Park Chan-wook

79th Annual Cannes Film Festival Preview

The 79th annual Cannes Film Festival runs from May 12 to May 23. With 200 films from nearly 150 countries, here are our most 15 anticipated films of the festival, ranging from Hamaguchi to Schoenbrun and Mungiu.

No Other Choice Review

Park Chan-wook's stylish black comedy No Other Choice sees a desperate man turns his job hunt into the Hunger Games.

Toronto Screening Calendar: January 2019

Watch away those January blues with free screenings, 4k restorations, 35mm presentations and an Up All Night film fest. Get all the detail's in this month's screening calendar!

The Handmaiden Review

The Handmaiden is perversely erotic, viciously violent, narratively twisted, deceptively comedic, and beautifully icky.

Blu-Ray Round Up: 7/1/13

This week, we look at Blu-Rays of horror classics Lifeforce and Phantasm II, one of Steven Spielberg's most underrated films, Empire of the Sun, the metal and cardboard documentary Skull World, and the bizarre worlds of Stoker and Spring Breakers.

Interview: Chan-wook Park

Dork Shelf talked to famed Korean director Chan-Wook Park (Oldboy) about where his desire to tell such dark stories springs from, why he selected Stoker for his North American debut, the casting process, his identifying with the work of Alfred Hitchcock, and his study of film criticism and philosophy.