  Lee’s cinematic scope of filming was befitting this heartbreaking yet inspiring tale of love, loss, devotion, and obsession as it followed the impetuous Jen (Zhang) and her obsession with the “Green Destiny”, a 400-year-old sword owned by martial arts legend Lu Mi Bai (Chow). Not understanding that it’s the person wielding the sword, and not the sword itself that garners respect, Jen believes she has a right to the sword after stealing it. Though possessing impressive fight skills, her lack of understanding and appreciation for what Lu Mi Bai, and Yu Shu Lien (Yeoh) for whom his love has been steadfast though unfulfilled, stands for as martial artists, comes with a high cost to everyone she encounters including her lover Dark Cloud (Chang).

  With gorgeous cinematography, a sweeping score, and some of the best fight sequences in film history, Crouch Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is as exhilarating to watch now as when it was first released.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Hero

  Filmmaker Zhang Yimou is known for making films with intricate plots and characters that keep their true intentions and motivations hidden right until the last minute, which makes watching his films like Hero fun to watch.

  Set during the tumultuous years of the Qin Dynasty, the plot of Hero seamlessly between the past and present as the King of Qin sitting on his throne separated by one hundred
  yards from everyone around him, tries to figure out the intricate plot of his attempted assassination at the hands of Nameless (Jet Li). With each new clue the King unravels, another one is revealed for him to solves showing the plot to be as intricate as the martial arts skills of Nameless and his three co-conspirators: Broken Sword (Tony Leung), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and Long Sky (Donnie Yen).

  Reminiscent of the famous Shaw Brothers who pioneered the Chinese martial arts film industry, and Zhang’s other Wuxia films House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, and Shadow, Hero is a fantastic addition to the genre as a film that perfectly combines the complexity of various fight styles demonstrated with dramatic flair, visually arresting set pieces, the beauty of the China’s vast untamed landscapes, and of course an engaging storyline where palace intrigue, devotion, love and sacrifice sit at the centre.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• The Incredibles

  There are people who see animated films, cartoons as being a lower form of filmmaking because they think that films and shows made with children don’t require complex storytelling and filmmaking, but it’s the opposite. Making films that appeal to children on a visual and thematic scale and can grow with them through adolescence into adulthood is a fine balancing act, and the creative teams at Pixar Animation Studios are masters at this fine wire act. No film in their repertoire exemplifies that more than their multi-genre family adventure The Incredibles.

  Written and directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles, his second feature after The Iron Giant, is a fantastic blend of Sci-Fi, James Bond inspired action and music, and heroic escapades tied with a neat bow of soap opera worthy family drama. The film gives an ingenious look at the everyday lives of superheroes. Who they are when they aren’t saving lives and defying the laws of physics, following the main protagonists, a family of five who each have their own struggles conforming to society's constraining rules of being “normal”.

  Bird’s writing brilliantly asks why anyone should have to hide what makes them unique especially when that uniqueness is no longer wanted or deemed useful to society. The film not so subtly delves into the destructive nature of celebrity worship, gender dynamics in and outside of the home, capitalism, and the usefulness of capes. All of this and so much more is presented in stunning innovative technicolour animation and characters that have left deep impressions with audiences fourteen years and counting. My person favourite is Edna Mode, the tiny comically no-nonsense costume designer with a heart of gold and fire.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Lady Vengeance

  The best laid plans are those where only the planner is aware of every detail, and in Park Chan-wook’s final entry to his famed Vengeance Trilogy, Lee Yong-ae’s career defining performance as Lee Geum-ja is the definition of methodical. After being wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a child, Lee Geum-ja emerges from her 13-year prison sentence filled with a burning desire for vengeance she keeps hidden behind a facade of coolness, belied only by striking red eye shadow.

  While 2003’s Oldboy is perhaps the most well known of the trilogy, Lady Vengeance is Park’s best executed of the films. Lee Geum-ja’s plan for revenge wouldn’t work if Park wasn’t as methodical in his construction of the narrative, direction of the actors, and detailed visuals realised by cinematographer Chung Chung-hoon. Perhaps the best scene that encapsulates this is the reveal of a gun Lee Geum-ja commissioned to be made by the husband of one of her former cellmates. The steps taken to this achievement are precise and purposeful. Though the film’s main plot focuses on revenge, it also gives space to the female characters, the women whom Lee Geum-ja carefully befriended, to discuss the ways in which women are used, abused, and discarded by society, and how these realities influence their interactions with it. All these elements combined makes it one of the best revenge physiological thrillers of the 2000s.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Children of Men

  As a filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is never predictable in what his next project could be, but he can always be depended on to create a story that stays with the audiences long after the credits roll as his dystopian drama Children of Men does.

  Based on P.D. James’s 1992 novel of the same name, the story takes place in London 2027, and stars Clive Owen as Theo Faron, a beleaguered civil servant who sees no need to invest his time and energy into nothing beyond what his job requires of him, and gambling at the racetrack. This all changes when his ex-wife contacts him to request his help in getting a young woman, Kee (Clare Hope-Ashitey) out of the city. When it’s revealed Kee is pregnant, the first pregnancy in almost 20 years.

  Once upon a time, a film like this would be called dystopian as it presents a future world completely crumbling and laid to waste from years of war, sickness, infertility, and the hopelessness of humanity. But I’ve always considered it to be scarily prescient in its depiction of the impacts of war and racial and ethnic prejudices on society from a local to a global scale, both past and present. Cuarón doesn’t shy away from the violence of men in the scenes of intense violence where blood spatters land on the camera lens, a unique film choice that places the audience into this brutal environment with Theo and Kee. But to balance the darkness he also gives them, us, moments of reprieve where the characters experience joy, kindness, and hope, which makes Children of Men a film that captivates and provokes thoughts about what we want our world to become.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• Sunshine

  The sun is dying, and with it the hope for humanity's continued existence. With the weight of the world relying on the ability of eight astronauts to complete the insurmountable task of reigniting the brightest star in our solar system. Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, Sunshine is without a doubt one of the most emotionally intense films in the science fiction genre made in the 2000s.

  As the Icarus II the ship so aptly named draws closer to the sun, the tensions amongst the crew increases. Boyle’s attention to the details of characters' emotions in centering the actors on screen, focusing on every small gesture and expression they make brings home the emotional toll the journey, destination, and purpose takes on them.

  The production design and cinematography of Sunshine are impressive, with a particular set piece, a large viewing window that allows the crew to observe the sun in all its glory that becomes a centrepiece of the film. Supporting all of this is the beautiful score that incorporates multiple music styles and genres, namely the main theme ‘Adagio in D Minor’, an orchestral piece composed by John Murphy that is perhaps as hauntingly beautiful as the feeling of sunshine on the skin.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

• The Man from Nowhere

  Sometimes you just want to watch a film with a straightforward plot and execution that leads to a satisfying ending, and writer and director Lee Jeong-beom’s noir action thriller succeeds at both.

  Starring Won Bin as Kim Tae-sik, a pawnshop owner referred to as “Ahjusshi” by So-mi (Kim Sae-ron) a little girl whose curiosity and loneliness causes her to gravitate to this man of few words and stern nature. Though he begrudgingly accepts her company when she seeks him, Tae-sik’s small gestures of consideration reveal a kind nature. But that gets shoved to the side when So-mi and her mother are kidnapped in retaliation for So-mi's mother stealing from the local drug lord, at the prompting of her boyfriend.

  All hell quickly breaks loose, and Tae-sik goes on a bloody and violent rampage to find So-mi at all costs. Yes, the plot can be simply described as “Find the girl. Save the girl”, but that would do a disservice to the underlying depths to So-mi and her Ahjusshi because as much as the film is about the amazingly choreographed fight sequences, it’s a story about two people who see and appreciate each other in ways the people around them don’t.

  -Cinematic Quality ★★★
  -Visual Beauty ★★★
  -Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★

  Overall ★ ★ ★ ★

Any Better Movie Suggestions?🙋‍♀️

• Past Lives
• I Origins
• Voices of a Distant Star
• Il Mare
• Cloud Atlas
• Bungee Jumping of Their Own
• Your Name.
• Groundhog Day
• Love at Second Sight

We love new DUNEs, but who loves oldies too? 🙋‍♀️

• Dune
• Stargate
• Solaris
• Lost in Space
• Planet of the Apes
• The Fifth Element
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Event Horizon

Anything missing? Let us know! 💬

1. The Banshees of Inisherin
2. TÁR
3. Triangle of Sadness
4. Belfast

   
   

5. Licorice Pizza
6. The Fabelmans
7. Drive My Car
8. Minari
9. Promising Young Woman
10. Mank

...plus 29 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Experience his films with the Best Setting

• Bleat
• Poor Things
• Nimic
• The Favourite
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• The Lobster
• Dogtooth
• Alps
• Kinetta
• My Best Friend

• Chasing Coral
• Attenborough's Life in Colour
• Night on Earth
• Our Planet
• Our Universe
• Life on Our Planet
• The Deepest Breath
• Night on Earth: Shot in the Dark
• Surviving Paradise: A Family Tale
• David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Volume One. The BIG SHOTS. The GOAT of collectables. But, Beware. These films will also make you desire the Bigge and the better TV ASAP. Yeah, you know! LG OLED 🙋‍♀️

1. Allied
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. The Revenant
4. Prometheus

Any better ideas for inspiring our inner boss spirit? Drop them in the comment📣

• The Social Network
• Pirates of Silicon Valley
• Tetris
• The Founder
• Steve Jobs
• The Insider
• The Negotiator
• House of Gucci
• Transcendence
• Billionaire Boys Club

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Any better movie? Please drop them in the comment💬

• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
• Soul
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Mirai
• Chico & Rita
• Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
• Coco
• WALL·E
• Loving Vincent
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

On this day, there's a not-so-traditional tradition of families gathering to watch movies. This movie playlist is passed down through generations, and the most interesting fact is that these movies have nothing to do with New Year's.

Are you with this Seollnal vibe? Drop 🙋‍♀️ in the comments!

• Drunken Master
• Ghost
• Two Cops
• True Lies
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
• Con Air
• Police Story 2
• Gladiator
• Die Hard 2
• Game of Death

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

This is a Genuine, and Random Collection from our beloved followers🍓 AND YES- I AM READY TO WATCH THEM ALL WITH MY LG OLED 🫡

1. The Daytrippers
2. Dario Argento: Panico
3. Toni Erdmann
4. The Promised Land
5. Sibyl
6. In Bed with Victoria
7. River Wild
8. Walking the Edge
9. Night Monster
10. House of Horrors

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

⚠️ CAUTION FOR LG OLED Owners: Your Survival Instinct can grow even stronger than expected due to the Perfect AI Scene Optimization ⚠️

Any better movies out there? Let us know in the comments 💬

• The Revenant
• Society of the Snow: Who Were We on the Mountain?
• Nowhere
• Underwater
• Arctic
• No Exit
• 127 Hours
• Cliffhanger
• The Hunt
• Vertical Limit

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Every brushstroke will literally LIGHT UP with LG OLED's Self-lit Pixels. Yeah, We know 🧑‍🎨

Any better movie ideas? Drop them in the comment 💬

• Maudie
• Loving Vincent
• The Peasants
• Dilili in Paris
• The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
• Cezanne and I
• Frida
• Painted Fire
• Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

Any better movies out there? Let us know in the comments 💬

• Paris Can Wait
• The Darjeeling Limited
• Joy Ride
• Thelma & Louise
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Book Club
• Eat Pray Love
• The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir
• 303
• The Last Bus

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

The 7th Episode, At last! Chung Chung-Hoon. The veteran director of photography with intellectual touches. OR How about calling him [The Director of directors]? Let’s dive into his calm interview with full of love & respect for film industry.

• Oldboy
• Faith
• Uncharted
• Last Night in Soho
• Zombieland: Double Tap
• The Current War
• Hotel Artemis
• It
• The Handmaiden
• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

28 years of true passion, and The Choice of Cannes! LG OLED MOVIE CLUB celebrates Song Kang-ho's 57th Birthday 🥳

Let's say "Happy Birthday!" in the comment!

1. Cobweb
2. Emergency Declaration
3. Broker
4. One Win
5. The King's Letters
6. Parasite
7. The Drug King
8. A Taxi Driver
9. The Age of Shadows
10. The Throne

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

And you know....We promise that these dances will just get WILDER with LG OLED - Great screen quality with best AI sound optimization 🤖

• Another Round

  The Vibe ⚓️

• WALL·E

  The Original Space Opera 🤖

• Joker

  The Hardest Challenge of the Century - Which dance do you like better? - The Park toilet Dance or the Stairway dance? 🤡

• Pulp Fiction

  PINA COLADA 🍍

• Days of Being Wild

  🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

• Scent of a Woman

  "If you make a mistake, get all tangled up, THAT'S (___💃___)"

• The Full Monty

  🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

• Titanic

  🚢

• Happy Together

  Life is a mambo, but sometimes a tango.

• Bungee Jumping of Their Own

  Life goes on 🫂

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Boiling Point
• 461 Days of Bento: A Promise Between Father and Son
• Little Forest
• The Menu
• Kamome Diner
• Chef
• Midnight Diner
• Haute Cuisine
• Little Forest: Summer/Autumn
• Little Forest: Winter/Spring

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

You used to practice guitar solos, You used to secretly doodle cartoons behind your teacher's back, or maybe you used to dream of being an NASA inventor or something. Believe me, that spirit within you is STILL ALIVE. What you need is finding a small hobby to awaken the REAL YOU.

How about starting 2024 by finding a new hobby with us? Here, we've gathered movies perfect for exploring new hobbies.

Got any other movie recommendations? Drop them in the comments 🎸

• School of Rock

  CHALLENGE ONE. START A ROCK BAND (AGAIN) 🎸

• Joy

  CHALLENGE TWO. FILL YOUR "IDEA NOTEBOOK" ⏳

• Under the stars

  CHALLENGE THREE. COOK YOUR OWN DINNER 👩‍🍳

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

  CHALLENGE FOUR. PLAN A PURPOSE-DRIVEN TRAVEL ✈️

• Midnight in Paris

  CHALLENGE FIVE. LITERALLY, WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT ANYTHING ABOUT YOU AND DON'T HEISTATE TO SHARE WITH FRIENDS ✒️

• Blue Giant

  CHALLENGE SIX. DIVE INTO SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU CRAZY 🎷

• October Sky

  CHALLENGE SEVEN. CREATE WHATEVER YOU LOVE AND NEVER STOP 🔭

• Chef

  CHALLENGE NINE. NO BUSINESS IS TOO SMALL 💪

• Phantom Thread

  CHALLENGE TEN. DRESS WELL THIS YEAR 👗

• Hunger

  CHALLENGE ELEVEN. CHALLENGE! 🏃‍♀️

So, we've brought a little inspiration package for 2024. Close the door, Turn off the light, Throw away your phone, and just DIVE into them.

Got any other movie recommendations? Drop them in the comments 💎

• McQueen
• David Lynch: The Art Life
• Godard Cinema
• Kusama: Infinity
• Dong
• History Lessons
• A Tale of the Wind
• The Science of Sleep
• Kids Return
• Everything Everywhere All at Once

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Back again with LG OLED Score ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Chris Fujiwara, Executive Chairperson of Edinburgh Film Festival shares his Top 5 films of the 1990s with LG OLED Scores. Great Times with Great Movies, even with Great Insight! Have you watched any?

