In the Korea Times, Cathy Rose A. Garcia reports that the Korean Film Archive (KOFA) has screened the oldest surviving Korean film, the silent, black-and-white social drama Cheongchun’s Sipjaro.
Directed by An Jong-hwa, Cheongchun’s Sipjaro was first screened at Seoul’s Joseon Theater in September 1934.
As per Garcia’s article, there are two other Korean films known [...]
28th Blue Dragon Awards - 2007
The 28th Blue Dragon Film Awards cover Korean films released between November 2006 and October 2007.
The 28th Blue Dragon Film Award winners were announced at the National Theater of Korea in Seoul, on November 23, 2007.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Han Jae-rim’s violent gangster comedy-drama-action flick The Show [...]
"It’s almost strange that it’s the first ceremony," remarked French director Luc Besson at the 1st Asian Film Awards presentation held this evening at Hong Kong’s Convention and Exhibition Centre, as part of the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival which kicked off last night.
"Good films come from everywhere," added Besson. "Artists are like mushrooms, [...]
The nominees for the 1st Asian Film Awards (AFA) were unveiled this past Jan. 29. The awards ceremony, to be held on March 20, will open the 31st Hong Kong Film Festival.
According to AFA’s mission statement, the awards were created to "to acknowledge the finest of Asian Cinema, and bestow honor in various categories [...]
The Korean Film Critics Society has chosen Kim Tae-yong’s drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties as the best Korean film of 2006. The story of different relationships within a dysfunctional family, Family Ties has also won top prizes from the Pusan Film Critics and from the jury at this year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
Other [...]
27th Blue Dragon Awards - 2006
The 27th Blue Dragon Film Award winners were announced at the KBS Hall in Seoul, on December 15, 2006.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Bong Joon-Ho’s The Host was a phenomenal box-office hit in South Korea. The tale of a mutant river creature with a taste for fresh human [...]
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The top winner at the 2006 edition of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which wrapped today, was Kim Tae-yong’s Korean drama Gajokeui Tansaeng / Family Ties, about different relationships within a dysfunctional family.
In addition to the Golden Alexander Award for Best Film (worth 37,000 euros), Family Ties won a joint Best Actress award (for Moon [...]
Korean Film Awards — 2006 winners, including Best Film Gwoemul / The Host, Best Director Bong Joon-ho for The Host, Best Actor Ji In-seong for A Dirty Carnival, Best Actress Jang Jin-yeong for Between Love and Hate, Best Screenplay Jae-gon Son for My Scary Girl.
I’ve added the list of winners at this year’s Pusan International Film Festival, perhaps the world’s most important showcase for East Asian cinema.
The festival’s top winners were Heng Yang’s Betelut (China) and Chui Mui Tan’s Love Conquers All (Malaysia, see above photo), which tied for the New Currents Award for Best New Asian Film. Chui’s [...]
Paul Verhoeven’s Dutch underground thriller, Zwartboek / Black Book, has been chosen as the Netherlands’ submission for the 2006 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award. Set in the fall of 1944, Zwartboek portrays the relationship between a young Jewish woman (Carice van Houten) and a high-ranking Gestapo officer (Sebastian Koch) while she seeks revenge for the [...]
Yesterday, Feb. 12, Korean director Im Kwon-taek, 69, described by Der Spiegel as the "godfather of Korean film," became the first Asian filmmaker to received the Honorary Golden Bear at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival.
Im shared the honor with Spanish (though born in Peru) actor-director-writer Fernando Fernán Gómez, 83, winner of six Spanish [...]
"50 Ans de Cinéma Coréen" (50 Years of Korean Cinema), a film festival that comprises 50 Korean-made feature films is currently being held at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. The event was organized by Jean-François Rauger of the Cinémathèque Française, with the assistance of the Centre Culturel Coréen en France.
Among the films being shown are, [...]
