South Korea's Sleeper Movie: 'I Love You', a drama about elderly romance starring actors in their 60s and 70s. http://on.wsj.com/euKwpx # [Read More]
Category: General film news (page 10)
Darcy Paquet featured in Chosun Ilbo
Feature on Darcy Paquet of koreanfilm.org in the Chosun Ilbo. Looking forward to the style magazine he's contributing to. http://bit.ly/dNlEVC # [Read More]
Menari and Musan win awards
“Menari, the Sound of Korea”, a short documentary on eastern folk singer Park Soo-kwan wins Delphic Art Movie Award 2011 The Journals of Musan, a film about difficulties of Northern defectors, wins jury prize at Deauville Asian Film Fest http://bit.ly/gnzRaJ [Read More]
Hanji and Im Kwon-taek in the Korea Times and JoongAng Ilbo
Im Kwon-taek: directing beyond his years – a good feature on the new film “Hanji” in the Korea Times http://bit.ly/hZUbel. “I wanted to show that we are losing something valuable right here, right now,” says Director Im. Another feature in the JoongAng Ilbo http://bit.ly/gub2Nk reveals: “The concept for this film started in a pub when … [Read More]
Korean shorts win at Berlinale 2011
Korea is first and second in Berlinale short film section. The Park brothers’ iPhone-filmed Night Fishing wins, with Yang Hyo-joo winning the Silver Bear for The Unbroken, which is a short film about two swindlers who are involved in a real accident one evening after contriving a fake car accident to claim insurance payments. http://bit.ly/guyH9Z … [Read More]
The Korean Film Blogathon, 7-13 March
What’s a blogathon? It’s an event when bloggers across the globe converge (if they so wish) on a single subject. A couple of years ago there was the Hong Sang-soo Oh Soojung! blogathon, when anyone who had anything to say about A Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors said it, either on his/her blog, or … [Read More]
Yoon Jeong-hee interviewed in NYT
Great interview with POETRY actress Yoon Jeong-hee in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/movies/06poetry.html. “The Quiet Life of a Star Actress” – via @koreanfilmfest. Ms Yoon is “one of Korea’s most treasured, decorated and beloved actresses,” said Ted Kim, a Los Angeles-based executive at one of Korea’s biggest entertainment companies. “Like Michael Jordan she stepped away … [Read More]
“Looking for the new sexual identity through throwing father”
The programme for 'Asian Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a Global Context' symposium later this week at Coventry includes an interesting-looking talk by Angela Kim and Min Kyung Joo (Sungkyunkwan University): ‘Like a Virgin: Looking for the new sexual identity through throwing father.’ Apparently this is a reference to gay ssireum wrestling film Like a … [Read More]
Discovering Korean Cinema book launch closes the 2010 festival
Colette Balmain reports from the book launch of Discovering Korean Cinema at the Korean Cultural Centre UK Tuesday 23 Nov 6pm For the launch of the book, Discovering Korean Cinema (edited by Daniel Martin and Mark Morris, The Korean Cultural Centre: London, 2010), both the editors, Daniel Martin and Mark Morris, and one of the … [Read More]
A last look back at 2010
We’ve digested the albums, films, sporting events and books of the year, and reviewed some of the memorable stories of 2010 in our Quiz of the Year. Here are some of the other things we noted in 2010 which didn’t quite make it into any of those articles. 2010: a year of anniversaries It was … [Read More]
Bedevilled tops Tom G’s top 10 K-films of 2010
Tom Giammarco’s picks for the Best Korean Films of 2010: http://ow.ly/3uAiC (including one at #4.5 and five sharing 10th place: 1. Bedevilled 2. Poetry 3. I saw the Devil 4. Moss 4.5. Harmony 5. 71 into the fire 6. Cyrano Agency 7. Metamorphasis 8. Secret Reunion 9. Housemaid 10. Unjust, Midnight FM, Man From Nowhere, … [Read More]
Conference report: Korean War study day at Asia House
The 60th anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 has given rise to a number of commemorative events this year. In November it was the turn of BAKS to present their own event at Asia House – an all-day seminar entitled Reflections on War and Peace: Sixty Years after the Korean War. … [Read More]
Kim Hye-ja voted Best Actress
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association votes Kim Hye-ja Best Actress 2010 – in a poll which includes Hollywood and English language films. Mother is voted the #2 foreign film http://bit.ly/ewCEQx # [Read More]
Warrior’s Way tired and cliched
Via @bournecinema: Negative review of THE WARRIOR’S WAY (aka Laundry Warrior), starring Jang Dong-gun, in the Joongang Ilbo. Sat on the shelf 2yrs. Not a good sign. “It is a novel idea for an Asian swordsman to go to the West and become a hero there. But that plot twist is not strong enough to … [Read More]
First Thoughts on the Last Godfather
From @ajosshi: An unmissable movie: http://bit.ly/ezQ7CQ A few thoughts on Shim Hyung-rae’s new film. # From the trailer it seems as if he’s trying to add a Charlie Chaplin feel to his creation, but if the slapstick is that old and the jokes that unfunny then I’m not sure if even the presence of Harvey … [Read More]
Liz Chae’s stories of the sea
Finding Iodo: The Sea Woman and the Man in Exile. Interesting project – a film featuring a poet and female diver. http://bit.ly/dQv9PS #. This follows on from Liz Chae’s previous film The Last Mermaids, about the diving women of Jeju-do. [Read More]