| 2nd Chungmuro Int'l Film Fest Kicks Off Sept. 3rd (Source) |
2008/08/30 |
The second edition of the Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul (CHIFFS) will bring a mixture of old and new to screens September 3rd, opening fittingly with director HIGUCHI Shinji's 2008 remake of a classic 1958 KUROSAWA Akira film, The Hidden Fortress. The curtain raiser and closing film will screen at the National Theater of Korea with the rest of the fest's 175 films screening at various venues across Chungmuro district, the traditional center of the Korean film industry.
This year adds a competition section to CHIFFS, bringing 13 contemporary features from around the world to compete for US$ 40,000 in prizes. Korean feature, Happiness by director HEO Jin-ho will participate in this section alongside Johnny TO's Mad Detective (Hong Kong) , Qunshu GAO's Old Fish (China), and ten others. Guests on the international jury include director of The Deer Hunter, Michael Cimino, and Korean director LIM Sang-soo.
Also of note is a special section celebrating the 40thannive... |More
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| Timeless tales of love and loss in classic Korean cinema (Source) |
2008/08/20 |
Classics never die they just run and run, and during the second Chungmuro International Film Festival, several oldies from Korea's early cinematic history will be getting a thorough airing.
The films will be screened under the title "Memories of Korean Cinema", and the festival takes place from Sept. 3 to 11.
Included will be Shin Sang-ok's "A College Woman's Confession" (1958) and Jeong So-young's "Love Me Once Again" (1968).
"We have a similar emotional connection with films from the past as we do with contemporary movies", said actor Lee Deok-hwa, the managing director of the film festival. "Screening Korean classics allows audiences to understand the history of past Korean films".
Films in early 1950s Korea were difficult to produce due to the aftermath of the Korean War (1950-1953). But the industry quickly recovered, with successful releases of Lee Gyu-hwan's "The Story of Chun-hyang" (1955) and Han Hyung-mo's "Madame Freedom" (1956).
The late 1950s was the so-ca... |More
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| MoMa to screen works of award-winning director Kim Ki-duk (Source) |
2008/04/22 |
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... |More
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| Japan to Show Encore Films by Director Kim Ki-duk (Source) |
2007/04/18 |
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.... |More
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| Domestic Movies With English Subtitles (Source) |
2005/12/01 |
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 ... |More
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