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Kim Ki-duk

LKL’s top 10 K-films of the noughties

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by Philip Gowman on 26 January, 2010

in 2009 year-end posts, Bong Joon-ho, Film, Film reviews and comment, Hong Sang-soo, Im Kwon-taek, Im Sang-soo, Kim Ji-woon, Kim Ki-duk, Lee Chang-dong, Park Chan-wook

Mark Russell over at Korea Pop Wars led the way with his fascinating list of films of the decade – in which the biggest shock was that there was no Park Chan-wook. GI Korea also has a list, which redresses the balance somewhat. So here is mine.
Over the years I’ve been reasonably diligent in giving [...]

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Korean film at the Terracotta film festival

7 May 2009 Events news
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The new kid on the block when it comes to Asian film is Terracotta. They launched themselves last November by securing the rights to Im Pil-sung’s horror film Hansel and Gretel (which screens at the KCC later this month – 28 May), and they’re making a splash at the Prince Charles this month with the [...]

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Spring, Summer at the KCC

9 April 2008 Events news

The KCC’s third film screening, on Friday 11 April at 7pm, is Kim Ki-duk’s Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring. From the KCC website:
Synopsis
Spring, a child monk audaciously stacks rocks on a frog’s back. Summer, a young boy falls in love with a girl who comes to the buddhist monastery to convalesce. Fall, a [...]

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Korean Film at Edinburgh

31 July 2007 Edinburgh 2007

The Edinburgh Film Festival will be showing four Korean films this year. The choice of three of the four comes as no surprise.

No western film festival with Korean content is complete without a recent Kim Ki-duk film, and this time round it’s Breath (숨).

Everyone wants to know how Park Chan-wook can follow his vengeance trilogy, [...]

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Jeon Do-yeon wins at Cannes

28 May 2007 Film
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Congratulations to Jeon Do-yeon on winning best actress at Cannes. She was an early front-runner in the competition, and just for once those early hopes of success were justified.
For the first third of its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, “Secret Sunshine” feels like a slightly somber fish-out-of-water comedy (reports AO Scott at the New York Times), [...]

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Darcy’s predictions for 2007

11 January 2007 2006 year-end posts
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It’s getting to be the case that the more interesting stuff over on Darcy’s site is in his What’s New page rather than his forums.
Here are his predictions for 2007:

Park Jin-pyo’s VOICE OF A MURDERER is going to be a major critical and popular hit (at least 6 million tickets)
There will be about 80 Korean [...]

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Adrien Gombeaud and others: Kim Ki-duk

28 December 2006 Book reviews: Film
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(Dis Voir, 2006)
Adrien Gombeaud / Anaïd Demir / Cédric Lagandré / Catherine Capdeville-Zeng / Daniele Rivière

The best French organists are known for their improvisation skills. Suggest a theme, and they will start a journey from it, sometimes referring back to it but often exploring strange new vistas completely unrelated to it. The essays in this [...]

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Kim Ki-duk’s apology

31 August 2006 Film

The Chosunilbo has a good item on Kim’s apology to Korean cinema-goers. Visit the Chosun for the background and related links.
The story is picked up in the koreanfilm.org forum, and a lively thread is ensuing. The consensus seems to be that if Kim wants Koreans to go to his movies, he should make movies that [...]

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Countdown to the Host (2)

21 August 2006 Bong Joon-ho
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The London debut of the Host is one week away. And it’s still breaking box office records. It’s sold out at the Edinburgh Festival, where Bong Joon-ho will be making a personal appearance, while in Korea, after one week according to the Chosun,
the film brought in some 2.7 million viewers in just four days, setting [...]

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Kim Ki-duk: the Coastguard

26 June 2006 Film reviews and comment
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While browsing Play.com over the weekend I noted an upcoming Tartan release: Kim Ki-duk’s neglected Coastguard. The title of the film, to a westerner, is somewhat misleading. In the peaceful west, a coastguard is something to do with lifeboats, or air-sea rescue. He sits in a lookout post all day scanning the horizon for drug [...]

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New book on Kim Ki-duk

21 March 2006 Film

For all you fans of this inventive director, there’s a new book out. I’ll post some comments once I’ve read it, but that won’t be for a while as I’ve got quite a backlog to get through. That plus the fact that the English version won’t be available until November 2006, according to Amazon.
Update: I’ve [...]

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Kim Ki-duk mistaken for a tramp

11 July 2005 Celebs

Another great tabloid item from the Chosun, and it’s true. I look forward to seeing the film.

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