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• Korean Cinema Now at UCLA Film Archive

  2008-01-22 12:37PM / 資料 / 會員可以看
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  For those of you in LA, here's a chance to watch some Korean films -- classics and new independents.  The only one I've seen is the Hong Sang-soo film "Woman on the Beach," which is classic Hong Sang-soo. I've heard "Driving with My Wife's Lover" is quite good, too.  But mostly, I would really love to catch the classic melodramas by Shin Sang-Ok and Lee Man-Hee.
  
  More info at www.cinema.ucla.edu 
  
  UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) present   KOREAN CINEMA NOW (AND THEN) Friday, January 18 – Saturday, February 9
  
  While many U.S. moviegoers may have first encountered Korean cinema when last year's international hit, The Host, splashed across North American screens, longtime Archive patrons know that director Bong Joon-ho's riotous familial monster fest is only the latest high water mark of a surging Korean film industry.  Since the 1980s, the Archive has championed—and often premiered—the work of such internationally acclaimed filmmakers as Im Kwon-taek, Park Kwang-su, Lee Chang-dong, and Hong Sang-soo, whose compelling seventh film Woman on the Beach will screen in this series.  These directors, in turn, are building on a long tradition of work by Korean masters that began in the 1950s with the Golden Age of Korean cinema.  Many of these older filmmakers, such as Shin Sang-ok and Lee Man-hee, have only recently come to the attention of Western critics and audiences.  Their work, however, provides significant context for the current crop of Korean directors wrestling with questions of Korean national identity and societal change across an array of genres and cinematic forms.  This series brings together a selection of rare Korean classics, many newly restored, and recent gems to present a tantalizing snapshot of Korean cinema past and present.
  
  *Films in this series, except for The City of Violence (2006) and Woman on the Beach (2006), are provided courtesy of KOFIC.  All films are presented in Korean with English subtitles.