Khrustalyov, My Car! (Aleksei German, 1998)

In the 1990s, some in the West celebrated the collapse of the Soviet Union by proclaiming it the end of history. It makes sense to start our cinematic time-machine trip to that decade with Aleksei German’s vision of a moment in Soviet history when which way things would go was just as unclear. German presents the Moscow of Winter 1953 (the time of Stalin’s death) as a grotesque carnival. Every scene overflows with clutter, as if a thousand cabinets, shut for half a century, were suddenly opened to let their contents spill over the screen. Once thought forbidding, Khrustalyov, My Car! has probably become more accessible today because of its game-like structure: the journey of the hero, a high-ranking brain surgeon who undergoes humiliation and rehabilitation in a single night, involves a series of micro-rituals of passage (such as climbing a wall on a ladder, sitting on top, and tipping over backwards). The ebullience of the film, shot in gleaming black-and-white with an improbably energetic camera, never flags.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)

In making Unforgiven, the most praised of the several good or great films he made in the 1990s, Clint Eastwood is conscious that he is not just making a good classical Western but summarizing and criticizing the American myth of the redemptive power of violence. The pervasive darkness of Unforgiven lingers in the mind—it is one of the most nocturnal of Westerns—but some of the film’s most defining moments are its simplest and brightest: Eastwood (playing a reformed bad man who is lured out of retirement) tenderly explaining to a scarred prostitute why he refused her offer of a “free one”; Gene Hackman looking forward to watching the sun set from the porch he’s adding to his ramshackle house; Morgan Freeman’s discovery that he can no longer kill. Quintessentially American, too, is Eastwood’s quick and elegant construction of images in which one person, one form, is played against another for maximum impact.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)

In this ravishing object of wonder, set in a high-level brothel in late-19th-century Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien presents a world that is closed on itself in time and space. When not further isolating themselves with opium, its inhabitants amuse themselves with drinking games and talk about almost nothing but affections and disaffections; whatever may be happening outside is never mentioned—except in one scene in which noises in the street prompt a few of the characters to go the back of the set to look out a window. Their report when they come back is obscure—some people are investigating something in a back alley—but it satisfies everyone. Sex, if it happens, happens offscreen, and it is clear in any case that sex cannot be not the only reason for the women’s power to monopolize the attention and interest of the men. Everything in the film blends together—costumes, decor, props, the grace and naturalness of the actors—and everything glows with an intensity that might come from the viewer’s own longing to merge with the spectacle.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

A Tale of Autumn (Eric Rohmer, 1998)

Eric Rohmer’s late-period masterpiece resembles Hou’s Flowers of Shanghai in that its characters are concerned mainly with love relationships between men and women. As Marie Rivière (as a bookseller who seeks to play matchmaker for her wine-grower friend) says at one point: “There are a thousand ways to waste time. This way is no more stupid than another.” A Tale of Autumn is grounded in the sunniness of Southern France and in everyday places and concerns: we visit Rivière’s bookstore, Béatrice Romand’s vineyard, and the apartment where Romand’s son studies; Alain Libolt (the widower whom Rivière ensnares with a personal ad) talks briefly about his work. This surrounding reality contrasts with the almost exclusive preoccupation of the dialogue with love, desire, or their possible emergence. Rohmer’s style achieves perfection: each shot opens toward something new, continuing a spiraling series of misunderstandings, riddles, and postponements.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

Edward Yang’s portrait of 1960 Taiwan provides the feeling of a complete view of a world whose essential characteristic is that it is incomplete. The teenage hero’s parents have carried with them to Taiwan their memories of their interrupted lives in China, along with a radio that, after a certain point in the film, ceases to receive signals. The younger generation form gangs and fight one another in pointless turf battles. Their culture is formed out of an American popular culture that they absorb and emulate in their own way (the English title of the film comes from the hero’s sister’s attempt to transcribe the lyrics of “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” from the Elvis record). The characters of the film are no less stuck in a nightmare than those of Khrustalyov, My Car!, though the weather and landscape are subtropical, and the cruel authorities are anti-communist. Doomed never to master their world, the young protagonists possess a vulnerability that is indistinguishable from their ferocity.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Check out this LG OLED Score Playlist here

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Hello everyone! This is LG OLED MOVLE CLUB. Thanks to support from LG UK, we have prepared a small event to reciprocate the support from all of you who have cheered us on!

We've compiled a list featuring some of the best UK-based films of all time.

Compiled by our crew, be sure to read the notes for each film.

For UK-based readers, we're giving away a 10% discount coupon, valid only in LG UK for 10 members. 

To enter:
— Comment your all-time favorite UK films 
— Follow LG OLED’s HQ page
— share your full name and email address with us here.

T&Cs
— Open to Letterboxd members in UK only.
— Entries close on May 13, 2024.
— The winner will be chosen at random and contacted via Email.

*For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED here

According to the book <101 Things I Learned in Film School>,  it's always better to show rather than tell when it comes to the film (Recommend this book for those who interested in flim making). 

With the advancement of technology, there has been a transition from silent films to talkies, making the role of dialogue in movies incredibly important. However, sometimes silence in a scene gives the audience a chance to think and feel what they see, allowing us to experience movies more deeply.

For this SHOWDOWN Theme A Quite Place: Best films with limited dialogue, we've prepared 10 movies in two sets.

Better to Show Than Tell (SIDE A) by Editor Zorba - Here
Better to Show Than Tell (SIDE B) by Editor Capo - Here

[Things to NOTE]

(1)Especially the films by director Tsai Ming-Liang are the essence of quietude , so if you haven't seen them yet, be sure to give his movies a try (Please be careful not to fall asleep).

(2)Every single moment in Long Day’s Journey Into Night is a piece of ART. We highly recommend watching these beautiful scenes with LG OLED.

--------------

*For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website

With great excitement, we are pleased to introduce a new playlist series to you all!

 <LG OLED MIX> is a series where the editors of LG OLED MOVIE CLUB select movies for each theme. An interesting part of this series is that each playlist will have its own color according to our editors' tastes. Stay tuned, and let's see what series will come to us!

Our first topic is the 10 best films of the 2020s.
Even though now it's only 2024, we've selected 10 films from the numerous stories we've encountered so far. 

The selection criteria: Strictly ONLY follow the editors' tastes.

<LG OLED MIX> 2020’s 10 Best Films (SIDE A) by Editor Zorba - Here
<LG OLED MIX> 2020’s 10 Best Films (SIDE B) by Editor Capo- Here

*For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies".

The theme of 'friendship' is a common subject in movies. Whether characters in films are overcoming their sadness, escaping from mundane routines for an adventure, or dreaming of an ideal future, there is always a friend by their side, supporting them.

LG OLED MOVIE CLUB have prepared 10 charming films about friendship.

After check the below list, let's text the heartleft message to our dearest friend.

Check the 10 films about the FRIENDSHIP here
If you want to have the best cinematic experience, click here

For purely non-personal reasons, Today, we would like to bring up the issue of the resurgence of Asian romance films. 20s Romance films from China, Japan, and Korea are gaining attention for their distinctive clean visuals and life-like yet unique storytelling. If you find it difficult to access films that haven't been localized or officially imported, Here's Asian romance films that you can find on Netflix. Here's Non-Romance Fans' comments for these movies.

"Watched it without any expectations, ended up spending a sleepless night lost in thought." - [Us and Them]

"Definitely not my memory, yet it feels like a memory I've experienced." - [First Love]

To all the ladies and gentlemen out there, let me reiterate. Absolutely, it's not because spring suddenly came and your heart fluttered. Nevertheless, long live Romance.

Check out [5 Must-Watch Netflix Movies that make you fall in LOVE with Netflix again] Playlist here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Anyone can hardly believe that 2010 was already 14 years ago. Let's revisit this Good-Old-Times when remarkable films dominated the scene. Here, Mark Peranson, the chief programmer at the Berlinale, has meticulously curated a selection of top-tier movies, showcasing the best of the best with his discerning eye. Get ready for an exploration of cinematic excellence and discover with his LG OLED Score.

Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch, 2017)

Got a light? A project long anticipated that, at the same time, had no legitimate right to exist, David Lynch’s magnum opus is the landmark work of the decade: a pure gift to cinephiles, it brought us back to the future, ignited the present, and, in an era of “peak TV,” further blurred the boundaries between what is cinema and what isn’t. What to highlight in describing the wonderful world of Lynch? The rebirth of Kyle MacLachlan’s Special Agent Dale Cooper from his Dougie slumber? Laura Dern’s at-long-last appearance as Cooper’s secretary Diane (albeit, as a “tulpa”)? David Bowie reincarnated as a massive teakettle? Or you can just put the explosive Twin Peaks origin story that is the miraculous Part 8 on an infinite loop on your TV, or at least one lasting as long as Oppenheimer. Writing this makes me want to watch it all again, right now.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)

All hail the Apichatpalme, an event that, likewise, was inconceivable then and will probably never be duplicated. To my knowledge Joei has never made television, but does more than dabble in the world of fine art—the early part of this century saw the need for cinema to reach out to the gallery, as for most filmmakers the financial burden of major productions impinges on their impulsion for creative expression. A 16mm-shot experiential journey of reincarnation and transformation that closed Apichaptong’s multi-faceted Primitive project, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Liveslanded like a UFO from outer space at the turn of the decade and led Apichatpong to meme-level cinephilic repute, emblematized by its Lynchian scarlet-eyed “monkey ghost.” I even put it on a T-shirt.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

<h4>Leviathan (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, 2012)</h4>

The title is, of course, Biblical, referring to a great fish that eventually came to symbolize evil in the Christian Era. This Leviathan is the locale for slaughter, for blood, for heavy metal mechanical mayhem; via the many GoPros of anthropologists Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, it’s immersive documentary filmmaking by way of Baroque painting and slasher cinema. The title also brings to mind Hobbes, whose Leviathan was the State; he also philosophized that all ideas are derived from sensory experience. Marking the explosion of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab into prominence, Leviathan remains a stunning and unparalleled work, one which discovers new forms. Fun fact: Apichatpong Weerasethakul was President of the Locarno jury that completely ignored Leviathan, possibly due to the screening taking place in a cinema that was the auditory equivalent of the hull of a ship, volume cranked by the filmmakers to deafening heights. Or maybe he just thought it was too fishy.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo, 2015)

While the Hong Sangsoo slot on this list could be occupied by almost any other film from his 2010s output—from Oki’s Movie, the film that changed it all in terms of his production process and the centering of the female perspective, The Day He Arrives (also a masterpiece), Hill of Freedom, through to On the Beach at Night Alone (which appeals to me for more than just personal reasons)—Right Now, Wrong Then is the best representation of the repetitive Hongian multiverse, in its literal bifurcated inscription of “infinite worlds possible.” Despite its unique (for Hong) high-concept premise, there is something universal—if not magical—about this philosophical treatise that elevates it to a higher level. It’s also the only film of his to win the top prize at a major festival (again, Locarno). Also, even though he was still employing a cinematographer back then, I must admit that most Hong films look better on smaller screens.

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★

Tabu (Miguel Gomes, 2012)

An impressively dense yet fleeting concatenation of doomed love, colonial guilt, a reflection on the changing aesthetics and characteristics of cinema, Tabu is a deeply emotional and heartbreaking experience; like its female protagonist Aurora, it’s bipolar, both depressive and ecstatic. Like all of Miguel Gomes’ films, it is preoccupied with storytelling and the perceptual contrast between “reality” and “fiction,” taking the form of a cinephile’s bastard child fever dream that combines Godard, Out of Africa, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Mogambo, Errol Flynn, Crocodile Dundee, a whole lot of Portuguese cinema I can’t place, and, of course, F.W. Murnau, stunningly shot on 16mm monochrome by Rui Poças (before Gomes moved on to employing Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, the DP of, you guessed it, Apichatpong). The imaginary is key to Tabu, like it is to most fiction cinema that matters in the tradition of Méliès, and I’m going to stop over-intellectualizing a filmic version of saudade that still strikes me as impossibly moving. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Check out his LG OLED Score Playlist here

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

DON’T MISS THIS NEW RELEASE: [Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour]

What more to say? The Phenomenon. Her New tour FINALLY debuted on Disney+

Yes, each and all of them at the stadium were literally CHOSEN ones. The ticketing was the, the, THE hardest, the crowd was legendary, AND- It’s breaking Disney+ Streaming Record again. So, DO NOT MISS this release. Thanks to Disney+, The streaming provides Dolby Atmos on most of their plans- The Newest Surround Sound system that can transform your living room to an immersive stadium-like experience.

Got LG OLED? Then, enjoy this 3D Surround Sound system created by the sound industries' technology leader, here to recreate real-life sounds all around you - so called 'Objectoriented sound technology'. To say the least? you will be literally going to that concert. 

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

The LG OLED MOVIE CLUB sheds light on <Maestro> in this article. Alongside cinematic criticism of the film, let's focus on the special sensory pleasures that can be experienced through LG OLED.

The Netflix original movie "Maestro," directed, starring, and written by Bradley Cooper, is a biographical film about the life of Leonard Bernstein, an American composer, and conductor. Some may have expected a movie filled with captivating music, like his previous work "A Star is Born," which stimulates our ears. However, despite being a biographical film about a musician, this time, Cooper's work does not show significant interest in Bernstein's musical achievements or accomplishments. Instead, it focuses on portraying Leonard Bernstein's life as if abstracted through the screen.
 
One notable feature of "Maestro" is that it is composed of two different colors: black and white, and color. The first half of the film, depicting the happy moments of Felicia and Leonard's marriage from their first encounter, is presented in black and white, while the story from the point where conflicts with his wife escalate is portrayed in color, creating a contrast. While using black and white in the 21st century may sometimes feel arbitrary, Bradley Cooper offers a fresh perspective by presenting happy moments in black and white and intensifying conflicts in color, providing viewers with a new freshness.
 
The early and mid-parts of the black-and-white film evoke many characteristics of classic cinema. The detailed performances of the actors expressed through the short distance between the camera and the characters, reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin, and the lively music and theatrical changes in space also bring to mind musical films. Personally, the moment when viewers realize that the early part of "Maestro" is in black and white, starting from the scene of opening the curtains of Leonard’s apartment, and seamlessly transitioning to Carnegie Hall, is one of the scenes where visual enjoyment explodes. For home theaters and services supporting Dolby Vision, experiencing these charms more vividly through "Maestro" is undoubtedly welcome news. If you want to feel these charms even more, LG OLED is undoubtedly the best choice. Especially, in Filmmaker Mode, which allows you to better directly experience the director's intentions, making the aforementioned cinematic features appear more like a film shown on a black-and-white screen and less like a video.
 
In addition, as mentioned earlier, although "Maestro" may not emphasize musical charm like "A Star is Born," it utilizes the music of the great musician Leonard Bernstein as the film's score. Therefore, through Dolby Atmos and LG OLED TV, viewers can experience even more immersive and dynamic sound. From the 1940s to the 1980s, "Maestro" captures the 40-year life of Leonard Bernstein on film by setting different aspect ratios for each era, utilizing black-and-white direction, and employing movie color palettes to evoke the feel of the times. It's a movie with a compelling story and full of visual charm.

If you're wondering what movie to watch at home, how about watching "Maestro" on an LG OLED TV that supports Dolby?

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

And the Oscar goes to:

FINALLY!

All the winners of The 96th Academy Awards have been announced. This year's Academy was filled with exceptional films once again, and we sincerely congratulate all the winners!

