Category Archives: Directors

Terracotta Film Festival: Arirang [Kim Ki-Duk,S. Korea, 2011]

  Finally! I had been hoping to see this along with a Q&A at the Korean Film Festival earlier this year, but it never materialised much to my disappointment. Kim KiDuk, despite a rather mysogenistic approach on occasion to his female characters on film, is one of the Korean directors whose work I really enjoy. [...]

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Terracotta Film Festival: Masterclass with Guo Xiaolu

I first encountered Guo Xiaolu when her thought provoking  documentary ‘Concrete Revolution’ was shown in London and then through her novel ‘Village of Stone’. I had actually been intending to miss her film ‘UFO in her eyes’ as my day was already packed with things to watch and four films on the go was not [...]

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[Film] Thirst Preview + Q&A

Thirst Preview + Q&A 5th October 2009 Curzon Cinema, Soho, London Being a big fan of Park Chan Wook’s  Vengeance Trilogy, I was definitely excited and keen to see ‘Thirst’ (박쥐;Bakjwi)) his newest release that won the Jury prize at Cannes this year. The story is of Sang Hyun (Song Kang-ho) a priest who willing [...]

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[Film] Q&A with Im Sang Su

As part of the Tiger Asian film festival Im Sang-Su, director of socio-political films: ‘The President’s Last Bang’, ‘A Good Lawyer’s Wife’ and ‘The Old Garden’, held a Q&A session on the 30th May 2008 at the Korean Cultural Centre in London. It was a small but select feel to the gathering that took place [...]

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[Film] Q&A with Kwak Kyung-taek

A low key affair compared to the L.A. premiere, only 140 tickets were available for this first showing of ‘Typhoon’ in the U.K. which was to be followed by a Q&A session with the director/writer Kwak Kyung-taek (Chingu). In spite of the poor sound system, Kwak Kyung-taek showed himself to be a polite and witty [...]

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