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Tag Archives: Bong Joon-Ho
Snowpiercer (2014); directed by Bong Joon Ho
In order to combat global warming, various nations on the planet decide to inject the atmosphere with a coolant. The film opens with a bright blue sky, and three planes careening by far above, leaving behind a white trail of … Continue reading
Mother (2009); Dir. Bong Joon-Ho
Get rid of your expectations. From the trailer, it looks like Mother is the story of a mother’s quest to clear her son’s name of murder. It is that. But it is so much more. This is one of those … Continue reading
Kim Morgan on At the Movies
Kim Morgan, along with Roger Ebert himself, reminisces about her time co-hosting At the Movies, with a clip included. (Perfect timing that the clip would be the disagreement between Morgan and Roeper over Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host, with Bong’s Mother … Continue reading
Speaking of Bong Joon-Ho…
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 … Continue reading
Memories of Murder (2003); Dir.: Bong Joon-Ho
It is 1986, in the backwater Gyunggi Province of South Korea, and a woman has been found murdered in a drainage ditch on the edge of a field. A detective (played by the fantastic Song Kang-Ho) peers into the ditch, … Continue reading