Let's quickly take a look at the winners of main categories at this year's Academy Awards:)

Best Picture: Oppenheimer

Best Director Christopher Nolan, <Oppenheimer>
Best Actor: Cillian Murphy, <Oppenheimer>
Best Actress: Emma Stone <Poor Things>
Best Original Screenplay: <Anatomy of a Fall>
Best Adapted Screenplay: <American Fiction>
Best International Feature Film <The Zone of Interest>
Best Cinematography: <Oppenheimer>
Best Film Editing: <Oppenheimer>
Best Cinematography: <Oppenheimer>
Best Costume Design: <Poor Things>

Once again, congratulations for all🏆

Check out all the winners! here
For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here

Timothée Chalamet is emerging as one of the standout actors of the current generation with his unique and sophisticated acting. His performances, characterized by rich emotional depth and natural expression in various situations, particularly stand out. His distinctive sensibility and curiosity about the artistic world significantly influence his choice of projects. Renowned for his exceptional acting prowess, especially highlighted in works like [Call Me by Your Name], he captures audiences with his ability to uniquely interpret characters from scripts. [Wonka] and [Dune] Series is another great example for his distinctive sensibility and curiosity about the world. He literally SKETCHES the whole world with his acting and unique atmosphere around him.

This week, LG OLED MOVIE CLUB would like to follow his footsteps from the very beginning. Yes, You know, Of course, LG OLED is the best gear for that 😉 We never miss a thing from the subtleties of his acting. 

Check out his full filmography here

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Greetings! Back again with LG OLED Score ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Today, We are with Carolyn Hinds, a freelance Film Culture Critic and Journalist, and host of the [Carolyn Talks] - Interesting Filmmaker Interview Podcast & Youtube. Here, she shares some of her top films of the 2000s and LG OLED Scores with sharp insights

CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) 

Directed by Ang Lee and adapted for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, Tsai Kuo-jung, and James Schamus, this martial arts epic based on the novel by Wang Dulu, is a standout homage to the Wuxia genre of Chinese folklore and martial arts films. It introduced international audiences not familiar with them to the particular style of fight choreography incorporating the use of aerial acrobatics known as ‘wire fu’, and the stellar cast of Asian screen legends Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen. 

Lee’s cinematic scope of filming was befitting this heartbreaking yet inspiring tale of love, loss, devotion, and obsession as it followed the impetuous Jen (Zhang) and her obsession with the “Green Destiny”, a 400-year-old sword owned by martial arts legend Lu Mi Bai (Chow). Not understanding that it’s the person wielding the sword, and not the sword itself that garners respect, Jen believes she has a right to the sword after stealing it. Though possessing impressive fight skills, her lack of understanding and appreciation for what Lu Mi Bai, and Yu Shu Lien (Yeoh) for whom his love has been steadfast though unfulfilled, stands for as martial artists, comes with a high cost to everyone she encounters including her lover Dark Cloud (Chang). 

With gorgeous cinematography, a sweeping score, and some of the best fight sequences in film history, Crouch Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is as exhilarating to watch now as when it was first released. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

HERO (2002) 

Filmmaker Zhang Yimou is known for making films with intricate plots and characters that keep their true intentions and motivations hidden right until the last minute, which makes watching his films like Hero fun to watch. 

Set during the tumultuous years of the Qin Dynasty, the plot of Hero seamlessly between the past and present as the King of Qin sitting on his throne separated by one hundred 
yards from everyone around him, tries to figure out the intricate plot of his attempted assassination at the hands of Nameless (Jet Li). With each new clue the King unravels, another one is revealed for him to solves showing the plot to be as intricate as the martial arts skills of Nameless and his three co-conspirators: Broken Sword (Tony Leung), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), and Long Sky (Donnie Yen). 

Reminiscent of the famous Shaw Brothers who pioneered the Chinese martial arts film industry, and Zhang’s other Wuxia films House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, and Shadow, Hero is a fantastic addition to the genre as a film that perfectly combines the complexity of various fight styles demonstrated with dramatic flair, visually arresting set pieces, the beauty of the China’s vast untamed landscapes, and of course an engaging storyline where palace intrigue, devotion, love and sacrifice sit at the centre. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

THE INCREDIBLES (2004) 

There are people who see animated films, cartoons as being a lower form of filmmaking because they think that films and shows made with children in mind don’t require complex storytelling and filmmaking, but it’s the opposite. Making films that appeal to children on a visual and thematic scale and can grow with them through adolescence into adulthood is a fine balancing act, and the creative teams at Pixar Animation Studios are masters at this fine wire act. No film in their repertoire exemplifies that more than their multi-genre family adventure The Incredibles. 

Written and directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles, his second feature after The Iron Giant, is a fantastic blend of Sci-Fi, James Bond inspired action and music, and heroic escapades tied with a neat bow of soap opera worthy family drama. The film gives an ingenious look at the everyday lives of superheroes. Who they are when they aren’t saving lives and defying the laws of physics, following the main protagonists, a family of five who each have their own struggles conforming to society's constraining rules of being “normal”. 

Bird’s writing brilliantly asks why anyone should have to hide what makes them unique especially when that uniqueness is no longer wanted or deemed useful to society. The film not so subtly delves into the destructive nature of celebrity worship, gender dynamics in and outside of the home, capitalism, and the usefulness of capes. All of this and so much more is presented in stunning innovative technicolour animation and characters that have left deep impressions with audiences fourteen years and counting. My person favourite is Edna Mode, the tiny comically no-nonsense costume designer with a heart of gold and fire. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

LADY VENGEANCE (2005) 

The best laid plans are those where only the planner is aware of every detail, and in Park Chan-wook’s final entry to his famed Vengeance Trilogy, Lee Yong-ae’s career defining performance as Lee Geum-ja is the definition of methodical. After being wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of a child, Lee Geum-ja emerges from her 13-year prison sentence filled with a burning desire for vengeance she keeps hidden behind a facade of coolness, belied only by striking red eye shadow. 

While 2003’s Oldboy is perhaps the most well known of the trilogy, Lady Vengeance is Park’s best executed of the films. Lee Geum-ja’s plan for revenge wouldn’t work if Park wasn’t as methodical in his construction of the narrative, direction of the actors, and detailed visuals realised by cinematographer Chung Chung-hoon. Perhaps the best scene that encapsulates this is the reveal of a gun Lee Geum-ja commissioned to be made by the husband of one of her former cellmates. The steps taken to this achievement are precise and purposeful. Though the film’s main plot focuses on revenge, it also gives space to the female characters, the women whom Lee Geum-ja carefully befriended, to discuss the ways in which women are used, abused, and discarded by society, and how these realities influence their interactions with it. All these elements combined makes it one of the best revenge physiological thrillers of the 2000s. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) 

As a filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón is never predictable in what his next project could be, but he can always be depended on to create a story that stays with the audiences long after the credits roll as his dystopian drama Children of Men does. 

Based on P.D. James’s 1992 novel of the same name, the story takes place in London 2027, and stars Clive Owen as Theo Faron, a beleaguered civil servant who sees no need to invest his time and energy into nothing beyond what his job requires of him, and gambling at the racetrack. This all changes when his ex-wife contacts him to request his help in getting a young woman, Kee (Clare Hope-Ashitey) out of the city. When it’s revealed Kee is pregnant, the first pregnancy in almost 20 years. 

Once upon a time, a film like this would be called dystopian as it presents a future world completely crumbling and laid to waste from years of war, sickness, infertility, and the hopelessness of humanity. But I’ve always considered it to be scarily prescient in its depiction of the impacts of war and racial and ethnic prejudices on society from a local to a global scale, both past and present. Cuarón doesn’t shy away from the violence of men in the scenes of intense violence where blood spatters land on the camera lens, a unique film choice that places the audience into this brutal environment with Theo and Kee. But to balance the darkness he also gives them, us, moments of reprieve where the characters experience joy, kindness, and hope, which makes Children of Men a film that captivates and provokes thoughts about what we want our world to become. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

SUNSHINE (2007) 

The sun is dying, and with it the hope for humanity's continued existence. With the weight of the world relying on the ability of eight astronauts to complete the insurmountable task of reigniting the brightest star in our solar system. Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, Sunshine is without a doubt one of the most emotionally intense films in the science fiction genre made in the 2000s. 

As the Icarus II the ship so aptly named draws closer to the sun, the tensions amongst the crew increases. Boyle’s attention to the details of characters' emotions in centering the actors on screen, focusing on every small gesture and expression they make brings home the emotional toll the journey, destination, and purpose takes on them. 

The production design and cinematography of Sunshine are impressive, with a particular set piece, a large viewing window that allows the crew to observe the sun in all its glory that becomes a centrepiece of the film. Supporting all of this is the beautiful score that incorporates multiple music styles and genres, namely the main theme ‘Adagio in D Minor’, an orchestral piece composed by John Murphy that is perhaps as hauntingly beautiful as the feeling of sunshine on the skin. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (2010) 

Sometimes you just want to watch a film with a straightforward plot and execution that leads to a satisfying ending, and writer and director Lee Jeong-beom’s noir action thriller succeeds at both. 

Starring Won Bin as Kim Tae-sik, a pawnshop owner referred to as “Ahjusshi” by So-mi (Kim Sae-ron) a little girl whose curiosity and loneliness causes her to gravitate to this man of few words and stern nature. Though he begrudgingly accepts her company when she seeks him, Tae-sik’s small gestures of consideration reveal a kind nature. But that gets shoved to the side when So-mi and her mother are kidnapped in retaliation for So-mi's mother stealing from the local drug lord, at the prompting of her boyfriend. 

All hell quickly breaks loose, and Tae-sik goes on a bloody and violent rampage to find So-mi at all costs. Yes, the plot can be simply described as “Find the girl. Save the girl”, but that would do a disservice to the underlying depths to So-mi and her Ahjusshi because as much as the film is about the amazingly choreographed fight sequences, it’s a story about two people who see and appreciate each other in ways the people around them don’t. 

-Cinematic Quality ★★★ 
-Visual Beauty ★★★ 
-Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★★★★ 

Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Check out the full LG OLED Score Playlist here

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

The Intellectual Interview Series with Directors in the world - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB meets directors who are making waves.

The 9th Episode, We were with Tim S. Kang - The multi-playing Cinematographer known for his variety of professions and techinique from Movies to commercial, documentary, and even color engineering. Let’s take a look how this veteran could done outstanding works in the very variety fields with LG OLED - Also, his unique vision for the movie industry.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

*Written by BAE Dong-mi

 
The movie that showed you the most colors recently was probably Everything Everywhere All at Once. Set in Evelyn's dingy laundromat, where all the colors have faded, the film opens up the multiverse of colors, introducing us to the world of Evelyn the Actress, Evelyn the Chef, and Evelyn the Rubber Hand. Alex Bickel, a colorist with more than 20 years of experience, is responsible for all the colors in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Using the LG Ultrafine OLED Pro 4K EP950 and LG OLED evo G3 for his DI work, I asked him about the secrets of colors in Everything Everywhere All at Once, how color affects our emotions in films, and what makes a good display.

 
What are you working on these days?

Color Collective llc always keeps busy on a nice mix of projects. We’ve got a few films premiering at Sundance film festival this month, including Exhibiting Forgiveness, Suncoast and Out Of My Mind.
 

As a colorist you are working on multiple projects at once. How many displays do you usually use in your work? Are you also using LG Display?

We are always moving between multiple jobs. I often find it useful to step away from a project for a little while, to get perspective and see things with fresh eyes. It’s a useful part of our process. We evaluate our work on many displays, including LG Ultrafine OLED Pro 4K EP950, LG OLED evo G3, and so on. Typically our films are delivered for theatrical, EDR, HDR and SDR distribution.
 
If you've used LG OLED, what do you think of the display?

It has a nice wide viewing angle and the ability to calibrate by loading a LUT into the display. It provides excellent results. I have found that the LG EP 950 is a great display to grade on.
 

You probably have your favorite display settings for your workplace and home. Which settings do you prefer?

We fully calibrate all our displays by profiling and loading calibration LUTs into the displays.
 

LG OLED offers a filmmaker mode that best realizes the creator's intent. How do you think cinematic mode helps the audience?

I do think it is important to turn off all the motion smoothing, noise reduction and other image processing. It’s always important to minimize any interference with the film maker’s original intent. 
 

I'd like to focus on Everything Everywhere All at Once. When the movie starts, Evelyn's house and laundry are the first things we see, and she's wearing a purple floral shirt as she moves around the house and laundry. It's desaturated and has an overall worn look. Please explain how you wanted to color the frames before Evelyn knewed about the multiverse.

EEAO was a unique challenge for us from a color perspective. It was important for Evelyn’s real world to be as authentic, ordinary, and grounded in reality as possible. Her real life is where all the heart in the film originates. If her family life wasn’t believable, the rest of the journey wouldn’t work. it would have no stakes.

 
Since you're dealing with a multiverse, you were having a different DI strategy for each universe. What DI strategies did you use to create Evelyn the famous actress, Evelyn the chef, Evelyn the hot dog sausage finger, and Evelyn the Kung-fu master?

Each universe relied on a different bag of tricks. We changed up LUTs for many universes, to create more diverse color palettes.(*Lookup tables(LUTs) are used for color grading and for mapping one color space to another. LUTs are commonly used to calculate preview colors for a monitor or digital projector of how an image will be reproduced on another display device, typically the final digitally projected image or release print of a movie.) We also used different grain and halation for different universes to help create more unique visual cues. Her actress universe was full of rich golden hues, just trying to be as glamorous as possible… her chef universe was a bit of a nod to early Paul Thomas Anderson vibes, hot dog universe was a nod to how a hallmark film might feel etc. We pulled inspiration from all over.
 

While Evelyn’s daughter, Jobu Tubaki, is usually represented in black, although her costume is colorful. What kind of mood and feel were you going for with the black for Jobu Tubaki?

The everything bagel was sort of a black hole, a nihilist abyss, so Zobu was an extension of that. We really didn’t do much in the DI to enhance that. It was all costume, makeup, and art dept.
 

Approximately how many colors were used in Everything Everywhere All at Once?

EEAO definitely stretched our imagination, in terms of the number of unique color treatments, and just the total volume of shots. There was one sequence where every frame was a unique shot. It’s hard to quantify… we could diffuse more time, but I’m happy with the work that we did and I’m so pleased that many audiences around the world connected with the film.I really just want to help to tell stories that make people feel seen, or feel connected to each other. This was certainly a highlight for me.
   

As a final question about the movie, from a colorist's perspective, which sequence from Everything Everywhere All at Once would you recommend to watch on LG OLED and why?

I think OLED are a very cinematic viewing environment, they hold deeply saturated colors well, and the contrast and deep blacks allow a filmmaker complete control over the image. one can get lost in the images. In the HDR version, when Evelyn touches Waymond and all the flashing lair around them, this is the sequence that uses the highest luminance in the HDR transfer, it’s probably the highest contrast image.

 
You have worked on DI for about 20 years. How has display technology transformed over the years? Please explain how much more important displays have become with the rise of streaming services these days.

Displays have changed a lot throughout my career. What we really want more than anything is to ensure the audiences at home are experiencing the films accurately, and seeing the same image the filmmakers are. Modern OLED TVs are much better at holding onto our vision than older technologies.
 

Does the audience's eye for color change from the past. Or, conversely, have people's ideas about color not changed much?

I think HDR has allowed for better accuracy. When we utilize DolbyVision, the TV ends up more faithfully representing the final grade. We don’t often use the full 1000 nits, unless it’s something like an explosion or flashing light. We mostly keep things under 300 nits, but even that little extra bit of headroom opens up a more visceral image.
 

You've been a colorist for a long time, so what are some of the principles you follow dealing with DI?

For me, there is only one guiding principle: Story. Everything we do in the DI is all in service to the story the film is telling. All the tech tools and tricks are only good if they make the audience feel more and identify with the character more. Movies transport you, and allow you to be lost in a story. The grade is just one part of that. Honestly, if you’re thinking about the grade while you’re watching the film, then we’ve failed. The best color is powerful, but so integral to the story you don’t notice it.
 

Lastly, what are the important virtues of a good display?

