Lee Chang-Dong Articles
UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES Tops Asian Film Awards 2011
Michelle Yeoh in John Woo and Su Chao-Bin's Reign of Assassins Best Film AFTERSHOCK, China CONFESSIONS, Japan LET THE BULLETS FLY, China PEEPLI LIVE, India POETRY, South Korea * UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES, Thailand Best Director FENG Xiaogang, AFTERSHOCK, China JIANG Wen, LET THE BULLETS FLY, China * LEE Chang-dong, POETRY, South Korea MIIKE Takashi, 13 ASSASSINS, Japan NA Hong-jin, THE [...]
Mathieu Amalric, LEAP YEAR, POETRY, BARKING ISLAND: More Cannes 2010 Winners
Mathieu Amalric's On Tour (top); Yun Junghee in Lee Chang-dong's Poetry (middle); Monica del Carmen, Gustavo Sanchez Parra in Michael Rowe's Leap Year (lower middle); Serge Avedikian's Barking Island (bottom) Juliette Binoche, Javier Bardem, Elio Germano Win Acting Awards: Cannes 2010 Mathieu Amalric, best known for his work as an actor in films such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and A Christmas Tale, [...]
Cannes 2010 Awards: OF GODS AND MEN Wins Ecumenical Prize
The Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 edition of the Cannes Film Festival — as to be expected — awarded its top prize to Xavier Beauvois' Des hommes et des Dieux / Of Gods and Men (above). Starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale, Of Gods and Men recounts the events that led to the horrific massacre of a group of Trappist monks in civil war-torn Algeria [...]
Top Ten Undistributed Films in the US in 2007
Jeon do-yeong in Secret Sunshine Anthony Kaufman at indieWIRE: "What is it about Korean auteurs that have critics salivating and distributors running for the exits? Last year, Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach topped indieWIRE's best undistributed films list for 2007. This year, Hong compatriot Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine was far-and-way the winner of the honor. Thirty-four of the 106 critics surveyed in the 2007 [...]