WKR: Busan Showcases New Korean Films, The Thieves Opens Stateside (10/06-10/12, 2012)

A raft of Busan reviews as the festival is in full swing! The Thieves also gets a few big broadsheet writeups in the US after opening there on limited release.

UPCOMING FILMS

Azooma

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 9, 2012)

B·E·D

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 8, 2012)

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 7, 2012)

Behind the Camera

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 7, 2012)

Captain Kang

(Word From the ROK, October 7, 2012)

Dangerous Liaisons

(Asia News Network, October 10, 2012)

El Condor Pasa

(Screen Daily, October 10, 2012)

Fatal

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 10, 2012)

(Variety, October 10, 2012)

Jiseul

(The Korea Herald, October 10, 2012)

(Word From the ROK, October 9, 2012)

Mai Ratima

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 6, 2012)

(Variety, October 7, 2012)

National Security

(Screen Daily, October 7, 2012)

(Variety, October 8, 2012)

(Yonhap News Agency, October 6, 2012)

Perfect Number

(Screen Daily, October 9, 2012)

Pluto

(Modern Korean Cinema, October 12, 2012)

(Screen Daily, October 6, 2012)

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 8, 2012)

The Return of the Kang

(Word From the ROK, October 11, 2012)

The Sound of Memories

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 9, 2012)

Tour of Duty

(Word From the ROK, October 7, 2012)

Your Time Is Up

(Variety, October 10, 2012)

CURRENT FILMS

Masquerade

(Film School Rejects, October 7, 2012)

(Life's an Adventure 2, October 9, 2012)

RECENT FILMS

A Fish

(Moria, October 9, 2012)

Doomsday Book

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 11, 2012)

Eungyo

(Asian Movie Web, October 7, 2012)

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 9, 2012)

In Another Country

(Busan Haps, October 7, 2012)

(Cineoutsider, October 9, 2012)

(MIB's Instant Headache, October 8, 2012)

(Word From the ROK, October 7, 2012)

Neighbors

(The Hollywood Reporter, October 8, 2012)

Over My Dead Body

(Asian Movie Web, October 11, 2012)

The Front Line

(War Movie Blog, October 11, 2012)

The Thieves

(Beyond Hollywood, October 8, 2012)

(exclaim.ca, October 11, 2012)

(Film Journal, October 12, 2012)

(The Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2012)

(The New York Times, October 11, 2012)

PAST FILMS

Bedevilled, 2010

(City on Fire, October 8, 2012)

(High-Def Digest, October 7, 2012)

Dance Town

(Eastern Kicks, October 9, 2012)

Just Do It!, 2000

(Korean Grindhouse, October 11, 2012)

Kilimanjaro, 2000

(Korean Grindhouse, October 6, 2012)

Mozart Town, 2010

(Japan Cinema, October 9, 2012)

Petty Romance, 2010

(No Frame of Reference, October 10, 2012)

(Subtitled Online, October 10, 2012)

The Old Garden, 2007

(Init_Scenes, October 11, 2012)

Time, 2006

(Out of Korea, October 10, 2012)

Vanishing Twin, 2000

(Seen in Jeonju, October 7, 2012)

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