Elisheva

Best not on MDL - Song Lang (Vietnam) - exquisite story-telling, cinematography and music. The way it used music, and silence.
Bilmemek (Turkey) - deeply affecting but difficult film; very well done.
Jitters (Iceland) = coming of age, ensemble with het and gay
I Love You More (Kosovo/Albania) - coming of age, touch of melodrama
Coalesce (Cambodia/France) - slice of 3 lives, somewhat confusing, mostly for music & seeing Cambodia
Beira Mar (Brazil) - coming of age
My Partner (Hawaii + Filipino) - 1st half, more for geographic/cultural interest

Silent Sparks - gave up 36 mins - very slow and very dark and the characters aren't particularly likeable. wrong time of the year at the very least. seems fairly standard emotionally repressed + anger gangster tropes, but with a fujoshi undercurrent. or maybe that's just what a repressed gay longing gangster film looks like.

4 Days - dropped approx 30 mins, after much 1.5x and skipping through very long stretches without dialogue. Even that far into it, it was still ALL about one ML's cycle of girlfriends.

Bad to Bed - on hold 32 minutes (and will need rewatched) because brain isn't up to this right now and i think the series edit may be easier to follow, or at least leave more room to digest.

Backlight - gave up 39 minutes (only 24 left to go but an art film set in the 1970s amongst men obsessed with Mishima wasn't for me)

that's a pirate site with stolen content. better to watch legally whenever possible - and we don't know yet if one31 will add subs or not.
it's in our interest to watch legally too, since it shows there's an audience for lakorns with English subs. stolen content gives the creators no such feedback, let alone whatever money they might get through ads or a legal platform.

Oh it's Pear Pitchapa. Very young :)

They spend a lot of time shouting in this.

The song Nok recommends in ep 2
น้ำฝนเดือนเจ็ด - ผ่องศรี วรนุช (The July Rain by Pongsri Woranuch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s5xLx6wyZg
She died 6 April 25, age 85.

Be sure to watch past the end credits too.

JFF Theatre has it free to stream until the end of January. It's lovely.
https://en.jff.jpf.go.jp/movie/bento-harassment/

i would have been much happier just watching the first series again.

Wow. This is magic, where much is said without words, or in between words, where words are an invitation to emotion and dance their expression.

This needs attention, yes, but also letting go and breathing with its poetry.

Another good review, perhaps helpful if you didn't understand some of what's going on with the charactershttps://windowsonworlds.com/2022/04/13/our-house-party-ボクらのホームパーティー-shuichi-kawanobe-2022/

Interesting review:
https://genkinahito.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/our-house-party-ボクらのホームパーティー-2022-director-shuichi-kawanobe-osaka-asian-film-festival-2022/

Interview with Kawanobe Shuichi, director and screenwriter:
https://genkinahito.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/an-interview-with-shuichi-kawanobe-director-of-our-house-party-osaka-asian-film-festival-2022-rainbow-reel-tokyo-2022/

Director Wattanapume Laisuwanchai has made a public appeal to get School Town King added to Netflix.

More information and a link to request the film are in this article.
www.bkmagazine.com/entertainment/director-klong-toey-rap-documentary-wants-your-help-to-get-it-netflix/

If you're ok with raws, it's on Viu Thailand (free, but will need a VPN).

Right, if you know lakorns it's blazingly obvious. Oh well. I wrote a wee introduction to lakorns that I had planned to put in a discussion thread, and maybe a few might be open to learning more, but I've lost interest in setting myself up as a punching bag for those who aren't.

Was it just a mistake that subs on Gaga call Shibahara Jun 'Ren' instead? That confused me so much.

https://bsky.app/profile/theonlygolden.bsky.social/post/3m5kfhczlpc2q
survey 10 Best J BL (on DMM TV)
Beautiful Man, 10 Things I Want to Do Before I Turn 40, Minato Shouji Coin Laundry, Cosmetic Playlover, Love is Better the Second Time Around, At 25:00 in Akasaka, Cherry Magic, My Personal Weatherman, Ossan's Love, I Hear the Sunspot

Exactly. You watch lakorns too, right? This is lakorn - multiple interconnected stories, some of which focus on women. Like Khun Chaai (To Sir With Love), the MM romance is just one part.
Anyway, thank you for replying. The responses here have been demoralising to say the least. Which may be what some intended.
LiTM's strength is how it intertwined both Pin and S&S's stories to make such a compact lakorn.

English subs are baked in so no CC button like we're used to looking for.https://vipa.me/en/contents/6625/masterofkhonthai

I watched via the above link, but I think this will work as well https://www.thaipbs.or.th/program/Documentary/episodes/102862

well made but there's a het male gaze/fantasy vibe to this i wasn't keen on, especially with those ending shots. directed by a woman though so maybe just that general trend in movie-making?