Man is split into three in Ha Ha Ha: the true, the false, and the film's hero, placed in the middle. To complicate matters, we are in the realm of South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, so these three are
Claire Denis, president of the Un Certain Regard jury (see the Cannes interview) has announced that the top award goes to Hong Sang-soo's Ha Ha Ha. The jury prize goes to October (Octubre), "a
Above: Pema Tsedan’s The Search. Now that the red carpets on Leicester Square have furled, the maddening din over square-jawed celebrities, and anthropomorphic foxes recede into distant memory, we can
"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more
Hong Sang-soo "has brought us eight films which felt more like eight chapters of a long novel on the life of this tremendously fascinating director, more than singular entities. You'd expect this book
Hong Sang-soo’s new film is not what I expected at all. His last three (Tale of Cinema, Woman on the Beach, and Night and Day) all seemed subtle but substantial evolutions of a filmmaker unjustly
The recent issue of UCLA’s Asia Pacific Arts Magazine has a timely new feature on: 'Social Change in Asian film'. As the authors themselves admitted, it was an editorial inspired by the latest presidential