24 Saturday Mar 2012
Posted in Anime / Animated Film, Film, Japanese
It’s a selection of random finds this week and it’s only four trailers, but I’m waiting for a friend – whom I last saw eight years ago – to knock on my door any minute. As I think we’ll have lots to talk about, it’s either I post a short(er) Trailer Weekly today and NOW, or a belated one who knows when.
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11 Sunday Mar 2012
Posted in Anime / Animated Film, Film, Indie, Korean
Another week that I’m a day late – somehow managed to get sick but after lots of spicy ginger lemon tea and garlicky cough syrup, I’m feeling better today, enough to post the Trailer Weekly at least. I did hope to write another review for the Korean Cinema Blogathon as well, but since it’s the last day I don’t I will get it done in time.
Anyhow, in honour of the Korean Cinema Blogathon Trailer Weekly #24 has gone 100% Korean. It’s a sort of random collection of films – and I could have included more still – that all involve the theme of love somehow: love between lonely souls, adolescent love, noona love, love in old age, and selfless love between siblings in the face of hard times…
07 Wednesday Mar 2012
Year: 2008
Director: Kim So-yong (김소영)
Screenplay: Kim So-yong (김소영)
Cinematography: Misawa Anne
Cast: Kim Hee Yeon (김희연), Kim Song Hee (김성희), Lee Soo Ah (이수아), Kim Mi Hyang (김미향), Park Boon Tak (박분택)
Runtime: 89 min
Trailer: on YouTube (subtitled)
This post is part of the Korean Cinema Blogathon 2012, which runs from March 5-11. Featuring the best of posts on Korean film from blogs around the web, the blogathon is hosted by CineAwesome this year and mirrored by New Korean Cinema, VCinema, KOFFIA, Hangul Celluloid and Modern Korean Cinema.
In Namooeobsneun San a mother abandons her two children and leaves them fending for themselves – so read most synopses for the film. This plot-in-a-nutshell generates a biased view of a heartless mother, but the story isn’t quite so simple. Continue reading »
06 Tuesday Mar 2012
Year: 1934
Director: Ahn Jong-hwa
Re-directed by: Kim Tae-yong (김태용)
Cast: Lee Wan-yong, Shin Il-seon, Kim Yeo-sil
Runtime: 70 min
This post is part of the Korean Cinema Blogathon 2012, which runs from March 5-11. Featuring the best of posts on Korean film from blogs around the web, the blogathon is hosted by CineAwesome this year and mirrored by New Korean Cinema, VCinema, KOFFIA, Hangul Celluloid and Modern Korean Cinema.
Seen at a special screening organised by the KCCUK at the annual Thames Festival (London) in September 2011.
Being Korea’s oldest surviving film, 청춘의 십자로 (Cheongchunui shibjaro/Crossroads of Youth) is a production you are unlikely to ever see as it screens so rarely. Yet reviewing it is worthwhile, simply for the reason to encourage you to go watch it if you should ever happen to be so lucky to come across a performance. Continue reading »
05 Monday Mar 2012
파란만장 (Paranmanjang/Night Fishing, 2011)
This post is part of the Korean Cinema Blogathon 2012, which runs from March 5-11. Featuring the best of posts on Korean film from blogs around the web, the blogathon is hosted by CineAwesome this year and mirrored by New Korean Cinema, VCinema, KOFFIA, Hangul Celluloid and Modern Korean Cinema.
With the home of the Korean Cultural Centre (KCCUK) being in London and hosting fantastic events such as this year’s weekly Year of Twelve Directors Korean film nights and the annual London Korean Film Festival, it can sometimes feel like that Korean cinema can only be experienced in the capital. But there is Korean cinema to be seen elsewhere too, it just takes a little bit of ‘keeping your eyes open’. Continue reading »
