| HONG Sang-soo casts MOON So-ri (Source) |
2009/06/12 |
2002 Venice Film Festival's Best actress winner MOON So-ri will challenge herself this time with a leading role in director HONG Sang-soo's next project. Details about HONG's film are sparse. The celebrated indie director is known for improvisation, writing and rewriting while filming.
KIM Sang-kyeong has been cast in the male leading role. It will be KIM's third film with HONG after "On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate" in 2002, and "Tale of Cinema" in 2005. KIM also worked with directors like BONG Joon-ho ("Memories of Murder") and KIM Ji-hoon ("May 18").
HONG's latest feature film "Like You Know it All" was invited by Festival de Cannes. HONG's films are conveted by film festivals around the world. He garnered acclaim from his first films "The Day a Pig Fell into a Well" and "The Power of Kangwon Province" on.
MOON So-ri is well known for her acting skills which attracted LIM Soon-rye ("Forever the Moment") and KIM Tae-yong ("Family Ties" - "The Birth of a Fa... |More
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| HONG Sang-soo Shoots His Ninth (Source) |
2008/08/13 |
Director HONG Sang-soo is in production on his ninth feature film, tentatively titled "Like You Know It All" ("You Don't Even Know" - Jal al-ji-do mot-ha-myun-seo). The film, HONG's second to be shot in HD following his previous feature "Night and Day", has an ultra-low budget of only US$100,000.
HONG is one of Korea's leading auteur directors, with many of his films screening at international festivals. Several of his films have been released in France and retrospectives of HONG's oeuvre have been organized in Toronto, San Francisco, Irvine, and Montreal, among other cities.
The new project stars HONG regulars, KIM Tae-woo ("Woman is the Future of Man"), EOM Ji-won ("Tale of Cinema"), and KO Hyeon-jeong ("Woman on the Beach"). KIM plays a film director invited to sit on the jury of the Jecheon International Music and Film Festival. There he meets an attractive programmer for the fest, played by EOM. Later he visits Jeju Island to deliver a lecture and meets the wife of ... |More
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| Slew of art house movies to screen at Jeonju film fest (Source) |
2008/04/24 |
Rookies and vets compete for kudos and cash
A week from now the Ninth Jeonju International Film Festival is scheduled to kick off, its mission to search out creative films from around the world and give audiences an experience unavailable at most movie theaters: the chance to see experimental films.
One of the main events is the international competition that selects the festival's best film.
Twelve films have reached the final stage of the contest.
The movies were chosen from 1,204 submissions, including 815 from South Korea and the rest from overseas.
Sponsored by Woosuk University and Daum Communication, the festival's top film will be awarded the Woosuk Award plus a cash prize worth $10,000.
Second place gets $7,000 and the Daum Special Jury Prize.
The selection committee comprises a five-member jury: Bong Joon-ho, who directed "The Host" (2006), which was seen by more than 12 million cinemagoers; the writer and film critic Chris Fujiwara; Abolfazl Jalili, who received th... |More
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| Art Film Showcase 2008 to screen in Japan (Source) |
2008/03/06 |
For the second year in a row, four Korean arthouse films will be presented to audiences in Japan through the Art Film Showcase in Tokyo. The eight-week series of screenings is sponsored by KOFIC and the Image Forum arthouse theater in Tokyo.
The showcase is an effort to introduce Japanese viewers to a wider spectrum of Korean cinema by presenting high quality works that would otherwise not receive a theatrical release in Japan. Each selected film will screen for two weeks in relay fashion.
The Art Film Showcase 2008 will open on March 8 with a screening of JEON Soo-il's "With a Girl of Black Soil" (2007). The film originally premiered in the Horizons section of the 2007 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Art Cinema CICAE Award and the Lina Mangiacapre Award. The film tells the story of a single father who loses his job in a coal mine.
On March 22, NOH Dong-seok's "Boys of Tomorrow" (2006) will open its run. The story of two young men who struggle to ... |More
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| Hong Sang-soo's Film Vies for Berlin Award (Source) |
2008/02/11 |
By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
While Korea celebrated Seollal on Feb. 7, on the far side of the globe, Germany greeted cineaste and cinephiles from all over the world for the 58th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale), which runs through Sunday. This year, Hong Sang-soo's "Night and Day" competes for the Golden Bear award while three other Korean films make their mark at one of the most exciting and large-scale film events.
"Night and Day" is Hong's eighth feature film and it is the first time the acclaimed director competes at the Berlinale. Known as an innovative minimalist, Hong had competed in Cannes with "Woman is the Future of Man" (2004) and "Tale of Cinema" (2005). Before flying to Berlin, he stopped by Geneva earlier this month because "Woman on the Beach" (2006) was invited to the Black Movie Festival.
A recipient of the 2005 Korean Film Council Production Support for Art Films, "Night and Day" was mostly shot in Paris. It is about a successf... |More
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