Eleven years since “You Are More Than Beautiful”, and even longer his best work so far with “Late Autumn”, director Kim Tae-yong is finally back with “Wonderland”, a project that has been in development since 2019.
Synopsis
Wonderland is a video call service, that helps users reunite with deceased people using artificial intelligence. These are stories of people using the service. In a virtual world called ‘Wonderland', a place where people can reunite with a person they may not meet again by simulating them through A.I, a woman in her 20s requests to meet his lover who is in a coma, and a woman in her 40s requests to meet her husband who passed away.
Once again starring his wife Tang Wei, the star-studded cast of “Wonderland” also includes names such as Bae Suzy, Park Bo-gum, Jung Yu-mi and Choi Woo-sik. It is rumoured that Gong Yoo will also...
Synopsis
Wonderland is a video call service, that helps users reunite with deceased people using artificial intelligence. These are stories of people using the service. In a virtual world called ‘Wonderland', a place where people can reunite with a person they may not meet again by simulating them through A.I, a woman in her 20s requests to meet his lover who is in a coma, and a woman in her 40s requests to meet her husband who passed away.
Once again starring his wife Tang Wei, the star-studded cast of “Wonderland” also includes names such as Bae Suzy, Park Bo-gum, Jung Yu-mi and Choi Woo-sik. It is rumoured that Gong Yoo will also...
- 5/1/2024
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
To mark the centenary of Yasujiro Ozu's birth, Hou Hsiao-Hsien made his own Tokyo story, “Café Lumière,” a film with Hou's individuality, but full of subtle nuances in tribute to the Japanese master. The family drama gets a modern-day setting, with cultural change seen across the generations.
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Yoko (Taiwanese-Japanese musician Yo Hitoto) is a journalist who switches her time between Tokyo and Taiwan. Researching Taiwanese composer Wen-Ye Jiang, she seeks out a cafe the composer frequented when based in Tokyo. And in tribute to Ozu, who favored dialogue over story, that is about that in terms of plot.
Family and its changing nature is a theme hinted at throughout, with Yoko being pregnant by her boyfriend in Taiwan. However, she has a somewhat blasé attitude towards the pregnancy, and indeed her boyfriend; unconcerned as to whether she sees him again,...
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Yoko (Taiwanese-Japanese musician Yo Hitoto) is a journalist who switches her time between Tokyo and Taiwan. Researching Taiwanese composer Wen-Ye Jiang, she seeks out a cafe the composer frequented when based in Tokyo. And in tribute to Ozu, who favored dialogue over story, that is about that in terms of plot.
Family and its changing nature is a theme hinted at throughout, with Yoko being pregnant by her boyfriend in Taiwan. However, she has a somewhat blasé attitude towards the pregnancy, and indeed her boyfriend; unconcerned as to whether she sees him again,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
by Vedant Srinivas
“Record of A Tenement Gentleman” is one of Ozu's great early films, and one which was also screened last year at Cannes as part of their Classics section.
The plot outline of “Record”, like most of Ozu's works, is deceptively simple (and also full of comic touches). In post-war Japan, a man living in an impoverished Tokyo tenement brings home an abandoned child (Kohei). O-Tane, a hard-hearted widow living in the same tenement, is forced to take care of Kohei. In what follows, we gradually see O-Tane's change of heart, from her initial anger at Kohei's bedwetting, her endless tricks to get rid of the boy, to finally growing fond of him.
What is most remarkable is how each scene, character, and setting is ingrained with the disastrous after-effects of WW2. Tashiro, Tamekichi, and O-Tane, the three residents of the tenement we are introduced to, each...
“Record of A Tenement Gentleman” is one of Ozu's great early films, and one which was also screened last year at Cannes as part of their Classics section.
The plot outline of “Record”, like most of Ozu's works, is deceptively simple (and also full of comic touches). In post-war Japan, a man living in an impoverished Tokyo tenement brings home an abandoned child (Kohei). O-Tane, a hard-hearted widow living in the same tenement, is forced to take care of Kohei. In what follows, we gradually see O-Tane's change of heart, from her initial anger at Kohei's bedwetting, her endless tricks to get rid of the boy, to finally growing fond of him.
What is most remarkable is how each scene, character, and setting is ingrained with the disastrous after-effects of WW2. Tashiro, Tamekichi, and O-Tane, the three residents of the tenement we are introduced to, each...
- 2/24/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Ozu Yasujiro, the leading Japanese film director behind classics including “Tokyo Story” and “Late Spring,” has had his double birth and death anniversaries – Ozu died in 1963 on the day of his 60th birthday, a little more than a year after the release of his last film “An Autumn Afternoon” – celebrated throughout 2023 at places as varied as the Cannes Film Festival, Los Angeles’ Margaret Herrick Library and the Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute.
But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career.
Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/Nfaj Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29.
Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku,...
But it falls to October’s Tokyo International Film Festival to put on this year’s biggest and most comprehensive reconstruction of Ozu’s surprisingly varied career.
Working in conjunction with the National Film Archive of Japan, the festival will present an extensive retrospective that covers almost all the films that Ozu directed (TIFF/Nfaj Classics: Ozu Yasujiro Week) from Oct. 24-29.
Ozu spent his entire career, from camera assistant in 1923 to renown director in 1962, as an employee of major Japanese studio Shochiku,...
- 9/20/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Previous Cannes 2022 Fashion Polls: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6
Léa Seydoux has multiple films at Cannes which is the norm given how in demand she is both at home in France and abroad. This is the gown she wore to her Crimes of the Future premiere. Brilliant Chinese actress Tang Wei returned to the spotlight with Decision to Leave (which Elisa thinks is The film of Cannes thus far). If you've been wondering where she's been that three year break was because she recently had her first child with husband director Kim Tae-yong (Late Autumn). Meanwhile the UK's Lashana Lynch and Spain's always memorable Rossy de Palma were right on trend; there have been a lot of metallic and/or disco ball gowns as well as an abundance of brilliant pink on the red carpet of late.
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Léa Seydoux has multiple films at Cannes which is the norm given how in demand she is both at home in France and abroad. This is the gown she wore to her Crimes of the Future premiere. Brilliant Chinese actress Tang Wei returned to the spotlight with Decision to Leave (which Elisa thinks is The film of Cannes thus far). If you've been wondering where she's been that three year break was because she recently had her first child with husband director Kim Tae-yong (Late Autumn). Meanwhile the UK's Lashana Lynch and Spain's always memorable Rossy de Palma were right on trend; there have been a lot of metallic and/or disco ball gowns as well as an abundance of brilliant pink on the red carpet of late.
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- 5/24/2022
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
After a typhoon wiped out Wednesday evening events in Busan and brought back memories of last year’s drenching, organizers of the Busan International Film Festival must be mighty pleased to have got proceedings under way Thursday largely as planned.
