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Korean Film in Focus: Director’s Talk with Jeon Kyu-hwan

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2011 10 03 korean film in focus iconDirector Jeon Kyu-hwan has garnered international attention since the 2008 debut of Mozart Town, the first in his Town Trilogy. His second film, Animal Town, was lauded by critics and festival attendees. The third installment, Dance Town, earned awards at Berlin and the Pusan International Film Festival.Variety Magazine’s Russell Edwards hailed Dance Town as a “confrontational slice of urban life that plays like a blend of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach with a sharp kimchi taste.” Jeon’s next feature film is Varanasi, currently in pre-production. He addresses The Korea Society on the trilogy, shown as part of the MoMA series, as well as his upcoming feature. The event is moderated by Dr. Choi Jung-bong, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University.

 

Monday, October 3

 

Korean Film in Focus
Director’s Talk with Jeon Kyu-hwan

The Good, The Bad, The Weird

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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 

 

The Good, the Bad, the Weird (139 min) 2008
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 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.

 

 

 

 

Special Screening of I Saw the Devil @ The Museum of the Moving Image

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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.

 

 

I Saw the Devil (141 min) 2010
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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.

 

 

 

Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum)

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Enjoy a meditative hour of stringed kayagum set to p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of our spring/summer performance series. The Korea Society here presents p’ungnyuin its chul-p’ungnyu(stringed-instrument) form. P’ungnyu also refers to a state of leisure when one is elevated from the mundane to better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Park Yoon-suk, founder and president of the twenty-year-old Korean Traditional Music and Dance Institute of New York, opens with a Kayagum sanjo. Before her arrival in the United States, Park spent more than two and a half decades studying kayagum, p’ansori, and dance with many of Korea’s leading artists. Ms. Park won numerous awards and performed over 1,800 concerts across Asia and the United States, including a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. This performance is presented with the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

$5 Members/Members Guest; $10 Guests
Explore Korea card holders attend this program for free with REGISTRATION

 


Thursday, June 30, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance


Contemplative Traditions Music Series: P’ungnyu Strings (Kayagum)

with

Park Yoon-suk

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

 

 

Contemplative Traditional Music Series: P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

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Enjoy a meditative performance of changgo, a traditional hour-glass drum, adapted for p’ungnyu, the classical ensemble music of Korean nobility and central theme of The Korea Society’s 2011 traditional music series. P’ungnyu also refers to an elevated state of leisure in which one can better appreciate poetry, music, and companionship.

Percussionist Lee Chun-seung performs a solo Suljanggu, followed by a Samulnori and Binari featuring three additional percussion instruments, the kkwaengguari, buk, and jing, and finishes with Modeumbuk. Lee appeared at the 2002 World Cup Opening Ceremony and on the KBS Open Concert series. He has performed in Russia, Japan, China, and the United States, and is director and conductor of the acclaimed New York-based, non-profit Korean Traditional Marching Band. This series is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.


Thursday, May 19, 2011

6:30PM LIVE Performance

Contemplative Traditional Music Series:

P’ungnyu Percussion (Changgo)

with

Lee Chun-seung

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue @ 57th Street, 8th Floor

 

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LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.
 

 

 

The Journals of Musan

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Winner of “Best New Narrative Director” at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival!

 

The Tribeca Film Festival presents the New York premiere of the much-anticipated The Journals of Musan, co-hosted with The Korea Society. Director Park Jung-bum’s debut tells the story of a North Korean defector forging a new life in South Korea. The film took the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. Park, who assisted Lee Chang-dong on the stirring Poetry, presents a disarmingly beautiful vision of loneliness, disconnect, and ethical ambiguity in this story of a lost soul’s struggle to connect. Park Jung-bum appears for Q&A with audiences after each screening.

