Posts Tagged ‘Korean’

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    Chan-wook Park’s Thirst – Trailer and the banned poster
    The director of OldBoy returns with a vampire story – Thirst, a priest who heads to Africa to help out the sick and hungry, but makes the mistake of volunteering for an experimental treatment that quickly goes awry. The procedure turns him into a vampire, and he tries to hold on to his humanity and his vows with little success. The poster of Thirst, though very...
    by oz at March 22nd, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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    World Cinema coming home to us
    Seems times are changing at last – for the better, and fast. After all these years of scouring the film festivals and pirated DVD shops (unless we have deep pockets to splurge on the highly-priced original DVDs of foreign films), it seems 2008 is bringing some happy tidings for us, the lovers of world cinema (that is, anything that comes from outside the country...
    by Runumi G at January 25th, 2008 at 01:01 am
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    Rome 2007 Line-Up Announced
    The second Rome Film Fest, which runs Oct 18-27, has announced its full programme. World premieres in the Cinema 2007 programme include: * La Recta Provincia (Raul Ruiz) * Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) * August Rush (Kirsten Sheridan) * Hafez (Abolfazl Jalili) * L’Abbuffata (Mimmo Calopresti) * And The Spring Comes (Chang Wei...
    by Vijay at September 27th, 2007 at 09:09 am
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    Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles 2008 Call for Entries
    IFFLA 2008 Announces Call for Entries The Sixth Annual Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narrative, documentary, music videos, experimental, children’s and animated films of any length and format. IFFLA will run April 22-27, 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility located in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice Prizes...
    by Vijay at September 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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    Neville Tuli’s ‘vision’ about Cinefan
    Recently I had interviewed Neville Tuli, the founder chairman of the Osian’s Connoisseurs of Art, which organizes the Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian (& Arab – from this year) Cinema, in New Delhi. While some parts of the interview have been carried in my paper Deccan Herald, I am reproducing the whole text of the interview for PFC readers, for...
    by Runumi G at August 27th, 2007 at 08:08 am
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    For cinephiles in Mumbai: National Film Circle
    Received from Worldwide Film Distribution yahoogroup… Please spread the word! Let me take this opportunity to introduce you about me and social activities of our organization. … I am working with a government organization, one of the most important & entertainment department called “NATIONAL FILM CIRCLE” is given to me and I am looking for...
    by striker at April 26th, 2007 at 04:04 pm
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    “Tae Guk Gi” – The Brotherhood of War – A Solid War Epic
    “Tae Guk Gi” (2004) is a sweeping war epic, impressively written, devastatingly photographed and designed, and captivatingly told. It’s old-fashioned mainstream filmmaking, overtly melodramatic and sappy, but deeply moving, disturbing, and breathtaking at the same time. Set in 1950 Korea, it tells the story of two brothers who are forcefully drafted to...
    by Vijay at March 19th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
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    The Host: Koreans give Hollywood a run for its money.
    One of the best parts about living in Los Angeles for a movie lover is the numerous avenues available for experiencing films from all over the world. Today at the AFI (American Film Institute) Fest, I watched a mainstream South Korean blockbuster called “The Host”. In this 2-week long festival, I will of course be watching a lot more movies that are yet unreleased...
    by Vijay at November 4th, 2006 at 09:11 pm
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    Lady Vengeance : Chan-woo Park’s best
    The dozen odd men and women sit on the bench in the lonely hall of the house hidden far away in the hills. They all are wearing transparent raincoats, each going through a range of deep intense emotions. They all have small pieces of paper with a number on it. Lady Vengeance walks in the hall and hands the weapon to the person who holds the paper with the least digit...
    by oz at October 24th, 2006 at 01:10 pm
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    Park Chan-Wook’s new film
    It looks great as always, the man knows his cinematography. This is his latest film called, “I’m a cyborg, but that’s ok.” DL the trailer from here Rumor is that his next film will be a vampire film. Perhaps a supernatural trilogy then? Let’s see Sanjay Gupta copy his way into this one Actually, he probably won’t. Source: Twitchfilm.
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 27th, 2006 at 04:09 pm
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