31 Mar 2011
Posted by KOCCA By Lukas Schwarzacher Korea has two international festivals: one in spring and one in autumn – the younger Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF; from April 28 to May 6) and the older Busan International Film Festival (BIFF; from October 6 to 14). In other words: Jeonju celebrates its 12th...
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29 Mar 2011
Posted by KOCCA Director Lee Chang-dong's "Poetry" won top honors, the Regard d'or, at the 25th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) in Switzerland. The film, acclaimed around the world, also received the prize from the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics) jury at the Festival which took place...
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Posted by KOCCA Director Choi Dong-hoon's new movie "The Thieves" (working title) will feature top actors and actresses including Kim Hye-soo, Kim Yoon-suk, Lee Jung-jae, Jun Ji-hyun and rising star Kim Soo-hyun, The Korea Times reported. The May starter is described as a crime thriller revolving around the legendary...
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Posted by KOCCA Stars Shin Jeong-geun, Jeong Ryeo-won, Kim Joo-hyeok and Yoo Hae-jin attended a press conference promoting their upcoming film, “In Love and the War†at Megabox Dongdaemun in Seoul earlier this week. Bae Se-young, who wrote the script for the film,based the story on her grandmother’s...
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Posted by KOCCA By Lukas Schwarzacher Korea was in the limelight at the Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong on March 22. Best Director and Best Screenplay kudos went to director Lee Chang-dong for “Poetryâ€. Ha Jung-woo won Best Actor for “The Yellow Seaâ€, and Yoon Yeo-jeong was awarded the Best...
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Posted by KOCCA In conjunction with the theatrical release in France of Hong Sang-soo's "Ha Ha Ha", the director is the subject of a retrospective of his works at the Cinematheque Francaise in Paris (March 14-28). "Life is too complicated to be interpreted in an ideological way," he told AFP ahead of his master-class...
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Posted by KOCCA The Korean Film Council announced on Monday that 8.48 million people saw Korean films at theaters in February, accounting for 63 percent of all moviegoers, while some 4.98 million went to see imported movies. Several movies currently topping the box office charts ― “Detective K: Secret...
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Posted by KOCCA By Mark Russell Guimarães Castle is nearly 1,000 years old, granite stone poised on top of a hill, in the birthplace of Portugal, and director Jang Cheol-soo is exploring it with enthusiasm, his camera clicking away like mad. It’s always clicking. On the old streets of Porto. In the cavernous...
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Posted by KOCCA According to The Korea Times, "Chungmu Art Hall (CMAH) in central Seoul is seeking to become one of the nation's most prestigious theaters under the new leadership of CEO Lee Jong-duck". CMAH consists of the Grand Theater (1,231 seats), Theater Black (327 seats), Theater Blue (258 seats) and Chungmu...
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Posted by KOCCA Mark Olsen, writing about "I Saw the Devil" in the Los Angeles Times begins his review with: "Bloody and bold, 'I Saw the Devil' is both the latest piece of horror-shock to emerge from South Korea and also something of a rebuking examination of the same. Directed by rising genre-star Kim Jee-woon, the film...
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