A number of interesting-sounding items in this year's "Film Comment Selects":
http://filmlinc.com/films/series/film-comment-selects
Kim Ji-woon's revenge thriller I Saw the Devil was a scandal here in Korea last summer, with my students actively warning me against going to see this "vile...sick...cruel...disgusting" film (and Koreans generally have strong stomachs). Korean cineastes take a bit of exception to the perceptions, created by Park Chan-wook and fed by this new film, that Koreans are an especially vengeful people and that this is a specialty of their cinema. As one said to me, "It's just a handful of directors -- we don't think America is like a Quentin Tarantino film!" Touche.
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2 years ago
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