Indeed, by the time the opening ceremony got under way around sunset on Thursday the problem was heat and humidity. A slight evening breeze was most welcome as local and international celebrities wafted along the red carpet in the city’s landmark Busan Cinema Center.
The ceremony kicked off with a choir of children that provoked delighted cooing from the audience.
While Korean and Japanese politicians at national level have engaged in one of the most bitter diplomatic rows in years, the Busan festival, no stranger to political intrigues, has deliberately kept its doors open. Not only is the opening film “The Horse Thieves” a Japanese-Kazakh co-production, the festival’s...
Indeed, by the time the opening ceremony got under way around sunset on Thursday the problem was heat and humidity. A slight evening breeze was most welcome as local and international celebrities wafted along the red carpet in the city’s landmark Busan Cinema Center.
The ceremony kicked off with a choir of children that provoked delighted cooing from the audience.
While Korean and Japanese politicians at national level have engaged in one of the most bitter diplomatic rows in years, the Busan festival, no stranger to political intrigues, has deliberately kept its doors open. Not only is the opening film “The Horse Thieves” a Japanese-Kazakh co-production, the festival’s...
- 10/3/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
For those accustomed to the bittersweet greatest hits of Japanese auteur Yasujirô Ozu’s later period familial dramas, the lesser known 1952 social satire The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice reminds one of a wider range than some of his revered titles would indicate. Seeing as this more obscured title arrived just a year prior to 1953’s ineffably devastating Tokyo Story (review), with its poignant intergenerational rifts, makes the latter title all the more unprecedented. Likewise, the coterie of titles marked by seasonal or time-oriented motifs which would follow in quick succession (Early Spring; Tokyo Twilight; Equinox Flower; Good Morning; Late Autumn; The End of Summer; An Autumn Afternoon) speaks to Ozu’s own dislike for the themes and motifs used here.…...
- 9/17/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A Fantasy World Where Korean Gugak Meets Cinema
Saturday June 29th, 2019, 7:00 pm
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
(1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023)
Tickets: $20 – $50 (On sale Friday May 24th)
Korean Cultural Center New York (Kccny), a branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Film at Lincoln Center, and the New York Asian Film Foundation are proud to present “Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels”, a once in-a-lifetime film and concert experience marrying cinema with traditional Korean music (gugak) at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on June 29th, 2019.
The event features live traditional accompaniment performed by a 20-member ensemble from the National Gugak Center (Ngc), the representative headquarters of Korean traditional performing arts, who will be playing the score for the first time in the Us.
Director Tae-yong Kim, whose past films include “Memento Mori” (1999) and the critically acclaimed “Late Autumn” (2011), Music Director Jun-Seok Bang of...
Saturday June 29th, 2019, 7:00 pm
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
(1941 Broadway, New York, NY 10023)
Tickets: $20 – $50 (On sale Friday May 24th)
Korean Cultural Center New York (Kccny), a branch of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea, Film at Lincoln Center, and the New York Asian Film Foundation are proud to present “Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels”, a once in-a-lifetime film and concert experience marrying cinema with traditional Korean music (gugak) at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on June 29th, 2019.
The event features live traditional accompaniment performed by a 20-member ensemble from the National Gugak Center (Ngc), the representative headquarters of Korean traditional performing arts, who will be playing the score for the first time in the Us.
Director Tae-yong Kim, whose past films include “Memento Mori” (1999) and the critically acclaimed “Late Autumn” (2011), Music Director Jun-Seok Bang of...
- 5/17/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Initiatives include new Kofic committee, Peace film festival and line-up of North Korean films at Bifan fest.
South Korea’s film industry is moving towards forging closer ties with North Korea, following the groundbreaking Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula announced April 27.
The Korean Film Council (Kofic) has set up a special committee for North-South Korean film exchange, which was launched on July 5. Following in the footsteps of a similar committee that Kofic operated 2003-2008, before the advent of previous conservative administrations, this new committee is expected to develop exchange projects and symposiums, and is...
South Korea’s film industry is moving towards forging closer ties with North Korea, following the groundbreaking Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Unification of the Korean Peninsula announced April 27.
The Korean Film Council (Kofic) has set up a special committee for North-South Korean film exchange, which was launched on July 5. Following in the footsteps of a similar committee that Kofic operated 2003-2008, before the advent of previous conservative administrations, this new committee is expected to develop exchange projects and symposiums, and is...
- 7/10/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
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This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this final episode of a three-part series (and perhaps the podcast itself), David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss two films (Late Autumn and The End of Summer) from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu.
About the films:
Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and...
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this final episode of a three-part series (and perhaps the podcast itself), David and Trevor are joined by Matt Gasteier to discuss two films (Late Autumn and The End of Summer) from Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu.
About the films:
Master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu directed fifty-three feature films over the course of his long career. Yet it was in the final decade of his life, his “old master” phase, that he entered his artistic prime. Centered more than ever on the modern sensibilities of the younger generation, these delicate family dramas are marked by an exquisite formal elegance and emotional sensitivity about birth and death, love and marriage, and...
- 7/30/2017
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
The Video Essay is a joint project of Mubi and Filmadrid Festival Internacional de Cine. Film analysis and criticism found a completely new and innovative path with the arrival of the video essay, a relatively recent form that already has its own masters and is becoming increasingly popular. The limits of this discipline are constantly expanding; new essayists are finding innovative ways to study the history of cinema working with images. With this non-competitive section of the festival both Mubi and Filmadrid will offer the platform and visibility the video essay deserves. The seven selected works will be shown during the dates of Filmadrid (June 8 - 17, 2017) on Mubi’s cinema publication, the Notebook. Also there will be a free public screening of the selected works during the festival. The selection was made by the programmers of Mubi and Filmadrid.永遠の処女 · The Eternal VirginVideo essay by Jorge Suárez-Quiñones RivasThe understanding of domestic,...
- 6/10/2017
- MUBI
Can our children pick and choose the personality traits they inherit, or are they doomed to obtain our lesser qualities? These are the hard questions being meditated on in After the Storm, a sobering, transcendent tale of a divorced man’s efforts to nudge back into his son’s life. Beautifully shot by regular cinematographer Yutaka Yamasaki, it marks a welcome and quite brilliant return to serious fare for writer-editor-director Hirokazu Kore-eda following last year’s Our Little Sister, widely regarded as one of the slightest works of his career thus far.
Recent Kore-eda regular Abe Hiroshi plays Ryota, a prize-winning author struggling to live up to the success of his first novel. He’s a father of one, a gambling addict, and probably a bit of an asshole. We learn the man’s been researching for his follow-up book by moonlighting as a private eye. The job adds an...
