After granting its first round of waivers for several films Tuesday, SAG-AFTRA has given another group of films permission to shoot during the strike including Ishana Night Shyamalan’s The Watchers, starring Dakota Fanning, and the Sam Raimi-produced Don’t Move. See the updated list below.
What makes The Watchers an interesting case is that while New Line is on board to distribute, the film was a negative pickup, and sources say what helped it get the waiver is that the distribution deal had not been signed yet. therefore making it an indie shoot with independent financing. The studio will have nothing to do with the project until a deal is signed, which would not happen until a strike is resolved.
The film had been also been shooting in Ireland and was viewed as a local UK shoot and fell under the British Equity Guild, which already has allowed shows...
What makes The Watchers an interesting case is that while New Line is on board to distribute, the film was a negative pickup, and sources say what helped it get the waiver is that the distribution deal had not been signed yet. therefore making it an indie shoot with independent financing. The studio will have nothing to do with the project until a deal is signed, which would not happen until a strike is resolved.
The film had been also been shooting in Ireland and was viewed as a local UK shoot and fell under the British Equity Guild, which already has allowed shows...
- 7/19/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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Margo Price is serving up some dope merch (literally) in celebration of her new album, Strays.
Together with cannabis brand Dad Grass, the country star has released her own line of Cbg cannabis products for fans to enjoy while listening to the new record. The collection includes specially-packaged flower and joints containing Mom Grass Cbg; a mellowing, non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in Thc and CBD. The collection also delivers...
Margo Price is serving up some dope merch (literally) in celebration of her new album, Strays.
Together with cannabis brand Dad Grass, the country star has released her own line of Cbg cannabis products for fans to enjoy while listening to the new record. The collection includes specially-packaged flower and joints containing Mom Grass Cbg; a mellowing, non-psychoactive cannabinoid found in Thc and CBD. The collection also delivers...
- 1/27/2023
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Delhi Crime Season 2 showrunner and director Tanuj Chopra has signed with WME.
The deal comes following the launch of the buzzy second run of Netflix’s crime procedural, whose first season made history in 2020 by becoming the first Indian show to win the Outstanding Drama Series award at the International Emmys.
Chopra took over showrunning duties from creator Richie Mehta for the second run, which debuted on the streamer August 26 and is from Sk Global Entertainment, Golden Karavan and Film Karavan.
Previously an indie filmmaker, Chopra has written, directed and produced four grand jury prize-winning features including Punching at the Sun, a gritty movie about teens coming of age in post-9/11 Queens that was the first South Asian American film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. He also picked up awards for Chee and T, Grass and the improvised dark comedy Staycation, which won the LA Muse Fiction...
The deal comes following the launch of the buzzy second run of Netflix’s crime procedural, whose first season made history in 2020 by becoming the first Indian show to win the Outstanding Drama Series award at the International Emmys.
Chopra took over showrunning duties from creator Richie Mehta for the second run, which debuted on the streamer August 26 and is from Sk Global Entertainment, Golden Karavan and Film Karavan.
Previously an indie filmmaker, Chopra has written, directed and produced four grand jury prize-winning features including Punching at the Sun, a gritty movie about teens coming of age in post-9/11 Queens that was the first South Asian American film to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. He also picked up awards for Chee and T, Grass and the improvised dark comedy Staycation, which won the LA Muse Fiction...
- 9/1/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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Hemp brand Dad Grass is celebrating George Harrison’s album All Things Must Pass as the legendary musician would have wanted: by passing us some grass.
Dad Grass is launching a collaboration with George Harrison’s estate to remember the legend, his album, and his love of good grass. The collection, playfully named “All Things Must Grass,” is led by George Harrison Signature Edition Pre Rolled Joints containing...
Hemp brand Dad Grass is celebrating George Harrison’s album All Things Must Pass as the legendary musician would have wanted: by passing us some grass.
Dad Grass is launching a collaboration with George Harrison’s estate to remember the legend, his album, and his love of good grass. The collection, playfully named “All Things Must Grass,” is led by George Harrison Signature Edition Pre Rolled Joints containing...
- 4/12/2022
- by Oscar Hartzog
- Rollingstone.com
Sean Gilman: I had a particularly Hongian experience as I readied myself to write this first dispatch to you, Evan, about Introduction. Right after finishing the movie, I took a brief nap. This is a regular part of my pre-writing process: the twenty minutes of calm and quiet help me organize my thoughts, and the dreaminess helps with my creativity. I had the whole thing planned and written out in my head. I assure you it was brilliant, funny and clever and insightful. Then when I woke up, I had forgotten all of it. Not just what I was going to write, but the movie itself was gone. I’ve been trying to piece it all back together over the past 24 hours, and in doing so I’ve been wondering if this is a bit like how Hong constructs his films in the first place. It’s well-documented that he...
- 3/15/2021
- MUBI
When Tom Hanks finds somebody he likes to work with, he’ll go out of his way to work with that person again. For example, he’s worked on five films with the director who gave him his big break in Splash, Ron Howard. And he’s worked five times with producer Steven Spielberg. So, when Hanks had [...]
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- 1/8/2021
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
For several years now, Sean Gilman and Evan Morgan have been discussing the latest Hong Sang-soo releases in-person, at film festivals, via Twitter and on their site, Seattle Screen Scene, including The Day After, Claire’s Camera, Grass, and Hotel by the River. Now, on the occasion of the New York Film Festival's presentation of Hong's The Woman Who Ran, the discussion continues here at the Notebook.***Sean Gilman: We’ve been doing these correspondences about Hong Sang-soo movies (corresp-Hong-dences?) for a few years now and I’m more curious than ever to know what you think of this one. I don’t know that I’ve ever been more surprised, initially at least, by one of his films. Hong seems to have reduced his cinema down to its barest essence: structure and subtext, while allowing the text itself to drift away into nothingness. A woman played by Kim Min-hee has...
