Weekly Review Round-up (04/14-04/20, 2012)

An enormous amount of reviews marking the stateside releases of a few Korean films, particularly WWII blockbuster My Way and Hong Sang-soo's brilliant The Day He Arrives.  No less than three NY Times writeups this week, I particulary like Manohla Dargis' take on the latest Hong.

Enjoy!

CURRENT KOREAN RELEASES

Over My Dead Body

(hancinema.net, April 14, 2012)

Russian Coffee

(The Korea Times, April 15, 2012)

The Scent

(The Korea Times, April 12, 2012)

RECENT RELEASES

71: Into the Fire

(Init_Scenes, April 15, 2012)

Arirang

(Beyond Hollywood, April 18, 2012)

(Corea Korea!, April 16, 2012 - Spanish)

(London Korean Links, April 15, 2012)

I Saw the Devil

(Obsolete, April 11, 2012)

Jesus Hospital

(Seongyong's Private Place, April 19, 2012)

My Way

(Cine Vue, April 16, 2012)

(Dork Shelf, April 19, 2012)

(examiner.com, April 19, 2012)

(Film Journal, April 18, 2012)

(London Korean Links, April 14, 2012)

(New York Post, April 20, 2012)

(San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2012)

(Sound on Sight, April 16, 2012)

(The Epoch Times, April 20, 2012)

(The New York Times, April 19, 2012)

(Time Out Chicago, April 19, 2012)

(Trust Movies, April 17, 2012)

(Twitch, April 17, 2012)

Nameless Gangster

(Variety, April 18, 2012)

Oki's Movie

(Film Journal, April 16, 2012)

(Green Cine Daily, April 17, 2012)

(indieWIRE, April 18, 2012)

(The New York Times, April 16, 2012)

Poetry

(Patricia's Wisdom, April 16, 2012)

Punch

(I Heart Korea, April 17, 2012)

Remember O Goddess

(Hangul Celluloid, April 15, 2012)

Spellbound

(Toronto to Tokyo, April 15, 2012)

The Day He Arrives

(AsianCineFest, April 18, 2012)

(Film Journal, April 18, 2012)

(From the Front Row, April 18, 2012)

(Green Cine Daily, April 17, 2012)

(indieWIRE, April 16, 2012)

(OC Weekly, April 19, 2012)

(The A.V. Club, April 19, 2012)

(The Epoch Times, April 20, 2012)

(The New York Times, April 19, 2012)

(Time Out New York, April 17, 2012)

(Variety, April 17, 2012)

(Village Voice, April 18, 2012)

The Front Line

(All About War Movies, April 18, 2012)

The Journals of Musan

(Beyond Hollywood, April 15, 2012)

(Geek Mecca, April 15, 2012)

The Last Godfather

(Grady Hendrix, April 13, 2012)

The Yellow Sea

(KOFFIA Blog, April 16, 2012)

PAST FILMS

Christmas in August, 1998

(First Order Historians, April 18, 2012)

Feathers in the Wind, 2004

(London Korean Links, April 18, 2012)

Seducing Mr. Perfect, 2006

(Korean Grindhouse, April 14, 2012)

The Divine Weapon, 2008

(Rainy Day Movies, April 16, 2012)

Thirst, 2009

(Cinema Sentries, April 18, 2012)

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