The Criterion Shelf: New Korean Cinema
Ranking the films that built the South Korean industry pre-Parasite.
Oldboy
Park Chan-wook Interview: Playing with Perspective and Genre in The Handmaiden
We spoke with the South Korean auteur behind Oldboy about his twisted new film The Handmaiden and how he moulded the source material into something uniquely his own.
Interview: Chan-wook Park
That 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.
Cineplex’s Great Digital Film Festival
We take a look at this year's fourth annual Great Digital Film Festival from Cineplex, which kicks off in 19 theatres across Canada this Friday and how it's bringing classic Hollywood hits to the megaplex.
TIFF 2010
I Saw the Devil Review
Korean cinema has churned out its fair share of revenge thrillers, chief among them being Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy. Kim Ji-Woon’s I Saw the Devil might not be as good as these films, but it is a solid revenge thriller that abandons any pretence of satisfaction and keeps piling on the tragedy.
