Kim Ki-Duk Archive

  • 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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  • The Museum of Modern Art have announced their second season of screenings falling under the banner of Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today. Yeonghwa means ‘film’ in Korean and the films chosen illustrate just some of the diversity of Korean cinema – from popular mainstream titles such as the chiller Midnight FM...

    Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today at MoMA

    Posted on September 18, 2011 | No Comments
    The Museum of Modern Art have announced their second season of screenings falling under the banner of Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today. Yeonghwa means ‘film’ in Korean and the films chosen illustrate just some of the diversity of Korean cinema – from popular mainstream titles such as the chiller Midnight FM...

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  • The 14th feature from Kim Ki-duk, better known in the West for his “extreme” psycho-sexual dramas, The Isle (2000) and Bad Guy (2002) is a remarkably restrained affair. The story centres on a love triangle between a disaffected housewife Yeon (Park Zi-a), her adulterous husband (Ha Jung-woo) and a death...

    Review: Breath (Kim Ki-duk, 2007)

    Posted on May 25, 2011 | No Comments
    The 14th feature from Kim Ki-duk, better known in the West for his “extreme” psycho-sexual dramas, The Isle (2000) and Bad Guy (2002) is a remarkably restrained affair. The story centres on a love triangle between a disaffected housewife Yeon (Park Zi-a), her adulterous husband (Ha Jung-woo) and a death...

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  • Hee-Jin is a mute boat-keeper who runs and supplies bait on a fishing lake by day, and then sells her body to the same fishermen at night time. Hyun-Shik arrives, apparently to fish, but he is actually on the run and contemplating suicide. Hee-Jin becomes fascinated by Hyun-Shik as she...

    Review: The Isle (Kim Ki-duk, 2000)

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Hee-Jin is a mute boat-keeper who runs and supplies bait on a fishing lake by day, and then sells her body to the same fishermen at night time. Hyun-Shik arrives, apparently to fish, but he is actually on the run and contemplating suicide. Hee-Jin becomes fascinated by Hyun-Shik as she...

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  • While walking through a crowded street Han-Gi notices Sun-hwa – a young college girl – waiting on a bench for her boyfriend. Immediately fascinated, Han-gi approaches the girl and sits down next to her, prompting the young girl to move away quickly. When her boyfriend arrives Han-gi suddenly grabs the...

    Review: Bad Guy (Kim Ki-duk, 2001)

    Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
    While walking through a crowded street Han-Gi notices Sun-hwa – a young college girl – waiting on a bench for her boyfriend. Immediately fascinated, Han-gi approaches the girl and sits down next to her, prompting the young girl to move away quickly. When her boyfriend arrives Han-gi suddenly grabs the...

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