CURRENT FILMS
Masquerade
(Film School Rejects, September 20, 2012)
Showing posts with label yeonghwa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yeonghwa. Show all posts
Friday, September 21, 2012
WKR: Masquerade and Bounty of Recent Releases (09/15-09/21, 2012)
Lee Byung-Hyun's smash hit period pic Masquerade gets a number of reviews this week while a wide selection of recent Korean films gets covered all around the world, from DVD and cinema releases to TIFF, Zipangu and Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today coverage.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
KCN: New Park Chan-wook Project, Pieta Oscar Bid, BIFF Sched. & Thieves Triumphs in HK (09/13-09/19, 2012)
Lots of news this week as Park Chan-wook takes on yet another new film, BIFF announces its schedule, Pieta gets its chance for Oscar glory and The Thieves begins its world conquest.
KOREAN CINEMA NEWS
Only a few weeks after signing on to the western The Brigands of Rattleborge, Park Chan-wook has taken on an additional Hollywood gig. This new project is one that has been knocking around for a while after appearing on Hollywood's Black List (a yearly industry poll of tinseltown's best unproduced screenplays) in 2009. Previously Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, 2006) and Luca Guadanigno (I Am Love, 2009) had been attached to the script by the scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade who have been involved in all the recent Bond films.
Corsica '72, as the title would suggest, takes place on the small mediterranean island and follows two best friends who grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law and in love with the same woman.
It seems that this project will go ahead of Rattleborge as that one will require more time for casting due to its violent nature. It's great to see Park so busy these days but personally I was hoping he would head back home to helm another feature in Korea rather than do three on the trot stateside. But who am I to complain when I now have three films to look forward to from one of the world's best filmmakers? (Modern Korean Cinema, September 18/Twitch, September 18, 2012)
Corsica '72, as the title would suggest, takes place on the small mediterranean island and follows two best friends who grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law and in love with the same woman.
It seems that this project will go ahead of Rattleborge as that one will require more time for casting due to its violent nature. It's great to see Park so busy these days but personally I was hoping he would head back home to helm another feature in Korea rather than do three on the trot stateside. But who am I to complain when I now have three films to look forward to from one of the world's best filmmakers? (Modern Korean Cinema, September 18/Twitch, September 18, 2012)
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The 3rd 'Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today' at MoMA - Preview
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is kicking off its 3rd edition of Yeonghwa: Korean Cinema Today tomorrow and the event, which features an eclectic array of arthouse and commerical films until its conclusion at the end of the month. Our US correspondent Peter Gutierrez offers up his views on a trio of featured works below (Helpless, Mirage, and A Fish) while I've chimed in with my own two cents on the new Lee Sang-woo film Fire in Hell.
More reviews will appear over the coming days and anyone in NY should do their best to check out this great event. The wonderful lineup, which includes In Another Country, Blind, Pink, Stateless Things, Jesus Hospital, Poongsan, From Seoul to Varanasi and some Shin Sang-ok films, can be viewed in full by following the below link:
More reviews will appear over the coming days and anyone in NY should do their best to check out this great event. The wonderful lineup, which includes In Another Country, Blind, Pink, Stateless Things, Jesus Hospital, Poongsan, From Seoul to Varanasi and some Shin Sang-ok films, can be viewed in full by following the below link:
Friday, September 23, 2011
Weekly Review Round-up (09/17-09/23, 2011)
A good number of new reviews this week including a whole bunch relating to the Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today MOMA screenings currently taking place in New York. Since most of those reviews are from the event itself I've put them in their own section at the bottom.
NEW KOREAN RELEASES
(Front Row Reviews, September 18, 2011)
(Fangoria, September 22, 2011)
RECENT RELEASES
Amen
(Twitch, September 22, 2011)
(Oriental Nightmares, September 19, 2011)
(Beyond Hollywood, September 21, 2011)
(Metro Pulse, September 21, 2011)
(New Korean Cinema, September 22, 2011)
(Manila Bulletin, September 21, 2011)
(Beyond Hollywood, September 18, 2011)
(Beyond Hollywood, September 15, 2011)
The Yellow Sea
PAST FILMS
A Good Lawyer's Wife, 2003
(Anikor, September 21, 2011)
Lost in the Mountains, 2009
(Twitch, September 22, 2011)
Mother Is a Whore, 2009
(Beyond Hollywood, September 18, 2011)
Passerby #3, 2009
(New Korean Cinema, September 19, 2011)
Rainy Days, 1979
(Init_Scenes, September 19, 2011)
Secret Sunshine, 2007
(Metro Pulse, September 21, 2011)
The Chaser, 2008
(sky.com, September 2011)
The Sword With No Name, 2009
(DVD Verdict, September 20, 2011)
YEONGHWA: KOREAN FILM TODAY
Animal Town, 2009
Hello Ghost, 2010
Influenza, 2004
Lost in the Mountains, 2009
Midnight FM, 2010
Mozart Town, 2008
Passerby #3, 2009
Rolling Home With A Bull, 2010
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