KOREAN
CINEMA
EDITION
KOREAN
CINEMA
EDITION
NEWSOrganized by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Korean Film Council, The Newest Tiger: 60 Years of South Korean Cinema shows almost 50 Korean films such as Aimless Bullet(1961), Low Life(2004), etc. at the WALTER READE THEATER from Nov 12 to Dec 7, 2004. Don't miss this biggest chance to contact Korean film history. [more]
     
Special Award for Best Direction to Bin Jip by Kim Ki-duk at the 61st Venice Film Festival (2004 September)
Grand Prix to Old Boy by Park Chan-wook at 2004 Cannes Film Festival [more]
The Best of New Korean Cinema Festival (total 13 feature films) at the Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago, 164 N. State St. (312)846-2600, www.siskelfilmcenter.org from April 30 thru May 30.
Untold Scandal (2003 Lee Jae-yong) and Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring(2003 Kim Ki-duk) will be screened at MoMA Gramercy, New York City on March 29-April 1st. [more]
2004 Philadelphia Film Festival (April 8-21) shows 11 recent feature films (Please Teach Me English, The Classic, Double Agent, A Good Lawyer's Wife, Memories of Murder, The Road Taken, Singles, Acacia, The Legend of the Evil Lake, A Tale of Two Sisters, The Uninvited) in New Korean Cinema and Danger after Dark section. [more]
Kim Ki-Duk ( director of The Isle) won the Silver Bear for best director for his work on "Samaria" (aka Samaritan Girl) at the 54th annual Berlin Film Festival on Feb. 14. [more]
Greg Pak's first feature-length film, Robot Stories, which got lots of attention at a variety of film festivals during this past year, opens at cinema village in New York City. [more]
Im Kwon-Taek: Master Korean Filmmaker, February 5 - 27, 2004, MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre The Museum of Modern Art and the Korean Cultural Service present an exhibition of 15 films by the renowned Korean director Im Kwon-Taek. Im Kwon-Taek: Master Korean Filmmaker, which runs February 5 - 27, 2004, at MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre, includes many of his acclaimed films, such as Festival(1996), which opens the retrospective, and Come Come Come Upward (1989), as well as his most recent feature Chihwaseon (2002), for which he was awarded the Best Director prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Ticket information is available at www.moma.org. For a complete screening schedule, please visit the Korean Cultural Service website at: http://www.koreanculture.org/moma.htm
2003 3rd Annual San Francisco Korean American Media Arts Festival (Nov. 4-9, 2003) will screen 7 recent korean films (6 USA premiers such as Wishing Stairs, Oh! Brothers, A Good Lawyer's Wife etc.) in addition to the 15 korean american made short films and documentaries. Also, there will be two forums: One forum with Korean Americans in media arts industry. The other forum about the screen quota system in korea with 7 guests from mainstream korean film industry. [more]
BAM Rose Cinemas(30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) will present a full retrospective of work by Hong Sang-soo in late October/early November. Titles include: THE DAY A PIG FELL INTO THE WELL(1997)(Oct 30), THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCE(1998)(Oct. 31), A VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORS(2000)(Nov. 1), THE TURNING GATE(2002)(Nov. 2)
Korean Film Forum presents the third edition of New York Korean Film Festival: Secret Wonderland (August 15- August 24 2003 at Quad Cinema and BAM ) with eighteen contemporary Korean films, including eleven U.S. premieres. [more]
The Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada (July 17 - August 10) has special program for Korean Films, Faces of Korea. Six feature films, Double Agent, Kick the Moon, My Sassy Girl, Musa the Warrior, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, will be projected. [more]
Road Movie(Kim In-sik 2002), which is about two men in love, is shown at 2003 Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. [more]
2003 Seattle International Film Festival (May 22 - June 15) has focused on recent films of South Korea, featuring Too Young To Die, YMCA Baseball Team, Arirang:The Korean-American Journey, Musa, Oasis, H, Jealousy is My Middle Name, and A Little Monk. [more]
Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance received the Jury Award in feature film section at 12th Philadelphia Film Festival.
At 12th Philadelphia Film Festival (April 3-16, 2003), two Korean films, Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002) and Sympathy for Mr.Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2002), will be shown. [more]
Park Chan-ok's Jealousy is My Middle Name (2002) wins Tiger Award at the 32nd International film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 31, 2003). [more] Also, the interview with Film Festivals.com [ more]
CHI-HWA-SEON (PAINTED FIRE):
Master director IM Kwon-Taek's majestic new film tells the story of renowned 19th century
painter JANG Seung-up (Choi Min-Sik), an artist whose revolutionary work and passionate
persona have forever changed the face of Korean art. Winner of Best Director at Cannes 2002.
STARTS IN NEW YORK City Area FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14TH By Kino Internaional UCLA Film and Television Archive brings Seoul Cinema ( October 10 -26, 2002) to West coast area of USA. [more] Take Care of My Cat (Jeong Jae-eun, 2001), an "engaging" and "wonderfully fluid" film (Derek Elley, VARIETY), will be released at the Quad
Cinema in New York city on October 18th, 2002, presented by the Kino International. The film expands nationwide shortly after.