Recent Kore-eda regular Abe Hiroshi plays Ryota, a prize-winning author struggling to live up to the success of his first novel. He’s a father of one, a gambling addict, and probably a bit of an asshole. We learn the man’s been researching for his follow-up book by moonlighting as a private eye. The job adds an...
- 5/20/2016
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
If few living cineastes — save for, let’s say, David Bordwell — have a really solid grasp of Yasujirô Ozu, it’s not for lack of interest — nor even that the movies are impenetrable puzzles, like some social-realist Japanese Shane Carruth. (I sometimes wonder if that’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa, but let’s not go there right now.) It’s really a compliment to their singular vision, the assurance that what you’re watching (be it Late Autumn or Tokyo Story or There Was a Father) comes from the same man who made three other titles you’ve recently seen. The question is not in the “how” something is made; it’s the “why” with regard to what’s being presented in this particular manner.
You won’t come away from Lewis Bond‘s video essay, The Simplicity of Ozu, knowing as much about his oeuvre as Bordwell, and that’s all...
You won’t come away from Lewis Bond‘s video essay, The Simplicity of Ozu, knowing as much about his oeuvre as Bordwell, and that’s all...
- 12/8/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Want to see great movies for free? This Friday, Lincoln Center brings Film Foundation-restored titles to you at no cost. Ford‘s Drums Along the Mohawk, Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy, John M. Stahl‘s Leave Her to Heaven, Fosse‘s All That Jazz, Donen‘s Two for the Road,...
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Want to see great movies for free? This Friday, Lincoln Center brings Film Foundation-restored titles to you at no cost. Ford‘s Drums Along the Mohawk, Scorsese‘s The King of Comedy, John M. Stahl‘s Leave Her to Heaven, Fosse‘s All That Jazz, Donen‘s Two for the Road,...
- 9/25/2015
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
South Korea’s 20th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) has announced iconic Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang will lead this year’s New Currents jury.
The Golden Bear-nominated 20 30 40, which Chang directed and acted in, screened in Busan’s A Window on Asian Cinema section in 2004.
She has also helped discover and produce for new directing talents who previously included Ann Hui and Edward Yang.
Joining her on the jury: Indian director Anurag Kashyap, whose critically-acclaimed innovative works include Black Friday, Dev.D and Gangs of Wasseypur I & II; German actress Nastassja Kinski, whose films include Roman Polanski’s Tess and Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas; Korean director Kim Tae-yong, whose films include Memento Mori, Family Ties and Late Autumn; and Village Voice chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The jury will award $30,000 each to two films in the competition for new Asian directors.
Biff will run Oct 1-10 with the Asian Film Market running Oct 3-6 this year.
Asian...
The Golden Bear-nominated 20 30 40, which Chang directed and acted in, screened in Busan’s A Window on Asian Cinema section in 2004.
She has also helped discover and produce for new directing talents who previously included Ann Hui and Edward Yang.
Joining her on the jury: Indian director Anurag Kashyap, whose critically-acclaimed innovative works include Black Friday, Dev.D and Gangs of Wasseypur I & II; German actress Nastassja Kinski, whose films include Roman Polanski’s Tess and Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas; Korean director Kim Tae-yong, whose films include Memento Mori, Family Ties and Late Autumn; and Village Voice chief film critic Stephanie Zacharek.
The jury will award $30,000 each to two films in the competition for new Asian directors.
Biff will run Oct 1-10 with the Asian Film Market running Oct 3-6 this year.
Asian...
- 8/17/2015
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
When one thinks of Korean cinema, it may take more than a few minutes to get to the discussion of female filmmakers. Names like Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook and arguably the most beloved of all Korean auteurs, Hong Sangsoo, will lead any conversation about this part of world film. That will all change if this year’s New York Asian Film Festival has any say in the matter.
As part of the 2015 festivities, the festival is highlighting women filmmakers in Korea, while shining a direct light on someone arguably even more powerful. As head of Myung Films, producer Shim Jae-myung is the central focus of the festival’s sidebar: Myung Films: Pioneers and Women Behind The Camera in Korean Film. Nyaff 2015 screened a handful of the producer’s greatest achievements, such as Ki-duk’s brilliant The Isle, but the real highlight comes in one of the studio’s recent releases,...
As part of the 2015 festivities, the festival is highlighting women filmmakers in Korea, while shining a direct light on someone arguably even more powerful. As head of Myung Films, producer Shim Jae-myung is the central focus of the festival’s sidebar: Myung Films: Pioneers and Women Behind The Camera in Korean Film. Nyaff 2015 screened a handful of the producer’s greatest achievements, such as Ki-duk’s brilliant The Isle, but the real highlight comes in one of the studio’s recent releases,...
- 7/7/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
Supposedly retired, former Biff director Kim Dong-ho still works with the festival, heads a presidential committee and is running a cinematic graduate school at Dankook University.
As we got on the elevator at the Grand Hotel the other day, a Busan film fest regular greeted Kim Dong-ho saying, “Oh, hello, Mr. Kim! Busy in your retirement?” Probably only half joking because almost all the regulars know Busan’s founding festival director can barely be described as retired.
Although he ostensibly, officially left the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) after the 2010 edition, Kim has continued to play a part as honorary festival director welcoming guests, travelling to other festivals, and occasionally smoothing out problems for the organisation. By the end of this year, he will have gone to at least eight overseas festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Locarno.
At the Opening Night reception this year, the French government awarded him the Chevalier dans l’Order National de la Legion...
As we got on the elevator at the Grand Hotel the other day, a Busan film fest regular greeted Kim Dong-ho saying, “Oh, hello, Mr. Kim! Busy in your retirement?” Probably only half joking because almost all the regulars know Busan’s founding festival director can barely be described as retired.
Although he ostensibly, officially left the Busan International Film Festival (Biff) after the 2010 edition, Kim has continued to play a part as honorary festival director welcoming guests, travelling to other festivals, and occasionally smoothing out problems for the organisation. By the end of this year, he will have gone to at least eight overseas festivals including Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Locarno.
At the Opening Night reception this year, the French government awarded him the Chevalier dans l’Order National de la Legion...
- 10/7/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) opened with a star-studded red carpet and a conciliatory anti-war undercurrent to proceedings, which included the world premiere of Doze Niu Chen-Zer’s Paradise In Service.
Set in the late 1960s, the coming-of-age film looks through a young Taiwanese army recruit’s eyes at people dispersed and marked by two wars – one with the Japanese following their occupation of much of Asia and one with mainland China’s Communists in a conflict that was continuing into the Cold War.
Played by Ethan Juan, the recruit starts out in an elite squad of frogmen, but is kicked out to work in Unit 831 or “Paradise in Service”, a military brothel teeming with drama.