For me, it’s important that the color gamuts are accurately rendered, that the black levels fall of smoothly without clipping, that the viewing angle is wide to allow everyone in the same room to experience the same input, that the display in uniform across the entire panel, and ideally that the backlight be broad enough to stay near if memetic failure(meaning everyone sees the same image).

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

The Intellectual Interview Series with Directors in the world - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB meets directors who are making waves.

The 8th Episode, We brought Walter Volpatto - The veteran Colorist known for his outstanding works in [Green Book], [Dunkirk], [The Last Jedi]. and so many great TV series. How about trying this profesional Colorist's movie choice this week? With LG OLED, his fabulous choices definitely will look even better.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

LG OLED MOVIE CLUB met the cast of new Kim Jee-woon Movie!

The 1st episode of [Cine-Chat], we are here with the cast of [Cobweb] We literally had fun time chatting with Song Kang-ho, Oh Jung-se, Jean Yeo-been, and Krystal Jung. Let's see what's their favorites, and their passion for cinema 🎥

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

The Intellectual Interview Series with Directors in the world - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB meets directors who are making waves.

The 7th Episode, At last! Chung Chung-Hoon. The veteran director of photography with intellectual touches. OR How about calling him [The Director of directors]? Let’s dive into his calm interview with full of love & respect for film industry. 

Check out his full filmography playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

For home viewing, every film should be seen in Filmmaker mode.

Embark on a captivating journey brought to life by an exceptional cast, as they breathe life into the director's latest masterpiece, [Killers of the Flower Moon], now streaming on Apple TV+.  

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Interview with Directors in the world - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

The 6th and the 1st Episode for 2024 must be with Lee Sung Jin! Congratulation to the Famous Golden Globe Winner! This shining star with his unique storytelling talent made us all happy. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB would like to share this happy creative energy with you. But, Please take care. He can literally ROAST you at the same time! - just like he did on his award-winning series, [BEEF]!

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Even if we're hardcore movie fans, there are plenty of times we unknowingly doze off on the couch. It's all because you've been working hard. In 2023, after all your efforts, you more than deserve it. So, BE LAZY! LG OLED, Criterion, and Letterboxd are teaming up to give you the ultimate dream setup for the year-end.

Here's the chance to win a brand-new LG OLED TV with stunning prize pack filled with 4K Criterion releases which include: Terence Malick's dreamlike [Days of Heaven] / Guillermo del Toro's [Pinocchio] / Spike Lee's masterpiece [Malcolm X] / Brett Morgen’s tribute to rock iconoclast David Bowie [Moonage Daydream] / and many more.

Yes, you know the rule now! Follow our LG OLED MOVIE CLUB HQ, and Criterion HQ, Visit Letterboxd Instagram and comment which 4K Criterion disc you’d most want to watch on your new TV. Check here to join this contest!

Good luck, Happy holidays, and Happy New Year 🎄

Check out the CRITERION X Letterboxd X LG OLED Holiday playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Interview with Directors in the world - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

This is our 5th episode, and We have Jeong Bum & Hur Jang as our guest. - A new, rising director duo of Korea who won the 2023 LG OLED New-Vision Award in the Busan International Film Festival. Yes, you might not recognize them. They are THAT fresh and new. Try watching their award-winning film [The Berefts], and start a journey to the greatness with them.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

This is our fresh series! - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

For our 4th episode, Here's Partiparn Boontarig - Definitely the rising star from Thailand and the famous 2023 New-Currents Award Winner of BIFF. Let's see how his unique eyes were made, then watch his controversial film [Solid by the Seashore]

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

LG OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria: 
- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty 
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED. 

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores. 

Introducing the 6th LG OLED Score by Goran Topalovic, a veteran film curator and writer, the co-founder of Subway Cinema and the New York Asian FIlm Festival - He shared Wuxia / sword fighting action film picks and LG OLED Scores.

A TOUCH OF ZEN (1971)
King Hu’s new school wuxia masterpiece, blending innovative and intricate martial arts setpieces - including incorporation of Beijing Opera acrobatics - with an exploration of spiritual themes, set the gold standard for all others to follow. What starts as a ghost story, morphs into political intrigue, a tale of revenge, and even a romance - with Hsu Feng’s female knight-errant figure at the center, effectively establishing a heroic archetype that will be copied by countless films. Exploring the space where violence meets Buddhist philosophy, Hu’s intention with A Touch of Zenwas to express Zen visually, and the film remains as fresh, suspenseful, and englightning today as it was upon its original release, a true testament to King Hu’s artistry.

1) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Visual Beauty ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
3) Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

The Legend of the Swordsman(1992)
The peak of kinetic high-flying fantasy wuxia that could have only been made in Hong Kong in the 1990s, starring Jet Li and Brigite Lin as arguably the greatest pair of star-crossed lovers in all of Jianghu. Taking the elements of new school wuxia - established by King Hu’s movies and Jin Yong’s novels - producer Tsui Hark and director Ching Siu-tung twist them almost beyond recognition, especially by subverting gender identities and stereotypical notions of good and evil. Filled to the brim with political intrigue, martial arts rivalries, and breathtaking swordplay action sequences, the film is propelled by Jet Li’s charisma and martial arts prowess. But, it’s Brigite Lin, in her most iconic and complex role as enigmatic, genderbending Dongfang Bubai (Asia the invincible), that truly steals the show.

1) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Visual Beauty ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
3) Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

DUELIST (2005)
With each of his movies, visionary director Lee Myung-se (Nowhere to Hide) has always attempted to answer the fundamental question of “what is film?” Duelist, his take on martial arts swordplay and at its core a love story, is no exception. Set in Korea during the Joseon Dynasty, the film follows a female detective Namsoon (Ha Ji-won), who while investigating a counterfeit money conspiracy, comes across an assassin, known as Sad Eyes (Kang Dong-won). With minimal dialogue and full of audio-visual expressions of characters’ moods and emotions - and as chases and confrontations take place across markets and alleyways - the pursuit becomes a courtship, and sword fights are transformed into dances, set against brilliant darkness. Visually stunning, inventive, and bordering on experimental, Duelist is a one-of-a-kind experience of pure cinema.

1) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Visual Beauty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3) Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

ASHES OF TIME REDUX (2008)
Based on the characters from Jin Yong’s The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Wong Kar-wai examines the emotional lives of heroes and mercenaries that populate Jianghu. Beautifully composed and shot by Christopher Doyle in his trademark style, this film is primarily a colorful mood piece as opposed to a typical action-filled wuxia movie. The violence that tears people apart is more of an emotional kind, as we are presented with closeups of brooding, disillusioned, melancholic and lovelorn protagonists, portrayed by movie star royalty of Hong Kong cinema’s last golden age, including Leslie Cheung, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, and Maggie Cheung. And no matter how skilled and powerful of a swordsman one might be, no one can win against the passage of time. Introspective, poetic, and visually captivating. 

1) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Visual Beauty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3) Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

THE ASSASSIN (2015)
Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s tribute to classic wuxia films that he watched growing up in Taiwan, is an exceptional cinematic achievement that earned him the Best Director award at Cannes Film Festival. Set during the Tang dynasty, the story centers on a seasoned assassin, played by versatile Shu Qi, who was trained in the deadly arts by a Daoist nun. While she has been specializing in taking out corrupt government officials, based on her master’s orders, she starts questioning the necessity of carrying out her assignments. Hou’s aesthetic style of long takes and carefully composed shots, coupled with high attention to realism in production designs, results in a unique artistic and contemplative rendering of the standard wuxia elements. Thematically concerned with the ethical and philosophical aspects of killing, the film demonstrated that non-action can be much more important and necessary, while also more difficult, that action.

1) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Visual Beauty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3) Recommended to watch on LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

*Overall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

*This photo was provided by [Victor Jucá].

The Master from Brazil has arrived. Kleber Mendonça Filho's films reflect our time and life. The suspense of [Bacurau] and the drama of [Aquarius] bring us to the journey into ourselves. Yes, those stories are definitely about Brazil, and definitely about other lives of perfect strangers. However, you will know what I am talking. If this is the first time watching his films, Congrats- You are lucky. Try watching his movies and his [MY LG OLED PLAYLIST] as well.

Rear Window
I first saw Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) in 1986 on television, after a game Brazil won during the World Cup at that time. I saw Rear Window with my brother and my mother at home, she had seen it many years earlier and liked that film very much. In the film, when Grace Kelly goes up to the empty neighbor’s apartment not knowing that the neighbor is coming back, my mother sank her nails into my arm and into my brother’s arm and said “No!! Do something!!”. Well, I could not do anything, but to take my arm away from her nails and watch the scene. So many years have passed and I have now seen Rear Window in many different ways. On VHS, in the cinema in 35mm, on DVD, bluray and DCP. It is a film that might have taught me much about Cinema, about how the camera can be used, it showed me images of apartments and windows. And I love the Technicolor in this film and how James Stewart, Thelma Ritter and Grace Kelly are photographed. It is a fantastic film. 

The Cranes Are Flying
The Cranes Are Flying (1957), by Mikhail Kalatozov. This film is - at heart - a love story from the point of view of the Soviet Union during the Second World War. It is a rich point of view, considering that a lot of what the world has seen in cinema about WW2 has been told from the point of view of the United States and Hollywood. This is certainly the case of how we Brazilians were led to look at the war. If Cinema may be defined by the images we can not forget, The Cranes Are Flying is proof that films are quite unique in the way they are able to suggest images. The visual narrative comes from the social experience of loss and destruction at a time of war. Kalatozov balances romanticism with a strong poetic sense of historical violence and sadness. This is the one pick in black and white for this special list. These days, watching black and white films at home can be a beautiful thing with wonderful image quality, strong blacks and shadows. It really is an unforgettable Film. 

Pixote
Pixote (1981), directed by Hector Babenco, is a Brazilian masterpiece that should be more well known today. It is a heartbreaking film about children and youngsters who live on the streets of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in and out of reform schools. I Believe it expands the way we look at life in society and in cities. The reality we see in this film is very much Brazilian and captured 40 years ago, bug it says a lot about youth in the world and it is timeless. The way it was shot, staged and acted by a cast mixing professionals and non professionals is impressive and dramatically devastating. A commercial success seen in cinemas by four million Brazilians at the time, Pixote was restored in 4K six years ago by the Film Foundation and Cineteca di Bologna, in Italy, with the assistance of the Brazilian Cinemateque. It is a picture that should be discovered by new audiences. Normally, those who see Pixote will take the film with them for life. 

Apocalypse Now
Another film I have seen many times in so many different ways is Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979). Besides being regarded as a true classic of cinema, and an artistic interpretation of the United States getting lost in the Vietnam war, this film has somehow remained a reference of image and sound for each new generation of audiovisual technology in the last 44 years, from Cinema 35mm and 70mm to home video on VHS, laserdisc, DVD, bluray, UHD 4K and streaming with HDR. Vitorio Storaro’s photography, Walter Murch’s sound work and the images realized by Coppola for this spectacular and very serious film have become part of Culture. The action, the music and its visual and aural poetry. The colours pop out, the blacks are deep and the film is a nightmare adventure of the sort we Will never be seeing again in the future. Simply put, films are just not made like this anymore. 

The Host
I discovered Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2006) at the Quinzaine des Realizateurs in the Festival de Cannes, it was a midnight screening. I did not have much information on what I was going to see, that’s how I usually see films in Cannes. It was a great screening, the audience reaction, the strong sound, the mix of realistic family melodrama, political commentary and all out Science Fiction Monster Movie. Very impressive special effects and a great movie by a Great Filmmaker. During the pandemic, I screened The Host to my two kids, they were 8 at the time. During the scene with the visit to the monster’s hiding place, I almost regretted the decision to show them the film, but they were brave enough and we had a great screening at home. A modern classic so full of life and imagination. 

| Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

LG OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria: 

- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty 
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED. 

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores. 

Introducing the 5th LG OLED Score by Vincent Malausa, the famous critic for Cahiers du Cinema and a columnist for Le Nouvel Observateurs  - with his keen eyes for the [Fantasy] Genre 

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
What would fantasy cinema be without the work of Ray Harryhausen? The legendary stop motion animator and visual effects creator has brought countless imaginary creatures to life in the eyes of spectators. Directed by Don Chaffey, Jason and the Argonauts recounts the adventures of Jason in his quest for the Golden Fleece and offers a veritable fireworks display of anthology scenes and iconic creatures. The unreal colors of the photography and the marvelous and terrifying apparitions which follow one another (the army of skeletons, the hydra, the bronze colossus) take us on a journey back to the childhood of cinema. Harryhausen didn't direct films, but he is an absolute "auteur" in the history of fantasy cinema.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Beauty and the beast (1946)
Jean Cocteau is undoubtedly one of the most mythical pioneers of fantasy cinema. Beauty and the Beast, one of his most famous films, is a true cinematographic poem where the author's visual genius explodes. The marvelous contrasts of the black and white photography and the magical couple formed by Jean Marais (the Beast) and Josette Day (the Beauty) make this legendary love story a true aesthetic prototype of dark faeryland. A symbolist tale, a surrealist incantation, this magical peak shines also and above all through the wonderful optical effects created by Cocteau. Beauty and the Beast is the unrivaled masterpiece of a poet in a state of grace.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

 
Phenomena (1985)
Dario Argento is first and foremost a master of Italian horror cinema, but his films have always maintained an intimate link with fantasy. Even more than Suspiria (1977), Phenomena is a horror film that takes on the dimension of an obscure fairy tale. Through its use of almost hypnotic music and its flamboyant images, the film is both terrifying and captivating, tumbling into a world where nature, stars, insects and mysterious vibes maintain a secret relationship with its heroine. Young Jennifer Connelly appears like a white angel immersed in a land of magic and horror. Even in its macabre excesses, Phenomena is a bewitched journey into the hallucinated imagination of its author.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Before flying to Hollywood, Peter Weir made some gems from the golden age of Australian cinema. Through the story of the mysterious disappearance of a handful of young scholar girls during the ascent of a sacred Aboriginal mountain, Picnic at Hanging Rock leads us into a state close to trance. Russell Boyd's diaphanous and overlit photography give the film an oniric, magnetic and sensual dimension that is both disturbing and wondrous. Weir makes this ascent between earth and sky an exercise in visual hypnosis that borders on pure reverie. More than a celestial and enigmatic fantasy film, Picnic at Hanging Rock is a sublime solar sabbath.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

Green snake (1993)
Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark has touched on many genres of cinema, but fantasy runs through his work constantly. If it is not the best known of his multiple and successful masterpieces, Green Snake is perhaps the most sensual, vivid, hallucinated and captivating. In addition to its fascinating duo of snake women (Maggie Cheung as Green Snake and Joey Wong as White Snake), the film is a story of crazy and cursed love crossed by fantastic scenes of breathtaking splendor. With its incandescent choreographies, its photography full of monochrome or multicolored visions, its bewitching music, Green Snake pushes the baroque, beautiful and exuberant cinema of Tsui Hark to its peak of dreamlike intensity. Fantasy cinema has never looked so graceful.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Wes Anderson's cinema is known for its unique style : shots in the form of brief, ornamented and perfectly symmetrical paintings. This style that we can find artificial is also that of an artist who has always remained a child. In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Anderson's relationship with the world of the marvelous reaches a level of enchantment unequaled in his work. Illustrating the life of the commander and explorer Cousteau, the film is a succession of visions that follow one another like an underwater dream. The lively and delicate pastel photography, the facetious optical effects, the marine creatures between animation and real images refer the idea of ​​realism to a whole fairy tale. A magical journey that leads us to the origins of cinema by George Méliès.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Oncle Boonmee (2010)
As he prepares to die, Oncle Boonmee remembers his past lives and communicates with the dead and the spirits. Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul makes this odyssey in the heart of the jungle a form of Baudelairian cathedral where the human, animal and vegetal world respond to each other. Crossed with visions and creatures borrowed from Thai mythology, Oncle Boonmee captivates at the cost of a hypnotic slowness. The sounds of the forest and the sparkles of photography plunge us into a second state, to the origins of the world, dreams and life. Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival (from the hands of Tim Burton), Oncle Boonmee is a prototype of immemorial fantasy.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Spirited Away (2001)
Many films by the master of Japanese animation Hayao Miyazaki are fantasy, but Spirited Away is perhaps the most decisive in this area. Firstly because it follows the outline of The Wizard of Oz almost to the letter. When Chihiro switches from the world of humans to that of dreams, the film becomes a true mystical and spiritual journey. More than by the richness of its initiation story, the film marks by its monumental dimension. Brimming with moving shapes and fabulous transformations, Spirited Away is a veritable machine for producing magical visions. Nothing can resist the power of the images that are unleashed before our eyes.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We're kicking off a fresh series! - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

For our 3rd episode, we've talked with Bertrand Bonello - Controversial but Beautiful, Passionate but ice-cold, a writer, a musician, a director, a shine. After enjoying this interview, Let's watch his shine on those crazy diamonds again. [House of Tolerance], [Saint Laurent], [On War] and one of his earliest film [Tiresia] will be best choices. I promise.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We're kicking off a fresh series! - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

For our second episode, we've got Justin Chon - an impressive actor, a unique director, and a brilliant creator of our time. He was The Eric Yorkie from the Twilight saga, and now he is throwing us a sharp message with [Blue Bayou], and unique episodes of the famous Apple TV series [Pachinko]

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We're kicking off a fresh series! - [LG OLED Meets Directors]. LG OLED MOVIE CLUB is all about hanging out with directors who are making waves. We're talking everyone from up-and-coming newbies to the big shots, covering everything from artsy flicks to family-friendly ones, and even those cult movie symbols that mess with your head! We had a chill but real talk in the interviews - perfect for just lounging on the couch and tuning in. So, get comfy because it's time for [LG OLED Meets Directors].