- 9/29/2020
- MUBI
"Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious" is a new multi-platform "Doctor Who" story told across audio, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theater, games and novels including "The Knight, The Fool and the Dead" and "A'' Flesh Is Grass", launching September 2020:
"The Knight, The Fool and the Dead"
...we live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. 'The Doctor' travels back to the 'Dark Times', an era where life flourishes and death is barely known. Then come the 'Kotturuh' – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre of death. But the Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh,...
"The Knight, The Fool and the Dead"
...we live forever, barring accidents. Just like everyone else in the universe. 'The Doctor' travels back to the 'Dark Times', an era where life flourishes and death is barely known. Then come the 'Kotturuh' – creatures who spread through the cosmos dispensing mortality. They judge each and every species and decree its allotted time to live. For the first time, living things know the fear of ending. And they will go to any lengths to escape this grim new spectre of death. But the Doctor is an old hand at cheating death. Now, at last, he can stop it at source. He is coming for the Kotturuh,...
- 7/26/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
A story of love, gambling, broken heart, and broken dreams. “A City Called Macau” is shiny, lavish. It lures, hoping you would dive into its spaces and sounds. It promises a roller-coaster ride of fate with a young casino broker and single mother Xiao-ou (Bai Baihe). Your breath should depend on her as you watch her rise and fall. Your heart should be skipping a beat with the mistakes of the high roller property developer Kevin Duan (Wu Gang) and the sculptor Shi Qilan (Huang Jue) who render her less cautious. Who allow her to think she can trust them as friends. Yet, the city that in 2012 outdid Las Vegas doesn’t let the professional trespasses unpunished.
“A City Called Macau” screens at We Are One: A Global Film Festival. It was curated by International Film Festival and Award Macau (Iffam).
In December 1999, Macau passed under the administration of China,...
“A City Called Macau” screens at We Are One: A Global Film Festival. It was curated by International Film Festival and Award Macau (Iffam).
In December 1999, Macau passed under the administration of China,...
- 6/14/2020
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
This years Eisner Award nominees have been announced, and include a few notable Asian titles. Notably, Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim getting the nod for both ‘best reality based work’ and ‘best writer/artist’. The Eisner Awards will be presented at a gala awards ceremony to be held on July 24, 2020 in San Diego. You can check out details on the Asian titles nominated below, and can read the entire list of nominees here.
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn and Quarterly)
Nominated for: Best reality based work, Best writer/artist
Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Lee Ok-sun who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War – a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history.
Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child’s vulnerable perspective,...
Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn and Quarterly)
Nominated for: Best reality based work, Best writer/artist
Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Lee Ok-sun who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War – a disputed chapter in 20th century Asian history.
Beginning in Lee’s childhood, Grass shows the leadup to World War II from a child’s vulnerable perspective,...
- 6/5/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Nature hasn’t always been pop music’s closest friend. Unlike unrequited love, coming of age, or escaping your hometown on the open road, songs about oak trees or daffodils or sunny mountain faces don’t tend to inspire the type of cathartic release we expect from our most beloved anthems.
That is, until this spring, when people across the world have been forced to remain indoors indefinitely as we ride out the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, three-minute songs about clean air or fresh water sources...
That is, until this spring, when people across the world have been forced to remain indoors indefinitely as we ride out the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic. Almost overnight, three-minute songs about clean air or fresh water sources...
- 5/22/2020
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
The Woman Who Ran opens on a lovely shot of hens. The camera then pulls back to show the garden of a middle-class apartment block where a woman named Youngsoon (Seo Younghwa) tells another, Youngji (Lee Eunmi), about her hangover. The lighting is natural; the performances and sentiment are, too. Hong Sang-soo’s cinema is one of repetition and anyone familiar will not take long to discern The Woman Who Ran as his own. He rinses; he washes; he repeats.
Some things, however, do change. Since the premiere of Right Now, Wrong Then in 2015, Hong has gradually moved from the melancholic male protagonists that defined his early work, and Woman feels like another natural exercise in that process. His artistic partnering with Kim Min-hee has been key to this–a no-nonsense and wonderfully nuanced actress who took her first Hong role in Right Now, then appeared in all but one...
Some things, however, do change. Since the premiere of Right Now, Wrong Then in 2015, Hong has gradually moved from the melancholic male protagonists that defined his early work, and Woman feels like another natural exercise in that process. His artistic partnering with Kim Min-hee has been key to this–a no-nonsense and wonderfully nuanced actress who took her first Hong role in Right Now, then appeared in all but one...
- 2/25/2020
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Three distant mountains; three chatty encounters between long-acquainted women; three comically tiresome intrusions from self-important men shot only from behind. Prolific South Korean arthouse staple Hong Sangsoo has dealt in playful, internally rhyming triplicate before, but never with such a gently sardonic female focus, and seldom as straightforwardly as in his airy, charming Berlin competition trinket “The Woman Who Ran.” (Spoiler alert: No women run.)
Given that it’s been two years since Hong’s last film, which relative to his standard level of output is equivalent to roughly a decade-long absence for any other filmmaker, one might have expected a denser, more complex return, especially given his often slippery, Möbius-strip approach to time and memory. But “The Woman Who Ran” is surprisingly linear — not that its decipherability is going to win this defiantly acquired-taste filmmaker a new host of multiplex-going fans. Woe betide anyone suddenly so turned on to...
