Korean Cinema in the Shadow of Parasite: The 24th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2020 Festival Reports Busan 2019 marked a year of celebration, with multiple retrospective screenings in honour of the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema coinciding with Bong Joon-ho’s Gi-saeng-chung (Parasite) receiving Korea’s fir...
Looking Forward and Looking Back: The 20th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond July 2019 Festival Reports 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the Jeonju film festival, which celebrated with its largest program to date, with an emphasis on both the history of Korean cinema as well as the legacy of the festival itsel...
Towards the De-masculinisation of Korean Cinema: The 23rd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2018 Festival Reports The latest edition of the Busan International Film Festival featured the usual lineup: a number of films getting their Asian or Korean premieres after having debuted at more prestigious festivals (Cannes, Venic...
South Korea’s Shadow Land: The 19th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond June 2018 Festival Reports Over the course of five days at this year’s Jeonju film festival, I watched 21 films, the vast majority of which were Korean, with 15 of these being world premieres. This is in stark contrast to my first visit ...
Korean Cinema in Winter: The 22nd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2017 Festival Reports Because of an extended national vacation of ten days in early October due to the unusual convergence of various holidays (most notably Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving), this year’s Busan film festival was dela...
Reckoning with the Past: The 18th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond June 2017 Festival Reports The year 2016 in Korean cinema was especially strong if turbulent, with many major films by established auteurs, impressive debuts and second features from younger directors, and a political controversy over th...
The Festival That Almost Wasn’t: The 21st Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2016 Festival Reports In 2014, the Busan International Film Festival screened the documentary Diving Bell (The Truth Will Not Sink with Sewol), co-directed by Lee Sang-ho and Ahn Hae-ryong. Even before this premiere, there was contr...
International Cinema, Nationalist Politics: The 17th 2016 Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond September 2016 Festival Reports 2016 marked the 17th year for the Jeonju International Film Festival, held annually in early May in a small southern city in South Korea’s Jeolla Province. The festival has long been South Korea’s second major ...
Hong Sang-soo Marc Raymond March 2016 Great Directors Hong Sang-soo, 25 October 1960, Seoul, South Korea There are few filmmakers as distinctive as the South Korean master Hong Sang-soo, a writer-director whose films are immediately recognisable to even those wit...
Oasis Marc Raymond June 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film The story of Lee Chang-dong’s artistic career is a fascinating one. He started as a novelist before moving to the medium of film in his late thirties, first as a screenwriter for Korean New Wave director Park K...
Scorsese, Martin Marc Raymond May 2002 Great Directors b. November 17, 1942, Flushing, New York. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Martin Scorsese has been acknowledged as the greatest American filmmaker of his generation. The e...