The 2013 New York Korean Film Festival should be awesome
Last year’s New York Korean Film Festival was awesome. It had a great selection, including one film that I now count among my favorites ...
Tag: Foreign
Reviews
Review: The Berlin File
I briefly met The Berlin File director Ryoo Seung-Wan at the 2011 New York Asian Film Festival. He was there promoting his then-newest film ...
Trailers
Trailer: Library Wars (Toshokan Sensou)
Library Wars (Toshokan Sensō) has a concept so strange yet fresh that I’m immediately intrigued. Adapted from a series of Japanese light novels ...
Interview: Im Sang-Soo (Director, The Taste of Money)
Director Im Sang-Soo has a very interesting filmography. From the political black-comedy The President’s Last Bang to the Palm D’or nominated erotic thriller The ...
Flix for Short: Fist of Jesus
[Note: The above video is NSFW.] Fist of Jesus is a Spanish short film from David Muñoz and Adrián Cardona that tells the ...
Flix for Short: Les Militaribles
Les Militaribles is a “parody” of Les Miserables from the South Korean Air Force with rejiggered songs (“Look Down” is now “Dig Down”), ...
Reviews
Review: The House
[The ongoing Korean Movie Night series in New York City continues tomorrow night, February 12, with the film The House. The screening is ...
Reviews
Review: Beyond the Hills
I find orthodoxy of all kinds scary, especially when clung to in resistance to inevitable change. There’s just something about groups and beliefs ...
Reviews
Review: Reality
The alternate reading of the Pandora’s box myth is that hope is the worst possible thing that could have been left in that ...
Reviews
RFC Review: The Suicide Shop
[Over the next few days we’ll be looking at some of the films from Rendez Vous with French Cinema 2013, an annual showcase ...
Review: In the House
There’s a great short story in Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness called “Builders.” In it, one of the characters naively but sincerely ...
NYC: Abbas Kiarostami retrospective starts tomorrow
Abbas Kiarostami is one of the finest directors to come out of Iran, and one of the most acclaimed and important voices in ...