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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... -
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... -
Review: Aimless Bullet (Yoo Hyun-mok, 1962)
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsCheol-ho has it tough. He lives in a small house with his pregnant wife, a daughter who craves new clothes, two brothers – one of whom is an injured war veteran while the other sells newspapers when he should be going to school – a sister who has become a... -
Review: Treeless Mountain (Kim So-yong, 2008)
Posted on July 20, 2011 | 1 CommentAn elementary school in Seoul, the present. Six-year-old Jin spends her penultimate day at elementary school learning about time and playing with friends. Later that evening, she is chastised by her mother for failing to take Bin, her four–year-old sister, off the neighbours’ hands when she was supposed to. While... -
![[New York Asian Film Festival 2011 Review] A mystical and magical concoction, much like the doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew) dish that it revolves around, Lee Seo-goon’s second feature The Recipe hinges on a brilliant bit of narrative misdirection. Choi Yu-jin (Ryoo Seung-ryong), the producer/host of a sensationalistic TV expose...](http://newkoreancinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/the-recipe-1-115x115.jpg "Review: The Recipe (Lee Seo-goon, 2010)")
Review: The Recipe (Lee Seo-goon, 2010)
Posted on June 30, 2011 | No Comments[New York Asian Film Festival 2011 Review] A mystical and magical concoction, much like the doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew) dish that it revolves around, Lee Seo-goon’s second feature The Recipe hinges on a brilliant bit of narrative misdirection. Choi Yu-jin (Ryoo Seung-ryong), the producer/host of a sensationalistic TV expose... -
Blu-ray Review: I’m A Cyborg But That’s OK (Park Chan-wook / 2006)
Posted on April 3, 2011 | No CommentsFollowing his massively successful Vengeance Trilogy, director Park Chan-wook opted for a change in tone with his romantic comedy I’m A Cyborg But That’s OK (2006) – shortened for international release to I’m A Cyborg. Received with a mixed response, the film was a disappointment for many – especially those... -
Blu-ray Review: A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Jee-woon, 2003)
Posted on April 3, 2011 | No CommentsIn the eight years since its original release Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) has established its status as a classic of Korean cinema. It’s been remade by Hollywood as The Uninivited (Charles Guard, Thomas Guard, USA: 2009) and its director has consistently delivered crowd-pleasing projects within various... -
Review: I Saw The Devil (Kim Jee-woon, 2010)
Posted on March 1, 2011 | No CommentsA psychopath kills a woman. An innocent woman. A beautiful woman. Imagine the plight of her soon-to-be-husband, who loves her and dotes on her. That is the premise. I Saw the Devil is the revenge. Review If one were to ask me the greatest script ever written, or the most... -
Review: Ghosts of War / aka, R-Point (Kong Su-chang, 2004)
Posted on February 4, 2011 | 2 CommentsVietnam, 1972. Private Kim and Lieutenant Choi, a distinguished officer who was awarded the Choong Moo for service in defence of his country, are on R & R. They take up with some hookers in Nha Trang, but in the night Kim is murdered. Choi finds and executes the assassin,... -
Review: My Wife Is A Gangster 2 (Jeong Heung-sun, 2003)
Posted on July 15, 2010 | No CommentsWhen female gang boss Eun-jin is involved in a fall from a building she is miraculously unhurt except for one small problem – she has lost her memory and has no recollection of who she is. Taken home and cared for by Yoon Jae-Choi, the owner of a local restaurantt,...