For our first episode, we've got Hamaguchi Ryusuke, the up-and-coming legend in Japanese films. After peeking into his movie world, don't you reckon his top picks like [Drive My Car], [Evil Does Not Exist], and [Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy] will have a whole new vibe?

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

*This photo was provided by [Oh Kye Ohk]

Movies deal with storytelling and visuals. They handle accidents of life and news from everyday, exploring everyone's life. Movies delve into imagination while also tackling reality. Therefore, basically, every movie is a product of the director's insight. However- Today, Introducing this master, we simply couldn't come up with a better word than insight, and would like to shout out everyone that we are thrilled to introduce one of the most insightful director of our time.

[Barbara], [Undine], [Phoenix], [Transit], to [Afire]. The Director of Insight, Christian Petzold, has finally come to our LG OLED MOVIE CLUB with his [My LG OLED Playlists]

Nenette and Boni
This film is floating. From the beginning until the end. Her hair in the pool, the sounds of the TINDERSTICKS, the desire of the brother, the softness of the yeast dough.  The crime is floating, the sins too. And the camera and the story itself. A stolen youth. They want their innocence back. They want to flow away.

Germany Year Zero 
I was 11, when I saw this movie first. I had seen pictures of my father, when he was in the same age like the boy in the movie. I never understand, why this young face of my father looks so old and exhausted. After I had seen Germany Year Zero, I began to understand. Something about my father. Something about Germany. Something about Fascism.

Rumble Fish  
A young man again. In a world of old metaphoric, old symbols, broken fathers, desperate older brothers. Black and White.  Matt Dillon doesn’t know anything of the “GREECE” – he is young, innocent, irritated. The world around him doesn’t believe in this old stories. He wants to be someone – and he had to leave this Past. At the end, there is a bike, the ocean, the birds and a song. In this moment, he stands there like Jean Pierre Leaud in “Les quatre cents coups” –brothers in Lonelyness.

Alice in the Cities  
I was not so interested in movies, when I was 15. There were no Movie Theatres in our town. Just TV, two channels. On a Sunday afternoon, my parents and brothers are out of the house, I had the tv set for myself. I heard about a movie with the music of the german band THE CAN. I switched on the tv set, and I saw “Alice…” There was a scene, an ice cream parlor, a Jukebox, a boy, eating icecream beside the jukebox. The music out of this box was “Going up the country” by Canned Heat. The Ice cream parlor was the parlor, where my parents and I are buying our icecream very often. In this movie this place looks like a place, where desires are, it looks enchanted. It looks like the entrance to another world. I looks like cinema.

Burning
A young man. A first love. The father and his house near the border comes apart. There is the anger of the youth, their desire for something you can call a “Now”. The movie is like a dream, but this dream is told and filmed so clear and real. There is a dance in the sunset, near the demilitarized zone – it reminds me to dances in front of the Berlin Wall. They want their own stories, they want to escape the history, the adults had made.

| Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

As the curtain rose on the 28th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), a wave of cinematic joy and festive excitement swept through the vibrant streets of Busan, South Korea. A hub for cinematic celebration, BIFF is renowned for nurturing emerging talent and connecting cultures through the universal language of film. With this spirit, the LG OLED Awards made their debut at the festival this year, joining hands with BIFF to not only support the film industry but promote rising directors and independent filmmakers in South Korea and Asia.

LG presented two awards at the festival to acknowledge outstanding innovation in visual aesthetics. The LG OLED New Currents Award gives recognition to emerging Asian filmmakers’ first or second feature films, and the LG OLED Vision Award celebrates independent Korean filmmakers with high quality and unique vision.

A panel of industry experts from the film and content creation industries collaborated to determine the recipients of the distinguished awards, and after careful deliberation, the much-anticipated winners were recently announced at the KNN Theater in Busan. Thai director Patiparn Boontarig received the LG OLED New Currents Award for his exceptional work, ‘Solids by the Seashore,’ while Korea’s Jeong Beom and Hur Jang earned the LG OLED Vision Award for their cinematic achievement, ‘The Berefts.’ In addition to these honors, both winners were granted LG OLED evo 77-inch models and a cash prize.

At the ceremony, the LG OLED evo 77-inch G3 model played video clips to introduce the award entries on the stage, and the LG SIGNATURE OLED M (Model 97M3) was also showcased, representing a decade of excellence in OLED technology. Visitors were impressed with the world’s largest 97-inch OLED TV which boasts wireless capabilities that can transmit 4K resolution content at a 120Hz refresh rate.

“Through the establishment of the LG OLED New Currents & Vision Awards, we are supporting the independent film creators in Korea and Asia to try new technical attempt in their artwork,” said Kate Oh, vice president of the Brand Communication Division at the LG Home Entertainment Company. “In addition, we will continue to inspire movie fans around the world to experience infinite possibilities of visual artistry with LG OLED TVs that offers the differentiated viewing experiences.”

“While we have been considering the means to support filmmakers in Korea, we have achieved a positive outcome through closer cooperation with LG Electronics,” said Jung Hanseok, programmer for Korean cinema at BIFF, who expressed his anticipation of the new collaboration. “We will continuously support emerging and independent filmmakers in Korea and Asia.”

By hosting the LG OLED Awards at BIFF, the company had the opportunity to open possibilities to talented film directors around the world while also showcasing the technological prowess of LG OLED TVs, which have been chosen by many filmmakers as reference displays for their projects thanks to impressive contrast and unparalleled color representation.

For more stories on how LG OLED inspires the world of cinematic art and the passion of movie lovers, stay tuned to LG Newsroom.

LG OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria: 
- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty 
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED. 

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores. 

Introducing the 4th LG OLED Score by Ishizu Ayako, the veteran critic from the historical movie magazine of Japan, [Kinema Junbo] - with critic’s keen eyes for the [Drama] Genre 

The Apartment

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Billy Wilder.Who could ask for anything more? This is a rom-com at its best, but is also a movie about the suffering of young adults in the big city, which is very relevant today. Bud (Lemmon) plans to get a promotion by lending his room to his adulterous boss, but it leads him to a broken heart. Wilder has a cynical perspective about fidelity. However, Lemmon’s gaze on MacLaine, that’s the look of love. The cinematography is also excellent, and the filming in black and white keeps the movie in its brilliance.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 

When Harry Met Sally 

Why are Harry and Sally still the King and Queen of the rom-com kingdom for over 3 decades? Writer Nora Ephron has successfully solved one of the greatest questions in human history: Can best friends be lovers? The movie is a jewel box of highly sophisticated, funny and true-to-life dialogue and Rob Reiner's direction is very sharp. Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal's chemistry is stellar, and Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby (both went to heaven too soon) double the fun. Also this is a beautiful love letter to New York City. Be sure to visit Katz's Deli!

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Notting Hill  

Hugh Grant is undoubtedly the king of romantic comedies. He's a sarcastic Englishman, awkward in love, but surrounded by good friends who help him through life's crises. In Notting Hill, Grant plays Will, a humble travel bookshop owner in London who could be the same guy from Four Weddings and a Funeral (this is also a gem), both written by Richard Curtis. But this time he falls in love with a Hollywood superstar, Julia Roberts, what a fairy tale! It's a romance full of believable and charming elements -- honey-dipped apricots, a funny roommate, a blue door, and a beautiful song SHE sung by Elvis Costello.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Broadcast News

The plot of this movie is the same as The Way We Were with a rom-com taste. In the world of TV journalism, a talented woman falls in love with a handsome but shallow colleague. James L. Brooks wrote lines that issue a warning that still holds true today, “He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important.” However, in Broadcast News, a sincere man who adores her also appears, and it develops into a love triangle. Holly Hunter, William Hurt, and Albert Brooks' performances are top-notch.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart

Hong Kong's Johnnie To is not only a master of crime movie, but also a wizard of romance with co-writer Wai Ka-Fai. The Philadelphia Story meets Punch-Drunk Love, this wacky rom-com  deserves more recognition. Zixin, a bank analyst is dumped by her long-time boyfriend. But this misfortune ends thanks to her two men, Sean (Louis Koo) and Kevin (Daniel Wu). To's alter ego, Louis Koo, is the film's central figure, and he's as much trouble in love as he is in crime movies. The sequel will be even crazier, so don't miss it either.

1) Visual:★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Something's Gotta Give 

It's time for mature rom-com! Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson prove that romantic comedies have no age limit in this sweet film. Nicholson plays a exec who chases only young women. He has a heart attack at Keaton's beach house, the mother of his girlfriend. A playwright Keaton meets Keanu Reeves, the doctor who saved Nicholson.  Keaton, whose charm has grown with age, captured the hearts of Keanu and Jack, and also earned an Oscar nomination.  Though not as polished as Nora Ephron's script, Nancy Meyers does a fine job of crafting a mature romance. The production design is also captivating.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Funny Face

Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn make magic on screen with the music of George Gershwin. This musical comedy by Stanley Donen is a feast for the eyes and ears with the best of fashion, music and stars. Astaire's character is loosely based on the photographer Richard Avedon, and the stills for the opening credits shot by him. Hubert Givenchy costumes are accentuating Hepburn's beauty. The movie was made at the end of the golden age of musicals, but it has not faded at all. Best of all, Kay Thompson steals the movie as the editor-in-chief who sings THINK PINK!.

1) Visual: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

LG OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria: 
- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty 
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED. 

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores. 

Introducing the 3rd LG OLED Score by Linda Obst, the famous producer of the masterpiece [Interstellar]! - with the special title [Space Operas I have endured and still liked (or loved)]

2001 : A Space Odyssey
I saw this movie the weekend it came out (don’t be shocked, I know you weren’t born yet) sitting on the floor in front of the actual seats at the Times Square theater where it was playing to an entirely stoned audience. It philosophically wigged me out. It raised every issue I’d never thought of before and then some I had. 
The science was so credible, the production design so prophetic, its computer AI, Hal, so savant-- that I was literally incredulous.  I was so undone by the future I had just seen that later that night told my mother I saw God (a mistake). It remains the number one movie in my life as well as the one which most influenced my career. I think you can see some of that reverence in Interstellar. 

1) Production Design/Cinematography:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - for the epic nature of it all.
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - superb, prophetic 

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Interstellar
What I love most about this movie the way science is used but it never jams the soul of the story. It is still at its heart a story about looking for love and connection, our binding ties no matter how far or long we travel.
Some people (though never Koreans) complain about the amount of science in the movie. But why have a brilliant theoretical astrophysicist invent the first draft of the story with you and then leave out the science? I am as proud of its depiction of special relativity and gravity during the Gargantuan black hole solar system sequence as I am of Cooper’s moving call with his daughter which captures the essence of filial love. The two human portals, to the brain and the heart are both wide open in this movie. 
 
1) Production Design/Cinematography: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ - for traveling in space, the huge wave, planetary visits. 

3) Cinematic quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ superb, Nolanesque  (I’m not very objective though)

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Starship Troopers
This insane and wild Verhoeven movie is closer to plausible exo-biology reality than most alien character designs which always seem to rely on 2 eyes a nose and a mouth. Verhoeven’s terrifying monster size insects are brilliantly conceived as well as a very plausible route for contrary evolution. As scared as the humans are of them, they have even more reason for fear.
The humans who battle the Arachnids objectify their antagonists as bugs and vermin so they can kill them with more ease and joy. 
When the movie came out, people thought it was a satire of base human behavior. Boy, were we wrong. We’ve seen too many accidents to believe in human decency as a default expectation. It took only a few decades to prove the movie prescient as opposed to funny. Funny no longer. Well, sometimes a little funny. 

1) Production Design/Cinematography: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ – Terrific CGI, miniature work, and animatronics, way before these techniques were perfected. 

2) Recommend watching on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ – for the action sequences and huge battles with giant insects

3) Cinematic Quality/Director: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - 3.9

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Rise of the Planet of the Apes
I don’t really think of this movie as a creature feature because its creatures are so dominant, complex and alpha. I think Caesar – the Apes leader (Andy Serkis) is a brilliantly conceived and acted character and I love that his story was concluded over the final trilogy, he deserves nothing less. It shows an alien civilization run by brilliant apes handling power, conflict, family, war. The movie is wonderfully cast, the costumes and makeup are spectacular, they capture a spooky sense of our own evolution gone awry. The entire trilogy is great.

1) Production Design/Cinematography: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - 4.5
2) Watch on OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Star Trek
I am including this as a counter example. I went to see this picture with excitement, after reading that JJ Abrams was going to use real scientists as consultants and I was jazzed. I even had taken my partner on Interstellar, astrophysicist Kip Thorne, to see it with me. But the only addition the science consultant (Carolyn Porco of the Cassini mission to Saturn) made that Kip and I could identify was in providing a lovely fresh Cassini spacecraft picture of Saturn at the opening. We were looking high and low for hints of science in the fiction when we suddenly found ourselves watching Mr. Spock ENTER A BLACK HOLE AND HAVE A CONVERSATION. Spock entered a black hole and was not in fact spaghettified into tiny strings of Spock-info as is predicted, but instead presented magical green glue (to somebody important) to save the universe. Ugh. 
We were horrified.

1) Production Design/Cinematography: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - Too many camera flares and too ordinary looking.

2) Watch on LG OLED: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ - 4.5, - Why not? It has lots of space shots and what’s better to see big and in bright color than the Universe?

3) Cinematic Quality: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ - 3.5, Not inspired, but lots of action. 

* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

*This photo was provided by [Andrew Cooper]

Beef(2023), Writer, Director, The Emmy Nominee, Sparky, Talented, Off the wall … - After pondering countless words and praises to describe this man who is brimming with talents and exudes boundless charm, the term "Creator" was chosen finally. Today’s [My OLED Playlist] features the classic playlist of Lee Sung-Jin, the hot director of the hot series. 

