Is Seoul the new Hong Kong? Over the past 5 or 6 years, South Korean cinema has delivered an astonishing new wave of crime thrillers. Woo-Suk Kang’s Public Enemy, Joon-ho Bong’s Memories of Murder, and maybe most famously. Chan-wook Park’s Vengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance. Raw and visceral, these movies take...
Monthly Archives: August 2008
The pummeling New Orleans took from Hurricane Katrina and the failure of its levees was followed by a brutal kick in groin from the Bush Administration and its incompetence in coping with the escalating tragedy. Today at Living in Cinema, our friend Craig Kennedy hits back with a double-punch of his own, featuring another of his fine reviews accompanied by an exclusive...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Pupmdeang[/youtube] [UPDATE: The Jimmy Kimmel clip has been removed from youtube, so I found better ones. Much more professional (and cuter) interview with Lynn Hirschberg for the NYTimes "Screentest series above, and there's another sweet and funny segment on the CBS website with David Letterman.] Bit of a slow news day, so...
German Danish subtitles and fuzzy video on the first international trailer for Frost/Nixon, but somehow none of that detracts from the vintage documentary aura. [Update: Sorry, looks like Universal has killed the trailer link. And Jennybee found another source. The Frank Langella interview snippet below is equally interesting.] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ9Fy4D7wWY[/youtube] ...
The steamy red band trailer for Elegy. Written with such depth and complexity, Philip Roth’s novels have often endured blunt rough treatment on screen. With Isabel Coixet directing Elegy, and Phillip Noyce directing next year’s American Pastoral we’ll see if Roth’s work might fare better in more sophisticated European hands. ...
Fierce chart you guys devised here. All the more impressive when you consider that these are the results of a poll we took on Feb 27th, three days after this year’s awards (when you were all hung over on whiskey and SunnyD). Pulled this out of the archives when I read Jason Darby’s fine article a few days ago, to see how his five Best Picture choices synced...
