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Guest Post: “We Saw the Devil…”
Posted on December 14, 2011 | No CommentsEditor’s note: This is a guest post from Stewart Sutherland of Podcast on Fire.. ‘Korean revenge thrillers’ probably bring one name to mind – Park Chan-wook. Park’s Vengeance trilogy shook the world and for many years the genre has been his, although experimental “genre master” director Kim Jee-woon introduced the... -
Listening To Korean Cinema: The Podcast On Fire Network
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn the third of our short series taking a look at some of the podcasts that – one way or another – cover elements of Korean Cinema, we catch up with the ‘Podcast On Fire Network’… Probably the first English-language podcast dedicated to Asian cinema, Podcast On Fire has grown... -
Call For Papers: East Winds 2012, Coventry University
Posted on December 3, 2011 | No CommentsEarlier this year the first East Winds symposium and film festival was held at Coventry University – a three day event with the intention of raising awareness of Asian cinema for a crowd ‘who might normally not have much chance to catch Asian cinema on the big screen.’ The event... -
Review: Through Korean Cinema (Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso / 2010)
Posted on November 23, 2011 | No CommentsItalian filmmaker Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso’s Through Korean Cinema combines interviews with five Korean filmmakers – and not just any five, we’re talking Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Lee Myung-se, Lee Chang-dong and Park Chan-wook – three film critics (Lee Young-jin, Kim So-young and Tony Rayns), short film clips and some beautifully... -
Listening to Korean Cinema: Podcast Without Honor and Humanity
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsIn the second of our short series highlighting some of the podcasts which cover elements of Korean cinema, we take a look at the snappily titled ‘Podcast Without Honor and Humanity’… Launched in early 2011 Podcast Without Honor and Humanity hasn’t even celebrated its first anniversary but having reached its... -
![“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....](http://newkoreancinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Kim-Han-min-115x115.png "“It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows")
“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.... -
Listening to Korean Cinema: The VCinema Show
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsFor the first in a short series examining some of the podcasts which – one way or another – cover elements of Korean cinema, we take a look at ‘The VCinema Show’… The VCinema Show is a well established podcast, which has recently released its thirty-fifth episode. An accessible mixture... -
Review: Black Hair (Lee Man-hee, 1964)
Posted on October 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe boss of a gang of smugglers discovers that his wife Yeon-sil has been having an affair so, in line with the law of the gang he arranges for her to be thrown out of his house and for her face to be cut so that she’ll never be attractive... -
Festival News from Mayfair, First Impressions & a Salute to Curatorial Ambition
Posted on September 25, 2011 | No CommentsA 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... -
Review: Rolling Home with a Bull (Yim Soon-rye, 2010)
Posted on September 22, 2011 | No CommentsA humorous, lyrical, and philosophical wonder, Yim Soon-rye’s Rolling Home with a Bull is her best film to date, a superior addition to her already impressive body of work. Essentially a Buddhist parable, its free-flowing peripatetic nature, following the path of a lovelorn, failed poet who seeks to escape his...