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND 
This is the film I have rewatched the most in my life. I had just graduated college and moved to New York City with no job, and this movie perfectly captured the melancholy in my life. It has a perfect ending, and one of the best ending needledrops of all-time in Beck’s “Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime.”

PULP FICTION 
This film came out when I was in junior high school. My parents wouldn’t let me watch it, so I watched it at a friend’s sleepover. We huddled around a small TV in the basement with our jaws wide open. We didn’t know movies could be like this. When it finished, we took out a notepad and made timelines for each character arc and spent the entire night discussing the movie. In terms of Tarantino films, I think I actually enjoy INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS more, but I have to list Pulp Fiction ahead of it considering the impact it had on me as a teenager. 

OLDBOY
Another film that radically changed my understanding of cinema. The direction, the cinematography, the production design, the ending! I was in shock. This was the first Korean language film I had ever finished on my own (my parents had watched many Korean films growing up, but in my youthful ignorance, I ignored them). Because of this film, I started looking into not only other films by Director Park, but other Korean movies in general. I cannot wait to watch the 20th anniversary restoration in theaters this month. 

MATRIX 
It was my senior year of high school when this film was released. I went to the theater to watch STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - PHANTOM MENACE, but it was all sold out, so my friends and I decided to check out MATRIX, which we knew absolutely nothing about. The whole time we kept whispering “oh my god.” We left the theater wanting to immediately see it a second time. I know it’s a bit cliché to cite this movie, but seeing it for the first time was one of the best in-theater experiences of my life, so I had to list it.

AUTUMN SONATA
This movie is basically a mother and daughter talking the whole time, and no other film has made me cry harder. So many incredible heartbreaking monologues, tapping into the deepest of emotions and the complicated dynamic between mother and child. Liv Ullman delivers one of the best performances of all-time. And no one does extreme close-ups like Ingmar Bergman. 

| Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

LG OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria: 
- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty 
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED. 

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores. 

For our 2nd rating, a renowned critic Miriam Balanescu from [Sight & Sound] & [The Guardian], shared her cyberpunk film picks and LG OLED Scores. How Cyberpunk!

Blade Runner

In a neon-coloured, futuristic Los Angeles, robots and humans can’t be told apart. A renegade group of replicant humans escape from space colonies where they are set to work, alighting on earth and wreaking chaos. Tasked with “retiring” them, an ex-cop, Rick Deckard, sets out to track them down, coming into contact with the enigmatic, shadowy CEO of the company behind the bioengineered entities. A complex mesh of intrigue, romance and high-suspense follows, tussling with the bigger question of what makes us human.

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Ghost in the Shell (2017)

Taking its story from the Japanese manga of the same name, Scarlett Johansson stars in this dazzling sci-fi where a synthetic-enhanced human called the Major dredges up a murky past. Experiencing glitches - or hallucinations - when the Major discovers an unknown entity called Kaze, she embarks on a mission to track them down, sensing that Kaze holds the key to her past. What unfolds is an examination of a world caught between forward-marching technology and core human values, and whether those can ever exist in harmony. 

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Possessor

Part body horror, part assassin-thriller, part-cyberpunk caper, this off-kilter, high-octane drama follows an assassin, Tasya Vos, who inhabits hosts through brain implant technology in order to carry out her kills - compelling them to commit suicide when the job is done so that she can return to her own body. Things go awry when her next target is marked out as a wealthy CEO and his daughter, and the host - the daughter’s fiance - manages to mentally overcome his possessor. The film is a visually striking and emotionally hard-hitting comment on dissociation, human connection and performative living.

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

Akira

A newly rebuilt Tokyo is afflicted by corruption, gang warfare and protests in the aftermath of its sudden destruction during a world war. Shōtarō Kaneda, head of gang the Capsules, charges into battle against the adversary Clown gang. As part of the casualties, his best friend Tetsuo Shima collides his motorbike with an esper, gaining psychic abilities which once again threaten the city. Visceral and often gory, this iconic anime undoubtedly shifted the stakes for the cyberpunk genre.

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

The Matrix

Thomas Anderson - otherwise known as the computer hacker Neo - becomes embroiled in an underground world when he is repeatedly confronted with the phrase ‘the Matrix’ online. Swiftly after, he is contacted by the mysterious Morpheus and Trinity, who promise to reveal the truth - that he has been living in a shared simulated reality created by robots, enabling them to lull humanity while feeding on their energy. This slick and stylish cyber-thriller is rooted in the 1990s while still remaining highly relevant today. 

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Ex Machina

This directorial debut follows as a software programmer, Caleb Smith, wins a week-long visit to the home of his company’s CEO Nathan Bateman. Once there, Nathan discloses that he has created a humanoid robot called Ava, and that he would like Caleb to assess whether she really has consciousness. But, when Caleb begins to develop feelings for Ava and finds out that she is due to be “upgraded” - meaning her current personality will vanish - he decides to act, resulting in a fine-tuned and sensitive exploration of human emotion, loneliness and individuality. 

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
* Overall: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Filmmakers and movie enthusiasts around the world have been exploring their creations through the lens of LG OLED. This has led us to discover several fascinating tales from the filmmaking industry. Now, let's turn our attention to the actors. Recently, the LG OLED MOVIE CLUB had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with renowned actors, resulting in a delightful series of curated playlists. Their interactions were a testament to the genuine pride and passion they felt as they revisited their performances, now beautifully enhanced by the cutting-edge visual capabilities of LG OLED. Amidst this enthusiasm, there was a charming and enduring childlike joy in immersing themselves in their favorite films time and again. During our conversations, a plethora of movie titles, ranging from timeless classics to fresh releases, experimental works, and hidden indie gems, flowed effortlessly. However, what truly captivated us were the personal stories and narratives that accompanied each recommendation.

These stories, full of unwavering dedication and heartfelt connections, deserve a wider audience. Therefore, starting today, we are thrilled to introduce a brand-new series called [My OLED Playlist], which features esteemed actors and actresses sharing their cinematic passions.

It all begins with a seemingly simple yet profoundly revealing question: "Which movie would you choose to grace your LG OLED TV at home?" And in our inaugural episode, we proudly shine the spotlight on none other than the luminous star of Asia, Tang Wei.

The Little Mermaid  

This film is my memory of childhood. I love everything from the wardrobe, style, and straightforward plotline. It's also the most unvarnished version of The Little Mermaid story that I want to tell the kids. Even though the little mermaid in the film has two legs, wears a gray robe, and has lots of branches like a spider web on her head, it just makes the audiences feel that all the plots are perfectly reasonable, and I’m quite sure of it. There is a scene, a very slow one with music from conches where little mermaid and family members come down a staircase to attend a ball. That is my favorite scene which I will never forget my whole life. With such a pure face and firm eyes, she looks like she will sacrifice for love, making the audience truly believe in pure love. This is a very classic film with specific fairy tale beauty which I can immerse myself in for decades. 
                 

Through a Glass Darkly 

It was Through a Glass Darkly that made me fall in love with Ingmar Bergman. I remember watching this movie made me realize I always had a question about life. This movie gave me an answer even before I found out what my question was. The movie digs into the deepest part of your heart in which even you didn’t know what the problem is. After watching this film, I wrote a long review of the movie for the first time.
 

Life Is Beautiful

Just thinking about this film aches and warms your heart at the same time. A classical film adored by so many cinephiles. The boy in the bush growing up is unforgettable. Not much explanation is needed, just go watch it!
 

Spring in a Small Town 

I love how slow the movie is, so slow that even the air seems still. That’s why the breeze on the castle is pleasing. The extremely restrained style by the director barely touches on the ethical and emotional relationship between the three protagonists in a traditional yet advanced way. It is hard to think that this is a film from 1948 because it is very different from the movies from that era. Thanks to this film, I learned and never forgot the director’s name – Fei Mu. This is the best movie of all 100 Chinese classical films. 
 
 

A Guilty Conscience

This is the most recent movie I watched. The audience needed this light, simple and positive energy in this post-pandemic world. I couldn’t help but applaud several times during the screening. Of course, if you speak fluent Cantonese and can clearly understand the underlying meaning of the lines, the movie would be more interesting. Long have I seen a film purely from Hong Kong and it was so energetic! 
 

| Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Occult – the terror that emerges from secretive mysteries! Prayer incantations, religious ceremonies, the ancient exorcism ritual passed down through centuries, cursed houses, demon-possessed dolls, and the relics of demonic scriptures casually cast aside...

While we've been captivated by the refined traditions of the Western occult, particularly this scorching and humid summer, how about turning your attention to the Asian occult, boasting its splendor and stickiness?

First, let’s travel Korea. Despite being at the forefront of advanced IT technology and contents like K-Pop, in some remote corners of the countryside, there are still ‘shamans’ performing the ancient sword dance for exorcism ritual.

Next, how about Japan? From the era of shoguns and samurai to the modern day, high-ranking priestesses have ruled Tokyo under the shadows, handling particularly dreadful grudges.

What about Thailand, where completely unfamiliar exorcism rituals are going crazy under the scorching sun, in jungles, and on the sticky mud.

For today, we want to introduce you to the Asian Occult, which has gained immense popularity recently due to its dazzling and sticky allure. We'll introduce 3 reasons why you should view them [박1] with an LG OLED.

Caution: Keep the lights on, keep old dolls, mirrors or unfamiliar old shoes far away, and read on!
 
REASON 1:
Immersing Yourself in the Dazzling Shaman Ritual with Vibrant Colors and Pounding Drum Sounds.
 
If there's one defining characteristic of Asian occult, it's the splendor of the flash exorcism ritual. Unlike traditional Western occult practices where the contrast between heaven and hell is easy to recognize, the exorcism ritual in Asian occult presents a Paradox. At a glance, it's difficult to discern who is a demon and who is a priest. Shamans, regardless of gender, dress flamboyantly, making it challenging to differentiate them. They adorn themselves with vibrant makeup and attire, and they dance on large sword or axe while shouting spells out loud. Assistants are going trance, and vigorously beat traditional percussion instruments, enhancing the atmosphere. The town's residents gather to witness the ritual, and literally all of them become emotionally overwhelmed in this trance atmosphere, shedding tears and offering continuous prayers. It's hard to tell who the target of the ritual is and who has been possessed. The dazzling colors, flashy camera work, and sound are all integral to the experience. Through LG OLED, experience this transcendent ritual at its peak with the finest color optimization and Dolby Atmos, ensuring that not a single detail is missed.
 
Recommended Film: The Wailing
Recommended Scene: Mid-film, the scene where the shaman gathers the townspeople to perform exorcism ritual. The juxtaposition of the distressed family and the shaman deeply engrossed in the ritual creates a rapidly intensifying tension. The vibrant color palette and the immersive acting by veteran actors are standout features.
 

REASON 2:
Immersing Yourself in the Damp and Sticky Texture from the scene
 
Summer, jungles, mud, waterlogged houses, rotten fish on boats, unwashed face of people who possessed by demons, zombie-like people devouring mud-covered offerings like pig head and tongue... The unique climate and atmosphere of Asian occult somehow make even us viewers feel like turning the air conditioning to the maximum. This distinct climate and atmosphere of Asian occult, which oddly tempts us to cool down, draws us further into the movie the more uncomfortable it becomes. While Filmmaker Mode, which showcases the director's intent, is excellent, but we recommend you to enhance your experience by utilizing AI PICTURE PRO and HDR Booster. These features bring out the textures more realistically – the sticky footstep sounds, each raindrop falling on the jungle, are all optimized to feel even more authentic through Dolby VISION / Dolby ATMOS.
 
Recommended Film: The Medium
Recommended Scene: Almost all scenes are well-crafted to evoke 'discomfort.' Embrace this discomforting texture and immerse yourself fully in the climatic elements of the film.
 
REASON 3:
Fully Experiencing the Vengeance that's Thoroughly Annoying and Incomprehensible.
 
Demons from Asian occult have different visions. they are not dreaming of world domination or conquering nations. All reason of vengeance is too much personal. Typically, they project the suppressed experiences of being ignored or oppressed while alive onto other subjects and attack with a target-focused grudge. However, despite the smallness of the grudge's target, the grudge's magnitude isn't small; rather, it evolves into a more ruthless and contextless thirst for revenge. The persistent question of "why?" continues while watching movies. As you immerse yourself, you are also haunted by those demons from the film without a moment's respite. Those demons are not from hell, but from maybe one of your neighborhood, work, or school – This setting stimulate us imagine extremely uncomfortable situations. That’s the point of watching Asian occults. You will be reminding uncomfortable memories, and breathlessly entwined to suddenly springing forth at the same time. Enjoy this uncomfortable and unpredictable vengeance to the fullest. You will need LG OLED because you will never know when and where grudges will come for you, so be prepared at any time with multi-functions of LG OLED!
 
Recommended Film: It Comes
Recommended Scene: Throughout the film, an unknown horror comes at an unexpected moment, a horrifying revenge happens accompanying supernatural phenomena! Enjoy it

What defines "perfect picture quality"? What criteria serve as the basis for determining perfection? Is it high resolution, pixel count, captivating colors, technological innovation, or something else entirely? Last week, we explored the factors that influence a movie's picture quality through the insightful column of renowned colorist, Park Jin-ho. However, the truth remains that opinions on what constitutes "perfect" picture quality can vary based on individual preferences. While LG OLED MOVIE CLUB strives to elevate the movie-watching experience, we can understand to some extent the general sentiment that in the current HIGH state of TV standardization, there might not be a significant difference in the perception of quality.
 
Still, we firmly believe that in the vast world of visuals, there undoubtedly exists a standard for perfect picture quality. If we were to present a singular criterion that would satisfy both movie beginners and hardcore enthusiasts, it would undoubtedly be "Contrast." In essence, the fundamental principle of achieving perfect picture quality lies in rendering the dark elements even darker. From this perfect embodiment of darkness, all the foundational technologies for optimizing picture quality emerge, such as the latest self-lit pixels and cutting-edge HDR10. This criterion allows us to "optimize colors." In other words, the closer we get to the perfect darkness, the more vibrant and vivid the corresponding intense light and dazzling colors become. Therefore, the paradoxical method of choosing the Movie Gear capable of producing the most vivid picture quality revolves around identifying which device can achieve the most lifelike darkness.
 
"The Perfect Black" – It embodies LG OLED's forefront of technology, powered by the latest self-lit pixel technology, HDR10, and AI-based picture optimization. As the name suggests, it literally offers the perfectly black experience in movies.

Here are two film recommendations that allow you to immerse yourself in the world of Perfect Black.

Gravity: The captivating point of viewing on Perfect Black lies not in the flashy spaceships but in the profound depths of the universe's abyss.
 
The Green Knight: Indeed, just as the light and darkness of a Perfect Black are interconnected, so too are the elements of grotesqueness and wonder intertwined.

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We're going to be changing the formula here for a little bit as we head into Halloween season. Over the next few months, we'll be sharing a number of lists and stories focusing on a variety of horror films and genres. We're ready to go all in. Are you? Good. Let's go.

To start off our venture into the dark and unknown, we found five films on Netflix that are not only scary and disturbing, but will leave you in utter shock (we hope) after viewing them. Before we continue, we determined why these films are just that, scary and disturbing, so you will get a better sense of our thought-process when selecting these films.

1.
While we may all live different, unique lives, when something unexpected happens in our daily routines, things do get thrown off balance. These factors can include an alternate route to travel or a chance encounter with a stranger that affects how your day or week goes. All in all, whatever throws you off balance is sure to affect you.

2.
How about a real-life scenario, such as a regular getaway/vacation, that doesn't go according to plan? For those who have booked an Airbnb or a hotel in a place you've never been, and nothing goes the way it should, what do you do? How do you react? You'd be surprised as to what natural instincts come about from inside of you.

