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Thanks for starting the thread and sharing the link to this theater. I plan to watch through this venue.In the chance they won't be extended I will need to fit this in on Thursday!
I did a little more digging at other indie art house theaters in NYC.Minari is showing through the same portal at same time and dates for all venues. Looks like it is $12 but will verify once I buy my ticket - have to figure out which night I will watch - probably Friday night. Good for 4 hours from time streaming starts.
I'll let you know if I see it has been extended - i'm on the email newsletter list for Film Forum - and I'll make sure to read them this week! However, it will not be before Friday that they make the decision.
I will be watching the movie too. When do you think the discussion of it will begin? And can we discuss spoilers?
Holly R W wrote: "I will be watching the movie too. When do you think the discussion of it will begin? And can we discuss spoilers?"It looks like everyone is watching as time allows, and it is screening each day, last showing Sunday 4/4 unless it is extended.
I think we can discuss spoilers, but I always use the spoiler function just in case. However, in other threads for buddy reads or buddy watches we kinda abandoned the spoiler function at some point once the discussion got going.
I bought my ticket for Saturday night. It's been a long week and I wanted to be sure to be awake to enjoy!Should we discuss after the screening ends on the 4th or just go for it?
I think it is OK to just go for it! Stupid question (maybe), but can I download an app to watch this on my TV? Would it be the theater app or A24?
Meli wrote: "I think it is OK to just go for it! Stupid question (maybe), but can I download an app to watch this on my TV? Would it be the theater app or A24?"
I have not checked if there is an app to download on TV. The Indie theaters I stream from don't but I do remember on some films being able to do so. Let me see if I can through my Roku and which app.
@Spoilers - I just stuck a spoiler warning in the thread title. I say everyone post as they want what they want, but put SPOILERS ar start of reviews and discussion until after the 4th. Does that sound OK? I think most of us are watching this weekend.
Theresa wrote: "Meli wrote: "I think it is OK to just go for it! Stupid question (maybe), but can I download an app to watch this on my TV? Would it be the theater app or A24?"
I have not checked if there is an..."
Are you watching on your laptop?
I might just do that instead of messing with an app.
Meli wrote: "Theresa wrote: "Meli wrote: "I think it is OK to just go for it! Stupid question (maybe), but can I download an app to watch this on my TV? Would it be the theater app or A24?"
I have not checke..."
If I can stream through Roku on my tv, I prefer that. If not, I stream through my larger tablet from the website - a Samsung with great HD definition, far better than laptop.
Give me a little time...i have to actually get dressed more or less for a zoom conference coming up today on a litigation!
Here's a link explaining how to watch A24 screenings on TV - should be easy. Roku is one of options listed. https://screeningroom.a24films.com/pa...
Now off to prep for my zoom!
Theresa wrote: "Here's a link explaining how to watch A24 screenings on TV - should be easy. Roku is one of options listed. https://screeningroom.a24films.com/pa...
Now off to prep for my zoom!"
Thank you for all the help!
NYTimes today has an article on actress portraying grandmother. I can't link it because it defaults to app since I have subscriprion. Title is "She never dreamed of acting."
I watched a video of the actors talking about the movie. The actress playing the grandmother has a great sense of humor. I'll check out the article.
Just watched it on my laptop. It would not stream on either of my tablets and I couldn't load to my tv without paying a second time. It was fine on the laptop - I just was not happy sitting at my desk all evening after a full day there. I also encourage watching the Q&A after with the cast and writer. I found the leader irritating - I always do (she does a lot of film Q & As), but the actors and especially the author were really interesting.
Thoroughly enjoyed the movie. If BooknBlues reads this - so much at the beginning reminded me of Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch - where the wife sacrifices so much so the husband can try to live out their dream - usually some agricultural dream for which they are ill-prepared and underfunded.
This is a very intimate family level look at immigraton and assimilation, and the struggle to create a new life in a new country. The stresses on the marriage, the family, the children are ever present. The clash of what the dream of a new life in America is for Jacob vs. Monica. The struggle to integrate into community. Yet there is great humor. Grandma is hilarious and her conflict with young David is so funny at times. I felt so badly for Anne, the older sister, with so much responsibility so young.
I grew up in rural america and I remember when churches in our town sponsored 'boat families' from Vietnam in the late 1970s, setting them up with jobs, homes, places in schools in the community, one which was overwhelmingly white. By that time I was in NYC in College, going through my own fish out of water, efforts to assimilate story. I mention that because unique as this story is, it's also a very common one, repeated again and again.
Film is beautiful, well acted, even if perhaps a little slow moving. I am glad of the hopefulness of the ending.
I also watched the movie last night and woke up today thinking about it. Just now watched a Q&A between the director of Parasite and the writer/director of Minari. Minari is the focus. The director explains his thought process and how the film was shot. I'm posting the link to the interview, because I thought it was so good. It's best watched AFTER you screen the movie.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BugG...
I'll be posting my reactions to the movie a little later.
Here are my thoughts about the movie, "Miniari". **SPOILER ALERT**The movie was beautifully written, acted and filmed. Everything about it seemed so real and genuine. The writer/director wrote an autobiographical story of himself as a young boy coming to rural Arkansas to live with his father,mother and older sister in a run-down trailer. His father's dream was to create a thriving farm there. Early on, we see that his mother does not want them to be living there.
