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Talkhouse

Park Chan-wook’s latest film, the dark comedic thriller <a href="https://www.neonrated.com/film/no-other-choice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">No Other Choice</a>, hits theaters on Christmas Day. A South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer who is among the most acclaimed auteurs in the world, he is perhaps best known for his “Vengeance Trilogy,” consisting of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. His other acclaimed films include the vampire drama Thirst (2009); Stoker (2013), his Hollywood debut; the psychological thriller The Handmaiden (2016); and the Hitchcockian Decision To Leave (2022), for which he won Best Director at Cannes. He also directed and executive produced the BAFTA-winning series The Little Drummer Girl (2018), and was the co-showrunner of The Sympathizer (2024), an HBO Series starring Robert Downey Jr., based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name.

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Best of 2025: Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice) on Discovering Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Twilight and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Neighboring Sounds

Terence Nance is an Artist, Musician, and Filmmaker born in Dallas, Texas in what was then referred to as the State-Thomas community. Nance wrote, directed, scored, and starred in his first feature film, <a href="http://ofherbeauty.com">An Oversimplification of Her Beauty,</a> which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2013. In 2014, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow. In the summer of 2018, Terence’s Peabody award-winning television series Random Acts of Flyness debuted on HBO to great critical acclaim, and was renewed for a second season by the network. His latest release as a musician, Vortex+, came out in early 2025.

Terence Nance

Underrated/Overlooked: Terence Nance on Aquarius

Kleber Mendonça Filho