The films I can recommend in this are mostly the ones that travelled the festival circuit:
THE CHASER
BREATHLESS
TREELESS MOUNTAIN
NIGHT AND DAY
I’d warn against DAYTIME DRINKING, which I saw in Toronto. I’d be curious to know what people see in this series!
Roy Baugher
Korean Film Festival DC 2009
Washington, DC and Silver Spring, Maryland
17 April-9 June 2009
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution [FGA] and the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center [AFI] are presenting the Korean Film Festival DC 2009.
Schedule:
Forever the Moment (Yim Soon-rye, 2008, 124 min.)
Friday, April 17, 7 PM, FGA
Saturday, April 18, 5 PM, AFI
In Person: Yim Soon-rye
Waikiki Brothers (Yim Soon-rye, 2001, 105 min.)
Saturday, April 18, 2 PM, FGA
In Person: Yim Soon-rye
The Weight of Her (Yim Soon-rye, 2003, 20 min.)
Crush and Blush (Lee Kyoung-mi, 2008, 101 min.)
Sunday, April 19, 1 PM, FGA
In Person: Lee Kyoung-mi, Yim Soon-rye (followed by panel discussion)
Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, 2008, 89 min.)
Sunday, April 19, 5 PM, AFI
Tuesday, April 21, 7 PM, AFI
Like a Virgin (Lee Hae-jun and Lee Hae-young, 2006, 112 min.)
Wednesday, April 22, 9:30 PM, AFI
Thursday, April 23, 9:10 PM, AFI
Going By the Book (Ra Hee-chan, 2007, 102 min., digibeta)
Friday, April 24, 7 PM, FGA
Milky Way Liberation Front (Yoon Seung-ho, 2007, 99 min.)
Sunday, April 26, 1 PM, FGA
Taxi Blues (Choi-ha Dong-ha, 2005, 98 min.)
Sunday, April 26, 3 PM, FGA
Night and Day (Hong Sang-soo, 2008, 145 min.)
Saturday, May 2, 3:30 PM, AFI
Sunday, May 3, 6:10 PM, AFI
The Seashore Village (Kim Soo-yong, 1965, 91 min.)
Friday, May 8, 7 PM, FGA
The Man with Three Coffins (Lee Jang-ho, 1987, 104 min.)
Sunday, May 10, 2 PM, FGA
Daytime Drinking (Noh Young-seok, 2008, 116 min.)
Friday, May 15, 7 PM, FGA
The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008, 125 min.)
Saturday, May 16, 7:30 PM, AFI
Wednesday, May 20, 7 PM, AFI
Christmas in August (Hur Jin-ho, 1998, 97 min.)
Sunday, May 24, 5:30 PM, AFI
Wednesday, May 27, 7 PM, AFI
The Wonder Years (Kim Hee-jung, 2007, 95 min.)
Friday, May 29, 7 PM, FGA
The Show Must Go On (Han Jae-rim, 2007, 112 min.)
Sunday, May 31, 2 PM, FGA
Breathless
Saturday, June 6, 12:30 PM, AFI
Monday, June 8, 7 PM, AFI
Epitaph (Jung Sik and Jung Beon-sik, 2007, 98 min.)
Tuesday, June 9, 9:20 PM, AFI
Wednesday, June 10, 9:20 PM, AFI
More information can be found at http://www.asia.si.edu/koreanfilm2009/.
I hope this information is useful to other people.
I live in Sucky-town, Virginia, where hardly anything worthwhile happens.