Birdcage Inn (1998) - 파란 대문 (Pa-ran Dae-moon)

2008/04/22 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

New Yorkers will be able to taste a series of artistic Korean movies made by director Kim Ki-duk from Wednesday (Apr. 23).

The Department of Film at New York's Museum of Modern Art, or MoMa, will hold a screening of the works of award-winning moviemaker Kim Ki-duk, 48, who has directed artistic yet controversial films since 1996.

During the exhibition at MoMa's Theater 1, co-organized by the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Korean Film Council, and supported by the Korean Film Archive in Seoul, movie lovers will be able to take in a total of 14 movies directed by Kim, which will include several features never before seen in the United States, according to MoMa.

Kim is a self-taught maverick filmmaker whose works have impressed international cinema industry with a focus on symbolism and his strong sense of motifs and intensity.

He was a former factory worker, soldier, seminarian and a street artist in France between 1992 and 1995 where he discovered cinema thro...

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2007/04/18 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

To mark the Japanese release of director Kim Ki-duk's 1996 debut film "Crocodile", a special showing under the title of "Continuing Mandala of Ki-duk" will be held in Euro Space in Tokyo on April 28th. It appears that the name Kim Ki-duk has become a brand in and of itself.

The film "Crocodile" will be shown twice a day until May 18th, together with six other works by Kim--"Birdcage Inn", "The Coast Guard", "Address Unknown", "The Isle", "Bad Guy", and "3-Iron".

Separate from this event, Kim's 2006 film "Time" has been playing at a Japanese theater since March 10th under the title of "Love of Absolute".

Another special presentation of director Kim's films titled "Super Ki-duk Mandala" took place between February 24th and March 16th at the same locale. Starting on the 7th of next month, the two most lauded films from "Super Ki-duk Mandala"--"Wild Animals" and "Real Fiction"--will be shown again....

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2005/12/01 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Birdcage Inn `Parandaemun'

Seoul Selection Bookstore

Saturday at noon

The film by famous local director Kim Ki-duk is a story about the friendship between two women from different social classes _ a college student and prostitute. As prostitution districts in Seoul are cleared up, Jin-ah sets out to Birdcage Inn in Pohang, South Kyongsang Province to continue her job. The owner of the inn has a college student daughter named Hea-mi, who despises Jin-ah for having been a prostitute, and they can't gel along well and their relationship becomes worse as Jin-ah happens to sleep with Hea-mi's boyfriend. Just before everything falls apart, the girls begin to discover that they have many things in common. Located near Anguk Station on subway line 3. Tickets: 3,000 won. Details: (02) 734-9565 or http://www.seoulselection.com


Cine-Cafe Evenings

At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday

Korea Foundation Cultural Center

This charity movie session will screen "Chunhyang" by master director ...

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2005/03/23 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Retrospective of Kim Ki-duk to be held also in Milan, Rome, and Turin
Korea Film Fest
3rd International Festival of Korean Cinematography in Florence

South Korea invades Italy in the third engagement of the Korean Film Fest, an international Korean film festival with a retrospective of the director Kim Ki-duk taking place from April 8th through the 14th at the Stensen Auditorium in Florence (Viale Don Minzoni, 25/c).
Whether it be first screenings or contemporary classics, the one-of-a-kind festival in all of Italy will offer about twenty projections: a cinematographic run that begins at the debut of the director, Kim Ki-Duk. Starting from the first projection in Italy of Crocodile (1996) in which he overturns all the rules regarding cinematographic language, to Wild Animals (1997), his second film which marks the return of the director to the city in which he lived in during his European stay: Paris. Continuing with the first national screenings is Real Fiction, a feature-len...

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2004/09/18 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Director Kim Ki-duk won the Silver Lion for Best Direction and two unofficial awards at the 61st Venice Film Festival last Saturday with his 11th movie "3-Iron", adding to his collection of international awards.

This came only seven months after he won the best director prize at the Berlin Film Festival for "Samaria", and made one of the most controversial of Korean directors one of the most celebrated.

Kim, 44, has provoked extreme responses from critics and audiences for tackling challenging themes and marginal characters on the thin line between reality and fantasy.

This junior high school dropout's prolific career began with "The Crocodile" in 1996 after he returned from an artistic stint in Paris from 1990 to 1993. The movie features a low-life who saves a girl from committing suicide, sexually exploits her and then falls in love with her before ending both their lives.

Kim's third movie "Birdcage Inn" (1998), which describes the conflict between a prostitute and...

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