Director Niu and his film’s stars were on the red carpet with prominent guests including: New Currents jury head Asgar Farhadi; this year’s Asian Film Academy dean Bela Tarr; veteran director Im Kwon-taek with his Revivre stars Kim...
Set in the late 1960s, the coming-of-age film looks through a young Taiwanese army recruit’s eyes at people dispersed and marked by two wars – one with the Japanese following their occupation of much of Asia and one with mainland China’s Communists in a conflict that was continuing into the Cold War.
Played by Ethan Juan, the recruit starts out in an elite squad of frogmen, but is kicked out to work in Unit 831 or “Paradise in Service”, a military brothel teeming with drama.
Director Niu and his film’s stars were on the red carpet with prominent guests including: New Currents jury head Asgar Farhadi; this year’s Asian Film Academy dean Bela Tarr; veteran director Im Kwon-taek with his Revivre stars Kim...
- 10/3/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with German film Stereo; this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
Selected by PiFan and the Korean Film Producers Association (Kfpa), the Producers’ Choice Awards go to “the most recognized actors with outstanding careers in Korea” each year. The awards were started in 2012 and have guaranteed top stars on the PiFan opening night red carpet annually.
Previously seen in romances such as Lee Yoon-ki’s Come Rain, Come Shine and Kim Tae-yong’s Late Autumn, Hyun was most recently in historical thriller The Fatal Encounter.
Son’s credits include hits such as The Art Of Seduction, April Snow and My Wife Got Married. She also stars in the upcoming sea-faring adventure...
The 18th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) opens tonight (July 17) with this year’s Producers’ Choice Awards going to actor Hyun Bin and actress Son Ye-jin.
Selected by PiFan and the Korean Film Producers Association (Kfpa), the Producers’ Choice Awards go to “the most recognized actors with outstanding careers in Korea” each year. The awards were started in 2012 and have guaranteed top stars on the PiFan opening night red carpet annually.
Previously seen in romances such as Lee Yoon-ki’s Come Rain, Come Shine and Kim Tae-yong’s Late Autumn, Hyun was most recently in historical thriller The Fatal Encounter.
Son’s credits include hits such as The Art Of Seduction, April Snow and My Wife Got Married. She also stars in the upcoming sea-faring adventure...
- 7/17/2014
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Seoul — Asia's social media has been abuzz with various responses to Chinese superstar Tang Wei's engagement to the older and relatively lesser known South Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong. The two are set to be wed in a private ceremony this coming autumn. When the two met on the set of the award-winning Korean melodrama Late Autumn five years ago, the renowned star of Lust, Caution was caught up in (false) dating rumors with her regionally popular co-star Hyun Bin -- not the divorced filmmaker 10 years her senior. Photos Beijing Film Fest Brings Out Chinese, Hollywood Stars One Chinese online
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- 7/3/2014
- by Lee Hyo-won
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
X-Men franchise director Bryan Singer, whose first two features debuted at the Sundance Film Festival — including The Usual Suspects in 1995 — was one of the industry figures named to the Sundance juries that will judge this year’s films when the festival begins next week. Singer, who has X-Men: Days of Future Past due in May, will be one of five members of the U.S. Dramatic Jury. Other members of the juries include Tracy Chapman, Lone Scherfig, Leonard Maltin, and screenwriter Jon Spaihts (Prometheus). A complete list of the juries, courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival, can be viewed after the jump.
- 1/9/2014
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
Line-up includes Memories Of The Sword, set to star Lee Byung-hun.
South Korea’s Lotte Entertainment is launching sales on three new additions to its line-up at Busan’s Asian Film Market. The slate is led by Park Heung-shik’s highly anticipated Memories Of The Sword, starring Lee Byung-hun [pictured] from Red 2 and Masqeurade and Jeon Do-youn from The Housemaid and Secret Sunshine.
Set at the turbulent end of the Goryeo dynasty, the martial arts piece also stars Kim Go-eun, the ingenue from Eungyo, and Lee Joon-ho – also known as Junho from the K-pop group 2Pm - who recently featured in surveillance thriller Cold Eyes. The film is set for release in the second half of 2014.
Lotte’s second new addition is The King’s Wrath (working title), a historical action piece about palace intrigues during King Jeong-jo’s reign in the Joseon dynasty. The film is directed by Lee Jae-gyu, well-known for hit...
South Korea’s Lotte Entertainment is launching sales on three new additions to its line-up at Busan’s Asian Film Market. The slate is led by Park Heung-shik’s highly anticipated Memories Of The Sword, starring Lee Byung-hun [pictured] from Red 2 and Masqeurade and Jeon Do-youn from The Housemaid and Secret Sunshine.
Set at the turbulent end of the Goryeo dynasty, the martial arts piece also stars Kim Go-eun, the ingenue from Eungyo, and Lee Joon-ho – also known as Junho from the K-pop group 2Pm - who recently featured in surveillance thriller Cold Eyes. The film is set for release in the second half of 2014.
Lotte’s second new addition is The King’s Wrath (working title), a historical action piece about palace intrigues during King Jeong-jo’s reign in the Joseon dynasty. The film is directed by Lee Jae-gyu, well-known for hit...
- 10/7/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 19, 2013
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, the 1953 classic drama Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring).
The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores.
Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu (There Was a Father) and Setsuko Hara (Late Autumn), Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring themes of generational conflict, creating one of the great works of the international cinema.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD of the movie contain the following features:
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on...
Price: Blu-ray/DVD Combo $39.95
Studio: Criterion
A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, the 1953 classic drama Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring).
The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores.
Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu (There Was a Father) and Setsuko Hara (Late Autumn), Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring themes of generational conflict, creating one of the great works of the international cinema.
Presented in Japanese with English subtitles, the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD of the movie contain the following features:
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on...
- 9/4/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The first Machete was a whole lot of insane fun, and judging by this trailer, director Robert Rodriguez is upping the ante for the sequel, pitching Danny Trejo's anti-hero as a sort of Mexican James Bond, though with more beheadings and gadgets that just end up being knives. Mel Gibson seems to be hamming it up big time as the cackling super villain (I love that his 60's inspired space suit has a cape), and all of this looks ridiculous, over the top, and most of all, fun!!! via Comic Book Movie Synopsis:Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet. Released: October...
- 8/2/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
- www.themoviebit.com
Riffing on Terek Puckett’s terrific list of director/actor collaborations, I wanted to look at some of those equally impressive leading ladies who served as muses for their directors. I strived to look for collaborations that may not have been as obviously canonical, but whose effects on cinema were no less compelling. Categorizing a film’s lead is potentially tricky, but one of the criteria I always use is Anthony Hopkins’s performance in Silence of the Lambs, a film in which he is considered a lead but appears only briefly; his character is an integral part of the story.
