Hello! My name is Olivia (she/her) and welcome to YHBWF, a channel dedicated to discussing a variety of films!
I'm a trans writer who loves films! YHBWF is where I post video essays exploring a variety of films with an academic and interpretive perspective. World, cult, experimental, documentary, classic and modern cinema is celebrated here to showcase the diversity of cinematic history, but I also focus on discussing different topics relating to cinema as well!
You Have Been Watching Films is an LGBTQ+ inclusive channel that will at times discuss social and political issues that some viewers may find uncomfortable.
I had to watch this after seeing thr video. Absolutely incredible and awkward for the first half and turning into a something so weird by the second. I felt like I was watching the most disturbing Wes Anderson movie he could make. Ryuhei starts off seeming like the head of the house and by the of his night, he feels like one of the three stooges in a horror movie. He's just lumbering back home without any power left over his family. Megumi's adventure with the criminal is almost farcical at first before you realize the criminal is a deeply disturbed man. Her night ending with thr sun slowly shining on her was incredible and the shot of her laying at water's edge was my favorite. Kengi's story is just tragic but he somehow gets off lightly while everyone around him suffers. It was that lost shot though that sold me on the film.
The drugs and hanging out in the streets was realistic 90s but the graping and oversexualizing was not realistic, particularly for skaters. Telly and Casper would not be in the crew being all sexually creepy like that.
One day I really hope a print of London After Midnight shows up or just more films with Lon Chaney. He had such an expressive face and I love the Phantom of Opera. That face reveal completely freaked me out when I first saw it. The Phantom looks scared and demonic and just barely clutching on to humanity all at once. I may just want more silent era horror movies which I usually just love. They usually feel mystical and I'm a huge fan of their musical score. One day hopefully...
Completely agreed on both, hopefully a copy of London After Midnight is found, and I also love how expressive Chaney is in The Phantom Of The Opera - I hope to cover that film properly sometime! Yes there is definitely a mystical, eerie quality about silent films, I think the lack of audio and the often hazy images give it a very haunting, ethereal quality. 🥰
Someone in a relocation video said, "If you're thinking about moving to Biddeford Maine, watch Gummo, that's it in a nut shell." Whelp looks like i won't be moving there. 😅
Are there later versions of this film? .. i remember i saw different ending when an alien attack Silbad and take control of his voice then Jafar kill the alien which look like a moving raw egg was emerging from Silbad eyes by using the e-gun!
I swear I have seen this movie before but I couldn't remember where until I rewatched it. Right before starting highschool I knocked out my health class over the vacation period and the weird teacher (who disappeared by the end of my first year) but this movie on and left the room until it was over. I didn't remember a thing about the film besides the ending which seemed a bit extreme but I kinda understood why it happened. We also watched the 2000 movie Pay It Forward that same week which I remembered was strange. Honestly, I was a bit too quick to throw a punch at someone to really get bullied. I went a big school with a lot of students in my year so when one of thr bullies tried to pin me against a locker, I just broke his nose and by lunch half thr school knew about it though I never got in trouble. The same kid tried to threaten me a year or two later when I was wearing a shirt of various communist leader having a party (Lenin had a lampshade on his head). I just asked if he was stupid and he left me alone. That said, I hated highschool (well, school in general) and found alot of help by listening to music. I fell in love with punk and jpop and 80s rock and 90s rap. As soon as I got a car I was driving everywhere aimlessly, just listening to the radio. This habit is something I still do to this day. Something about driving in the country listening to whatever I'm into at the moment (so much Suzanne Vega and Drum & Bass lately) just relaxes my mind and lets me decompress. Music has definitely got me through some times and has definitely saved me life.
Thank you for sharing this comment, I appreciate how open you are in sharing this but I see how this film could be very relatable for you too. There's something about being in the moment listening to our favourite artists that can be such a necessary escapism, like a personal solitude between ourselves and that artist. 🥲 Thank you for watching, I always appreciate your comments!
I finally watched the movie and I must say that the main acress Eihi Shiina was incredible portraying a girl with both a sweet & shy side and an evil tormented one. It's absurd that she worked so little afterwards.
Very underrated film, I really liked the themes of experimentation with biological warfare. It's never really been done before in movies, and I like how they show the "politics" within Unit 731 and how it really hits home "the men behind the sun" saw enemy POWs as nothing more than test subjects to mess with. Really good director.
The "Hells Angels" embarrassed themselves ! ! * This episode at the Altamont Speedway would haunt them for years to come... Everyone at the "Free Concert" would hate the "Hells Angels" for years... Some still do... * As for the song "Gimmie Shelter" would become a hit and the #1 song in Vietnam for Five ( 5 ) years in a row... Some say #1 song in Vietnam for Six ( 6 ) years in a row... That is saying something... Excellent video and commentary and very informative, and "Thank you" for sharing the video ! ! Excellent video... "Semper Fi" Mike in Montana P.S.: I will ( never ) forget the song, "Gimmie Shelter" and the tours in Vietnam and what this important song meant to us in Vietnam... :)
What do you think about Tokyo Sonata? How do you feel it compares to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's other films? Which films would you recommend similar to Tokyo Sonata? Thanks for watching!
