Bong Joon-Ho Articles

Kim Hye-ja in Mother Bong Joon-ho's unusual drama-thriller Mother received top honors at the 2010 Asian Film Awards. Hosted by model and veejay Lisa S., the event took place at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Monday evening. Mother, the tale of a devoted mother who'll stop at nothing to prove her mentally handicapped son is innocent of a heinous crime, was chosen [...]

KIM Hye-ja in Mother Bong Joon-ho's Mother, a Spirit Award nominee and the winner of Korea's Blue Dragon Award for Best Picture, has received widespread critical praise. At Salon.com, the headline for Andrew O'Hehir review calls the film "a brilliant Hitchcock mystery, made in Korea," while in his Village Voice review J. Hoberman says "Mother is deftly plotted, applying Hitchcockian suspense with a Hitchcockian sense [...]

Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff, Paul Giamatti in The Last Station (top); Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart in Best Screenplay nominee Adventureland (upper middle); Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer (lower middle); Gabourey Sidibe in Precious (bottom) The Academy Awards show will be held on Sunday. The Razzie Awards Gala Ceremony will take place tomorrow. And tonight it's the Spirit Awards, live from downtown [...]

Avatar is now South Korea's biggest blockbuster ever, having surpassed the number of tickets sold by Bong Joon-ho's 2006 monster movie The Host, according to Yonhap News. 20th Century Fox Korea has announced that James Cameron’s 3D sci-fier starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Sigourney Weaver, has sold more than 13.01 million admissions up to Saturday afternoon. The movie opened in Korea in December. To [...]