The criteria for this article is as follows: The director & actor team must have worked together at least 3 times with the actor in a major role in each feature film, resulting in a minimum of 2 must-see films.
One of the primary trends for the frequency of collaboration is the...
The criteria for this article is as follows: The director & actor team must have worked together at least 3 times with the actor in a major role in each feature film, resulting in a minimum of 2 must-see films.
One of the primary trends for the frequency of collaboration is the...
- 7/24/2013
- by John Oursler
- SoundOnSight
The first trailer for Machete Kills has arrived and it pretty much features clips of the entire cast in action from Lady GaGa to Mel Gibson. And yes, if you loved the original, it’s everything you’d expect. That said, we need a red band trailer pretty pronto! Synopsis:Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man – he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet. Released: September 13th USA / Ireland & UK Late Autumn / Winter...
- 5/30/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
If you’re a fan of Korean cinema living in New York there’s an exciting event to look forward to this month. Two weeks from now ( Feb 24-26) is the 10th Annual New York Korean Film Fest, which seeks to showcase both some of the highest grossing and most thought-provoking films of this country. It’s scheduled to take place at Bam! cinemas, and they’ve just released the titles they’re showing, along with the program schedule.
Below is a list of the movies and their summaries. For even more info, check the bottom of this page for a link to the festival’s website.
Friday, February 24
” Late Autumn”
Anna is traveling to Seattle to attend her mother’s funeral on a special weekend release from prison. Several years ago she was convicted of murdering her abusive husband, and has been serving time ever since. On the bus,...
Below is a list of the movies and their summaries. For even more info, check the bottom of this page for a link to the festival’s website.
Friday, February 24
” Late Autumn”
Anna is traveling to Seattle to attend her mother’s funeral on a special weekend release from prison. Several years ago she was convicted of murdering her abusive husband, and has been serving time ever since. On the bus,...
- 2/12/2012
- by nick.masercola
- AsianMoviePulse
Whether it's a full-on retrospective at Japan Society, a centennial celebration of studio giant Nikkatsu, or the annual wackiness of Nyaff, New York is a city never short on cinematic offerings from across East Asia, and that has always included a healthy helping of Korean cinema. From February 24th - 26th, BAMcinématek and the Korean Society, along with Korean movie giant Cj Entertainment, will be presenting 7 contemporary features, big and small in the 10th edition of the New York Korean Film Festival. Included in the bunch are the two latest flicks from Kang Woo-suk (Public Enemy), Kim Tae-yong's (Memento Mori) somber romance Late Autumn, plus the Speed-inspired action thriller Quick. Full deets are below, and keep an out in our reviews section for a...
- 1/30/2012
- Screen Anarchy
The Front Line, Last Autumn, and the other winners of the 2011 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards have been announced. The 31st Annual Korean Association of Film Critics (Kafc) Awards were presented at the International Conference Centre in Seoul, Korea by the Korean Association of Film Critics.
The full listing of the 2011 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards winners is below.
Best Picture
(The Front Line)
Best Director
(Jang Hoon), (The Front Line)
Best Actor
(Ha Jung-woo), (The Murderer (The Yellow Sea))
Best Actress
(Tang Wei), (Late Autumn)
Best Screenplay
(Lee Ja-hoon), (The Front Line)
Best Cinematography
(Kim Tae-sung, Park Jong-chul), (Arrow the Ultimate Weapon)
Best Visual Effects
(Han Young-woo), (Arrow the Ultimate Weapon)
Best Music
(Cho Seung-woo), (Late Autumn)
Best New Director
(Park Jung-bum), (The Journals of Musan)
Best New Actor
(Lee Ja-hoon), (The Front Line)
Best New Actress
(Yoo Da-in), (Re-Encounter)
Special Mention
(Shin Jae-myung, Myung Films), (Leafie,...
The full listing of the 2011 Korean Association of Film Critics Awards winners is below.
Best Picture
(The Front Line)
Best Director
(Jang Hoon), (The Front Line)
Best Actor
(Ha Jung-woo), (The Murderer (The Yellow Sea))
Best Actress
(Tang Wei), (Late Autumn)
Best Screenplay
(Lee Ja-hoon), (The Front Line)
Best Cinematography
(Kim Tae-sung, Park Jong-chul), (Arrow the Ultimate Weapon)
Best Visual Effects
(Han Young-woo), (Arrow the Ultimate Weapon)
Best Music
(Cho Seung-woo), (Late Autumn)
Best New Director
(Park Jung-bum), (The Journals of Musan)
Best New Actor
(Lee Ja-hoon), (The Front Line)
Best New Actress
(Yoo Da-in), (Re-Encounter)
Special Mention
(Shin Jae-myung, Myung Films), (Leafie,...
- 11/4/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
A Master class on the basics of cinematography will be conducted by cinematographer Sunny Joseph on July 24 in New Delhi. Joseph has been the cinematographer for directors like Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shaji N Karun and Buddhadeb Dasgupta and has won a national award. Another workshop on Film Criticism will be taken by Kaushik Bhowmik, Senior Vice President of Osian Film Festival on July 23.
These workshops are part of a 3-day programme “Cinephilia and Beyond” which will be held from July 22-24 July, 2011 in New Delhi at the Sri Aurobindo Center of Arts and Communication. This programme will include special sessions and film screenings apart from interactive workshops.
The programme will be inaugurated by film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta, along with a special screening of his latest film Janala (The Window). The inauguration will be preceded by a key note address on Buddhadeb Dasgupta and his films by Sandeep Marwah, MD, Marwah Studios.
These workshops are part of a 3-day programme “Cinephilia and Beyond” which will be held from July 22-24 July, 2011 in New Delhi at the Sri Aurobindo Center of Arts and Communication. This programme will include special sessions and film screenings apart from interactive workshops.
The programme will be inaugurated by film maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta, along with a special screening of his latest film Janala (The Window). The inauguration will be preceded by a key note address on Buddhadeb Dasgupta and his films by Sandeep Marwah, MD, Marwah Studios.
- 7/16/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
What an embarrassing way to start a review, but Naoki Kato's Abraxas harkens back to the profoundly moving and multi- layered, yet minimalist character studies of the great Yasujiro Ozu. It's easy for film critics to casually toss around comparisons to Ozu when reviewing or summarizing contemporary Japanese dramas. If a Japanese film isn't about samurais, ninjas, Kaiju monsters, or little girl ghosts with long hair, it's almost an obligatory given that the film will be likened to the work of the master responsible for Tokyo Story, Late Autumn, and Early Spring. It's a cliché. It's lazy writing, but it is also understandable, within the pantheon of Japanese cinema, Ozu is really the only widely recognized point of reference for non-genre related/focused Japanese films...
