KCCUK – 2012: The Year of the 12 Directors
KCO Sydney: Cinema On The Park 2
Korean Blogathon 2011
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What’s Korean Cinema? Podcast
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Film Recommendations – Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema (Part Two)
Posted on March 6, 2012 | No CommentsThis is Part two of a list of Fifteen Films of the New Korean Cinema – Part One of this list can be found here Friend (Kwak Kyung-taek, 2001) A good example of the type of Korean films that started to explode at the domestic box-office and helped encourage an... -
Join us for ‘Korean Blogathon 2012′
Posted on February 7, 2012 | 8 CommentsLast year New Korean Cinema played host to the Korean Blogathon – a week which was used to try to shine the spotlight on Korean films and the people who are writing about them online. The response blew us away – over the seven days many great articles emerged from... -
Review: Failan (Song Hae-sung, 2001)
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No CommentsKang-jae is low-level gangster, a hoodlum who receives no respect from the gang that he runs with, he is seen as no more than a washed up and gutless slob . Following his release from a ten day jail sentence – for selling porno videotapes to teenagers – Kang-jae tries... -
Guest Post: Save the Green Planet and My Discovery of Korean Cinema
Posted on January 24, 2012 | 1 CommentEvery month New Korean Cinema features a contribution from a guest writer who discusses a film of their choosing. This month Pierce Conran – writer of Modern Korean Cinema – opts for Save The Green Planet… Once upon a time during a cold, wet winter’s night, my tattered shoes leaking,... -
Cinema On The Park 2 – Twenty-One Amazing Films
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsFollowing the success of last years ‘Cinema On The Park’ – with over a thousand people attending – The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney have announced a second season of screenings. There’s a stack of amazing films to see, with a total of twenty-one titles (see below) making up the... -
KCCUK – 12 Directors for 2012
Posted on January 22, 2012 | No CommentsIt’s good news for Korean film fans in the London area as the Korean Cultural Centre has extended its film screenings from fortnightly to weekly. Additionally, this promises to be a particularly special year as each month will be dedicated to the work of a different director and the final... -
Review: Romantic Warriors (Yun Je-gyun, 2003)
Posted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsA group of deadly assassins kidnap a hostage in the hope of getting a high ransom but when they manage to lose themselves in a forest and end up spending the night in a haunted house they manage to disrupt the plans of the ghosts to descend to heaven. The... -
“Introduce what they have missed”: An Interview with Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso
Posted on December 21, 2011 | No CommentsReviewed recently here on the site, Through Korean Cinema is a fascinating documentary that examines the history of the Korean film industry through the perspectives and experiences of five influential filmmakers. Having recently appeared at several international festivals, Through Korean Cinema will appear on DVD in 2012. Director Leonardo Cinieri Lombroso... -
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...