Park Chan - wook's
Korean language film «The Handmaiden» claimed the BAFTA for film not in the English language.
Not exact matches
Of course, there is pleasure in talky scenes à la Tarantino, but this
Korean film, directed by Kim Ki - Duk, driven by body
language and nuance, does so well without them.
When: June 27th Why: Bong Joon - ho's English -
language debut has had a very bumpy road on its way to theaters — with U.S. distributor Harvey Weinstein reportedly wanting to cut 25 minutes from the
film and add narration to make it easier to follow — but fans of the
Korean director can rest easy, because the unedited version will be coming to the States after all.
Korean director Park Chan - wook's English -
language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943
film «Shadow of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.
With its evocative title and quirky gothic horror tone, the first English -
language film from
Korean master Park Chan - wook reads like an obvious companion piece to the director's 2009 vampire parable Thirst.
After fellow
Koreans Kim Ji - Woon and Park Chan - Wook launched their English
language debut
films (The Last Stand and Stoker, respectively) the most nuanced of the trio of directorial superstars, Bong Joon - Ho is delivering the largest in scale, the nuclear - winter bound science fiction flick, Snowpiercer.
Verdict: Easily one of our most anticipated of the year, we started to worry if we'd ever see «Snowpiercer,» the English -
language debut of
Korean master Bong Joon - Ho («The Host,» «Memories Of Murder,» «Mother «-RRB-, given the bubbling controversy over the
film and Harvey Weinstein «s intentions to release a severely truncated version.
As Joon - ho Bong's (The Host, Mother) first English
language film (and comic book adaptation), Snowpiercer brought the visual
language of
Korean cinema to a wider American audience before becoming a global hit.
Marking Joon - ho's English -
language debut, Snowpiercer still ranks in the top 10 South
Korean films of all time, so hype is high surrounding the series.
What You Need To Know: Pitched somewhere in between horror, family drama and psychological thriller, «Stoker» is the English -
language directorial debut of Park Chan - wook, the heralded South
Korean film director behind «The Vengeance Trilogy» (which includes «Oldboy «-RRB-, «Thirst» and «Joint Security Area.»
In 2013, Park Chan - wook expanded his œuvre to include English
language films with Stoker and also produced
Korean filmmaker Bong Joon - ho's Snowpiercer.
«Snowpiercer» Easily one of our most anticipated of the year, we started to worry if we'd ever see «Snowpiercer,» the English -
language debut of
Korean master Bong Joon - ho («The Host,» «Memories Of Murder,» «Mother «-RRB-, given the bubbling controversy over the
film and Harvey Weinstein «s intentions to release a truncated version.