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The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on August 31, 2010 | No Commentsway, basically dispensing with all of this in the first twenty minutes or so, and spends the rest of the film detailing how this earthquake affects the fortunes of a single family. As the title indicates, “Aftershock”is less about the natural disaster itself, and more about the aftermath of the disaster on the film’s central family. This is what makes Feng’s film such a moving, and often wrenching work. Most pertinently, it explores the conseq... -
Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly” – 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on April 26, 2009 | No CommentsOne of the strongest selections of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, “About Elly” is a psychologically penetrating film in which a woman’s disappearance gives rise to all sorts of complex issues of morality (both within an Iranian context and without), and questions of culpability and responsibility for tragedy. The film subtly switches from an observational and lightly comic portrait of Iranian middle-class life to a much darker morality play, an... -
The World of Doug Ing
I.H. KuniyukiPosted on May 1, 2002 | No Comments...re, at that time I was oblivious when it came to noticing other people…I was really into my work and getting as much out of my time in a wonderful darkroom. Eight years later, I kept seeing this wacky Asian dude at just about every Asian and art event around town, and asked people, “Who was that guy with the white spot on his head?” (He has this albino white spot on the top) I finally asked Alan Lau, the local guru of Asian Amer... -
Kim Ki-young’s “The Housemaid” ( 하녀 ) – 2008 Pusan International Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on January 22, 2009 | No CommentsThe 2008 Pusan International Film Festival revisited two of Kim Ki-young’s films as part of its “Archeology of Korean Cinema” retrospective. One of these was Kim’s undoubtedly most famous work, “The Housemaid,” which screened in a new digital restoration that premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. One of the enduring classics of Korean cinema, Kim’s 1960 expressionist masterpiece was first rediscovered, along with his other works, at the 2n... -
An interview with Naomi Kawase, director of “The Mourning Forest”
Christopher BournePosted on August 19, 2008 | No CommentsWhich Interests Me,” could describe the aim of any filmmaker who strives to create works with a personal vision and voice. But the fact that Kawase gave her film such a direct and rather bold title says quite a bit, perhaps, about Kawase as a person. Director Naomi Kawase. (photo by Christopher Bourne / Meniscus Magazine) The short documentaries Kawase made as her initial forays into filmmaking explore her family history, often fraught with pai... -
My recap of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on November 9, 2009 | No Commentsfice hit of all time in Korea. It’s not exactly classic cinema, but it delivers the goods as far as CGI spectacle is concerned, and its cast full of Korean stars do a very good job of selling this material and making one care about the characters. It screened at PIFF this year (of course), and it must have been quite something to sit in a movie theater and watch the area 10 minutes away from you be destroyed on celluloid. So on the Korean film fr... -
Singafest 2011: Interview with “Savasana” director Gerry Curtis
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 28, 2011 | No Commentsarketing behind in 2002 to pursue full-time filmmaking. Prior to his first short film, he attended film school and worked on short documentaries for various organizations. In the following interview with Meniscus, he talks about the making and casting of “Savasana,” and his future plans. A still from “Savasana,” which won “Best Short Film” at the New Jersey International Film Festival. (photo courtesy of Digital Kiln S... -
From a packed Pusan lineup, a Top 10 film list emerges
Christopher BournePosted on October 25, 2009 | No CommentsThe most frustrating thing about attending a festival with 355 selections is that it is impossible to see more than a tiny fraction of them. My press pass allowed me a maximum of four films a day, which is pretty much the limit one can maintain and still allow yourself reasonable rest and time to do other things, not to mention retaining your sanity. So putting together any kind of list of the best films of the Pusan International Film Festival... -
Review: Shin Sang-ok’s “A Romantic Papa”
Christopher BournePosted on October 14, 2011 | No Commentsifferent) Hong Sang-soo’s films, since he very similarly transforms very ordinary details into quite lovely patterns. One example of how the smallest situations are spun into something quite funny occurs when Baruen complains about the hand-me-down old shoes he has to wear, and asks his father to buy him new ones. Ue-jin asks for new shoes also, and tries to pass his old shoes once again to Baruen. The conversation expands into a philosophical de... -
“Breathless” Review – 2009 New York Asian Film Festival
Christopher BournePosted on July 9, 2009 | No Comments...Kim Kot-bi), a high-school girl and one of the few people who willing to directly confront him by way of an expletive-rich invective. Thus begins a very combative friendship between the two. Although they don’t tell the truth about their lives, they recognize each other as kindred spirits, bound together by the violence that is a daily part of their lives. Yeon-hee, like Sang-Hoon, endures a tortured home life of a violent father (Choi Yong-min)...