Given that it’s been two years since Hong’s last film, which relative to his standard level of output is equivalent to roughly a decade-long absence for any other filmmaker, one might have expected a denser, more complex return, especially given his often slippery, Möbius-strip approach to time and memory. But “The Woman Who Ran” is surprisingly linear — not that its decipherability is going to win this defiantly acquired-taste filmmaker a new host of multiplex-going fans. Woe betide anyone suddenly so turned on to...
- 2/25/2020
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
Hong Sang-soo can be a very frustrating artist at times for some. He has developed a formula that he has stuck to so well for so long that audiences can pretty much guess several settings and situations off the bat, a quality that you either love or hate in the director’s works. The main thing that differs are the narrative choices he takes. His latest film, and his second of 2018, “Hotel by the River” however takes a simpler, more linear approach to the narrative. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won Best Actor for Gi Ju-bong.
“Hotel by the River” is screening at
Festival des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems...
“Hotel by the River” is screening at
Festival des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems...
- 2/13/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Saban Films has secured the North American distribution rights to Martin Owen’s drama Twist, a modern take on Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. The pic, which was acquired out of Afm and will get a theatrical release Q1 of 2021, stars Oscar winner Michael Caine, Game of Thrones alum Lena Headey, recording artist and actress Rita Ora, Raff Law, and Sophie Simnett.
Written by John Wrathall, the plot is set in contemporary London and follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced the pic for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky co-produced the project which was financed by Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight Films and Lipsync Productions. Arclight is handling worldwide rights.
Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba...
Written by John Wrathall, the plot is set in contemporary London and follows a gifted graffiti artist who is lured into a street gang headed by a father figure, Fagin, who plans a series of audacious art thefts.
Noel Clarke and Jason Maza produced the pic for Unstoppable along with Pure Grass Films’ Ben Grass and Knuckle Sandwich’s Matt Williams. Sky co-produced the project which was financed by Mep Capital, Blue Rider, Arclight Films and Lipsync Productions. Arclight is handling worldwide rights.
Bill Bromiley and Jonathan Saba...
- 11/25/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options—not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves–each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit platforms. Check out this week’s selections below and an archive of past round-ups here.
Adam (Rhys Ernst)
There’s a specific kind of warm, crowd-pleasing aesthetic–often in the coming-of-age subgenre–that seems to find a home among the Sundance programming more so than any other festival. A few years ago, Sean Baker’s Tangerine heralded a major breakthrough for transgender representation in cinema and broke this mold in formally compelling ways. For better or worse, Adam has now arrived to fit more in the aforementioned lighthearted, simplistic, but ultimately empathetic dramedy conceit. – Jordan R. (full review)
Where to Stream: Amazon, iTunes
Age Out (A.J. Edwards)
The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it...
Adam (Rhys Ernst)
There’s a specific kind of warm, crowd-pleasing aesthetic–often in the coming-of-age subgenre–that seems to find a home among the Sundance programming more so than any other festival. A few years ago, Sean Baker’s Tangerine heralded a major breakthrough for transgender representation in cinema and broke this mold in formally compelling ways. For better or worse, Adam has now arrived to fit more in the aforementioned lighthearted, simplistic, but ultimately empathetic dramedy conceit. – Jordan R. (full review)
Where to Stream: Amazon, iTunes
Age Out (A.J. Edwards)
The only thing worse than never getting your happy ending is having it...
- 11/22/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
As a part of the London Korean Film Festival (Lkff)‘s celebration of 100 years of Korean Cinema, Lkff revisits Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo with their screening of his 1996 feature debut, “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well.” “Pig” had skyrocketed Hong to fame; he received the “Best New Director” at the Blue Dragon Film Award, as well as recognition at Rotterdam and Vancouver. Now, upon re-watching “Pig” in its contemporary context, Hong’s themes of love and loss ring clear – and perhaps reflect that romantic relations in the ’90s is, perhaps, not so different from those of today’s.
“The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Much like its titular inspiration, “Pig” entangles four different lives under the thin veneer of supposed romance and rampant sexual desire. Hyo-seop (Kim Eui-sung) is a second-rate novelist who barely scrapes by with his meager earnings.
“The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Much like its titular inspiration, “Pig” entangles four different lives under the thin veneer of supposed romance and rampant sexual desire. Hyo-seop (Kim Eui-sung) is a second-rate novelist who barely scrapes by with his meager earnings.
- 11/7/2019
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
The films are Shin Su-Won’s Light For The Youth, Yoon Ga-eun’s The House Of Us and Jung Jin-young’s Me And Me.
Finecut has picked up international sales rights to a trio of Korean films from directors renowned on the international festival circuit.
Shin Su-Won, whose Madonna was in Un Certain Regard 2015 and whose Pluto won Special Mention in 2013 Berlinale’s Generation 14plus, is in post-production on Light For The Youth.
The film is about the mysterious disappearance of a call centre manager. It is produced by June Film, which also produced the director’s Glass Garden and Madonna.
Finecut has picked up international sales rights to a trio of Korean films from directors renowned on the international festival circuit.
Shin Su-Won, whose Madonna was in Un Certain Regard 2015 and whose Pluto won Special Mention in 2013 Berlinale’s Generation 14plus, is in post-production on Light For The Youth.
The film is about the mysterious disappearance of a call centre manager. It is produced by June Film, which also produced the director’s Glass Garden and Madonna.
