as I just was, take a look at this: Edmund Mullins has a very nice post up on Black Book about Bong Joon-Ho, and also some thoughts on Bong’s latest release. This is all because of a retrospective that BAM is now hosting, looking over Bong Joon-Ho’s career, certainly one of the most successful in South Korean film history.
I spent all of last week at BAM, blizzard or no blizzard, going to press screenings for BAM’s upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival (look for my round-up on House Next Door in the next couple of days. I saw 14 movies in 4 days – good times!) – but looks like (along with their March Montgomery Clift film fest), I’ll be trekking out to BAM to take a look at some of Bong Joon-Ho’s other work (only one day left), plus his latest – Mother – which sounds phenomenal. (Incredible trailer included in Mullins’s piece.)
Were you able to see Barking Dog never Bites? Curious about your thought on that film if you were able to brave the snow and cold. I have the film on DVD, which I got in Thailand.
I’ve been watching a fair amount of Korean films as well, and two that really knocked me out were The Scarlet Letter and Tell Me Something.
Peter – sadly, no, I didn’t get a chance to see that one. The blizzard plus all the screenings I had to go to for Rotterdam limited my time – I wish I could clone myself, basically.
Thanks for the recommendations – I’ll have to check them out.