- 6/24/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Alt Screen rounds up takes on Martin Scorsese's New York New York (1977) now that it's freshly released on Blu-Ray. Liza Minnelli is so great in that movie. I'm so excited to see it again. The Blu-Ray is still in its wrapping though. Must get to that soon.
Film Dr "12 notes comparing a purple bottle cap with Green Lantern" (One thing I deeply appreciated about dumbass movies like Green Lantern is the creativity they inspire in critics.)
<--- Movie|Line goes to the La Premiere of Drive (2011) and enjoys Nicolas Winding Refn's freewheeling intro speech including this bit.
Now, I want to thank Ryan Gosling, because he gave me the opportunity to come to Hollywood and do this movie with him. It all started on a very strange blind date between us that led to a very strange, notsexual encounter, but it led to a mental creation between us.
Film Dr "12 notes comparing a purple bottle cap with Green Lantern" (One thing I deeply appreciated about dumbass movies like Green Lantern is the creativity they inspire in critics.)
<--- Movie|Line goes to the La Premiere of Drive (2011) and enjoys Nicolas Winding Refn's freewheeling intro speech including this bit.
Now, I want to thank Ryan Gosling, because he gave me the opportunity to come to Hollywood and do this movie with him. It all started on a very strange blind date between us that led to a very strange, notsexual encounter, but it led to a mental creation between us.
- 6/19/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
As the Seattle International Film Festival drew to a close, attendance — bolstered by cool weather and a multifaceted slate — broke the $1 million box-office mark for the second year in a row.
But Siff is not about money. Nor is it about the industry or about sales or about getting the next gig. It is, in everything it does, about connecting audiences with new films.
Despite its whopping 450 films and one of the festival circuit’s largest attendance figures, Siff retains the feeling of small-town intimacy indicative of this big city. Viewers and volunteers easily mingle with directors who praise the questions from fanatical audiences, many of whom compete for the title of most films seen during the fest’s 25-day run. There is an unofficial iron-butt club for those who have seen at least 100 films.
This year’s festival started with...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
As the Seattle International Film Festival drew to a close, attendance — bolstered by cool weather and a multifaceted slate — broke the $1 million box-office mark for the second year in a row.
But Siff is not about money. Nor is it about the industry or about sales or about getting the next gig. It is, in everything it does, about connecting audiences with new films.
Despite its whopping 450 films and one of the festival circuit’s largest attendance figures, Siff retains the feeling of small-town intimacy indicative of this big city. Viewers and volunteers easily mingle with directors who praise the questions from fanatical audiences, many of whom compete for the title of most films seen during the fest’s 25-day run. There is an unofficial iron-butt club for those who have seen at least 100 films.
This year’s festival started with...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
By Christy Karras
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
As the Seattle International Film Festival drew to a close, attendance — bolstered by cool weather and a multifaceted slate — broke the $1 million box-office mark for the second year in a row.
But Siff is not about money. Nor is it about the industry or about sales or about getting the next gig. It is, in everything it does, about connecting audiences with new films.
Despite its whopping 450 films and one of the festival circuit’s largest attendance figures, Siff retains the feeling of small-town intimacy indicative of this big city. Viewers and volunteers easily mingle with directors who praise the questions from fanatical audiences, many of whom compete for the title of most films seen during the fest’s 25-day run. There is an unofficial iron-butt club for those who have seen at least 100 films.
This year’s festival started with...
(from the 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
As the Seattle International Film Festival drew to a close, attendance — bolstered by cool weather and a multifaceted slate — broke the $1 million box-office mark for the second year in a row.
But Siff is not about money. Nor is it about the industry or about sales or about getting the next gig. It is, in everything it does, about connecting audiences with new films.
Despite its whopping 450 films and one of the festival circuit’s largest attendance figures, Siff retains the feeling of small-town intimacy indicative of this big city. Viewers and volunteers easily mingle with directors who praise the questions from fanatical audiences, many of whom compete for the title of most films seen during the fest’s 25-day run. There is an unofficial iron-butt club for those who have seen at least 100 films.
This year’s festival started with...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
A little late this week, mainly because of my own random b.s. that one goes through when attempting to juggle too many things at once. Try not to do it kids, because it means a Hulu article gets sidetracked a bit. A ton of stuff was added since I last was here, but unlike last week’s where I focused on 10 specific films that weren’t in the Collection, this time it’s a bunch of familiar (and not so) faces, be it in their great Eclipse sets or in Criterion’s own pantheon.
A huge thanks to who have already used this link to enjoy their own Hulu Plus and in turn keeping this series of articles up and running. We can always use the help, so please sign up using that specific link. Every little bit does keep this nice and polished. But enough about that. You...
A huge thanks to who have already used this link to enjoy their own Hulu Plus and in turn keeping this series of articles up and running. We can always use the help, so please sign up using that specific link. Every little bit does keep this nice and polished. But enough about that. You...
- 5/28/2011
- by James McCormick
- CriterionCast
Cannes is in full swing at TWC has announced in a press release that they’ve acquired Wu Xia, the new film by Donnie Yen, and in typical Weinstein fashion, they’re retitling the film to Dragon. Ugh. Let’s hope they don’t cut the film either as they have notoriously done in prior martial arts acquisitions like Iron Monkey.
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired from We Distribution the distribution rights for the world, outside of Asia and French speaking Europe, to the martial arts, film noir epic Dragon (Wu Xia). TF1 are already confirmed to distribute the film in France. The film will have its world premiere as part of the official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A 2011 theatrical release is expected in the Us.
Director, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, is one of Asia’s most celebrated filmmakers,
his critical and...
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired from We Distribution the distribution rights for the world, outside of Asia and French speaking Europe, to the martial arts, film noir epic Dragon (Wu Xia). TF1 are already confirmed to distribute the film in France. The film will have its world premiere as part of the official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A 2011 theatrical release is expected in the Us.
Director, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, is one of Asia’s most celebrated filmmakers,
his critical and...
- 5/12/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
TWC Acquires Peter Ho-sun Chan.S Martial Arts, Film Noir Epic, Dragon (Wu Xia), Which Premieres At Cannes On May 14Th
International Superstars Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei Co-Star in Action-Packed Tale of Crime, Family and Redemption
Studio Acquires Distribution Rights for the World Outside of Asia
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired from We Distribution the distribution rights for the world, outside of Asia and French speaking Europe, to the martial arts, film noir epic Dragon (Wu Xia). TF1 are already confirmed to distribute the film in France. The film will have its world premiere as part of the official selection at this year.s Cannes Film Festival. A 2011 theatrical release is expected in the Us.
Director, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, is one of Asia.s most celebrated filmmakers, his critical and box office hits include award winning The Warlords, which he produced and directed,...