- 5/15/2019
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Head over to Greenwich Village, go up Bleecker Street, just a few blocks past 6th Avenue, and then make a left. Keep walking until you get to 42 Carmine Street. That’s where you’ll find Rick Kelly. The Long Island native with the gray hair and the slightly oversized black t-shirt might be ambling around the retail section of the storefront, which he opened up in 1990. He might be talking to his elderly mom Dorothy, who balances the books, answers the phones and dusts the framed pics of Kelly standing...
- 4/24/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
“Carmine Street Guitars” is a one-of-a-kind documentary that exudes a gentle, homespun magic. It’s a no-fuss, 80-minute-long portrait of Rick Kelly, who builds and sells custom guitars out of a modest storefront on Carmine Street in New York’s Greenwich Village, and the film touches on obsessions that have been popping up, like fragrant weeds, in the world of documentary. “Carmine Street Guitars” is all about the weirdly grounded pleasures of analog culture; about the glory of hand-made artisanal objects in a world dominated by mass corporate production; about the aging, and persistence, of old-school jazz and rock ‘n’ roll; about the fading of bohemia in a world of rising rents, omnivorous bottom lines, and chain-store values; and about how all those themes fuse into a Zen ideal of doing what you love and loving what you do.
The film sounds earnest and touching in a minor, twilight-of-the-’60s way.
The film sounds earnest and touching in a minor, twilight-of-the-’60s way.
- 4/20/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Hotel by the RiverIsn't the miracle of art how we see the panoply of our own lives via a magical panopticon? Every time we look, we see something that's really all about us. In concert with this, I vaingloriously clutch Walter Pater's concept of how art gives “nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.” But each of these moments, for me, is a multiplicity of moments, the past surfacing after bottom-feeding for minutes, months, or years. It might not be easy to see one's life in film—not in the narrative itself, but in the regard of the camera, the editing, how people say things and what their silences are like. It's really only happened for me with Eric Rohmer and now Hong Sang-soo. But it shouldn't be so surprising, since they are both romantics who capture the improvisatory moments in life,...
- 4/16/2019
- MUBI
For the second year in a row, a documentary feature won the Grand Prize at South Korea’s Wildflower Film Awards. “The Remnants” was directed by Kim Il-ran & Lee Hyuk-san.
Jung Sung-il was named best documentary director for “Night and Fog in Zona.” Best director in the narrative category was Jeon Go-woon for “Microhabitat.”
The awards were launched six years ago by former Variety correspondent Darcy Paquet, and film critic Oh Dong-jin, in an effort to recognize Korean independent cinema. The awards presentation took place in Seoul on Friday.
This year for the first time cash prizes were given to all awards recipients — a total of KRW20 million won sponsored by retail chain E-Mart. There will be a five-day screening event at Megabox Coex from April 18-22 award-winning films will be screened.
The nominees were selected from a preliminary list of 57 fiction films and 26 documentaries released in the calendar year...
Jung Sung-il was named best documentary director for “Night and Fog in Zona.” Best director in the narrative category was Jeon Go-woon for “Microhabitat.”
The awards were launched six years ago by former Variety correspondent Darcy Paquet, and film critic Oh Dong-jin, in an effort to recognize Korean independent cinema. The awards presentation took place in Seoul on Friday.
This year for the first time cash prizes were given to all awards recipients — a total of KRW20 million won sponsored by retail chain E-Mart. There will be a five-day screening event at Megabox Coex from April 18-22 award-winning films will be screened.
The nominees were selected from a preliminary list of 57 fiction films and 26 documentaries released in the calendar year...
- 4/15/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
"An exquisite hangout movie." The Cinema Guild has debuted an official Us trailer for the film Grass, one of the latest works from prominent Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. This originally premiered at the Berlin Film Festival last year, and also played at the Busan and New York Film Festivals last year, but is only now getting a release in Us cinemas. Grass is Hong Sang-soo's fourth feature film over the last two years - following On the Beach at Night Alone, which also premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, as well as The Day After and Claire's Camera. This one, also shot in black & white, is about a young Korean woman, played by award-winning actress Kim Min-hee, who sits at a cafe in the corner writing on her laptop about people she sees around here and their interactions. Seems like a good time, offering some nice insight. It's only 68 minutes,...
- 3/25/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Even if you’re personally unfamiliar with Korean auteur, Hong Sang-soo, you’ve probably seen his name pop up in an article, or somewhere on your social media feed. He is arguably the most prolific filmmaker working today. His acolytes are legion, but those less exposed to the art house scene likely can’t name more than one or two titles from his catalog. But now’s a pretty great time to dive headfirst into the filmmaker’s work with the upcoming “Grass.”
A stylish one-take tease in the form of a trailer for his newest venture, “Grass,” has just arrived.
Continue reading ‘Grass’ Trailer: Filmmaker Hong Sang-Soo Reunites With Kim Min-Hee In This Gorgeous Black & White Drama at The Playlist.
A stylish one-take tease in the form of a trailer for his newest venture, “Grass,” has just arrived.
Continue reading ‘Grass’ Trailer: Filmmaker Hong Sang-Soo Reunites With Kim Min-Hee In This Gorgeous Black & White Drama at The Playlist.
- 3/23/2019
- by Andrew Bundy
- The Playlist
Cinema Guild has unveiled the trailer for Hong Sang-soo’s “Grass,” the prolific Korean auteur’s 22nd feature. It’s also his fifth with frequent collaborator and romantic partner Kim Min-hee, perhaps best known for her role in “The Handmaiden,” who likewise stars in “Hotel by the River,” Hong’s other 2018 premiere. After debuting in Berlin last year, the 66-minute black-and-white film went on to screen at the Busan and New York film festivals, among others. Avail yourself of the trailer below.
