Daily Briefing. Wenders, Rainer vs Abramović, Streep's Thatcher and More
David HudsonUntil the End of the World @ 20. Omer Fast’s 5000 Feet Is the Best. Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho — and more.
Bong Joon-ho
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Daily Briefing. Venice Rankings and Early Awards; New Projectorhead
David HudsonFavorites are emerging from the Venice slate. Projectorhead features Adrian Martin on Sergio Leone. Michel Gondry returns to France.
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Cannes 2011. Cannes Questionnaires #2: Bong Joon-ho
Daniel KasmanThe second part of a video interview series from Cannes by myself and Ryland Walker Knight.
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Electric Sheep. Propaganda, Peter Whitehead, More
David HudsonA quiet Monday in August is a fine day to catch up with the current issue of Electric Sheep, whose theme is "Propaganda" and features Peter Momtchiloff on Alexander Dovzhenko's Earth (1930; image above
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Noir, Powell and Pressburger and More DVDs
David HudsonDave Kehr in the New York Times on the fifth volume of Warner's Film Noir Classic Collection and the second volume of Sony's Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics: "What you do get from these combined
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"Green Zone," "Mother," "Children of Invention," More
David Hudson"Give director Paul Greengrass a completely fictional scenario into which he can weave multiple levels of tension and anxiety — for example, Jason Bourne guiding a witness targeted for assassination
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto and NYFF. Mother
David Hudson"After giving free-floating dread a gargantuan, tentacled form in The Host, Bong Joon-ho returns to human-sized monsters in Mother." Fernando F Croce in Slant: "No less than the toxic leviathan in
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Cannes 2009: An American Multiplex in Seoul ("Mother," Bong)
Daniel KasmanBong Joon-ho, in South Korea, is making the movies Hollywood should be making—formally precise and inventive, slyly engaging but never overturning popular genres, directed with sincerity and assurance
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Cannes 2009: A Host of Fools ("Mother," Bong)
David PhelpsThe weird thing about Bong Joon-ho’s Mother is that Bong keeps the thing back from burlesque exactly by going too far: a mother-loving idiot touching his mom’s breast as they curl up together at night