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.»
Ashley Clark is the senior programmer of
cinema at BAM and a contributor to Film Comment, Vice, The Guardian, and
Reverse Shot, among others.