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Tell Me You Love Me: Films of Hong Sangsoo and a Symposium (Chris Berry, David Bordwell, Kyung-hyun Kim, and Akira Lippit as presenters) at the University of California, Irvine (Oct.17- 24) [more]
Chihwaseon (Im Kwon-taek, 2002) and Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo, 2002) will be screened at the 40th New York Film Festival (September 27 - October 13 ). [more]
KOREAN FILMMAKER IM KWON-TAEK COMES TO CHICAGO
At the 59th Venice International Film Festival, Director/novelist/screenwriter Lee Chang-dong won the Special Prize
for Best Director for his latest and third film Oasis (2002).
[interview]
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The Toronto International Film Festival: (September 5-14, 2002) See the latest Korean films in National Cinema Programme section, including
Camels
Another "Crouching Tiger": Korea Sustains Boom with Blockbusters and Auteurs
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Chihwaseon (Im Kwon-taek, 2002) is decided as opening film at Focus on Asia: 2002 Fukuoka International Film Festival
(13 -23 September 2002). [
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A Korean silent movie with Byunsa in Berkeley, USA? Yes! KIMA presents the 2nd Korean film festival (6 -8 September 2002):
" The Representation of Identity in Korean Cinema: Women in Korean Cinema & Korean-American Film Makers". [more]
Subway Kids (Son Jeong-il, 2002) and Oasis (Lee Chang-dong, 2002) have been invited to the 59th
Venice International Film Festival (29 Aug - 8 Sept).[more]
Volcano High(Kim Tae-gyun, 2002) will be screened at 56th Edinburgh International Film Festival (14 -25 Aug 2002) with Take Care of My Cat. [more]
The largest Korean-film only festival abroad, Bittersweet Dreams: New York Korean Film Festival 2002 will be held at Anthology Film Archives and BAM. Running for 10 days from August 16 - 25, this 2nd festival will present noteworthy 12 feature films, including one animation film, My Beautiful Girl, Mari (2001). [more]
Three Korean films (Musa The Warrior (2001), Failan (2001) and The Last Witness (2001)) will be screened at 25th Asian American International Film Festival presented by Asian CineVision and Asia Society from July 19 - 27, 2002. [more]
The 66-year-old South Korean icon Im Kwon-Taek got the Best Director Award at Cannes 2002 for his epic painter biopic "Chihwaseon."
Kick the Moon, My Sassy Girl, and One Fine Spring Day were screened from April 26 - May 2 during Asian Films Are GO at the Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue, at the corner of 2nd St. and Second Avenue) of New York, providing by Subway Cinema. [more]
Eight Korean films were shown at New Korean Cinema section in Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema 2002 from April 4 thru 18. Thanks PFWC and Mr. Travis Crawford [more]
Silmi Island(Kang Woo-suk), based on a real story of the tragedy surrounding South Korean spies, will be financed and distributed worldwide by the Columbia Tristar, a division of Sony Pictures. The movie is due out in May 2003. [more]
Take Care of My Cat(Jeong Jae-eun, 2001) is shown at the Museum of Modern Art's Titus I Theater on Friday, March 22 at 9PM and Saturday, March 23 at 12:30PM in 2002 New Directors/New Films Program. [more]
Retrospective of the Work of Master Korean Filmmaker Shin Sang-ok at MOMA (Mar 4 - 16, 2002) [more]; Also, check out Retrospective Shin Sang-ok: Prince of Korean Cinema, Leading the Desire of the Masses at the PIFF(Pusan International Film Festival) 2001 and a Interview with Shin Sang-ok
Korean-Japanese Production `K.T.ĄŻ Goes to Berlin [more]
Korean idol Jang Dong-gun is more than just a pretty face [more]
Korean blockbuster Shiri (Kang Je-gyu) opens on Feb. 8 in NYC, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Wash. DC [more]
Im Kweon-Taek Shoots Tale of 'Joseon' Painter, Jang Seung-Eop [more]
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CINEKOREA'S CHOICES
 
REVIEWSDown By the River by Anthony Lane from The New Yorker (2007), a review on "Host" [more]
Hong Sang-soo's Unsexy Sex by Adam Hartzell from The Film Journal (issue 4, April, 2003) [more]
Asian Focus Series: New Korean Cinema from The Film Journal (volume 1, issue 2, July/August 2002) [more]
Check out Ian Christy's film reviews about recent Korean films [more] Provocative Bad Guy Rings Hollow [more]; a review (from Asian Film Connections); the biography and interview of the filmmaker Kim Ki-duk(from LJFILM)
"Movie review Otaku" Anthony Leong's
reviews on recent Korean films:
Take Care of My Cat looks at girls' uncertainties [more]
 Seoul Cinema Complex, who could tell you where the center of the country's movie production lies [more] Flower Island, Filmmaker Spins Tale of Hope [more] One of the most prominent directors in the 1980's, Bae Chang-ho's comeback with Last Witness is bound to stir the hearts of viewers [more]
 "Exploring Diabolic Desires and Death during Korea's Early Industrialization Period", The Housemaid [more] The market share of Korean movies in the domestic film market is presently estimated to approach 40 percent. What are the success factors of Korean film industry? [more] Two Films - one North Korean and one Japanese- Shed Light on 1945 Ship Tragedy [more] BOOKS/ VHS/ DVDThe Remasculinization of Korean Cinema (Duke University Press, 2004) by Kim Kyung-hyun [more] Korean Cinema (Images of Asia) (Oxford Press, 2004) by Frances K. Gateward [more] Korean Cinema: History, Resistance, and Democratic Imagination (Praeger Publishers, 2003) by Eungjoon Min, Hanjoo Kwak, and Jinsook Joo
Korean Cinema: The New Hong Kong (2002) written by Anthony Leong. The first guidebook for the latest Korean New Wave of filmmaking. [more]
DVDs with english subtitles are now available (region 1 encoding):
Im Kwon-Taek: The Making of a Korean National Cinema, Edited by David James and Kyung Hyun Kim (Wayne State U. Press , 2001), A collection of ten essays written by leading Koreanists and scholars of Korean film.
