Free Korean Movie Night in NYC Continues!
KOREAN MOVIE NIGHT CONTINUESEvery other Tuesday at 7pm
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E
and 1 train Canal Street stops)
Price? Free. All movies are first-come, first-serve. Doors open at 6:30pm.
SERIES TWO: REMAKES
Everyone¹s remaking Korean movies these days, and the next three films in
the Korean Movie Night series are all slated for Hollywood remakes.
TUESDAY, MARCH 9 @ 7pm
DIE BAD (2000, 98 minutes, New York Premiere)
Late in 2008, Marc Forster signed on to direct a Hollywood remake of DIE
BAD. Awesome! A remake by the director of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, MONSTER¹S BALL
and STRANGER THAN FICTION gives us a chance to show this film which is the
first flick from Ryoo Seung-Wan (CITY OF VIOLENCE, CRYING FIST, DACHIMAWA
LEE). A stripped-down, punch-drunk, hard-hitting action movie shot on the
sly for $55,000 and throbbing with adrenaline, DIE BAD is an intense series
of jaw-dropping set pieces shot over a long period of time that launched
Director Ryoo onto the international scene as one of the great modern action
filmmakers.
TUESDAY, MARCH 23 @ 7pm
SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002, 129 minutes)
In January, 2010, Warner Brothers picked up the remake rights to SYMPATHY
FOR MR. VEGEANCE. It¹s being produced by the folks behind GI JOE,
TRANSFORMERS and DOOM. Say what?!? Come see the original instead. Directed
by Park Chan-Wook (OLDBOY) and starring Song Kang-Ho and Bae Doo-Na (THE
HOST) it is one of the most gorgeous, intense and heartbreaking movies about
this fallen world in which we live. Not since Clint Eastwood¹s UNFORGIVEN
has vengeance looked this soul-destroying.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6 @ 7pm
PHONE (2002, 109 minutes)
Okay, sure, it¹s a horror movie about a haunted cell phone, and yes we¹ve
all been here before, but the fact that the original director, Ahn Byung-Ki,
has been hired to do an American remake of his K-horror flick gives us a
chance to introduce American audiences to a horror movie with a difference.
Well-executed genre thrills abound in this story about a female journalist
being haunted and stalked after she does a story busting a kiddie porn ring
wide open. But the highlight is the cute little possessed four-year-old
girl, Young-Ju, played by the most insane freak in Korea, Eun Seo-Woo. This
kid is like a drag queen version of Joan Crawford except four-years-old and
Korean. Whether she¹s French kissing daddy, hissing like a cat, or trying
to break her own neck, this tyke is out of control in a way even Maury
Povich can't handle. Don¹t miss it.
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