International Superstars Donnie Yen, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei Co-Star in Action-Packed Tale of Crime, Family and Redemption
Studio Acquires Distribution Rights for the World Outside of Asia
The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it has acquired from We Distribution the distribution rights for the world, outside of Asia and French speaking Europe, to the martial arts, film noir epic Dragon (Wu Xia). TF1 are already confirmed to distribute the film in France. The film will have its world premiere as part of the official selection at this year.s Cannes Film Festival. A 2011 theatrical release is expected in the Us.
Director, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, is one of Asia.s most celebrated filmmakers, his critical and box office hits include award winning The Warlords, which he produced and directed,...
- 5/11/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Weinstein Company has announced that it has bought rights to both distribute outside of Asia and France and possibly remake the Peter Ho-Sun Chan (The Warlords) directed film. The self described "action-packed tale of crime, family and redemption" could hit Us theaters later this year. Dragon (Wu Xia) features a dynamic ensemble of internationally celebrated talent, led by action superstar Donnie Yen (Bodyguards And Assassins, IP Man), a martial arts master, Yen is also the film’s action choreographer; Takeshi Kaneshiro (House Of Flying Daggers, Chungking Express) and Tang Wei (Lust, Caution, Late Autumn). The film marks the first film appearance in 17 years of the legendary Jimmy Wang Yu (One Armed Swordsman, The Chinese Boxer), who is widely credited as the first Hong Kong kung fu...
- 5/11/2011
- by Eric Whitman
- The Daily BLAM!
Berlinale 2011 poster
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
- 1/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events has just announced their complete lineup for the Forum program this year, and it looks incredible once again.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
- 1/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Welcome to the first Underground Film Links post of 2011! I predict it’s going to be an amazing year for these! (So, get to work…)
This week’s must read is a fine list of resolutions for filmmakers put together by Scott Macaulay of Filmmaker Magazine. This is one of those articles I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy, but they’re really great suggestions. Since the year ended, there are, of course, lots of lists going around. First, In These Times has a round-up of the 10 Best Political Documentaries, which covered some pretty big issues. R. Emmet Sweeney of TCM’s Movie Morlocks has his Top 10 Genre Movies of 2010, of which I’ve only seen The Crazies and thought was great as well. SF360 has a mess of Top 10s in its annual survey of Bay Area critics. This is notable particularly since Jonathan Marlow of the S.F.
This week’s must read is a fine list of resolutions for filmmakers put together by Scott Macaulay of Filmmaker Magazine. This is one of those articles I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy, but they’re really great suggestions. Since the year ended, there are, of course, lots of lists going around. First, In These Times has a round-up of the 10 Best Political Documentaries, which covered some pretty big issues. R. Emmet Sweeney of TCM’s Movie Morlocks has his Top 10 Genre Movies of 2010, of which I’ve only seen The Crazies and thought was great as well. SF360 has a mess of Top 10s in its annual survey of Bay Area critics. This is notable particularly since Jonathan Marlow of the S.F.
- 1/2/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
[Editor's note: I've asked our team of world film correspondents to dish out their top 5 films of the year from their respective countries. Here's Tony Kitchen's take on the Best in South Korean Cinema in 2010.] In 2010, the Korean film industry continued in its strong stride having several domestic hits such as spy flick Secret Reunion and Kim Jee-woon's controversial Venice and Tiff Film Festival selected I Saw the Devil, while the world film festival circuit, Korean film faired well with Lee Chang-dong grabbing center spot with Poetry in Cannes. Hong Sang-soo produced a pair of offerings including the Un Certain Regard winner Ha Ha Ha, Cheol So Jang's debut film Bedeviled made a splash on the far side of the Croisette, Im Sang-soo's remake of The Housemaid with Jeon Do-yeon left no one indifferent while the remake of the '66 classic Late Autumn via helmer Kim Tae-yong and thesp Tang Wei was shown at Tiff. Here are the top 5 Korean films of 2010.#5. Ha Ha Ha (Sang-soo Hong) The unconventionality of this film, and its direction style, made this movie one of Korea's best in 2010. Sang-soo uses still shots,...
- 12/23/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Continuing its commitment to contemporary Japanese fare, Viz Cinema has been busy throughout the month of October with the San Francisco premiere of John H. Lee's Sayonara Itsuka: Goodbye, Someday (2010); encore screenings of Junichi Suzuki's documentary 442--Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (2010); the U.S. premiere of Takeshi Koike's anime Redline; while likewise hosting the San Francisco Film Society's Taiwan Film Days.
But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).
But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).
- 10/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Continuing its commitment to contemporary Japanese fare, Viz Cinema has been busy throughout the month of October with the San Francisco premiere of John H. Lee's Sayonara Itsuka: Goodbye, Someday (2010); encore screenings of Junichi Suzuki's documentary 442--Live with Honor, Die with Dignity (2010); the U.S. premiere of Takeshi Koike's anime Redline; while likewise hosting the San Francisco Film Society's Taiwan Film Days.
But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).
But Viz Cinema has granted equal time to honor classic Japanese cinema, most recently with four Yasujirō Ozu films profiling the performances of Setsuko Hara--Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1954), Late Autumn (1960) and Tokyo Twilight (1957)--and currently with four films by Kenji Mizoguchi: Women of the Night (1948), Miss Oyu (1951), Life of Oharu (1952), and Sansho the Bailiff (1952) (running through early November).
- 10/30/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Five Korean films have been selected to the 35th Toronto Film Festival. Invited films Poetry and The Housemaid will continue to make their push for an Best Foreign Oscar nomination, while the previously announced I Saw the Devil is riding in on the controversy around its graphic nature. Newly selected films announced this past Tuesday include, Oki’s Movie, which is preparing for it's debut in Venice, and the major World Premiere announcement comes in the shape of the multi-region co-produced Late Autumn (a.k.a. “Manchu”) -- a film which may have the best chance to leave the festival as Korea’s most heralded film of 2010. “Late Autumn” is a story about two foreigners—one Korean and one Chinese—travelling to Seattle. The woman (China’s Tang Wei from Lust, Caution fame) is on leave from prison to attend her mother’s funeral. On the bus, she meets a...
- 8/28/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Hara, who turns 90 tomorrow, enigmatically walked away from films in 1963 – but her subtle power in Tokyo Story remains undiminished
This Thursday sees the 90th birthday of one of the greatest stars in cinema history, and yet it will pass off quietly. Such has been her profound reticence that even this very brief blog, noticing the fact, seems impertinent. Setsuko Hara is the actor who was unforgettable in key films by Yasujiro Ozu, as well as work by Mikio Naruse and Akira Kurosawa in a career lasting over 30 years, but foreswore the acting profession in 1963. By this time she had become an icon in Japan, sometimes called the "Eternal Virgin". Her retirement may have been connected with the death of Ozu, with whom she will forever be associated, but since then she has refused to elaborate or give interviews. In an age when actors solemnly tell newspapers and celeb magazines how very very "private" they are,...