3.
Monsters. There are no such things as monsters (unless you count those things at the very bottom of the ocean). When presented with one (in a film), what do you do and how do you react? Those are important questions that we would have to consider IF we ever faced a monster... or ten.

For the above, we found five disturbing films that will live you speechless at the end.

Click here to both see and comment on the list on Letterboxd.

The Rental (2000)
A work-related celebration at an Airbnb-like destination slowly turns into a murder mystery whodunit with an incredible twist ending.

Circle (2015)
Imagine waking up with 49 strangers on a spacecraft where you have to vote to kill others in order to save your own life. Do you you sacrifice yourself so that others, including young children and pregnant women, can (potentially) survive? Watch and find out.

Death Note (2017)
Books don't fall from the sky (unless they're thrown), so when a teenager acquires a supernatural book that allows him to write the names of people and how they die in it, expect to find a number of people coming after you for it. Oh, and the book comes with a creature named Rayuk that keeps an eye on you.

Creep (2014)
Have you ever met anyone from the Internet and it went well? If so, Creep will change your perception of that. A man is hired to record the "final days" of a man, but not everything goes according to plan, and the videographer begins to suspect something else is going on.

The Platform (2019)
From what we see in many films, prison (or jail) doesn't look like a situation you want to be placed in. You do receive a bed and food, maybe some time outside, but that's about it. That aside, what would happen if you're placed in a multi-level facility with hundreds of floors and the food delivery begins at the top floor, and then makes its way down to the bottom. The top floor eats well, but those on the bottom levels are left with scarps, if anything. Would you be able to survive in such a situation? Watch to find out!

For more immersive movie watching experience, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We're kicking off the LG OLED Score!

Our version of a Letterboxd rating, this score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on specific criteria:

- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty
- Recommended to watch on LG OLED.

Renowned critics, talented actors, visionary directors with unique perspectives, and veteran technicians will all be introducing their LG OLED Scores.

For our first post, veteran critic Nicolas Rapold, now the host of the podcast [The Last Thing I Saw] and contributor to The New York Times, Sight & Sound, and other publications, shared his Noir film picks and LG OLED Scores. Good day to be Noir, isn’t it?

Check out the full LG OLED Score playlist on our Letterboxd here. 

The Big Combo
Sometimes a cinematographer is the true auteur of a film, and that might be the case for The Big Combo and its master of darkness, John Alton. The story leads us into a criminal underworld that’s perhaps not unfamiliar, as a cop (Cornel Wilde) tries to take down a mob boss (Richard Conte). Alton’s chiaroscuro photography is the star attraction, giving the sense that he looked at every other dramatic scene as a chance to sculpt with light. Men and women can become silhouettes, and the stark lighting evokes a treacherous world where we must huddle around what little brightness there is.

1) Visual ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★ ★ ★ ★★
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★☆☆
* Overall: ★★★★☆
 
Criss Cross
Burt Lancaster’s hyper-focused presence could create a simmering tension just by his walking into a room, and the camera found inherent brooding drama in his chiseled profile and physique. Here he plays a drifter who goes back to work driving an armored car and also wants to get back together with his old flame (Yvonne De Carlo), who is attached to a gangster (Dan Duryea). Director Robert Siodmak, a German émigré who took Hollywood by storm, had worked with Lancaster before on The Killers, and as a visual artist, Siodmak spoke the language of shadows and deceit fluently, indulging his star’s capacity for sexual menace. 

1) Visual ★★★☆☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★☆☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
* Overall: ★★★☆☆

Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook’s twisty, seductive thriller is also a dazzling example of 21st-century film noir. Straitlaced detective Jang Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) is investigating the violent death of the husband of Song Seo-rae (Tang Wei, bringing wit to the femme fatale idea), but he becomes obsessed over the course of questioning and surveillance. The intrigue only deepens as Song Seo-rae seems to play with his evident attraction. Shot with an exquisite feel for color in digital, the story moves forward with deft camerawork that finds new ways of framing every scene, from cat-and-mouse indoor conversations between the attractive leads, to rambunctious face-offs with criminals in the street.
 
1) Visual ★★★★☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★★★
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
* Overall: ★★★★☆
 
Double Indemnity
It’s a classic of film noir for a good reason, pairing an insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) with an alluring housewife (Barbara Stanwyck) plotting to murder her husband. For money, for sex, maybe simply for the thrill of getting away with it—Stanwyck could symbolize every temptation at once with unrivaled cool. Faces lit by cigarette match, striped shadows from windows, Stanwyck’s iconic sunglasses—the noir iconography is portrayed with panache. Billy Wilder directs this mesmerizing adaptation from the James M. Cain novel, also featuring Edward G. Robinson as the cop with “a little man inside” who tells him when something is wrong.
 
1) Visual ★★★★☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★★☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
*Overall: ★★★★☆
 
Leave Her to Heaven
Gene Tierney is the spellbinding focus of this doomed romance between a writer, Richard (Cornel Wilde), and his dangerously jealous wife, Ellen (Tierney). A family estate by a lake looks like the perfect sanctuary for the new couple to live and love together, until Ellen demonstrates that her possessiveness of Richard will lead her to deception and murder. The Technicolor imagery brings a hyper vividness to this marriage, like a nightmare seen by daylight, while the rural setting and Gothic family dynamic offer a fresh alternative to the grimy cities of film noir. You can adjust your television’s color to Tierney’s unforgettable eyes.

1) Visual ★★★★★
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★★☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
*Overall: ★★★★☆
 
The Long Goodbye
Yes, Humphrey Bogart is the traditional model of the hardboiled detective, but some of us identify more with Elliott Gould as the insouciant, shuffling antihero of Robert Altman’s tragicomic neo-noir. Det. Marlowe (Gould) is essentially a black-and-white private eye living in a fallen 1970s world. When a favor for a sketchy friend leads Marlowe down a treacherous road, the usual moral quagmire of film noir acquires new levels of disillusionment. One of Altman’s masterpieces in this decade, it’s also a mordantly funny panorama of California humanity that comes alive with Vilmos Zsigmond’s moody wide-screen compositions and the director’s roving perspective.

1) Visual ★★★☆☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★☆☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
*Overall: ★★★☆☆
 
Mulholland Drive
Maybe there are more traditional candidates for neo-noir and its re-working of postwar dread and longing, like Chinatown, but I nominate David Lynch’s journey into psychosexual turmoil and wild mystery. Naomi Watts and Laura Harring star as ingénue and lost girl, respectively, whose relationship begins the hypnotic doubling that extends to the film’s ruptured plot. Cinematographer Peter Deming helps plumb the surreal abyss of Lynch’s feverish dreamscape, which envisions a warped heart at the center of Los Angeles and Hollywood. Like much of the best noir, the impact comes not from a plot twist but from the fear and attraction of chasing a fantasy.

1) Visual ★★★★☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★★☆
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★★
*Overall: ★★★★☆
 
Touch of Evil
Orson Welles’s borderland noir is a spectacular battle of wills between a corrupt sheriff (Welles) against a prosecutor (Charlton Heston) who realizes his life is in danger. The director of Citizen Kane and ace cinematographer Russell Metty create incredible visual set pieces, including the famous opening crane shot that lasts several minutes that features a time bomb. The pulp expressionism lets you feel the desperate, scuzzy atmosphere of a town caught between a lawless lawman and criminals without a conscience. It’s also simply a film of vivid faces: Welles, Heston, screen sirens Marlene Dietrich and Janet Leigh, and character actors like Akim Tamiroff.

1) Visual ★★★★☆
2) Recommend watching LG OLED ★★★★★
3) Cinematic Quality ★★★★☆
*Overall: ★★★★☆
 
For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

We watch movies to escape from reality. However, what do you when the movie you're watching is too realistic, as if you feel like you're experiencing the same actions and emotions the actors are onscreen? Keep in mind that this is not necessarily a terrible thing. Sure, you know that most movies are fiction and some slick directing helps tell the story.

For the three films below, there's more to what you see onscreen that really helps enhance the movie-watching experience.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

War is not pretty. We've seen the classic, choppy black and white films all the way to today's videos on social media. That's real life. However, when you're watching a movie, you know you're going to watch a reenactment of a specific event. Since this is a Spielberg film, you know you're going to experience the real deal from the comfort of your couch.

According to Collider, Steven Spielberg wanted to portray the Omaha Beach scene to be as realistic as possible. Not only did he recreate an almost-exact replica of Omaha Beach for the film's epic scene, he had the film's cast complete boot camp training in order to prepare them for their roles portraying soldiers of war.

This scene, which takes you first-person to the trenches as soldiers dodge bullets and bombs, is intense and as realistic as it gets. You see soldiers experiencing their fate firsthand, with bullets whizzing by and bombs exploding at their every step. It's a very realistic scene, Spielberg's main intention, to showcase the events of war, which he successfully did throughout the film. This scene alone only prepares us for the rest of the film's portrayal of life at war and the bonds that are forged throughout.

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Matt Damon as an action star? You'd think we were joking if we told you that, but it's true. Damon starred in three 'Bourne' films, including The Bourne Supremacy, the second of the trilogy.

Like the first film, The Bourne Identity, there's plenty of action happening at all times and in different parts of the world. What changes here is the director's camerawork angle. We're used to seeing action from a far away, side point view. Not in this film. Here, we're treated to Paul Greengrass' fantastic, right-there-in-the-moment direction, allowing the audience to be a passenger next to Damon's Jason Bourne as he is driving and in pursuit from both police and an assassin. You can feel every turn the car makes and every side-swipe with cars nearby, as well as the tense underground tunnel scene that is a result of the two.

Greengrass knows what the audience wants, and he is not afraid to go for it. His other directing features include two films that are based on real events that unfolded to many around the world on television (United 93) and in the early days of social media (Captain Phillips). He's not afraid to take an approach in order for the audience to feel what the actors (who are portraying real life events) are going through. That's what filmmaking is all about - The excitement or fear, among other feelings, that were felt when these events were unfolding in real-time.

The Abyss (1988)
James Cameron is one of the most well-respected filmmakers in history, and rightfully so. His work spans five-plus decades of extraordinary filmmaking, including films such as Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and Titanic. In a world that's very accepting of CGI and non-practical effects, Cameron has mastered the craft to ensure that his audience is going to be as immersed in the film as possible.

While we can focus upon his 1998 epic Titanic and the measures he took to ensure that everything was made to scale (the ship, that is), The Abyss, Cameron's underwater sci-fi film, is one that takes the cake, especially for a film that relies very little on today's technology (because it wasn't available yet).

Opting to not film on a designed set and because the film takes place mostly underwater in the ocean, the cast and crew were actually filming 30-plus feet below underwater. Dedicated to his craft, Cameron created a film full of action, love and an incredible world under the ocean, which feels like a rollercoaster ride you never want to get off of.

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

That's right, Long-take is a myth. Long takes are merely a technique. The artistry of a film isn't solely determined by how well long takes are executed, nor is it essential to rely on long takes to create deep immersion. But let's take a moment to reflect. Remember the instinctive question we ask when marveling at masterpieces of cinema - "Did you see that long take?"
 
Today's topic is [Long-Takes]. These scenes might not be the greatest in the history of cinema, but they are undoubtedly worth attention. We'll also guide you on how to maximize the immersive experience through LG OLED settings. In this article, we haven't limited our selection to only 4K UHD-quality or mind-blowing blockbusters. The allure of long takes lies in observing, peering into, and then diving deep within them, making you momentarily forget the boundaries of the TV frame. We are like teleporting to that moment. Of course, having a high-quality Blu-ray enhances the experience even more. With Pride, LG OLED, we believe it can deliver 100% immersion for any scene you encounter!
 
 
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Snare and bass kick in, drums intensify. From the greenroom to the backstage, moving through the stage, the camera work never stops, capturing everything from the film's cast, its themes, and even the uncertainty and unease of the conflicts. Michael Keaton leads the charge with his powerful performance, instantly drawing the audience to the edge of their seats. The opening of Birdman is undeniably mesmerizing. The sweat, the clamor, the ashes of nostalgia that bursts forth from the screen. To fully enjoy this scene, honestly, LG OLED's Perfect Black may not be necessary. However if you want to immerse yourself completely in this scene, from the smallest details in the background to the noise, you'll just need the full package, including Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, Brightness Booster, HDR10 Pro, and AI Sound Pro. As you know, remarkably, all these features are packed into a single LG OLED.
 
 
 
Goodfellas
We don’t want to spark any debates, but there's one thing I must say for sure. This long-take that starts when Ray Liotta arrives at Copacabana is undeniably one of the greatest directorial achievements in the history of cinema! It's such a famous scene that further explanation may not even be necessary, especially to the followers of LG OLED MOVIE CLUB. Watching it in an old-school version like DVD-quality also gives a unique and classic feel. However, I recommend experiencing the remastered 4K UHD Blu-ray version with LG OLED’s HDR10 Pro for optimal contrast and enhanced vivid details. You'll be captivated by that silky, luxurious mood it creates.
 
1917
3 words - Real, Energy, Immersive. This film boasts energy emanating from its heightened realism, just like Christopher Nolan's [Dunkirk]. Much of the movie is composed of long takes, and each scene overwhelms with its remarkable level of detail and scale. Instead of singling out specific scenes, I recommend viewing this film as one giant continuous long take and immersing yourself in it. As a war documentary-like film that relies on preserving realism through details, contrast, and sound, these aspects can be readily experienced by simply watching it on an LG OLED. Therefore, I would recommend watching it in Filmmaker Mode to enjoy the thrill of discovering the director's intended elements throughout the movie.

Hunger
This movie and this particular scene I'm introducing now might not have the grand camera work, blockbuster scale, or iconic significance like other films. It's simply about two stubborn men facing off, and stubbornly sticking to their own beliefs. That’s all. However, exactly THAT is overwhelmingly captivating and enthralling. Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and director Steve McQueen brought this prison-visit long take to life with such passion. You don't necessarily need equipment as high-tech as LG OLED, but then again... if you want to fully immerse yourself in scenes like this, capturing every texture of the cigarette smoke in your mind, there's no doubt that LG OLED is unparalleled in every aspect.

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Interview with PARK Jin-Ho, the colorist for The Handmaiden, New World, and Big Bet.
Written by BAE Dong-mi
Photograph by PAIK Jong-heon
 
The workspace of PARK Jin-Ho, a colorist who completes the color scheme of a film , is ironically all-black. Here in his studio he is tasked with the hands-on act of finishing the color and aesthetics in line with the creative intentions of the director and cinematographer. A 65-inch LG OLED TV is installed at the center of the workspace, and it is the only device that displays beautiful and mysterious colors in a monochromatic space. Why has Jin-Ho, who has been attentively altering the color and light of various films and dramas for over 20 years with his work with the film New World to the Disney+ Original Series Big Bet, continues to work with LG OLED TV? We had a conversation about his sense of color showcased through diverse filmography as well as his tools and the world of display.
 
What are you working on these days?
I'm currently working on a Netflix Series titled Daily Dose of Sunshine, which is director LEE Jae-kyoo's next project. There are a lot of sensational series these days that are genre-oriented and deal with crime and violence, but Daily Dose of Sunshine is even nicer and warmer than Extraordinary Attorney Woo, so I'm having a moment of "healing" while working on the DI process. I'm also working on the Netflix series Song of the Bandits, the Disney+ Original Series Vigilante, and the mobile TV launch project titled Hi Cookie from LG U+. 
 
You are working on multiple projects at once.
It seems like I'm working on 2-3 projects simultaneously.
 