Here, as they say, is the synopsis: “For his 22nd feature as director, Hong Sangsoo delivers a delicious cinematic riddle only he could concoct. In the corner of a small café, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle...
Here, as they say, is the synopsis: “For his 22nd feature as director, Hong Sangsoo delivers a delicious cinematic riddle only he could concoct. In the corner of a small café, Areum (Kim Minhee) sits typing on her laptop. At the tables around her, other customers enact the various dramas of their lives. A young couple charge each other with serious crimes, an old man tries to rekindle...
- 3/22/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Another year, another film about the Japanese occupation of Korea. A very delicate subject for a lot of people, most films that are based on it are met with mixed reactions. Director Jo Min-ho’s film “A Resistance” focuses on the female prisoners of war.
Synopsis
17-year-old Yu Gwan-sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910. Yu Gwan-Sun is arrested and sent to Seodaemun Prison. There, she is tortured, but she does not yield her will to her oppressors.
The film stars Ko Ah-sung in the central role of Yu Gwan-sun as well as Kim Sae-byuk and Jeong Ha-dam is supporting roles. It releases in South Korea on February 27th, 2019.
Synopsis
17-year-old Yu Gwan-sun participates in the Korean independence movement. The country is under the rule of Japan, which annexed the country in 1910. Yu Gwan-Sun is arrested and sent to Seodaemun Prison. There, she is tortured, but she does not yield her will to her oppressors.
The film stars Ko Ah-sung in the central role of Yu Gwan-sun as well as Kim Sae-byuk and Jeong Ha-dam is supporting roles. It releases in South Korea on February 27th, 2019.
- 2/28/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Sang-soo is among the most prolific filmmakers in the world, and somehow manages to make each new film an event unto itself. “Hotel by the River” is his fifth film in the last two years — “On the Beach at Night Alone,” “Claire’s Camera,” “The Day After,” and “Grass” all preceded it on the festival circuit — and, like all of those earlier works, stars his creative and romantic partner Kim Min-hee (“The Handmaiden”).
After premiering at Locarno last summer, the black-and-white romantic comedy will soon be released theatrically. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis: “Two tales intersect at a riverside hotel: an elderly poet (Ki Joo-bong), invited to stay there for free by the owner, summons his two estranged sons, sensing his life drawing to a close; and a young woman (Kim Min-hee) nursing a recently broken heart is visited by a friend who tries to console her.
After premiering at Locarno last summer, the black-and-white romantic comedy will soon be released theatrically. Watch the trailer below.
Here’s the synopsis: “Two tales intersect at a riverside hotel: an elderly poet (Ki Joo-bong), invited to stay there for free by the owner, summons his two estranged sons, sensing his life drawing to a close; and a young woman (Kim Min-hee) nursing a recently broken heart is visited by a friend who tries to console her.
- 2/2/2019
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Hong Sangsoo, the prolific, celebrated director of On the Beach at Night Alone, Right Now, Wrong Them, and many more, slacked a bit and only premiered two new films last year. The most recent, Hotel by the River, conveys the interactions between a poet, his sons, and two female guests, one of whom played is played by Kim Minhee. These interactions convey the defining theme of Hong’s films: the rumination of life and its enigmatic nature. Ahead of a release in February, Cinema Guild has now delivered the U.S. trailer and poster.
Leonardo Goi said in his review, “Hong’s acolytes have reasons to rejoice in the Korean’s latest feature: beautifully shot in crisp black and white by Kim Hyung-koo – reminiscent of his work in Hong’s The Day After (2017) and Grass (2018) – and packed with a few of the director’s recurrent casting choices (including muse Kim...
Leonardo Goi said in his review, “Hong’s acolytes have reasons to rejoice in the Korean’s latest feature: beautifully shot in crisp black and white by Kim Hyung-koo – reminiscent of his work in Hong’s The Day After (2017) and Grass (2018) – and packed with a few of the director’s recurrent casting choices (including muse Kim...
- 1/28/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Midnight Blur Films has signed a deal with French distributor Les Acacias to release Chinese arthouse drama “Three Adventures of Brooke” in France this year, the Chinese production company told Variety on Saturday. A release date has yet to be set for the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and stars Chinese newcomer Xu Fangyi and French actor Pascal Greggory.
“We chose Les Acacias because we have been following their lineup for a long time, and we admire their taste and their cooperation with renowned filmmakers like Hong Sang-soo and Wang Bing,” Midnight Blur’s co-founder and head of international sales Cao Liuying said, adding that the Paris-based distributor had offered “a satisfying minimum guarantee.”
Midnight Blur is registered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou and has agents in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Les Acacias has a track record of distributing artistic works by Asian directors.
“We chose Les Acacias because we have been following their lineup for a long time, and we admire their taste and their cooperation with renowned filmmakers like Hong Sang-soo and Wang Bing,” Midnight Blur’s co-founder and head of international sales Cao Liuying said, adding that the Paris-based distributor had offered “a satisfying minimum guarantee.”
Midnight Blur is registered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou and has agents in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Les Acacias has a track record of distributing artistic works by Asian directors.
- 1/19/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
We don’t want to overwhelm you, but while you’re catching up with our top 50 films of 2018, more cinematic greatness awaits in 2019. Ahead of our 100 most-anticipated films (all of which have yet to premiere), we’re highlighting 50 titles we’ve enjoyed on the festival circuit this last year (and beyond) that either have confirmed 2018 release dates or are awaiting a debut date from its distributor. There’s also a handful seeking distribution that we hope will arrive in the next 12 months. U.S. distributors: take note!
