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 5th – Nowhere To Hide (1999)
January 12th – M (2007)
January 19th – Gagman (1989)
January 26th – Duelist (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