You must be surrounded by displays while working?
That's correct. I use 3 displays next to each other when I work. I place my LG OLED in the center, which provides me with HDR (High Dynamic Range). In simple terms, it is a technology that accurately makes bright areas bright and dark areas dark; it increases the range of brightness. It takes advantage of the human eye’s ability to see more details, even when there is high contrast in a scene. I then have the SDR (Standard Dynamic Range) display, which is an older format on the left, and place the broadcast standard monitor on the right. HDR has a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, while SDR is 100 nits. As a reference, 1 nit is equivalent to the brightness of 1 candle in a very dark room. My LG OLED is capable of 1,000 nits which is 10 times brighter than SDR. As a result, because LG OLED is 1,000 nits, it is 10 times brighter than SDR. When I work with my HDR display, it is not only bright, but the metadata for the shadow, highlights, and contrast are also included for each shot. Accordingly, the viewers can understand the intention of the creator more accurately when watching contents on LG OLED because they are looking at the screen that has been calculated from the metadata level.
 
It almost feels like it's going to rain today, which reminds me of a scene from Mother where Mother (KIM Hye-ja) is suspicious of Jin-tae (Jin Goo). She covers Jin-tae's golf club with sanitary gloves, thinking it is a piece of evidence and then goes outside. At that moment, the weather is overcast, and it is difficult to tell what time it is.
I was the DI assistant in Mother. Such an overcast feeling is called a "low contrast." We raise the black and lower the highlights, making the scene look like the expected grey weather in England. We added a shade of blue as well.
 
The Handmaiden also has a hint of blue.
I intentionally added blue to the scene where Lady Hideko (KIM Min-hee) and Sook-Hee (KIM Tae-ri) are running away late at night. That scene was actually shot during the day. It is a "Day for Night," where we film during the day because it is difficult to see the details if we shoot at night. As part of the color-correction I added blue shades to create the feeling of darkness before dawn.
 
One of the most impressive scenes also takes place at night. Sook-Hee tries to discourage Lady Hideko from hanging herself. Against the backdrop of the night, Lady Hideko’s pink nightgown glows in bright white while she is up in the tree. If you had illuminated the tree in the background it could have been blown out as well. However the tree is dark and foreboding. How did you make that work?
We call this "taking the key," so we isolate the tree and lower its brightness. I also lowered parts of the faces and clothing where the light was reflected and added a pink hue to each one of the cherry blossoms on the tree. I attempt to express the uncomfortable sensation of damp British weather in this scene. By the way, we used a vintage lens where the focus is at the center of the frame for The Handmaiden, and the focus is softer on the peripheral. So, if you look closely, the characters in the film are positioned around the center. I added a sharpness effect to make the eyes of the actors more defined and clearer in each shot.
                                  
When you edit the night scenes, it seems like the capacity of the display that captures the dark parts in detail really matters.
Yes, because the brightness spectrum of LG OLED is very broad, the darker parts are much more visible compared to analog films. Since each pixel independently turns on and off, the black can be expressed perfectly, including a single star in the evening sky. In the past, details that were lost in the flat darkness can now be seen. Visuals cues by the director are now visible, allowing for greater dimension to the narrative or scene. The advantages of working with LG OLED are very clear when compared to screening analog films. The light source of a film projector spreads from the center to the periphery, for a natural vignetting effect (a phenomenon where the brightness or saturation of the image decreases from the center to the periphery in photographs and optics). However, there is no vignetting in LG OLED, and all areas are uniformly and accurately illuminated.
 
Do DI offices in Chungmuro (known as Korean film industry) use LG OLED?
Almost 100%. All post-production companies I know of use LG OLED. LG OLED supports Dolby Vision (HDR technology developed by Dolby that expresses diverse contrast and colors from the brightest to the darkest in great detail) and can be purchased anywhere in Korea. In terms of HDR standards, there is Dolby Vision and HDR 10+, but the industry mostly prefers Dolby Vision. Streaming (OTT) platforms such as Netflix and Disney+ recommends working with a display that supports Dolby Vision, and LG OLED displays the RGB balance and the contrast ratio that are the most similar to a HDR standard monitor, and thus you could say that 100% of Korean post-production companies work with LG OLED TV as their preferred display. As a viewer, one will certainly feel the difference in terms of quality upon watching contents with some devices that don't support Dolby Vision. For instance, if I play Big Bet on Disney+, which I have worked on recently, on a TV that does not support Dolby Vision, the content is introduced as HDR but not as Dolby Vision. On the other hand, if I watch the same series with a device that supports Dolby Vision including LG OLED TV, there is an official logo that confirms Dolby Vision is available. This confirms you will be able to watch your shows in the best quality possible.
 
In 2013, you participated in the 10th anniversary remastering of Old Boy. You found yourself able to apply digital techniques based on the original 2003 color corrections by colorist LEE Yong-ki.s
It was an opportunity to work on a film from 10 years ago, and I retouch some parts. The Oldboy that premiered in 2003 was completed through analog film color correction instead of digital color correction. At that time, one could not partially correct the colors within one frame, such as making the sky bluer or increasing the intensity of red of a chair. Instead, only the overall tone of the entire frame of a scene could be corrected. However, for the 10th anniversary of Oldboy, I was able to use digital color correction which allowed me to fine tune each element in a scene, separately.
 
When you worked on the color correction, you must have created a completely new version?
Since the original version remains in the minds and hearts of those that enjoyed the film at its initial release, we felt it was important to respect its visual essence. Therefore, we did not re-scan the original film and completely recalibrate it. Instead, we set the direction to supplement those areas where color correction techniques at the time were insufficient. For example, one technique used silver particles to lower the saturation. Known as ‘Bleach Bypass' this in essence also made black look darker. Old Boy employed this technique and the highlights were too strong. As result, YOO Ji-tae’s forehead looked too white in some scenes. I lowered the brightness in situations like this to make the overall look comfortable for the eyes of today's audience.
 
In terms of the film The Godfather, some streaming platforms have the older, original version and other platforms have the remastered version. They're the same film, but the feeling is very different.
It has to be different. The displays have changed these days. LG OLED displays a wider area than screens in theaters, and this generation grew up watching that wider range of color and details. Older films concentrated on people and characters mostly because the periphery was not visible, but cinematography has evolved with technology and techniques so the audience can see the characters as well as background components. This means the visual spectrum of the audience has widened. For instance, it is rare these days to express hair as simply black so that it looks like a single blob. In the industry we refer to the black looking like a single blob as "thickening up," but these days, we work in a way that brightens up the texture of the hair so that such a phenomenon does not occur.
 
You mean there is detail in black?
That's correct. It's because everyone is now able to see all the subtle shades and individual details of human hair for example, with today’s advance TVs. In the past, the viewers ignored being unable to see the lapel’s distinct line of a black suit, but in terms of TVs these days, the spectrum is so wide that black is no longer expressed as a single tone. When we watched analog films, we focused on the characters, but through LG OLED, we get to pay more attention to the saturation and the highlights. We are now able to see details that were not available to us in the past, as the display spectrum has become broader.
 
If you can brighten up what was hiding in the darkness, you could probably bring out details that were blown out.
If there are too many bright elements, the audience feels visually exhausted. Darkening elements that are too brightly illuminated remains the same process when I worked with analog film and today. However, we have greater abilities when managing black. With today’s method and because of OLED technology we can accurately show the various textures of black so you can even see the distinct corner of a wall in a dark room; which would not have been possible in the past.
 
New World is a noir film, so the overall black color is dark rather than luscious. What kind of details did you add to the black of New World?
I worked to keep the whites white and the blacks black without any other light bleeding through. Furthermore, in order to make the main characters look even more intense, I reduced the saturation on their faces and increased the contrast so that the sooty texture of the face was emphasized.
 
The final flashback scene had a different color scape.
I added yellow, which differed from the main plot, in order to emphasize the difference between the present and the past. In addition, in terms of New World, I remember employing zoom-in, zoom-out, and vibration effects during the car chase scene. DI is the final stage of film production. Therefore, if there is something lacking or missed in editing or CGI, I can apply various techniques other than color correction to achieve the intended impact.
 
You have worked as a colorist for a long time. Do you have a favorite color tone?
I like a look with nuanced green undertones. If you use green right, you can make a sophisticated ambiance. People with white skin tones seem more natural when corrected by adding red magenta, and the skin of Koreans blend well with light green. By the way, the film that I used the most amount of green for is Kundo: Age of the Rampant, where upon closer inspection, there is a little bit of green in every scene. Default, as well, has a green tone. The film depicts a very depressing situation due to the IMF crises, so a green that is not bright or warm was well-suited.
 
You have worked on DI for over 2 decades. How has display technology transformed over the years?
I have worked in the film industry for 23 years. For the first 3-4 years, I worked on CGI, and switched to color correction. When I was working on CGI, I just had to look at a single monitor. However, for color correction, I had to continuously check various displays to check what the audience would be seeing and adjust the necessary details. There are many more elements the audience can see due to the development in displays, and the artistry, background, and objects that were merely glanced at in the past have become much more visible. So both the audience and I pay closer attention to the details.
 
Lastly, what does display mean to a colorist?
A canvas, perhaps. A colorist puts color onto this canvas. Depending on how I move my fingers, this canvas can feel warm or cold. Brighter or darker. Of course, there is the process of filming before the color correction, so the display is not completely empty. It is a canvas with some sketches. The colorist puts beautiful color into this canvas of sketches.

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Saddle up, readers, as we're going to ride off into the sunset... in search of some great western films! 

According to Premium Beat, a Western film is "an American icon born of dark cultural roots."

Whether on the run from the law or trying to take back a town from a sadistic mayor, let's travel back in time with these ten hand-picked western films. 

Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

We chose ten films from various western subgenres that provide a fantastic movie-watching experience. Looking for a sci-fi western? We got you covered with Back to the Future: Part III. How about The Quick and the Dead, an western thriller directed by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-man) that stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone, and Russell Crowe in one of their early roles. These and the eight other films are known for the A-list casts and directors and their exciting storylines. 

Are you searching for a new TV? How about an LG OLED? Our TVs are built to provide a movie-watching experience that'll make you feel like you're with the cowboys as they fire shots into the air, or riding along on a horse at night under the stars in the sky. Our Perfect-Black feature will make you feel like you're under that dark night sky, and the colorful pixel-lit technology will brighten the flames from the evening fires built by cowboys to keep warm. LG OLED's powerful built-in technology and a host of features will have you yelling "Yee-Haw!", just like in the movies!

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Was there ever a time when it was easy to watch a film? Almost daily, we're spoiled with new (and exclusive) films and series popping up on different platforms, sometimes making it impossible what to decide to watch. Suddenly, you feel like your love is not as fiery as before. We're here to help!

If you are suffering from the symptom above, we have the perfect suggestion for you.

Were there any timeless classics that stole your heart, or would you like to experience the thrill of rediscovering those nostalgic moments? We're here to light that fire that you once had built some time ago.

We're here to recommend an almost handful of remastered classics that are even more visually captivating and stunning than the original versions themselves. And, since this is the LG OLED Movie Club, experiencing them on an LG OLED is an absolute game-changer for those movie experiences.

Before we continue, we want to let you know that we've been reading your comments that had been left on our playlists. We're learning from you and trying to meet your expectations, so we hope you continue to follow us on this journey!

Now, let's go!

AKIRA (1988)
 
The Crown-Jewel of Animation & Science Fiction. AKIRA is the exceptional masterpiece of our time that showcases the dedication of animation artisans who meticulously brought every single details to life. The whole dystopian world allows you to truly sense the craftsmanship behind each frame. With the 4K UHD Blu-Ray Remastered Collector's Edition, you can experience the revived brilliance of its colors and intricate contrasts to the fullest, especially when paired with the remarkable Perfect Black of LG OLED. No time and energy to watch whole movie? Just play that absolutely spectacle motorcycle chase at the beginning!

IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000)
 
Has there ever been a day when all you want is to dive into someone else's love story without any suspense or thrilling twists, or you just want to immerse yourself in a tale of romance and crave a "quiet passion" reignited within you? IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE is the perfect recommendation, especially with Criterion’s 4K UHD Remastered Collection. Not only does it offer a remarkable improvement in picture quality, but it also ensures that the director's intentions are represented when enhancing color grading. Therefore, we highly recommend watching this/these remastered films on LG OLED with Filmmaker Mode activated. It will provide you with the opportunity to experience what the director and editor really intended.
 
BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)
 
Acting, Plot, Storytelling: The more we delve into the world of movies, the more these details tend to occupy our minds and hinder our film selection process. Perhaps it's because we've watched too many movies over the years, so, sometimes, let's just forget about everything and surrender ourselves to the pure essence of "entertainment."
 
The 35th anniversary remastered version of Back to the Future features both better picture and sound quality in the best ways possible. While this film may not be considered the "best of the best," our hearts said otherwise (that Johnny B. Goode scene , anyone?). Watch it on an LG OLED screen and feel the breath of new energy coming out from the riff. There's no point in taking out your dusty guitar from the garage - nothing compares to this! 
 
For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here

You won't be able to take your eyes away from this list of films that'll keep you on the edge of your seat! 

From skyscrapers to airplanes, and even imagined worlds, these ten films will grab your full attention from beginning to end! And there's no better way to experience them than on an LG OLED.

Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

From saving Nakatomi Plaza, one of the biggest skyscrapers in Los Angeles, to rediscovering a past profession after your memory has been wiped away, to avenging the death of your dog or trying to get home to your family while trapped on a hijacked plane full of convicts, action films deliver the (mostly) impossible, including over-the-top explosions and jaw-dropping thrills.

Our list features ten action-packed films full of all of the above, but there's only one way to have a true movie-watching experience: With an LG OLED. These films are true action classics (anything starring Tom Cruise, Keanu Reeves, or Arnold Schwarzenegger always are!), and our lineup of TVs featuring Perfect-Black technology will provide an incredible movie-watching experience where you'll feel like you're experiencing the action without having to leave the comfort of your apartment or home. The explosions will be colorful, dynamic, and presented in true color. That's the power of an LG OLED.

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

Science fiction films always go above and beyond to ensure that there’s a lot of weird things going on while showcasing the best and latest technology to provide a fantastic movie-watching experience. 

From a cyborg traveling back in time to save humanity or an alien that was mistakenly left behind while stealing our hearts, to unearthing an alien spacecraft stuck in arctic ice or fighting aliens on a far away planet, science fiction films are a fantastic getaway from the normal. 

Check out the full list on our Letterboxd here.

That’s why we’ve put together a list of ten science fiction films you must watch on an LG OLED TV! These films are not only timeless classics, but, with your LG OLED TV, you’ll feel like you’re in the film itself! How so?

LG OLED TVs come with a number of great features that make you feel like you're in the film, such as the Perfect-Black technology that will make you feel like you’re in outer space. Also, Try the Brightness booster to bring the far, far away galaxy to life with peak brightness. HDR10 Pro will find you the best contrast and details. 

For more information, visit the LG OLED Website here.

At LG OLED, we know TVs and the best films you can enjoy watching with them.

Here, we will be providing you with film recommendations from various genres that will guarantee an incredible movie-watching experience, as well as the latest information about our LG OLED TV lineup and tips on how to utilize your setup.

Movies provide an experience, whether alone or with others, and we look forward to taking that ride with you!

In the coming weeks and months, we will be introducing a variety of content on Letterboxd, including film lists from famous actors and directors and OLED Scores by movie experts.

What is an OLED Score? We're glad you asked! An OLED Score is our version of a Letterboxd rating. This score will accompany many of the films on our lists and is based on the following criteria:

- Cinematic Quality
- Visual Beauty
- Recommended to watch LG OLED 

We are excited to be a part of the Letterboxd community, and look forward to showing you our selection of film recommendations and sharing thoughts on it. 

For more information, visit the LG OLED website here.