korean new wave Archive

  • Park Kwang-su, the former deputy director of the Busan International Film Festival—now fifty-seven years old, and a dean in the National University of Arts’ Department of Filmmaking—was settling onto a stool between two bright banner stands promoting the third event in ‘The Year Of The 12 Directors’ series. There was...

    Unstable States . . . Park Kwang-su Night at the 12 Directors

    Park Kwang-su, the former deputy director of the Busan International Film Festival—now fifty-seven years old, and a dean in the National University of Arts’ Department of Filmmaking—was settling onto a stool between two bright banner stands promoting the third event in ‘The Year Of The 12 Directors’ series. There was...

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  • Detective Cho is on the case of a particularly horrific serial killer – victims are found chopped into pieces which are mixed up with other victims and then left to be found by members of the public. As the limbs are collected they seem to form a pattern which suggests...

    Review: Tell Me Something (Chang Yoon-hyung, 1999)

    Detective Cho is on the case of a particularly horrific serial killer – victims are found chopped into pieces which are mixed up with other victims and then left to be found by members of the public. As the limbs are collected they seem to form a pattern which suggests...

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