This Thursday sees the 90th birthday of one of the greatest stars in cinema history, and yet it will pass off quietly. Such has been her profound reticence that even this very brief blog, noticing the fact, seems impertinent. Setsuko Hara is the actor who was unforgettable in key films by Yasujiro Ozu, as well as work by Mikio Naruse and Akira Kurosawa in a career lasting over 30 years, but foreswore the acting profession in 1963. By this time she had become an icon in Japan, sometimes called the "Eternal Virgin". Her retirement may have been connected with the death of Ozu, with whom she will forever be associated, but since then she has refused to elaborate or give interviews. In an age when actors solemnly tell newspapers and celeb magazines how very very "private" they are,...
- 6/16/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In The Murderer, Ha Jeong-woo returns to Korea to settle a debt. And like "The Chaser", Ha is on the run from Kim Yoon-seok, who plays an assassin. It should be noted that Kim Yoon-seok starred in a satire of the "The Chaser" in his last film "Running Turtle" (2009). In the film, shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival two months ago, Kim plays a familiar role, a suspended detective who is chasing a criminal, who, in this case, robbed him. - South Korean Film Scene: Local Currently filming, a trio of Koreans are looking to make a splash with financial support from a major Hollywood film studio. In their first film together since, The Chaser (추격자, 2008), director Na Hong-jin (나홍진), actors Kim Yoon-seok (김윤섹) (see pic above) and Ha Jeong-woo (하정우) will reunite in “The Murderer” (황해). The film—the first Korean movie to receive direct investment from Hollywood—is similar...
- 3/25/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
The harrowing drama's screen average of £5,552 was second only to James Cameron's sci-fi epic, and more than double any other film in the top 10
The arthouse hit
A film about an obese teenager suffering harrowing abuse from both parents might not strike you as an easy sell at the box office, and that's leaving aside any additional marketing challenge presented by an all-black cast. So the backers of Precious will be delighted with its £259,000 opening from 47 screens, generating a £5,552 screen average that is second only to Avatar's and more than double any other film in the top 10.
The surprising part is where the film has performed best: six of its 10 top sites are Vues, Odeons and Cineworlds, indicating a more "urban mid-market" rather than arthouse audience. London's Curzon Soho – invariably the top cinema for an arthouse film – was beaten by the Vue West End a stone's throw away,...
The arthouse hit
A film about an obese teenager suffering harrowing abuse from both parents might not strike you as an easy sell at the box office, and that's leaving aside any additional marketing challenge presented by an all-black cast. So the backers of Precious will be delighted with its £259,000 opening from 47 screens, generating a £5,552 screen average that is second only to Avatar's and more than double any other film in the top 10.
The surprising part is where the film has performed best: six of its 10 top sites are Vues, Odeons and Cineworlds, indicating a more "urban mid-market" rather than arthouse audience. London's Curzon Soho – invariably the top cinema for an arthouse film – was beaten by the Vue West End a stone's throw away,...
- 2/2/2010
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Precious (15)
(Lee Daniels, 2009, Us)
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. 110 mins.
It sounds like a relentlessly depressing pile-up of miseries: the tale of a 1980s Harlem teenager who's poor, lonely, overweight, undereducated, abused by both parents, and pregnant for the second time by her father. And it gets worse after that. But, mercifully, this doesn't play by European social realist rules, throwing in flourishes of fantasy and even comedy, and offering glimmers of hope, real and imagined, to lighten its heroine's unenviable burden. It's still a harrowing watch, powerfully performed and earnestly authentic, but even as it wallows in the gutter, it's looking for the stars.
The Princess And The Frog (U)
(Ron Clements, John Musker, 2009, Us)
Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos. 97 mins.
Another Disney Princess™ for the merchandising range, sorry, cinematic tradition, and the first African-American one. True to latter-day Disney form, she's capable and motivated – until she's turned into a frog,...
(Lee Daniels, 2009, Us)
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey. 110 mins.
It sounds like a relentlessly depressing pile-up of miseries: the tale of a 1980s Harlem teenager who's poor, lonely, overweight, undereducated, abused by both parents, and pregnant for the second time by her father. And it gets worse after that. But, mercifully, this doesn't play by European social realist rules, throwing in flourishes of fantasy and even comedy, and offering glimmers of hope, real and imagined, to lighten its heroine's unenviable burden. It's still a harrowing watch, powerfully performed and earnestly authentic, but even as it wallows in the gutter, it's looking for the stars.
The Princess And The Frog (U)
(Ron Clements, John Musker, 2009, Us)
Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos. 97 mins.
Another Disney Princess™ for the merchandising range, sorry, cinematic tradition, and the first African-American one. True to latter-day Disney form, she's capable and motivated – until she's turned into a frog,...
- 1/30/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
A Prophet (18)
(Jacques Audiard, 2009, France) Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. 155 mins
Arriving pre-garlanded with awards and acclaim, this French movie certainly demands seeing, though it's less a radical reinvention of the prison thriller genre than a rock-solid update (with the odd mystical touch). The key innovation is that our selected inmate is a French Arab, who painfully progresses from timid newcomer to hardened player, negotiating between ethnic factions both inside and out. It's an extreme story in every sense, but newcomer Rahim carries the weight magnificently, and it stays rooted in present-day reality without feeling the need to ram a message down our throats about it.
The Boys Are Back (12A)
(Scott Hicks, 2009, Aus/UK) Clive Owen, Nicholas McAnulty. 104 mins
Owen opens up and shows his sensitive side as a blokey sports journalist in Australia, trying to cope with single fatherhood, and reconciling his two sons by different women.
(Jacques Audiard, 2009, France) Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif. 155 mins
Arriving pre-garlanded with awards and acclaim, this French movie certainly demands seeing, though it's less a radical reinvention of the prison thriller genre than a rock-solid update (with the odd mystical touch). The key innovation is that our selected inmate is a French Arab, who painfully progresses from timid newcomer to hardened player, negotiating between ethnic factions both inside and out. It's an extreme story in every sense, but newcomer Rahim carries the weight magnificently, and it stays rooted in present-day reality without feeling the need to ram a message down our throats about it.
The Boys Are Back (12A)
(Scott Hicks, 2009, Aus/UK) Clive Owen, Nicholas McAnulty. 104 mins
Owen opens up and shows his sensitive side as a blokey sports journalist in Australia, trying to cope with single fatherhood, and reconciling his two sons by different women.
- 1/23/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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