Next Korean Movie Night NY series features Sunny (YAY!!!)
I love Sunny. I love it so much that I don’t feel awkward typing like a preteen girl talking about how fantastic it ...
Tag: Korea
Character posters for Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer are dark
Usually “gritty” imagery doesn’t get me particularly excited by things, but I can’t pretend that seeing these character posters for Bong Joon-Ho’s upcoming ...
Reviews
Review: Young Gun in the Time
[Korean Movie Night NY continues tonight, March 12, at 7 PM with Oh Young-Doo’s Young Gun in the Time. Tickets are free (but ...
Korean Movie Night NY sees a micro-budget genre invasion
If you’ve ever wondered where the term “exploitation film” came from, it referred to the way low-budget films featured content that was made ...
NYC: MOMI putting on Park Chan-Wook retrospective
One of my favorite living directors, Korean or otherwise, is Park Chan-Wook. His Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: 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 ...
Review: The Taste of Money
To prepare for this review, I watched three of director Im Sang-Soo’s older films: A Good Lawyer’s Wife, The President’s Last Bang, and ...
NYC Reminder: See Padak for free at the Tribeca Cinemas
Heya New York City. Normally, this would be the time where I post my review of the Korean film Padak along with a reminder about ...