Scribbles and Ramblings

Notes on all six of Lee Chang-dong’s directed features up to date: Green Fish (1997) Peppermint Candy (1999) Oasis (2002) Secret Sun...

This is a follow-up to the previous post where I had managed to see 30 / 32 Hong Sang-soo features to date.  Since that post, I have managed...

This is a follow-up to the previous post where I had managed to see 27 / 31 Hong Sang-soo features to date.  Since that post, Hong Sang-soo ...

In 2011, I was foolish enough to think I could catch-up to all of Hong Sang-soo's films. I had that crazy belief after I saw 3 of his ne...

The idea of revisiting Bong Joon-ho’s films came while reading Karen Han’s book on the director, Dissident Cinema. I realized that I hadn’t...

Top 12 Korean films of all time 1. Aimless Bullet (1961, Yu Hyun-mok) Yu Hyun-mok expertly incorporates neorealism with some film noir and c...

Obaltan / Aimless Bullet (1961, South Korea, directed by Yu Hyun-mok) Over the last 2 decades, contemporary Korean films have become much mo...

In the late 1990s, it was difficult to come across many Korean films at the video stores. Bong Joon-ho hadn’t directed his first feature yet...

This past April marked the 10th anniversary of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) and the festival celebrated it by having the s...

The following words stand out from Anthony Lane's article for the New Yorker : There’s only one problem with home cinema: it doesn’t e...