Kim Ok-bin Wins Best Actress at Spain’s Sitges Film Fest

Actress Kim Ok-bin shared the award for Best Actress with Spain’s Elena Anaya at the 42nd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Spain.
The 23-year-old won the award, the festival announced Sunday, for her role in Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst”. Kim shared the award with Anaya for her role in “Hierro”, a psychological thriller.
“Thirst”, a thriller that won [...]

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Pusan Film Fest 2009 Kicks Off In Style

Busan - The 14th edition of the Pusan (Busan) International Film Fstival (PIFF) kicked off Thursday with glitz and glam. Some 150 star cineastes and VIP guests walked the red carpet, sizzling up the cool autumn evening at the seaside resort.
The Busan Yatching Center Outdoor Theater exploded with excitement, as more than the usual number [...]

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Film Council Selects Mother for Academy Award Submission

The film “Mother” by Bong Joon-ho will be submitted for consideration for next year’s Academy Awards. The Korean Film Council on Monday announced the selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film in the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.
Six films were initially chosen as candidates. The others were “A Frozen Flower” by Yoo Ha, [...]

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Park Chan-wook’s Films to Be Screened at KOFA

A special retrospective of the films by award-winning director Park Chan-wook will be held at the Cinematheque, Korean Film Archive (KOFA) next month.
The retrospective is part of the Cinematheque KOFA’s monthly Replay program. There will be special screenings of Park’s films, starting from his directorial debut “The Moon Is … The Sun’s Dream” (1992) to [...]

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High Profile Korean Films at New Zealand International Film Festival

The NZ International Film Festival has always shown a large amount of Korean films. The 5 acclaimed Korean features this year however have already racked up awards and played at festivals around the globe.
First up and most recently is BONG Joong-ho’s “Mother - 2009″ which opened in Cannes to rave reviews and stampeded at the [...]

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Korean Film Industry Weathers Recession

It seems the film industry has emerged as one of the few recession-proof industries while the economy struggles to regain its footing.
The stats are out, showing that Korean films recorded their best ever performance, with a 4.7 percent increase in revenue from ticket sales compared to a year earlier.
An estimated 72 million Koreans went to [...]

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Park Chan-wook’s Thirst will sink fangs into U.S. in July

SEOUL — “Thirst,” Park Chan-wook’s vampire flick and a recent Cannes jury prize winner, will be released in the U.S. on July 31, the film’s North American distributor Focus Features said Wednesday.
The screenings start in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York and will gradually expand to include other states for a wider release.
“Very few [...]

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