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Bong Joon-Ho handed Celine Sciamma (director of Portrait of Lady on Fire) his international feature Oscar at the post-Oscar party

UnpopularBlargh

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Via Indie Wire:
https://www.indiewire.com/2020/02/oscars-2020-parasite-foreign-filmmakers-120221045
"As he breezed into Soho House, Bong spotted 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' director Celine Sciamma, who was snubbed by the Oscars but came to town for her single Spirit Award nomination. He handed her his Best International Feature statue. 'You should be holding this,' he said. The DJ turned up 'Hits From the Bong' as the filmmaker slid into a mosh pit of Korean peers, programmers, and marketing executives, most of whom work far from traditional Hollywood."
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I thought this was a nice moment that was worth bringing attention to. Lock if old. Also I really need to find time to see Portrait.
 
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While you're here go check out David Ehrlich's (senior film critic at Indiewire) thread on great writing about this film, my favorite of last decade.

 
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SteveWinwood said:
i will if they ever bring it even remotely close to me

the internet kept saying Valentine's day but then that came and went and still no movie
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There were pretty widespread preview screenings last Wednesday the 12th around the US, but just a single 7pm showing and then it's not seeing anything else until this coming Friday. NEON really dropped the ball on this one.
 
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Both this and Parasite were distributed by a newer (2017) company Neon. They put all of their eggs on Parasite and it paid off for them, giving them their first Best Picture winner, but this movie deserves just as much attention.
 
BringBackSonics

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Yeah they had a lovely interaction at the neon party. She mentioned that bong has done it for all foreign movies or something like that.

It was a nice moment
 
hydruxo

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Bong really is the best, dude is so wholesome and just loves movies

Even at the Oscars he was gushing over The Farewell

 
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NEON really dropped the ball on distribution for Portrait. It came out here in UK on Valentine's Day and me and my wife were thankful we got to watch this amazing film with one of the most unforgettable final shots but it's a very limited release and it wasn't even picked by France as their nomination for best international film.
 
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He's such a cool dude.

Also, I thought it wasn't snubbed, but just wasn't submitted for consideration (for whatever reason)?
 

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hydruxo said:
Bong really is the best, dude is so wholesome and just loves movies

Even at the Oscars he was gushing over The Farewell

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The Farewell/Wang didn't get a single nom at the Oscars lmao

and yeah I didn't go to the preview showing last week so now I've gotta wait til March to see Portrait :/
 
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I hate that film releases are still such a fucking stupid mess compared to books and video games when it comes to accessibility. The Portrait is releasing on iTunes in Finland in June, so I guess I'll watch it then.
 

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Portrait is going into wider release this weekend. Not huge but I think around 300 theaters or so.

This is similar to how A24 does releases.
 
OneEyedKing

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Well this might be my favorite picture of all time.

Portrait was such an incredible movie, just as deserving of recognition and praise as Parasite.
 
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Yeah gonna echo most people in here, Portrait was probably the best film of last year tbh
 
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Oh also for anyone in this thread who liked Portrait or is interested in Portrait, watch Girlhood. That movie was incredible too
 
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Messofanego said:
NEON really dropped the ball on distribution for Portrait. It came out here in UK on Valentine's Day and me and my wife were thankful we got to watch this amazing film with one of the most unforgettable final shots but it's a very limited release and it wasn't even picked by France as their nomination for best international film.
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This made me double take as was unaware it had come out on the 14th - thought this was the wider US release. Wikipedia still puts it as the 28th for the general UK release so I'm jealous of you having got to see it already! Have been waiting awhile to see it and hoping come the 28th it'll be available at the Showcase near me.
 
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Kyuuji said:
This made me double take as was unaware it had come out on the 14th - thought this was the wider US release. Wikipedia still puts it as the 28th for the general UK release so I'm jealous of you having got to see it already! Have been waiting awhile to see it and hoping come the 28th it'll be available at the Showcase near me.
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It's so bizarre to me that this hasn't been released in the UK yet, considering it has been out in most of Western Europe for almost half a year now. I first saw it at the end of October.
 
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CloudWolf said:
It's so bizarre to me that this hasn't been released in the UK yet, considering it has been out in most of Western Europe for almost half a year now. I first saw it at the end of October.
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I know it sucks lol, heard good things about PoaLoF right from the get-go and been sat on my hands waiting for it lol. Same was true for The Lighthouse - released on 31st January here which was the day I had to go in for surgery. By the time I could walk again (last weekend) it was already stopped being shown lol 😩. Thankfully get to watch Parasite on the big screen this weekend but did manage to catch that via streaming in December. Either way, too much time spent waiting for films that everyone else is raving about!
 
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It wasn't snubbed at the Oscars, France chose to put Les Mis up as their submission. I'm also not sure if Portrait even had a qualifying run in the US last year to count for the Oscars.
 
Voodoowoolf

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its coming to a small independent cinema here in my city in the U.K. this Friday. So I will definitely support and give it a watch.
 
OneEyedKing

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Blader said:
It wasn't snubbed at the Oscars, France chose to put Les Mis up as their submission. I'm also not sure if Portrait even had a qualifying run in the US last year to count for the Oscars.
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You're right about the first part but it was released in a few places in December so it would have qualified.
 
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Kyuuji said:
This made me double take as was unaware it had come out on the 14th - thought this was the wider US release. Wikipedia still puts it as the 28th for the general UK release so I'm jealous of you having got to see it already! Have been waiting awhile to see it and hoping come the 28th it'll be available at the Showcase near me.
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I think it was a preview screening, saw it at Curzon Soho.
 
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I also heard Bong tied his Best Director Oscar from a string and dangled it just out of reach of Quentin Tarantino.
 
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