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard; Jan. 25)
Another miraculous, meticulously feat of cinematic collage, The Image Book finds the French New Wave icon continuing his boundary-pushing editing techniques, both in video and sound (to see this at Alice Tully Hall during New York Film Festival was something truly special). Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “Split into five sections of various lengths titled Remakes,...
The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard; Jan. 25)
Another miraculous, meticulously feat of cinematic collage, The Image Book finds the French New Wave icon continuing his boundary-pushing editing techniques, both in video and sound (to see this at Alice Tully Hall during New York Film Festival was something truly special). Rory O’Connor said in his Cannes review, “Split into five sections of various lengths titled Remakes,...
- 1/7/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Hong Sang-soo can be a very frustrating artist at times for some. He has developed a formula that he has stuck to so well for so long that audiences can pretty much guess several settings and situations off the bat, a quality that you either love or hate in the director’s works. The main thing that differs are the narrative choices he takes. His latest film, and his second of 2018, “Hotel by the River” however takes a simpler, more linear approach to the narrative. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won Best Actor for Gi Ju-bong.
“Hotel by the River” is screening at Five Flavours Festival
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems to be under the...
“Hotel by the River” is screening at Five Flavours Festival
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems to be under the...
- 11/21/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
The following essay was produced as part of the 2018 Nyff Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics that took place during the 56th edition of the New York Film Festival. A nondescript woman named Areum (Kim Min-hee) sinks into her laptop at a café table as nearby patrons air their personal resentments in fearless public confrontation. A young couple’s offhand hostility spins into jarring accusations of complicity in a mutual friend’s suicide; an out-of-work actor begs his acquaintance for housing, desperately insisting that he can pay rent. Conversations escalate with jarring speed as Areum’s attention floats across the café, eavesdropping—or maybe daydreaming?—to furnish an unseen writing project.
One man chides Areum for staring, but just as fast as he can offer himself a seat at her table, he feebly attempts to reverse the equation: He suggests that she, a self-proclaimed non-writer, should let him study her for ten days,...
One man chides Areum for staring, but just as fast as he can offer himself a seat at her table, he feebly attempts to reverse the equation: He suggests that she, a self-proclaimed non-writer, should let him study her for ten days,...
- 11/10/2018
- by Adina Glickstein
- Indiewire
Hong Sang-soo can be a very frustrating artist at times for some. He has developed a formula that he has stuck to so well for so long that audiences can pretty much guess several settings and situations off the bat, a quality that you either love or hate in the director’s works. The main thing that differs are the narrative choices he takes. His latest film, and his second of 2018, “Hotel by the River” however takes a simpler, more linear approach to the narrative. The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, where it won Best Actor for Gi Ju-bong.
Hotel by the River is screening at London Korean Film Festival
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems to be under...
Hotel by the River is screening at London Korean Film Festival
On the invitation of the owner, renowned poet Young-hwan has been living at a lovely riverside hotel for the past couple weeks, in the middle of winter. Though he seems hale and hearty, he seems to be under...
- 11/8/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
With the Toronto International Film Festival concluding today and Telluride, Venice, and Locarno in the rearview, the first phase of fall film festivals have concluded. Ahead of the New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Fantastic Fest, AFI Fest, and more we’ve rounded up our favorite films seen over the past month or so, resulting in a selection of premieres to have on your radar.
Stay tuned over the next months (or years) as we bring updates on films as they make their way to screens. One can also click here for a link to all of our festival coverage, including news, trailers, reviews, and much more. As always, thanks for reading, and let us know what you’re most looking forward to in the comments below. Also, for a more substantial look at what’s coming to theaters this season, check out our fall preview, which also includes titles from Cannes,...
Stay tuned over the next months (or years) as we bring updates on films as they make their way to screens. One can also click here for a link to all of our festival coverage, including news, trailers, reviews, and much more. As always, thanks for reading, and let us know what you’re most looking forward to in the comments below. Also, for a more substantial look at what’s coming to theaters this season, check out our fall preview, which also includes titles from Cannes,...
- 9/16/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Long walks, meals, drinks, conversations and Kim Min-hee are all back in Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s latest monochrome offering “Hotel by the River”.
Synopsis
An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it’s not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.
Apart from Hong Sang-soo’s muse Kim Min-hee, the film stars regular Hong Sang-soo collaborators Song Seon-mi, Kwon Hae-hyo, Yoo Jun-sang, who won...
Synopsis
An old poet staying for free in a riverside hotel summons his two estranged sons. This is because he feels, for no apparent reason, like he is going to die. After being betrayed by the man she was living with, a young woman gets a room at the hotel. Seeking support, she summons a friend. The poet spends a day with his sons and tries to wrap up the loose ends in his life. But it’s not so easy to do that in one day. But then he sees the young woman and her friend, after a sudden, unbelievably heavy snowfall.
Apart from Hong Sang-soo’s muse Kim Min-hee, the film stars regular Hong Sang-soo collaborators Song Seon-mi, Kwon Hae-hyo, Yoo Jun-sang, who won...
- 8/31/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
“He’s hardly a real auteur,” says a woman of an arthouse director in Hong Sangsoo’s achingly melancholic Hotel by the River, “and he does ambivalent stuff.” Hong’s acolytes have reasons to rejoice in the Korean’s latest feature: beautifully shot in crisp black and white by Kim Hyung-koo – reminiscent of his work in Hong’s The Day After (2017) and Grass (2018) – and packed with a few of the director’s recurrent casting choices (including muse Kim Min-hee and Kwon Hae-hyo) Hotel by the River is imbued with the self-irony that permeates much of Hong’s ever-growing filmography, only this time the mockery is mixed with a tragic aftertaste that adds to the drama an unsettling and refreshing aura.
