Modern Korean Cinema: 1997

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Showing posts with label 1997. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1997. Show all posts

Monday, February 9, 2015

Review: THE CONTACT Provides a Glimpse of Romance at the Speed of the ‘90s

By Chris Horn The romance genre is always teetering on the edge of a dangerous precipice: an original plot and strong chemistry betw...

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Jopok Week: The Alice in Wonderland Trajectory and Other Thoughts on Lee Chang-dong's Green Fish (Chorok mulkogi) 1997

My third review of 1997’s important Korean gangster films is actually on the first one that was released (February) during the year. L...

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Jopok Week: No. 3 (Neobeo 3) 1997

Though not as slick as later works like Shiri (1999) and Joint Security Area (2000), No. 3 was a presage of things to come in Korean c...

Friday, December 9, 2011

Jopok Week: Kim Sung-su's Beat (비트, Biteu) 1997

1997 was a pretty big year for Korean gangster films, no less than three of them wound up in the year-end top 10. Song Kang-ho had his ...

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