Seoul Stirring
Seoul Stirring

Author: Tony Rayns

Publisher:

Published: 1995-06

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13:

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This catalogue, based on a festival held at the ICA in 1994, provides a survey of contemporary Korean cinema and offers background information and material on 5 key Korean directors: Im Kwon-Taek, Jang Sun-Woo, Kim Ui-Seok, Lee Myung-Se and Park Kwang-Su.

PARK Chan-wook
PARK Chan-wook

Author: KIM Young-jin

Publisher: Seoul Selection

Published: 2007-11-07

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 8991913946

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PARK Chan-wook This book is an introductory guide to PARK Chan-wook, the 2004 Cannes Grand prix winner and one of the most acclaimed and popular Korean film directors. The book looks within with an insider's eyes and gropes roughly for the root and stems of cinematic world of PARK, who has achieved both critical and commercial success, performing stunts verging on the acrobatic between genre convention and directorial individuality. Korean Film Directors Created by the Korean Film Council, this series offers deep insight into key directors in Korean film, figures who are not only broadening the range of art and creativity found in Korean-produced commercial films but also gaining increasingly strong footholds in international markets. Each volume features: - critical commentary on films - extensive interview - biography - complete filmography

Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho

Author: Chi-yŏn Chŏng

Publisher: Seoul Selection USA, Incorporated

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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Film Studies. Asian Studies. This book is the result of efforts to reach a deeper and broader understanding of the director Bong Joon-ho, who has been the subject of a great deal of popular interest and attention in Korean society in spite of his relatively short filmography of three feature films. After the experience of Barking Dogs Never Bite, it appears that the director clearly came to understand what he had to do to relate the story he wanted to tell in the way most suited to the public, yet most in line with his own cinephile impulses. Memories of Murder and The Host were both major box office successes in Korean film, but at the same time, they were films that looked upon the wounds and failures of modern Korean history in the most perceptive and challenging ways. As a result, Bong Joon-ho became almost unique in present-day Korean film in his ability to break away from commercial and creative pressures and realize the kind of films he wants to, when he wants to.