A lingering presence traversing much of Hong’s canon, death in Hotel by the River feels a lot more tangible than usual. Harboring much of the film’s action is...
A lingering presence traversing much of Hong’s canon, death in Hotel by the River feels a lot more tangible than usual. Harboring much of the film’s action is...
- 8/24/2018
- by Leonardo Goi
- The Film Stage
“It’s a bit ambivalent — he’s not a real auteur,” says a young woman, in airily indifferent fashion, about the work of a semi-famous filmmaker, having improbably recognized him in the foyer of a sleepy waterside hotel. Her shrugging dismissal raises the biggest laugh in “Hotel by the River,” though it’s hardly the first time that wily, prolific Korean writer-director Hong Sangsoo has written a joke at his own expense into one of his low-key comedies of human error and awkwardness: Knowing, ego-deflating auteur portrayals are, ironically enough, an essential part of Hong’s own auteur stamp.
Even by his oeuvre’s laid-back standards, however, this appealing slice of monochrome melancholy is more ambivalent than most. Observing what may be the last days of a disheveled poet calmly convinced he’s about to die, it’s chiefly an exercise in existential waiting, as unhurried as it is uncertain,...
Even by his oeuvre’s laid-back standards, however, this appealing slice of monochrome melancholy is more ambivalent than most. Observing what may be the last days of a disheveled poet calmly convinced he’s about to die, it’s chiefly an exercise in existential waiting, as unhurried as it is uncertain,...
- 8/9/2018
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
2017 marked a banner year for unfathomably prolific South Korean director Hong Sangsoo, who debuted a trio of his greatest films all in the first half of the year. On the Beach at Night Alone at Berlinale was followed by the one-two, subdued punch of Claire’s Camera and The Day After at Cannes. With all of those films enjoying a U.S. release courtesy of Cinema Guild, we now await his next features. He returned to Berlinale with Grass (our review) earlier this year and now he’ll be coming back to Locarno with another new feature, and the first look has arrived.
Hotel by the River, which is also black-and-white, stars Ki Joobong, Kim Minhee, Song Seonmi, Kwon Haehyo, and Yu Junsang. Clocking in at 96 minutes, it follows a poet who summons his two sons to a hotel he’s staying at after he sense death is approaching. However,...
Hotel by the River, which is also black-and-white, stars Ki Joobong, Kim Minhee, Song Seonmi, Kwon Haehyo, and Yu Junsang. Clocking in at 96 minutes, it follows a poet who summons his two sons to a hotel he’s staying at after he sense death is approaching. However,...
- 8/1/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
New documentary “Carmine Street Guitars” will have its world premier at the Venice Film Festival. The Ron Mann-directed film chronicles a week in the life of Greenwich Village guitar maker Rick Kelly and his apprentice Cindy Hulej. Kelly’s method is unique: he builds his guitars out of wood salvaged from old New York City buildings constructed in the 1800s or as he calls it, “the bones of old New York.” Artists like Lou Reed and Bob Dylan have owned Kelly’s guitars, which feature parts taken from such iconic Manhattan locales as the Hotel Chelsea and Chumley’s pub.
The doc brings musicians of all stripes — including Patti Smith Band’s Lenny Kaye, Kirk Douglas of The Roots, Jamie Hince of The Kills, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline of Wilco, Marc Ribot, Ester Baling, Dallas and Travis Good of The Sadies and Dylan six-stringer Charlie Sexton — to the shop.
The doc brings musicians of all stripes — including Patti Smith Band’s Lenny Kaye, Kirk Douglas of The Roots, Jamie Hince of The Kills, Bill Frisell, Nels Cline of Wilco, Marc Ribot, Ester Baling, Dallas and Travis Good of The Sadies and Dylan six-stringer Charlie Sexton — to the shop.
- 7/25/2018
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Last year I (once again) faced my prejudice towards Kim Ki-duk and watched “The Net”. I found it formulaic, empty and calculative. At least, not many actresses were harmed during the filming. This year, I decided to repeat the experiment with “Grass” by Hong Sang-soo. And yes, I am equally fond of him as I am of Kim Ki-duk. I respect his early work and what it meant for New Korean Film, his soft spot for importance of banalities in everyday life, yet I am anything of a fan of Hong’s films made after “Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors”. I just find them unbearably heavy-handed and pretentious. But I also know people can change, plus, well, “Grass” only goes a little over one hour and Kim Min-hee has never been less than amazing. So, what could go wrong, right?
Grass is screening at Art Film Fest Kosice
“Grass...
Grass is screening at Art Film Fest Kosice
“Grass...
- 6/19/2018
- by Anomalilly
- AsianMoviePulse
"Why do you keep lying?" Cinema Guild has released the official Us trailer for one of the latest films from prolific Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo, this one titled The Day After. This premiered at the Cannes Film Festival last year. Those who know Hong Sang-soo know he's always making new films. He premiered another one at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year, titled Grass, and released two others in the last few years including Claire's Camera and On the Beach at Night Alone. The Day After tells the story of a married man struggling with an affair who just left him. His wife suspects something, and attacks his innocent new secretary. It "begins as a darkly hilarious look at a man embroiled in extramarital entanglements but soon shifts - in a way only Hong can manage - into a heartfelt portrayal of a young woman on a quest for spiritual fulfillment.
