Death of a salesman
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Arts & entertainment: Led by the maverick Hamish McAlpine, Tartan Films was the UK's most influential indie film distributor
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REVIEW - I'm a Cyborg, but That's Okay (2006)
SF Diplomat (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
My review of Park Chan-wook's I'm a Cyborg, but That's Okay has gone up at Videovista. I really enjoyed the Vengeance trilogy and so this frothy, style-over-substance romcom came as something of a disappointment though it did chime quite nicely...
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The Host 2 update
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Bong Joon-ho’s monster masterpiece THE HOST (aka GWOEMUL) became a solid hit, and since then we've been hearing rumblings of a follow-up to the family drama/fright flick. Now comes the official word -- a sequel is coming, and it's a co-production between Korean production company Chungeorahm and China's Stone Man Films. The $12 million project will be written and directed by China's Ning Hao, who made...
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I'm a Cyborg
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
DVD Video Review: but that's (pretty much) ok.
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I'm a Cyborg (aka I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK)
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Blu-Ray Review: After his vengeance trilogy, Chan Wook Park decides that what the world needs now is love, sweet love. John reviews the Tartan Blu-ray of Park's romantic comedy.
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Grumble!
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
I knew it was true, but now I have official confirmation. Tartan USA is dead . This is terrible news, but I'm not surprised. The studio, an American branch of the UK company, released a number of extremely popular Asian films, including Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, as well as challenging films from the rest of the world, including Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs , Catherine Breillat's Anatomy...
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I'm A Cyborg (R2) in May
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
News: Tartan Video have announced the UK DVD release of I'm A Cyborg on 26th May 2008 priced at £19.99. The latest film from the Korean director Park Chan-Wook (Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance) is a madcap fantasy that weaves drama and...
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Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy
Analog Medium (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Any director worth his salt as an artist has directed a trilogy of movies. Trilogies are, after all, far superior to all other lengths for a series of films. Francis Ford Coppola directed the Godfather Trilogy, Peter Jackson directed the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. But not every trilogy follows a continuous plot line. Some of the craziest trilogies are based around an emotion or a theme, like Stanley...
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Park Chan-wook: Mild-mannered man of vengeance
CNN (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
For those of a sensitive disposition, the films of Park Chan-wook might be even less palatable than the live octopus the Korean director made one of his actors eat.
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Lady Vengeance (2005) Review
Analog Medium (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance Lady Vengeance... any dumb ass could guess that with a title like that, there is going to be boobs, and there is going to be blood. Lady Vengeance is like the crack addicted, homicidal prostitute version of an art house film - the type of feel that you can only get from the Asian film making aesthetic. There are some fantastically portrayed, viscous female characters...
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Music Videos 2.0 (in Video)
Tyee - Home (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
YouTube's incredible playback machine. Sample the world.
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A Trailer For Impressive Russian Short THE COLLECTOR
Twitch (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
I recently came across one tasty new short from Russian director Egor Abramenko. Titled The Collector it's an ominous little piece of work shot with a formal precision that reminds me of nobody so much as Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook in shooting style and camera work. Toronto audiences will get the chance to see this on the big screen sometime soon - details will come once I get the okay - but to give...
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Fests and events, 4/30.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
"Korean filmmakers reinvent Hollywood genres and conventions much the way their Asian counterparts do, but my sense is that they tend to put everything in a broader context, using the form to investigate the inexorable influence of the past,...
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Kim Ok Bin is Korean Beyonce
Hollywood Grind (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
The latest hot topic in Korea is a video that was made by Korean actress Kim Ok Bin. The YouTube video is labeled Korean Beyonce because of he music that plays in the background, and the way Kim dances. Kim Ok Bin is currently filming a movie called Bat, which is directed by Park Chan [...]
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Film review: I'm A Cyborg
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Director: Park Chan-wookRunning time: 105 minutes****IS MENTAL illness the new black? No sooner have we recovered from Ryan Gosling's romance with a sex doll in Lars And The Real Girl than South Korean visionary Park Chan-wook is delivering a love story set inside a mental asylum. Not just any mental asylum. A mental asylum on a grand scale, conceived like a futurist dream, designed and choreographed...
