While today many cinephiles and critics alike focus on directors such as Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, much of their work's political narratives, social commentary and indeed their visuals can be traced all the way back to filmmakers such as Yu Hyun-mok. Even though his most famous work is the brilliant “The Aimless Bullet”, one of the most influential works of the 1960s, he has directed many features worth discussing and also discovering, as many of them have not even been screened outside of Korea. Throughout his career, Yu was never fixed on one approach in terms of storytelling or visuals, but rather experimented, which is very much the case for his 1965 feature “Empty Dream”,a work based on a Japanese pink film by the title “Daydream”. However, Yu transcends the foundation of the story in many ways, creating a movie that is sometimes deeply funny and silly, while also...
- 9/15/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema announce “Korean Cinema's Golden Decade: The 1960s,” a sweeping retrospective that features 24 films from this remarkable period in Korean film history. The series will run from September 1–17 and is one of the largest retrospectives ever of 1960s Korean Cinema outside of Korea, including many rarely screened films, several presented on 35mm archival prints.
Long before Bong Joon Ho, Hong Sangsoo, and Park Chan-wook catapulted South Korean cinema onto the world stage, the foundation of their country's film industry formed in the aftermath of the Korean War. The period kickstarted a wealth of eclectic and innovative filmmaking that culminated in the 1960s. Closer inspection of this decade, now widely considered Korea's premier film renaissance, reveals the arrival of seminal works from auteurs such as Kim Ki-young, Shin Sang-ok, Yu Hyun-mok, Kim Soo-yong, and Lee Man-hee, alongside a meteoric rise and reinvention of genres—from...
Long before Bong Joon Ho, Hong Sangsoo, and Park Chan-wook catapulted South Korean cinema onto the world stage, the foundation of their country's film industry formed in the aftermath of the Korean War. The period kickstarted a wealth of eclectic and innovative filmmaking that culminated in the 1960s. Closer inspection of this decade, now widely considered Korea's premier film renaissance, reveals the arrival of seminal works from auteurs such as Kim Ki-young, Shin Sang-ok, Yu Hyun-mok, Kim Soo-yong, and Lee Man-hee, alongside a meteoric rise and reinvention of genres—from...
- 8/17/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
The US filmmaker delivered a masterclass at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in South Korea.
At the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster gave a masterclass ahead of the film’s screening on opening night (June 29), in which he discussed working with actor Joaquin Phoenix and his affinity for Korean cinema.
On his first trip to South Korea, Aster sat down with his mentor from the American Film Institute (AFI), Barry Sabath, who is also dean of Bifan’s Fantastic Film School (Ffs) workshop, to talk about surrealist drama Beau Is Afraid.
The film stars Phoenix as Beau,...
At the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifan), Beau Is Afraid director Ari Aster gave a masterclass ahead of the film’s screening on opening night (June 29), in which he discussed working with actor Joaquin Phoenix and his affinity for Korean cinema.
On his first trip to South Korea, Aster sat down with his mentor from the American Film Institute (AFI), Barry Sabath, who is also dean of Bifan’s Fantastic Film School (Ffs) workshop, to talk about surrealist drama Beau Is Afraid.
The film stars Phoenix as Beau,...
- 6/29/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
After making history at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival by becoming the first South Korean director to win the Palme d’Or, “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho encouraged cinephiles around the world to seek out more works of South Korean cinema. Thanks to the Korean Film Archive’s official YouTube page, Bong’s wish could not be easier for American moviegoers to fulfill. The Kfa is streaming over 200 feature films for free right now on YouTube, many of which have been uploaded to the platform in restored versions.
The Guardian was the first to shine a spotlight on the massive list of Korean films now streaming for free. Major Korean filmmakers such as the New Korean Cinema icon Im Kwon-taek are represented with multiple films available for viewing. The archive goes back to films released in the 1960s, such as Hyun-mok Yoo’s postwar drama “Aimless Bullet,” and also spotlights early work...
The Guardian was the first to shine a spotlight on the massive list of Korean films now streaming for free. Major Korean filmmakers such as the New Korean Cinema icon Im Kwon-taek are represented with multiple films available for viewing. The archive goes back to films released in the 1960s, such as Hyun-mok Yoo’s postwar drama “Aimless Bullet,” and also spotlights early work...
- 6/4/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
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