My Korean Cinema
Director in Person
Directed by Kim Hong-Jun.
South Korea, 2002, color, 60 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
South Korea, 2002, color, 60 min.
Korean with English subtitles.
In the vein of Martin Scorsese’s warmly received recollections of Hollywood and Italian cinema comes Kim Hong-Jun’s overview of forty years of Korean film history. Culled from his televison presentations, the film features the director’s reflections on the work of Im Kwon-Taek, Yu Hyon-Mok, Kim Ki-Young and Shin Sang-ok, as well as many others whose work has gone largely undocumented. A funny and moving ode to a life of cinephilia, the film draws on Kim’s experience as a filmmaker as well as film commissioner and festival director to inform this nostalgic journey.