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Showing posts with label north korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label north korea. Show all posts
Monday, November 2, 2020

Busan 2020 Review: STEEL RAIN 2: SUMMIT Dives into Thrilling and Surprisingly Funny Geopolitical Waters

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Released three years, ago, the geopolitical actio...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Review: NORTHERN LIMIT LINE Mistakes Nationalism For Narrative

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By Pierce Conran 2014 gave us the nationalist call-to-arms Roaring Currents and, following its record-breaking run, the following sum...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Review: THE SPY GONE NORTH, Bold and Sumptuous Espionage Yarn Eschews Action for Geopolitical Intrigue

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By Pierce Conran Following his period action blockbuster Kundo: The Age of the Rampant in 2014, Yoon Jong-bin is back in the summer s...
Friday, September 1, 2017

Review: THE NET Is a Simple Catch from Kim Ki-duk

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By Pierce Conran Complex issues get a facile treatment in The Net , the latest work from Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk. More coherent ...
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Review: V.I.P. Is D.O.A.

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By Pierce Conran Following his period epic The Tiger , director Park Hoon-jung scales down his ambitions for the North Korea-themed i...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

BiFan 2017 Review: RYEOHAENG Casts Abstract Light on NK Refugees

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By Pierce Conran Director Im Heung-soon returns for his third feature, casting his artistic light on another under-served segment of t...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Review: Borderline Life - DEAR DICTATOR Re-Frames the Gaze South

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By David Bell Renowned for his unflinching examinations of the socially, economically and culturally marginalised within South Korea...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Review: Strong Scenes Doth Not a Narrative Make in Genre-Hopping COMMITMENT

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By Pierce Conran Following on from this year's Secretly Greatly , another action-drama featuring Korean idols playing young North ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Review: THE SUSPECT Eschews Drama for Action, and Lots of It

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By Pierce Conran Thinking back to Shiri (1999) and Secret Reunion (2010), North Korean spies have a history of success at the Korean ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

MKC Thought Leaders' Corner: North Korea in South Korean Cinema (May 2013)

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North Korea has been in the news a lot lately for its latest round of belligerent actions. Many believe that Western media has been ex...
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today 2012 - Ideological Barriers and Invisible Borders in Poongsan (풍산개, Poongsangae) 2011

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Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today event at NY's Museum of Modern Art. (previously published). ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Korean Cinema News (12/15-12/21, 2011)

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The big news in Korea this week is the death of the leader of the North, Kim Jong-il.  Given that he was a known cinephile I have included a...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

In Love and the War (Jeokkwaui Dongchim) 2011

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The villagers look on as North Korea invades Since Korean cinema reemerged at the end of the 1990s one of the most popular topics it ha...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Korean Cinema News (11/10-11/16, 2011)

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Another huge amount of news this week including some great features from Korean Cinema Today which among other things broke news regarding t...