- 4/24/2018
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Difficult though it can be to parse through Hong Sang-soo’s oeuvre — an onslaught of projects that continued with the recent premiere of Grass and is likely to bring at least one more title this year — nearly each, seen up-close, is a gem. But The Day After is particularly special: one of his keenest in terms of structure (which is saying something), among the most devastating in probing grief and idiocy, and, of course, funny. (Rumor has it Will Smith laughed his way through the jury screening when this played at Cannes last year.) Cinema Guild, continuing to do the Hong’s work, will begin rolling it out in a couple of weeks, and thus there is a trailer.
You’ll want to keep your eyes peeled. As we said in our Cannes review, “The film is held together by a handful of long form conversations and — as those Hong elements infuse — the film is,...
You’ll want to keep your eyes peeled. As we said in our Cannes review, “The film is held together by a handful of long form conversations and — as those Hong elements infuse — the film is,...
- 4/24/2018
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.AwardsTOP Pickstop 10(1) Transit (Christian Petzold)(2) Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)(3) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)(4) The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)(5) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)(6) In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)(7) Classical Period (Ted Fendt)(8) Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)(9) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda) & Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)(Contributors: Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Celluloid Liberation Front, Adam Cook, David Hudson, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Olaf Möller, Michael Pattison, Richard Porton, Christopher Small, Barbara Wurm)Daniel Kasman(1) Season of the Devil (2) The Waldheim Waltz (3) Grass (4) Jamila (5) Foreboding (6) Transit (7) An Elephant Sitting Still (8) Infinite Football (9) In the Realm of Perfection (10) Inland SeaADAM Cook(1) Infinite Football (2) The Tree (3) Season of the Devil (4) Transit (5) Grass (6) In the Realm of Perfection (7) Optimism (8) Isle of Dogs (9) The Waldheim Waltz (10) L.
- 3/6/2018
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSThe Weinstein Company has continued its descent after the many sexual assault accusations fired at Harvey Weinstein. According to Variety, the company is now filing for bankruptcy after a sale fell through.Recommended VIEWINGJust a few weeks ago we shared the trailer for Hong Sang-soo's latest film, Grass. Now, in the event of its U.S. distribution (provided by Cinema Guild), there's a new trailer for one of Hong's 2017 ventures: Claire's Camera. You can read our review for the lovingly quaint film in our Cannes 2017 coverage.Marvel mastermind Stan Lee recounts his surreal near-collaboration with the great late French director Alain Resnais for Criterion. February 16th, 2018 was the 100th anniversary of the creation of the state of Lithuania. Thus the nation's avant-garde maestro, Jonas Mekas, has kindly shared his 2008 epic Lithuania and the Collapse of the Ussr on Vimeo.
- 3/3/2018
- MUBI
Lately, Hong Sang-soo films arrive in multiples. The director just unveiled his latest effort, “Grass,” at the Berlin International Film Festival, just as one of the three movies he premiered last year, “Claire’s Camera,” opens stateside. If the future is a Hong Sang-Soo cinematic universe, I’m all for it.
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Kim Min-hee and Jung Jinyoung, the story follows the unlikely friendship formed between a French school teacher and Korean film sales assistant who meet in Cannes.
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Kim Min-hee and Jung Jinyoung, the story follows the unlikely friendship formed between a French school teacher and Korean film sales assistant who meet in Cannes.
- 2/23/2018
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Another festival, another film by Hong Sang-soo. It’s always been hard to talk about the South Korean auteur without talking about the Fassbinder-like frequency with which he churns out new work, and it’s only becoming harder now that he’s really started to pick up the pace; good luck finding a single review of Hong’s recent features that doesn’t start by referencing his prolificacy. But as much as we encourage you to spare a thought for the poor critics who are forced to write 1,000 words about this guy every time he decides to pick up a camera, that phenomenon may be less indicative of lazy journalism than it seems. “Grass” — Hong’s first movie of 2018, and his fourth in the last 12 months — goes so far as to suggest that his prolificacy might be a crucial part of his cinema, as well as an indispensably helpful lens...
- 2/23/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It was only a few days ago that Hong Sang-soo premiered his latest film, Grass, at Berlinale (our review), but the United States is still awaiting the release of his two prior features. Following last fall’s On the Beach at Night Alone, Cinema Guild will continue their releases of the prolific South Korean director’s films, and next up is Claire’s Camera. Shot while at Cannes Film Festival, the drama reteams the director with Isabelle Huppert and Kim Min-hee, and a new trailer has now arrived ahead of a release in early March.
“Huppert and Kim are clearly having fun riffing off one another, each speaking in lightly broken English and conveying the pleasures of ephemeral encounters in low-stakes liminal spaces, such as the one represented by the festival,” Giovanni Marchini Camia said in his review. “Claire’s Camera as a whole is just as fleeting, and while...
“Huppert and Kim are clearly having fun riffing off one another, each speaking in lightly broken English and conveying the pleasures of ephemeral encounters in low-stakes liminal spaces, such as the one represented by the festival,” Giovanni Marchini Camia said in his review. “Claire’s Camera as a whole is just as fleeting, and while...
- 2/20/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
If you happen to be in need of motivation, take a moment to consider that South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has released fourteen feature-length movies this decade thus far, and four of them have premiered within the past year. As levels of cinematic productivity go that’s up there with the Rainer Werner Fassbinders of this world. Similar to that late, great German, one of the reasons he is able to achieve such metrics is that he continuously works with roughly the same recurring cast. Hong’s filmmaking style–that of reworking the same elements again and again–means that, unlike Fassbinder perhaps, there is a temptation to compare each concurrent release. Given that the last few years have offered high watermarks such as Right Now, Wrong Then and On the Beach at Night Alone, it might be easy to judge his latest film (a medium-length black-and-white feature called Grass) as being small in scope,...
- 2/19/2018
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
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