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During a whirlwind appearance at the Toronto Film Festival, cut short by her duties on the set of the English - language debut of Oldboy director Park Chan - wook, Wasikowska talked to The A.V. Club about her penchant for outsiders, the link between acting and dance, and the harsh beauty of Portland, Oregon.

Operatic style can't paste over the meagre, far - fetched substance in Oldboy director Park Chan - wook's English - language debut.

However, due to conflicting reports little is known about the first English - language work from Oldboy director Chan - wook, other than its high profile cast.

The extreme violence within Park Chan - wook's revenge classic Oldboy, caused a sensation at Cannes, where it was awarded Grand Prize by Quentin Tarantino's jury.

Spike Lee's remake of classic Korean thriller Oldboy hits US theaters October 11th and the first poster has freshly arrived via CinemaCon.

With recent films like Oldboy, The Host, Mother and The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Koreans have proven time after time that genre filmmaking can be exciting, while unique to their culture and vision.

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Chan - wook Park, the South Korean director of such darkly realized stunners as Oldboy and Lady Vengeance, is a noted storyboard guru.

We review and discuss Oldboy starring Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen.

Married to the swooning, hypnotic camerawork that has been the hallmark of Park's collaboration with DP Chung Chung since Oldboy, it has about it the perversity of a Victorian chamber drama squeezed through the filter of a very Korean take on class and sex — attitudes partly shaped by living in the shadow of one of the two or three most unstable regimes in the world.

latest news is that the remake will source material from the original oldboy manga and the Park Chan - Wook adaptation.

Arguably Chan - wook Park's best film Oldboy has possibly the biggest fan following of all of these remakes and for good reason.

It's hard to make an argument for Oldboy based on anything other than pure cinematics, but when the style speaks this loudly, it's an argument worth making.

FilmDistrict debuted three new photos from Oldboy as part of its New York Comic - Con 2013 presence.

If you haven't seen Oldboy, you are probably sick of people telling you you should see it.

It is with much fear and trepidation that we approach Spike Lee's Oldboy on November 27th.

2:00 am (3rd)-- Sundance — Oldboy Ultra-violent revenge films don't get much better than this.

Pictures is back on track with Oldboy, their remake of Park Chan - wook's Korean classic that's to be helmed by...

It shows just how far violence in the movies has come in 10 short years, because this new Oldboy — released today on Blu - ray and packaged with a digital copy — is technically more overtly graphic.

Consequently, Lucy gets captured by Korean gangsters led by Mr. Jang (the great, wearily malevolent Choi Min - Sik, of Oldboy fame).

He begins the essay with an insight that exemplifies the independent - minded analysis that has continued at Reverse Shot: «The face of new South Korean cinema looks a lot like the face of American Independent cinema of the mid-to-late Nineties, given that [Chan - wook] Park's [Oldboy] draws so much of its power from the mixture of high - concept aesthetics and lowbrow generic appropriations that we've been bombarded with since Tarantino.»

Then, there are the times it doesn't go so well — like Spike Lee's completely unnecessary remake of Park Chan - wook's South Korean revenge masterpiece Oldboy (although watching Josh Brolin chew the scenery for 104 minutes is not without its charm).

Venturing across to San Diego for Comic - Con this July, THN thought Spike Lee's remake of Chan - wook Park's classic revenge shocker OLDBOY would make a strong appearance, given the story's graphic - novel origin.

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Inspired by the novel Fingersmith by British author Sarah Waters, Park Chan - wook (the mad man behind Oldboy, Thirst and Stoker) brings the crime thriller to life with The Handmaiden, which will soon hit Cannes before its theatrical run later this year.

Spike Lee's spin on Oldboy hits theaters screens October 25th, at which point the dissection of how much the film is a straight remake of Park Chan - wook's violent opus versus how much it calls back to the source manga (as...

Wow just watched stoker at the weekend Park Chan - wook needs to make more films for me to watch loved thirst loved oldboy and absolutely loved stoker, and i'm also lookin forward to Jack: The Giant Slayer now, also keep up the good work twitch love this site

It is like if Oldboy was directed by the man who did The Raid.

With Stoker, Park — best known for his Vengeance Trilogy and in particular, its middle installment, the 2003 stunner Oldboy — has created a macabre neo-gothic thriller, elegant in its malevolence.

The Arsenal oldboy Benik Afobe was scoring for fun when he was a youngster and started out by scoring 40 goals for the Arsenal U16's and 20 goals for the Gunners U18 side.

8 month oldboy usually in bed at 6:30 - 7, up for the day with us at 6:30, but I still feed him in the night and his wake ups are variable, usually coming into bed with me sometime after midnight and wakes to feed a couple times after that.

I didn't know Spike was gonna remake Oldboy lol.

The containers wink at Oldboy's Asian origins.

Yeah, forget Oldboy, Ruth.

Less gory and thus easier to stomach than Park's version, Lee's film lacks the pulsating undercurrent of doom that makes Park's Oldboy simultaneously magical and sickening.

I have renewed respect for Lee following his unfairly - maligned Oldboy remake, and now I covet this priceless bit of memorabilia.

Like most every film on this list, Chan - wook Park's 2003 original Oldboy boasts many scenes that are tough to watch.

I Saw the Devil (2010) If you've seen Korea's awe - inspiring 2003 export Oldboy, you know actor Min - sik Choi can take a beating.

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Park Chan - wook's savage revenge story Oldboy is a modern cult classic.

If you liked director Chan - wook Park's previous Oldboy for its violence, you'll probably find Stoker pretty underwhelming.

It's reminiscent of other, more prominent titles in the so - called «Asia Extreme» genre piloted by acclaimed filmmakers such as Takashi Miike (Audition, 13 Assassins) and Park Chan - Wook, who caused the genre to explode overseas with his popular Oldboy in 2003.

OLDBOY co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Elizabeth Olsen, Lance Reddick, Michael Imperioli, James Ransone and opens in US cinemas on 27th November and the UK 6th December.

Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy, Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a kind of poetic statement of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.

The Handmaiden and Oldboy DP Chung - hoon Chung was the cinematographer on the first IT to great success.

I hate to take the easy road and say that the designers of the latest Oldboy poster thought outside of the box, but, hey, if the metaphor fits.

One film that has many of us here at THN eager to see more of, is OLDBOY helmer Park Chan Wook's STOKER.

The now iconic Park Chan - wook's Oldboy won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the 57th Cannes Film Festival, while in 2004, Kim Ki - Duk took out Best Director at the 54th Berlin International Film Festival for Samaritan Girl.