Hi, all of the music in my videos is my own. I usually work on the music the same time I'm writing each video, so this track is still new, but I'll be making it available to stream soon. If you enjoy the music in my videos, you can find a lot of my stuff anywhere you stream music, including Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4iCpMcoFFbVqEC5I36b8Kb?si=w03PDuLmRO2W2yf3jhwGSg 😁
There aren't many other movies that will leave that kind of an impact on you as Gummo will. Watched it for the first time 16-17 years ago and I'm still under impression.
I'm glad you've enjoyed the video! 😁 I feel similarly, I saw it for the first time when preparing for this video and certain scenes are still lingering with me.
I watched this yesterday and it was just too weird to take seriously. Heinrich doing interpretive dance as he talks to the husband, the wife rolling around in a subway like a spaz - I know it was meant to capture the emotional turmoil or whatever but it was so bloody silly. Had to keep tweaking my volume as well; probably scared my neighbor with the animal screeches.
Despite the decay and deprevaty, Gummo is the most beautiful movie I've ever seen. To me, it is a masterpiece in all its disturbing textures. An intimate human sketchbook that is rarely seen, or maybe ignored by the rude gaze of niceties.
How do you feel about All About Lily Chou-Chou? Which films does it remind you of? Do you enjoy Shunji Iwai's other films? Which films would you recommend to those who loved All About Lily Chou-Chou? Thanks for watching!
I haven't seen this particular one, but I do love the WKW style and so I'll cue it up for a watch soon. I'll be back to watch this video after I've seen the movie. Cheers
Cool video! I like it when you throw in a different type now and again to mix it up (though your video essays are great too). I looked through my collection and I think my favorite cover is criterions box set of lone wolf and cub, they did a really beautiful job. A close second is the evil dead trap 2 that unearthed films has put out. Arrow also puts out reliably great cover art like you mentioned (although i don't have much arrow)! Also I think its really neat when the inserts are reversible covers so you can choose your favorite, I wish it was a more common thing. I know you shared some of your favorites, but do you have a number one all time favorite cover art in your collection?
Thank you! I've really enjoyed making different types of videos this year and I plan to keep doing that too. 😁 Ooh the Lone Wolf And Cub boxset is gorgeous, I know exactly the artwork you mean. I still plan on upgrading my DVD set to the Criterion blu-ray at some point! It's very hard to narrow down my all-time favourite artwork in my collection (I'm just very indecisive lol), but off the top of my head I'm thinking of Criterion's Showa era Godzilla boxset, where Godzilla is firing his radioactive breath. It just looks so bold and striking in that pop art print style! 😁
I wonder what happened to Wong Kar-Wai to make so many incredible movies about failed and troubled love. Multiple people must have hurt the poor man or he must have hurt so many hearts. My mom rented this and In The Mood For Love in the same weekend. I watched them with her and saw how they effected her so emotionally. I kinda knew she had stop carrying about dad years ago but want to stay together with him for me and my brother. Seeing her holding back tears at the end of both movies still resonates in my mind every now and then. I've rewatch Happy Together a few times over the years though it probably won't really effect me that much since I never really had a true romantic relationship. I've had people I've slept with and definitely been the non violent Po-Wing in a few when I was younger (I genuinely have a hard time physical harming anything) but I never really had a truely tender relationship in really any shape or form since I was a teenager. Even then I was completely in love with my straight best friend so, never really anything concrete in my eyes. With time and understanding of the hearts I've rendered and those who did it to me, even I can enjoy those few sweet moments of closeness in Happy Together even if they are checkered with scars. I absolutely love this movie. It's a bit rough on the eyes and heart but it is incredible.
I totally understand why this and In The Mood For Love impacted your mother in that way, I feel even at his most esoteric Wong Kar-wai really seems to evoke some very deeply held emotional scars. 🥲 From your description, it sounds like you've lived through something very similar romantically to In The Mood For Love. 😭 I'm glad to hear you can still appreciate the sweet moments of this film too though! I think it really reinforces the film's universal impact even if we don't share these experiences. 💖
i just watched this film and i rlly don’t know how to feel.. i sobbed for ages at the start and had to take a break. i also sobbed at the end of the film and now have a pounding headache. I relate to some of the themes in this film so it hurt me a lot and i think i need time to form a proper opinion because it brought up painful memories. although, i did like how the film showed how different people process traumas such as sexual abuse, and that it rlly does play into how a persons character is formed.
How do you feel about Happy Together? How would you compare it to Wong Kar-wai's other films? Which films would you recommend similar to Happy Together? Thanks for watching!
