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  KoreanFilm.org's Top Korean films of 2011 by Darcy Paquet
  2012/01/14, Source,
  Each year I assemble my top 10 list out of the Korean films that have been released in theaters over the previous 12 months. The small independent films that I catch at the Busan or Jeonju film festivals may not be released by December, but they generally do get a small commercial release within a year or two, so I can include them in a later list.This year, however, I came across a great film that may end up not getting a commercial release, so I squeezed it in where #10 would normally go. I was racking my brain over that #10 slot anyway,...More

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  Korean Cinema 2011: The View from Here
  2012/01/14, Source,
  US-based author and curator of film at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC, Tom VICK shares his views on recent trends he has noticed programming their Korean film festival. How do you introduce new Korean films to an American audience? Since 2004, when I began programming the Korean Film Festival DC, the answer to this question has become more difficult to answer. This is not to say that it's harder to find good films. Quite the opposite. The problem (if it can be called a problem) is that there are so many films to choose from.The explosion of digital production and distribution in the last decade or so has made it easier than ever to make a film, but harder than ever find an audience for it,...More

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  "Varanasi" and "My Way" to go to Berlin Panorama
  2012/01/04, Source,
  The 62nd Berlin International Film Festival has announced early selections for the Panorama section to include two Korean films - Jeon Kyu-hwan's "From Seoul to Varanasi" and Kang Je-gyu's "My Way". Shot on location in India and Korea, "From Seoul to Varanasi" follows a married Korean woman who falls in love with a young Arabicman who gets involved in a suicide bombing. The film made its world premiere at the Busan International Film Festival, but it is understood that it has been re-edited for Berlin.Jeon Kyu-hwan's previous "Town series" about contemporary urban lives in South Koreaincludes "Dance Town" which was also in the Berlinale Panorama. "From Seoul to Varanasi" was produced by CHOI Mi-ae at their production company Treefilm,...More

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  Korean films set for Stockholm festival
  2011/10/28, Source,
  The 22nd Stockholm International Film Festival has announced its line-up to include a slew of films from the Republic of Korea including Hong Sang-soo's "The Day He Arrives", which previously screened in Cannes. In the Asian Images section along with "The Day He Arrives", the festival has selected up-and-coming director Jeon Kyu-hwan's "Dance Town", about North Korean escapees, Kim Ki-duk's self-portrait documentary "ARIRANG - Movie", and Na Hong-jin's brutal thriller "The Yellow Sea",...More