About Author: Ian London

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Ian London is a doctoral candidate at the Royal Holloway University of London. Research interests include film branding, marketing and distribution, the marketing and reception of Hollywood blockbusters, new media and website design. His current project is a historiographic study of film marketing in the period of the New Hollywood.

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  • Park Kwang-su, the former deputy director of the Busan International Film Festival—now fifty-seven years old, and a dean in the National University of Arts’ Department of Filmmaking—was settling onto a stool between two bright banner stands promoting the third event in ‘The Year Of The 12 Directors’ series. There was...

    Unstable States . . . Park Kwang-su Night at the 12 Directors

    Posted on April 9, 2012 | No Comments
    Park Kwang-su, the former deputy director of the Busan International Film Festival—now fifty-seven years old, and a dean in the National University of Arts’ Department of Filmmaking—was settling onto a stool between two bright banner stands promoting the third event in ‘The Year Of The 12 Directors’ series. There was...

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  • The ‘Year of the 12 Directors’ idea is a wonderful one—what began as a series of film screenings in the Korean Cultural Centre has become, for 2012, a celebratory mini-series of director retrospectives which promises to roll on from now until December. The schedule lists three film nights per month...

    Taekwondo at the Apollo: Lee Myung-se and the Great Safety vs. Cinema Debate

    Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
    The ‘Year of the 12 Directors’ idea is a wonderful one—what began as a series of film screenings in the Korean Cultural Centre has become, for 2012, a celebratory mini-series of director retrospectives which promises to roll on from now until December. The schedule lists three film nights per month...

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  • Format: PAL, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Subtitled Audio: Korean 5.1 / Korean 2.0 Subtitles: English Region: Region 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number of Discs: 2 Classification: 15 Distribution: Cine-Asia Run Time: 116 minutes (approx.) Special Features: Audio Commentary by Bey Logan & Mike Leeder / Trailer Gallery / Men of Valour, Personal...

    DVD Review: 71 Into the Fire (Cine-Asia, Region 2)

    Posted on January 22, 2012 | No Comments
    Format: PAL, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Subtitled Audio: Korean 5.1 / Korean 2.0 Subtitles: English Region: Region 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number of Discs: 2 Classification: 15 Distribution: Cine-Asia Run Time: 116 minutes (approx.) Special Features: Audio Commentary by Bey Logan & Mike Leeder / Trailer Gallery / Men of Valour, Personal...

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  • “It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L....

    “It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows

    Posted on November 1, 2011 | No Comments
    “It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L....

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  • A warm September evening at the May Fair hotel. This is, apparently, a good place to stay if you want to get next to whoever and whatever is hip now in the fashion world, but more appropriately for us it is traditionally London W1’s luxury rest stop for overseas filmmakers...

    Festival News from Mayfair, First Impressions & a Salute to Curatorial Ambition

    Posted on September 25, 2011 | No Comments
    A warm September evening at the May Fair hotel. This is, apparently, a good place to stay if you want to get next to whoever and whatever is hip now in the fashion world, but more appropriately for us it is traditionally London W1’s luxury rest stop for overseas filmmakers...

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  • An elementary school in Seoul, the present. Six-year-old Jin spends her penultimate day at elementary school learning about time and playing with friends. Later that evening, she is chastised by her mother for failing to take Bin, her four–year-old sister, off the neighbours’ hands when she was supposed to. While...

    Review: Treeless Mountain (Kim So-yong, 2008)

    Posted on July 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
    An elementary school in Seoul, the present. Six-year-old Jin spends her penultimate day at elementary school learning about time and playing with friends. Later that evening, she is chastised by her mother for failing to take Bin, her four–year-old sister, off the neighbours’ hands when she was supposed to. While...

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  • Young Deok, 1950. The North Korean People’s Army is on the verge of overwhelming the South. Drafted as a student soldier in the 3rd Infantry Division, Oh Jang-beom survives an attack on the town and flees without personally firing a shot. While regiments are diverted to the Nakdong River, a...

    Review: 71 Into the Fire (Lee Jae-han, 2010)

    Posted on March 12, 2011 | 1 Comment
    Young Deok, 1950. The North Korean People’s Army is on the verge of overwhelming the South. Drafted as a student soldier in the 3rd Infantry Division, Oh Jang-beom survives an attack on the town and flees without personally firing a shot. While regiments are diverted to the Nakdong River, a...

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  • The significance of music in the highly iconographic films of Kim Jee-woon is seldom touched on but well worth consideration. He regards the music soundtrack as a component art form and treats it with equal respect to the moving image. The use of contemporary radio hits in The Quiet Family,...

    Film Music and Kim Jee-woon: A Bittersweet Life Original Soundtrack

    Posted on March 11, 2011 | 3 Comments
    The significance of music in the highly iconographic films of Kim Jee-woon is seldom touched on but well worth consideration. He regards the music soundtrack as a component art form and treats it with equal respect to the moving image. The use of contemporary radio hits in The Quiet Family,...

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  • Uijeongbu, the present. Interior decorator Kang Jung-won begins the long journey home on the Seoul subway. As he sleeps, a single mother and her two daughters board, seating themselves nearby. At the last stop, he wakes to find the girls are dead and their mother missing, but in his panic...

    Review: The Uninvited (Lee Su-yeon, 2003)

    Posted on February 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Uijeongbu, the present. Interior decorator Kang Jung-won begins the long journey home on the Seoul subway. As he sleeps, a single mother and her two daughters board, seating themselves nearby. At the last stop, he wakes to find the girls are dead and their mother missing, but in his panic...

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  • Vietnam, 1972. Private Kim and Lieutenant Choi, a distinguished officer who was awarded the Choong Moo for service in defence of his country, are on R & R. They take up with some hookers in Nha Trang, but in the night Kim is murdered. Choi finds and executes the assassin,...

    Review: Ghosts of War / aka, R-Point (Kong Su-chang, 2004)

    Posted on February 4, 2011 | 2 Comments
    Vietnam, 1972. Private Kim and Lieutenant Choi, a distinguished officer who was awarded the Choong Moo for service in defence of his country, are on R & R. They take up with some hookers in Nha Trang, but in the night Kim is murdered. Choi finds and executes the assassin,...

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