 

Tickets available at TribecaFilm.com

 

Sunday, April 24 @ 7 PM Tuesday, April 26 @ 5:30 PM Wednesday, April 27 @ 9:30 PM
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The Journals of Musan (127 min) 2010
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Park Jungbum’s stunning and much-lauded debut is the story of Jeon Seung-chul, a North Korean defector forging a life in capitalist South Korea. Emerging from eight months in a resettlement camp, the unassuming Seung-chul is placed in a home on the rundown outskirts of Seoul, and finds a modest job papering the city with advertisement posters. Yearning for a human bond, he joins a church and meets Sook-young, a choir singer who works nights at a seedy karaoke bar. As he attempts to forge some kind of relationship with Sook-young and some kind of life in Seoul, Seung-chul finds his deepest kinship and comfort in a fellow outcast—a stray dog he adopts in the street. 

Marginalized in every way, from his liminal home on the city’s fringes to his frustrated attempts to integrate in either church or work, Seung-chul’s unwavering moral compass is testament to his integrity in the face of baseless prejudice. As both director and actor, Park (assistant director of Lee Chang-dong’s stirring Poetry) fully realizes a disarmingly beautiful vision of loneliness, disconnect, and ethical ambiguity in this story of a lost soul’s struggle to connect.

 

 

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Special Screening of HaHaHa

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The Korea Society joins the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image to present Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha, a deceptively light romantic comedy which won the 2010 Prize Un Certain Regard at Cannes. The film follows a filmmaker on the skids who meets a film-critic friend. During a drinking session, they decide to share memories of trips they took to the same seaside town. Enjoy this special screening at Museum of the Moving Image’s new 267-seat cinema, which is only ten minutes from The Korea Society, at 35th Avenue and 37th Street in Astoria.

 

Sunday, July 17, 2011 | 6 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.

 

 

HaHaHa (115 min) 2010
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About the Director
Since winning Best New Director at the Asian Pacific Film Festival, Hong Sang-soo has emerged as a leading contemporary Korean director. Greatly influenced by French New Wave cinema, Hong’s work is unique among Korean filmmakers. He skillfully captures simple moments in life, and crafts unforgettable scenes of human relationships and interaction. He won international recognition for The Power of Kangwon Province, Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Woman is the Future of Man, The Turning Gate, and Woman on the Beach.

 

 

 

Special Screening of Poetry

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About the Director: Lee Chang-dong was a successful novelist and screenwriter before he came to be one of Korea’s most talented directors. His movies, such as “Peppermint Candy,” “Oasis,” “Secret Sunshine,” and his award-winning debut, “Green Fish,” are viewed as artistic critiques of Korean society. Director Lee has garnered much international recognition and has won awards at the prestigious Cannes, Berlin, and Toronto film festivals.

 

Sunday, January 23, 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 

Wall Street Journal Article

 

General admission $10
Visit The Museum of the Moving Image for more information.

 

 

Poetry (139 min) 2010
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A mysterious death, a woman with Alzheimer’s, and a poetry class are at the core of this highly acclaimed new film by Lee Chang-dong (Secret Sunshine). Featuring an indelible central performance by Yun Jung-hee, this multilayered drama also won best screenplay at Cannes. Courtesy of Kino International. Directed by Lee Chang-dong.

 

 

 

Filmmakers Roundtable: A Discussion with Director Brian Iglesias

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Chosin_Rescreening_iconFilm fans and students of military history unite for an intimate discussion with director Brian Iglesias on the making of his award-winning independent documentary Chosin. Brian, a Marine and Iraq veteran, embarked on this production to honor those who sacrificed at the Battle of Chosin Reservior in the Korean War. Those who survived went on to facilitate the first evacuation under UN auspices, and over one million Koreans today descend from those who were assisted. The director will discuss his cross-country journey to film those veterans still with us and the challenges of growing the production from humble origins to award-winning heights—including a sold-out New York premiere hosted by The Korea Society. His story is one that honors the Korean-U.S. friendship in a compelling and heartfelt way. The director’s forum is followed by a special screening of the film.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

 

From Autumn to Winter’s Eve: A Musical Journey

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Minji Park explores late autumn’s grasp and the onset of winter through a program of traditional six-string kǒmun’go. The evening’s selections pay tribute to the late season and highlight the masculine, deep sounds of one of Korea’s oldest native instruments. A winner at the 2010 World Korean Traditional Performing Arts Competition in New York, Minji Park will perform from the traditional Korean court and folk music repertoire.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

LIVE HOUSE KOREA is made possible with the support of the New York State Council on the Arts.

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