Links:
- Asia Extreme Official site - Full details of all four films at the Showroom in November, including trailers, synopses, photo galleries, and full credits for cast and crew.
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- Bad Guy - Review - From kamera.co.uk - 'As hateful to women as Ki-duk Kim's non-love story is, it is an uncompromising, promising piece of filmmaking that refuses to give easy answers or explanations, and brazenly leaves the audience without the usual moral justifications. Difficult to defend but impossible to ignore...'
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- Guidebook for the Latest 'Korean New Wave' - Promotional web site for C. Y. Leong's book 'Korean Cinema: the new Hong Kong', which charts the transformation of the South Korean film industry since 1998. The site includes downloadable excerpts from the book.
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- Has South Korea's cinema boom has petered out? - indieWIRE feature from 2000 that confronts this question and whether the opposite is true. Includes a brief interview with director Lee Myung-Se.
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- History of Early Korean Cinema - Essay (1,700 words) by Lee Young-Il that covers the development of cinema in Korea up to Arirang, the landmark of Korean Cinema produced in 1926.
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- Kang JeGyu Films - One of the largest film production companies in Korea, and the one behind Shiri.
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- Koreanfilm.org - Darcy Paquet's incredibly comprehensive resource, including full Annual Reports for each of the last seven years (plus reviews of older periods), a free email newsletter, bibliography, film company contacts, reviews (and trailers) for over a hundred films. Also a great number of further links not included here.
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- More History (and other performing arts in Korea) - Four short pieces on different periods and themes in Korean cinema, including the 'golden age' (1950s and early 60s) and the emergence of the first auteurs. This is the 'official version' from the Korean Embassy.
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- Politics and Art in Korean Cinema - October 2003 Korea Times article that provides a political context for current film production in the country. The minister of culture and tourism is a renowned filmmaker, reducing protection for the local film industry, and relations with North Korea.
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See http://www.showroom.org.uk for film times
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