Author: Yurim Oh

The Korea Society and the Museum of the Moving Image present The Yellow Sea as part of Korean Cinema Now at MoMI. The Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society have impressed growing audiences in 2011 with an exciting run of new work. In The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin tells a tale where, to bring his wife to Yanbian (on the border of North Korea and China) and pay off his gambling debts, protagonist Kim Gu-nam takes on an assassination job. After a disastrous mistake, he becomes the target. A part of the 64th Cannes Un Certain Regard line-up, The Yellow Sea follows in the steps of Na’s first action-filled crime thriller, The Chaser, which received high praises in Korea as an upgraded Korean action thriller and was screened in the non-competition category of the 61th Cannes festival. 

 

Sunday, November 20, 2011 | 4 PM

 

Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria 
From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue 

 Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image.

 

 

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The Yellow Sea (156 min) 2010
황해

Dir. Na Hong-jin. With Kim Yun-seok. In this box office hit in Korea, Gu-nam is a cabdriver who leads a pitiful life in Yanbian Prefecture, a region between North Korea, China, and Russia. His wife went to Korea to earn money six months ago, and he hasn’t heard from her since. He plays mah jongg to scrape together some cash. And then one day he meets a hit man who proposes to turn his life around, for the small price of one hit.  

 

 

 

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The Korea Society and the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image present The Unjust, part of Korean Cinema Now, on New York City’s hottest state-of-the-art screen. Earlier this year, the Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society embarked on an exciting run of new work, with highlights from the Busan International Film Festival, that has been warmly received by audiences and the film media. The Unjust is director Ryoo Seung-wan’s dramatic take on police corruption and features an investigator on the hot seat and a vindictive prosecutor. It is his most successful project yet, earning its place in the top-ten box office list. Director Ryoo is considered one of the best action-film directors in Korea. He debuted in 1996 with the short film Transmutated Head, and went on to make features including Die Bad in 1998, No Blood No Tears in 2002, Arahan in 2004, and City of Violence in 2006.

 

Sunday, October 9, 2011 | 4 PM

 

The Museum of the Moving Image 
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria 
From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue 

Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image.

 

 

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The Unjust (119 min) 2010
부당거래

Dir. Ryoo Seung-wan. With Hwang Jeong-min. A series of murders terrifies South Korea.When the prime suspect dies in a police chase, the case seems to reach a dead end. Choi, a successful investigator whose methods have held him back from promotion, senses that this case may be his last chance to make something of his career.

 

 

 

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Join The Korea Society and the Museum of The Moving Image for a cinematic wild ride from director Kim Jee-woon’s. Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet on a train: a bounty hunter, the leader of a gang of bandits, and a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers chase across Manchuria to take possession of a valuable map. In Korean with subtitles.

Special Screening @ The Museum of the Moving Image
(Part of Outdoor Cinema 2011 at Socrates Sculpture Park)

 

Wednesday, July 27th | 7 PM

Free Admission through the Museum of the Moving Image

 

Socrates Sculpture Park
Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City
N or Q train to Broadway, eight blocks west at Vernon Boulevard and the East River
8-10 minutes by taxi from The Korea Society 

 

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The Good, the Bad, the Weird (139 min) 2008
좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

 Dir. Kim Jee-woon. In the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet on a train: a bounty hunter, the leader of a gang of bandits, and a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers engage in a wild chase across Manchuria to take possession of a valuable map. In Korean with subtitles.

 

 

 

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Director Kim Ji-woon’s latest film follows a bloody cycle of catch-and-release as the protagonist inflicts “equal sorrow” on his fiancée’s killer. Kim casts a distinctive mark in each of his films, and is known for the best “genre films” in Korean cinema. Kim Ji-woon made his directorial debut with The Quiet Family, a film hailed by critics and audiences for its unique styling. Kim went on to direct The Foul King (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), A Bittersweet Life (2005), and The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2008). This screening of his latest release is part of the Korean Cinema Now showcase presented by the Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society. The museum recently reopened after a $67 million expansion, with dynamic new architecture by Thomas Leeser, capturing, according to Nicolai Ouroussoff of The New York Times, “in a building, the essence of a world in which images proliferate all around us.”

Due to depictions of violence and adult content, parental guidance is strongly advised.

 

Sunday, July 17, 2011 | 7 PM

 

Museum of the Moving Image
35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria 
From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue 

Tickets $10 at The Museum of the Moving Image and include museum admission for exhibition viewing before 5 PM that day.

 

 

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I Saw the Devil (141 min) 2010
악마를 보았다 

Dir. Kim Jee-woon. It’s hard to imagine the revenge thriller being pushed to greater extremes than this: Lee Byung-hun stars as a cop who ensnares the maniac that murdered his pregnant girlfriend in a brutal game of cat and mouse, and director Kim Jee-woon spares not a drop of blood in conceiving this extended bath in humanity at its most debased. Courtesy of Museum of the Moving Image.

 

 

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