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MOON Seong-geun Cast in SONG Il-gon Horror

2008/02/26 | Source | Permalink |

Acclaimed actor MOON Seong-geun will take the lead role in "Sahwa" (meaning 'Royal Massacre') a horror from Cannes winning director SONG Il-gon. MOON has been a notable figure in the Korean film industry since the 1990's, when he starred in films by top new wave directors, PARK Kwang-soo ("Black Republic"), JANG Sun-woo ("Road to the Racetrack"), and in LEE Chang-dong's debut film "Green Fish".

MOON also provided memorable performances in such films as HONG Sang-soo's "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" and PARK Chan-ok's "Jealousy is My Middle Name". He came late to his acting career, having first spent time as a business man in Saudi Arabia. Throughout the 90's he was deeply involved in supporting the Korean film industry and served as Vice-chairman of the Korean Film Council in 1999.

In SONG's fifth feature, a Chosun dynasty-set tale of bloody power games between rival families, MOON will play the central role of a king beset by curses and vengeful murders. Supporti...| More

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'Bloody Reunion' [DVD Review] A competent slasher pic that could have been nastier

2008/01/20 | Source | Permalink |

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

Six twenty-something characters are invited for a party by their elementary school classmate Mi-ja (Seo Young-hee, the neurotic landlady from "Jealousy is My Middle Name"), who has been caring for her former teacher Ms. Park (Oh Mi-hee), now infirm and wheelchair-bound. The guests turn out to be a motley crew of losers and basket cases, however.

Worse, each of them bears a serious grudge against Ms. Park. Sun-hee (Lee Ji-hyeon, Yeo Gyoon-dong's "La Belle"), traumatized by the teacher's public taunting of her baby fat, has become addicted to plastic surgery and suffers from bulimia. Park Hyo-joon ("A Dirty Carnival") ruined his leg while being punished by Ms. Park and had to fold his childhood dream of becoming an ace baseball player. Se-ho (Yeo Hyeon-soo, "Holiday") and Eun-young (Yoo Seol-ah), now a couple, is still struggling against the memories of insults and put-downs regarding their childhood poverty.

Even Myung-ho (Lee Dong-gyoo, Kim Eung-su's "D...| More

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Film festival looks at the birth year of Korean cinema: 1996

2006/03/19 | Source | Permalink |

Koreans have been making films for over half a century, but it wasn't until 1996 that the world noticed. And notice it did: Suddenly, programmers for major international film festivals around the world were talking about this new thing, "Korean cinema".
Domestic film critics say the "new wave" of Korean cinema started that year, as more directors began to seek a new and unusual aesthetic for their films, pushing subjects and styles beyond the bounds of popular taste.
The year is therefore convenient focal point for the film festival "Korean Cinema 1996: Ten Years of Memory", which runs at Seoul Art Cinema through March 26.
The festival's organizers certainly had a rich array of daring, breakthrough material to choose from. The screenings include the debut films of three directors, each of whom took radical approaches to filmmaking: "Three Friends", by Lim Soon-rye, explores Korean masculinity through the lives of three young soulless men who have a hard time adjusting to the social ...| More

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Big Screen Actors Make Presence Felt on Small Stage

2005/10/31 | Source | Permalink |

By Bae Keun-min
Staff Reporter

Seol Kyeong-gu, left, famous for such films as "Peppermint Candy", stars with Kim Bo-young in the play "Love Letters".
Stars of the big screen are increasing their presence on the theater stage.

Yoo Ji-tae, who starred in the film "Antarctic Journal" in 2005 and "Old Boy" in 2003, will perform in "Six out of Sixth (Yukpunui Yuk)" from Dec. 1 to Jan. 1 at Sadari Art Center (02-541-4519) in Taehangno, Seoul. He is also the play's producer.

Yoo, who made his screen debut with the 1998 film "Bye Jun", appeared on stage for the first time last year. In the two-person drama "The Tidal Wave (Haeil)", Yoo played a North Korean Army officer who works with a farmer to protect a village during the Korean War.

Moon Seong-geun, who showed off his acting skills in "To The Starry Island" in 1993, "A Petal" in 1996 and "Jealousy Is My Middle Name" in 2002, will act in "Until Getting Dried and Worn (Marugo Taltorok)" to be staged at Seoul Arts Center from De...| More

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Local Filmmaker Wins Critics Prize at Rotterdam

2005/02/06 | Source | Permalink |

By Paolo Bertolin
Korea Times Correspondent

ROTTERDAM - Local filmmaker Whang Cheol-mean won a prize awarded by film critics at the closing ceremony of the 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Friday.

Whang received the FIRPRESCI Prize, given by an organization of international film critics, for his film "Spying Cam (Frakchi)". The film was in the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition section of the event, which began on Jan. 26.

The Tiger Award, the top prize of the festival, was shared by three films: "The Sky Turns" by Mercedes Alvares, an intimate documentary on a shrinking Spanish village; "4" by Ilya Khrzhanovsky, a fresco of contemporary Russian decline; and "Nemmeno il Destino" by Daniele Gaglianone, a portrait of disadvantaged Italian youth.

Whang, who studied media and cinematography in Germany, has long been a prominent figure in Korean independent filmmaking and is the current director of the Korean Independent Film Association. But Whang said on th...| More

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