Sentences with phrase «since oldboy»

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.

Stoker, of course, marks Chan - wook's English - language debut, and his most buzzed - about work since Oldboy.

Park brought the DP Chung - hoon Chung, his regular cinematographer since Oldboy, but the rest of the talent was provided by the producers, from the stars to ace production designer Thérèse DePrez (wooed by hardcore indies as well as studio executives), including the actor Wentworth Miller, who signs here his first screenplay (and gets a production credit).

Ever since Oldboy (2003), Park Chan - wook has been one of the most exciting filmmakers out there.

Not exact matches

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.»

Also, the story is able to draw on both Christian and traditionally Korean shamanistic traditions and combine them with the history of Japanese colonialism to create its morbid atmosphere, which has the ability to chill even without a belief in any of its superstitions.4 That said, the bludgeoning nature of the approach kept the movie from achieving the masterpiece status many other critics have assigned it.5 By contrast, Park Chan - wook's latest, Agassi (The Handmaiden), has received a mixed reception, but I feel it is his best since 2003's Oldboy.6

News of an Oldboy remake surfaced years ago and since then has gone through more actors than I care to count so let's just give the rundown of the ones that are currently in position to play a role in Spike Lee's upcoming reboot.

Oldboy reinvented the fight scene and while it the boundaries have been pushed to extreme lengths since then (see the Raid or Atomic Blonde), the origins of this style of cinema can easily return to Park Chan - wook's masterpiece.

It's been a while since we've heard anything substantial about Spike Lee's «Oldboy» remake, but MTV spoke with actor Sharlto Copley, who has been cast as the film's villain, about the upcoming film.

Controversy has followed the US remake of the classic Korean psychodrama, Oldboy, since its proposal years ago.

Since there is also a remake of Park's OLDBOY on the way it only seems fair that we also get a remake of one of Kim's films too.

Spielberg and Protosevich have some previous form together, since they tried to develop a Will Smith - starring remake of Chan - wook Park's Oldboy, which was derailed by rights issues.