The film is multi-dimensional, giving me so much to think about:
1. What it would be like to be a Korean family in all-white, rural America.
2.The young boy has a weak heart. He's told not to run and play hard. He's picked up some of his mother's fears for him. I liked how his grandma told him that he is strong and he can run. She also tells him to disregard some of the religious stuff told to him by his mother (grandma's daughter).
3. At first, he dislikes Grandma (whom he is forced to share a bedroom with.) After all, she doesn't bake cookies, she swears, and she forces him to drink a nasty tasting herbal remedy for his heart. (Does anyone reading this think that the herbal remedy might possibly have helped his heart?) Their developing relationship was both touching and hilarious to watch (as Theresa wrote).
4. The church scenes were interesting to me, as well as Father's pentecostal farm worker. Father seems irreligious himself.
5. The parents seem on the verge of splitting up, yet there is this underlying loyalty which will not permit them to. I saw this in Monica's helping Jacob with saving their vegetables during the fire.
6. The sleepover for David at his church friend's home was funny to watch. The boys chew tobacco, wear cowboy hats, and play Grandma's card game while swearing.
7. I liked how minari was woven into the story. Grandma brought it with her from Korea and planted it by a river. It grew well and became a symbol of life/continuity in the film. (Per the director, the minari was given for use in the movie by his own father.)
8. The film's small budget forced them to shoot the movie in only 25 days. Many scenes were acted and filmed out of order. Wow!
I think the moment we see Monica helping Jacob in the fire is the moment we know this marriage and family will survive and bloom here. Also the scene of the children going after grandma, who you know is planning to go off somewhere and die as she now considers herself a burden harming the family, was just so perfect.
I didn't realize that Grandma was planning to die when she went off in the opposite direction of the house. I thought she looked dazed and sad. The children helping her come back just seemed so fitting. Yes, at the end of the movie, I felt too, that this family would stay together and do well.
I watched on Saturday and loved this! Such a beautiful movie!!!Will add more after work.
I watched on Thursday, but had a friend visit this past weekend and took yesterday off to catch up on chores so I've been busy, back to work today! :(I loved the movie.
It was kind of a quiet film in that on the surface it is the struggles of daily life as an immigrant family trying to get a farm up and running successfully - like really just day-to-day life stuff, no real drama in the events. But when I was describing the film to my husband last night I was struck by how much happens while "nothing" is happening.
The cast was amazing, but Youn Yuh-jung was certainly the standout. I got the sense from the cast&director Q&A that she has some of these comedic traits in real life.
What I loved most is the film was about the family and not based on the American gaze (white gaze?), or generational gaze as Steven Yeun also pointed out in the Q&A. There is the church scene where the family is othered, but most of the film is about the family struggling, not necessarily how they struggle in relationship to other Americans. And it wasn't from one specific family member point of view, so there was no generation bent to the story either.
I also think this is one of the first times I've seen an American film where they show an Asian couple, especially the woman, exhibiting frustration and anger in the way Lee Isaac Chung did. We more often see the stoic-suffer-in-silence stereotype we come to project onto Asian people.
I am sure there are other examples, but I think it is rare so it stood out.
At the same time there was subtle acting - what do they call this? micro-acting?? - where much was communicated with very little. Yeun's sighs, Han Ye-Ri's worried distant gazing.
Ugh, great, powerful film.
I think we are all agreeing on this one. Meli - you nailed it. This is an intimate movie about a family's internal struggles, something common enough in American films but not in Asian American films. By being an intimate family story, it lifted it away from the genre of assimilation and acceptance into America generally and white america. By doing that, it made it an even more powerful story of immigration and cultural merging by reminding us it is not just about the family becoming part of American fabric, but also the family itself simply surviving as a family as the dreams of a new good life become farther away and harder to realize.
I am glad you agree... I wasn't sure if I was putting that into words correctly. I loved Steven Yeun from back in his Glenn days on The Walking Dead, I am glad he has transitioned to the big screen. Supposedly he will be in the next Jordan Peele horror film, or is at least being considered.
Meli wrote: "I am glad you agree... I wasn't sure if I was putting that into words correctly. I loved Steven Yeun from back in his Glenn days on The Walking Dead, I am glad he has transitioned to the big scre..."
I thought all the actors were great and totally believable as a family.
Theresa wrote: "Meli wrote: "I am glad you agree... I wasn't sure if I was putting that into words correctly. I loved Steven Yeun from back in his Glenn days on The Walking Dead, I am glad he has transitioned to..."
Same!
And it sounded like there was a real intimate family vibe on set based on their Q&A.
As you mentioned - highly recommend.
Gives great insight into the process for both the actors and the director and his background inspiration.
Youn Yuh-jung had an interesting story about channeling her great grandmother and her own contentious relationship with her as a child that mimicked what we saw with her and David.
How nice it is that we can each see and then discuss this very interesting movie with each other. From all of our comments, I see that we agree that this is a realistic portrait of a family and their life together. I'm so glad that this group gave me the small push to see it.
I agree with you Holly. I needed that push.
SAME! :) I was interested as soon as I saw the trailer but buddy watch gave me the motivation to finally stream it.
https://screeningroom.a24films.com/?u...
I'll see if I can find other theaters streaming. I'd prefer to pay my $20 to a struggling small theater than to You Tube or Google or Amazon - where you can also stream it for a price.
Here's a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ0gF...