Tag: jaeyeongjeong

Following Hong Sangsoo's career guarantees for viewers, at the very least, one thing - developing a keen eye for detail. The auteur's films are remarkably similar to one another, from their lecherous male director/professor characters and conversations over bottles of...

One of the biggest events on Hong Kong's film festival calendar - the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - has revealed its full line-up, which will open on 28 October with She Remembers, He Forgets, the new film from Adam...

The 68th Locarno International Film Festival wound to a close yesterday and offered its top prize to a Korean film for the first time, in what was a strong night overall for Asian features. Two years after picking up the...

Following Hong Sangsoo's career guarantees for viewers, at the very least, one thing - developing a keen eye for detail. The auteur's films are remarkably similar to one another, from their lecherous male director/professor characters and conversations over bottles of...

The lineup of FICUNAM 2014 is ready and things will kick off on February 27 with the Mexican premiere of one of the most anticipated films of the year: the final feature by animation master Miyazaki Hayao, The Wind Rises....

The 2014 commercial Korean film calendar kicks off with Plan Man, a light and colorful romantic comedy that carries on in a straightforward manner with plenty of humor until a second half that squeezes in some subtle commentary on the...

I always hesitate when reviewing a film by a prolific director whom I am mostly unfamiliar with, especially one with plenty of dedicated followers and specialists. Such is the case with South Korea's Hong Sang-soo, who typically pumps out two...

Kim Seong-geun sees no other way out. He is horribly in debt with an interest-free loan company. He has no job after his employer restructured. His wife left him. What else is there that can go wrong? Before Kim finds out...

[With Fantasia in full swing, here is the type of films that don't necessarily draw big crowds, but leave the audience pretty happy to have discovered it.  Without further ado, here is Charles' review from the archives]With some of the...

[A TIFF straggler here coming in from friend and regular reader Irene Angelopoulos, who felt so strongly about this film that I told her she had to put her thoughts on paper.  Enjoy.]It may seem cheesy or overstated to say...

To be, or not to be: that is the question. Now, I don't know about slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, but it often makes you wonder: if you were about to hang yourself, would such determination surpass every other...