Korean Cultural Centre UK Film Night: 2012 – The Year of the 12 Directors

This year the Korean Cultural Centre UK will holding weekly film screenings with each month focusing on a single director with the final screening for each month being held in one of the cinemas across London and featuring a special Q&A with the director in question. This is a rare opportunity to see some of these films on the big screen and with rare appearances from the filmmakers themselves.

January – Lee Myung-se

January 5thNowhere To Hide (1999)

January 12thM (2007)

January 19thGagman (1989)

January 26thDuelist (2005) + Q&A with Lee Myung-se (New Korean Cinema Coverage)

February – E J-yong

February 2nd An Affair (1998)

February 9th Dasepo Naughty Girls (2006)

February 16th Untold Scandal (2003)

February 23rd Actresses (2009)*

March – Park Kwang-su

March 8th Chilsu and Mansu (1988)

March 15th The Uprising (1998)

March 22nd A Single Spark (1995)

March 29th Meet Mr Daddy (2007)*

April – Song Il-gon

April 5th Flower Island (2001)

April 12th Feathers In The Wind (2004)

April 19th Dance of Time (2009)

April 26th Always (2011)*

May – Jeon Kye-soo

May 10th Midnight Ballad for Ghost Theatre (2006)

May 17th A Perfect Day + If You Were Me 4 (2009)

May 24th Lost and Found (2010)

May 31st Love Fiction (2011)*

 

June – Lee Joon-ik

June 7th The King and the Clown (2005)

June 14th The Happy Life (2007)

June 21st Sunny (2008)

June 28th Battlefield Heroes (2011)*

 

July – Lee Hyeon-seung

July 5th The Blue In You (1992)

July 12th Sunset Into The Neon Lights (1995)

July 19th Il Mare (2000)

July 26th Hindsight (2010)*

 

August – Lee Yoon-ki

August 9th This Charming Girl (2004)

August 16th Love Talk (2005)

August 23rd My Dear Enemy (2008)

August 30th Come Rain, Come Shine (2011)*

 

September – Jeon Kyu-hwan

September 6th Mozart Town (2008)

September 13th Animal Town (2009)

September 20th Dance Town (2010)

September 27th Varanasi (2012)*

 

October – Im Kwon-taek

Im Kwon-taek Retrospective – 15 films

Times and dates tbc

 

November – Song Hae-sung

November 8th Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary (2004)

November 15th Maundy Thursday (2006)

November 22nd Failan (2001)

November 29th A Better Tomorrow (2010)*

 

December – Lim Soon-rye

December 6th Three Brothers (1996)

December 13th Forever The Moment (2007)

December 20th Fly, Penguin (2009)

December 27th Rolling Home with a Bull (2010)*

Links: Korean Cultural Centre UK

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avatarMartin Cleary is the founder and editor of the New Korean Cinema site. He is a contributor for the forthcoming Directory of World Cinema: Korea, has been a recurring guest on the 'What's Korean Cinema?' podcast and has participated in a discussion panel at the East Winds Symposium at Coventry University. He has written for the magazines Jade Screen and Screen Power and for several online sites including Electric Sheep and VCinema and was a team writer for the now defunct KFCCinema site.