 Here is the contents of the book: 1.Korean Cinema and Im Kwon-Taek:An Overview(Kyung Hyun Kim) 2.Im Kwon-Taek: Korean National Cinema and Buddhism (David E. James) 3.The Female Body and Enunciation in Adada and Surrogate Mother (Eunsun Cho) 4.The Politics of Gender, Aestheticism, and Cultural Nationalism in Sopyonje and The Genealogy (Chungmoo Choi) 5.Sopyonje: Its Cultural and Historical Meaning (Cho Hae Joang) 6.Sopyonje and the Inner Domain of National Culture (Julian Stringer) 7.Fly High, Run Far:Kaebyok and Tonghak Ideology (Yi Hyoin) 8.Is This How the War Is Remembered?: Deceptive Sex and the Re-masculinized Nation in The Taebaek Mountain (Kyung Hyun Kim) 9.In Defense of Continuity: discourses on Tradition and the Mother in Festival (Han Ju Kwak) 10.An Interview with Im Kwon-Taek [more]
Are you looking for the Korean movies with English subtitle? It is very hard to find them in US but some stores have DVD or VCD version of recent Korean movies. I'm not sure of the quality of them because that most of them are imported from Hong Kong or Mainland China not Korea. Check out the catalog, anyway. [PokerIndustries.com] and/or [HKflix.com]
My Sassy Girl (Kwak Jae-yong, 2001), The story of a naive young college student and his bizarre girlfriend. A smash hit from the summer of 2001 in Korea [more]
Best review about North & South Korean film history ever since! Contemporary Korean Cinema: Identity, Culture, and Politics (Manchester University Press, March 2001), The first full-length study of Korean film written by a professor at the University of Sheffield, Hyangjin Lee. [more]
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ESSAY
   [chuck stephens] Reunification Blues (2003) [noh kwang-woo] From Innocent Girl to Ghastly Monster: The Housemaid (2003) [adam hartzell] Resposibility and Devotion:The 5th Annual Far East Film Festival (2003) [joon soh] Local Films Outdraw Hollywood in Korea (2002) [cheryl cain] Korean Films 101 (2001) [boris trbic] Korean Films at the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival (2001) [asia center] "Choon-Hyang Jeon" and National Films (2001) [kim mi-hui] Spring cinema hot and controversial (2001) [chuck stephens] Meet Mr. Monster: A peek inside the cine-crypt of [lenny smith] The New Golden Age of Korean Cinema (2000) [chris berry] Recovering the Past: rare films screened in Korea (1998) | [gold sea: asian air] Is Korean Cinema the New HK Cinema? (2000) [donato totaro] Korean New Wave and Beyond (1999) [pok hwan-mo] On Korean Documentary Film (1997) [lee yeon-ho] Mapping the Korean Film Industry (1997) [ahn byung-sup] Humanism Above All (1998) [lee young-il] The Establishment of a National Cinema Under Colonialism: [peter rist] An Introduction to Korean Cinema (1998) | Korean Cinema in Montreal (1997) [noh kwang-woo] Formation of Korean Movie Industry under Japanese Occupation (2001) [rhee tae-rim] Are Korean Movies Seeing a Renaissance? (2001) [darcy paquet]
Genrebending in Korean Contemporary Cinema (2000) | [toh hai leong] Postwar Korean Cinema: Fractured Memories and Identity (1996) [bururung] New York embraces "Chunhyang" | Be true to yourself: interviews with Richard Pena and Gavin Smith | A bell for a new round: Locus Holdings takes over Cinema Service | [jay chung] The barking dogs never bite (2000) | The virgin stripped bare by her bachelors (2000) | Bongja (2000) | Memento Mori (2000) | Rainbow Trouts (1999) | [alison dakota gee] ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY: Changing times for Korean filmmakers (1997) [lee ki-jung] Film, Culture and Generation Gap: An Anthropological Study of Chimhyang, A Korean Feature Film (2001) [oh sung-ji] Korean cinema and Hollywood (1999)
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