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INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR KIM HAN-MINPart I: “It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film”
Within the month, War of the Arrows will pass the 7.4 million admissions mark, moving it out of the commercial blockbusters zone but still short of the sort of numbers racked up by the disaster phenomenon Haeundae (aka., Tidal Wave, 2009) and the 2008 sleeper comedy Scandal Makers (aka., Speed Scandal, Gwasokseukaendeul).
INTERVIEW: DIRECTOR KIM HAN-MIN
Part II: “It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film”
Though little of this makes it into the final film, it is worth recalling the devastating impact of the Japanese invasions in the late sixteenth century. Intended to bring about the destabilisation of Ming China, this bitter war exposed the complacency of Chosŏn Korea, shocking the military leadership from its general malaise and arousing the ire of the elite classes (Confucianists and bureaucrats all) who demanded absolute immediate reform.
PARK KWANG-SU Q&A
The Year of the 12 Directors at the Apollo Piccadilly (April 2012)
LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL PREVIEW: NEWS FROM MAYFAIR
The 6th London Korean Film Festival (3-17 November, 2011) at the May Fair Hotel
AARON SORKIN Q&A
The Social Network + Aaron Sorkin at the BFI Southbank Centre
LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL NEWS
The 5th London Korean Film Festival (5-23 November, 2010) in the West End
VIDEO NASTIES: MORAL PANIC, CENSORSHIP AND VIDEOTAPE PANEL
The Film4 FrightFest 2010 Festival at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square
EGGSHELLS, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, TOBE HOOPER Q&A
The Film4 FrightFest 2010 Festival at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square
LONDON KOREAN FILM FESTIVAL NEWS
The 4th London Korean Film Festival (1-18 November, 2009) at the Barbican Centre, London
BLADE RUNNER DAY
March 2009 BFI Southbank Blade Runner Day
Joining Sammon onstage after the screening of Ridley’s Definitive Edition, Rutger Hauer lightened the mood of the event with his implacable L.A. charm and star quality, providing the kind of bigger, meatier, gutsier post-film Q&A that these B.F.I. events really thrive on; plus, he had every mischievous excuse in the book for revolting against procedure and interrupting Sammon to behave like the olympian prankster and sneak.
LONDON FILM FESTIVAL NEWS
The BFI 52nd London Film Festival (15-30 October, 2008) in the West-End
MY ITINERARY: LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
The BFI 52nd London Film Festival (15-30 October, 2008) in the West-End
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM CATEGORY: SINGAPORE
Singapore's Media 21 Plan and Eric Khoo's My Magic
