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Standing apart from the clamor of current Korean cinema, with its obsessed vengeance seekers, live-octopus eaters, and river-dwelling mutants, forty-six-year-old Hong Sang-soo has secured his international reputation over the past decade with a septet of muted, structurally complex films—elliptical, exacting work that puts him more in the company of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhang-ke, and Tsai ...
James Quandt on the Best Films of 2020. James Quandt, Senior Programmer at TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto, is the editor of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Austrian Film Museum, 2009) and Robert Bresson (Revised) (Indiana University Press, 2012). Of the hundreds of films I have watched during the coronavirus lockdown, most were classics on the ...
Mar 5, 2024 · One example of this approach is A Traveler’s Needs (2024), the latest feature from Hong Sang-soo—whose name, uttered among cineastes, inevitably results in either an eyeroll or effusive praise, and rarely anything in between—which features Isabelle Huppert as an eccentric, rootless Frenchwoman who has relocated to the South Korean capital with little more than a half-baked plan to start ...
Oct 22, 2009 · Hong Sang-soo, Night and Day, 2008, still from a color film in 35 mm, 144 minutes. AT FIRST BLUSH a routine tale of the infantile adult male struggling to overcome a repressed libido, Hong Sang-soo’s aptly titled Night and Day (2008) slowly strays from its surface pleasures to embark on a far more nuanced study of romance, social norms, and identity.
Everywhere in Cannes—including the Market, where Hong Sang-soo’s Night and Day transported his axiomatic tale of male fecklessness from Seoul to Paris and abridged the expected sex, though, ironically, the result was echt Hong—directors were chastised for being too much themselves: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne for turning their drama of moral quandary into self-styled formula in Lorna ...
Jul 8, 2024 · Photo: Kitmin Lee/Lévy Gorvy Dayan. Blue-chip gallery Lévy Gorvy Dayan (LGD) is closing its Hong Kong branch, the Financial Times reports. The gallery will continue to maintain its outposts in New York and London. Rebecca Wei, the gallery’s Asian operations chief, told the FT that a post-pandemic shift in customer activity was behind the ...
Mar 17, 2020 · ArtAsiaPacific reports that SCAD Hong Kong, which has been in operation since 2010, has a $4 million financial deficit due to low enrollment. The tuition fee of $38,440 per year for full-time undergraduate students is considered unfeasible for most local students, while students from mainland China who would be able to shoulder the financial cost of the institution often prefer to go abroad ...
Sep 15, 2023 · By Kate Sutton. September 15, 2023 2:14 pm. Sang Jin Kim with Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee at Our Week. IN THE 1930S, a savvy developer embarked on a real-estate venture in Samcheong, a neighborhood in the heart of Seoul that was once home to a six-hundred-year-old village. Using modern materials for an urban update to the traditional ...
AT THE DAWN OF THE 1960S, on the shore of Hong Kong’s Clearwater Bay, a world capital of sorts came into being: Movietown, the production center of the seemingly unbeatable Shaw Brothers Ltd., a company that had parlayed a movie-theater business in prerevolutionary Shanghai into a global concern dominating both production and exhibition in Chinese-language markets.
Apr 11, 2024 · The new Hong Kong fair arrives in the wake of the city-state’s newly established security law, whose impact on the cultural sector remains to be seen. It joins the city’s larger, more established art fairs Art Central, Art Basel Hong Kong, and Fine Art Asia, and will be held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, which hosts the latter two events in the autumn.
