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[Photo News] Actresses grace red carpet at BIFF
South Korea’s top actors and celebrities on Thursday attended the 18th annual Busan International Film Festival, one of the major film festivals in Asia, attracting media coverage. In particular, actresses were flooded by camera flashes when they walked the red carpet to enter the opening ceremony. A growing number of female celebrities are going for bold, revealing outfits to steal the spotlight at film festivals. BIFF will run through Oct. 12 in Busan Cinema Center.By Im Woo-jung, Intern r
Oct. 4, 2013
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Bhutanese film on Indian traditional dance opens BIFF
BUSAN― A Bhutanese film directed by a Buddhist monk, featuring India’s traditional dance and its spirituality, opened the 18th Busan International Film Festival in Busan on Thursday.Cohosted by veteran Korean actress Kang Soo-yeon and Hong Kong singer and actor Aaron Kwok, the festival’s opening ceremony was attended by some 4,000 guests, including renowned cineastes from home and abroad such as Japanese filmmaker Shinji Aoyama, French film critic and historian Charles Tesson, and Korean filmmak
Oct. 3, 2013
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Annual film festival to kick off in Busan
Asia's largest film festival will open in Busan Thursday featuring a stronger presence by up-and-coming filmmakers in the region, according to organizers.The 18th installment of the annual Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is set to feature 301 movies from 70 countries around the world, with 95 films having world premieres. The selection is slightly smaller compared to last year's 304 films from 75 countries but comprises more world premieres and works by newbie Asian directors. Ninety-fo
Oct. 3, 2013
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Actors make directorial debuts at BIFF
Korea’s biggest annual film festival opens in Busan today, featuring a total of 301 films, including 95 world premieres from 70 countries, and two highly anticipated directing debuts by prominent Korean actors.Part of the lineup of the Korean Cinema Today section are actor Ha Jung-woo’s (“Love Fiction,” “The Chaser”) directing debut “Fasten Your Seatbelt” and veteran actor Park Joong-hoon’s (“Nowhere to Hide,” “Radio Star”) directing debut “Top Star.”Ha’s “Fasten Your Seatbelt” is a comedy about
Oct. 2, 2013
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Angelina Jolie to direct film in Australia
SYDNEY (AFP) ― Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie will direct her new film “Unbroken” in Australia, using Sydney and rural parts of New South Wales state as locations, it was announced Tuesday.The World War II movie is only Jolie‘s second foray into directing, after the critically-acclaimed 2011 movie “Land of Blood and Honey,” and the actress has been in Sydney with her children in recent weeks scouting locations.NSW deputy premier Andrew Stoner said the Universal Pictures production would injec
Oct. 2, 2013
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Hong Sang-soo’s ‘Our Sunhi’ draws 50,000 viewers
Director Hong Sang-soo’s latest film “Our Sunhi” has drawn 50,000 viewers in 19 days, a record for the filmmaker. According to the state-run Korean Film Council, Hong’s film, which belongs to the local diversity film chart ― a chart for indie and art house films released in fewer than 100 theaters nationwide ― topped 52,359 viewers as of Tuesday. In the local film industry, the 10,000-viewer mark for indie films is generally considered equivalent to the 1 million mark for a commercial film. “Our
Oct. 1, 2013
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Iran taps Asghar Farhadi film ‘Le Passe’ for Oscars entry
TEHRAN (AFP) ― Iran has submitted “Le Passe,” the latest film from “Une Separation” director Asghar Farhadi, for Oscars consideration in a move opposed by conservatives, who say the film is too French.“Le Passe” (The Past) tells the story of an Iranian (played by Ali Mosaffa) who returns to France after four years away to sign divorce papers with his French wife Marie (Berenice Bejo).During the journey, he uncovers a great secret weighing on Marie, her daughters and her new boyfriend.Farhadi won
Sept. 30, 2013
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Hugh Jackman gets lifetime achievement award in Spain
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (AFP) ― Australian actor Hugh Jackman, the star of “Wolverine” and “X-Men,” received a lifetime achievement award on Friday at the San Sebastian film festival in northern Spain.“I will take this as a charge to go on working for many more years to move you and entertain you,” he said after collecting the festival‘s Donostia award for his film career from the hands of Mexican actor Diego Luna at a ceremony held at beachside congress centre in the coastal city of San Sebastian.
Sept. 29, 2013
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Box Office: Runner Runner, The Face Reader, The Spy
Runner Runner Opened Sept. 26 Crime. Drama. Thriller. Directed by Brad Furman. Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) is a student at Princeton University who pays his tuition by online gambling. When he gets cheated out of his money, he learns the site is being run from a remote island and decides to confront the site’s owner. He meets the cunning online gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), and instead of getting his money back, Richie is lured into becoming Ivan’s protege with the promise of go
Sept. 27, 2013
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Porn addict meets Ms. Right in ‘Don Jon’
Don Jon’s a dog.He cares only about his car, his pad, his boys, his family, his gym, his church (Sundays only), girls and porn ― lots and lots of porn. That is, until he meets Ms. Right ― actually two Ms. Rights ― and his bro-licious world is turned upside down when he learns that women are people too.That’s the simple premise for “Don Jon,” the feature directorial/writing debut for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but it’s handled with such a deft sense of humor and pathos that it transcends any rom
Sept. 27, 2013
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The NY Film Festival in flux, to match the times
Change isn’t undertaken haphazardly in the halls of Lincoln Center. This year, for example, is the first time the New York Film Festival is being led by someone not named Richard. The 51st New York Film Festival, which opens Friday with the premiere of Paul Greengrass’ Somali pirate docudrama “Captain Phillips,” marks the start of new program director Kent Jones’ stewardship. Jones, a critic and sometimes filmmaker, is only the third program director of the festival, following Richard Roud and R
Sept. 27, 2013
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‘Emotional, skirmishing scenes exhausted us’: ‘Accomplice’ actors
Actress Son Ye-jin and actor Kim Kap-soo said their latest film cost them a great deal of effort to deal with detailed portrayals of emotions.In the emotional thriller “The Accomplice,” Son played a daughter who becomes suspicious that her father might be a culprit in a kidnap-turned-murder case.The film took the motif from a true story that shocked the nation in 1988, about a man who killed two children in his neighborhood and threw their bodies into the sea. In “The Accomplice,” with only 15 d
Sept. 27, 2013
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Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg to adult-themed animated film
NEW YORK (AP) ― Sony Pictures will make a raunchy, adult-themed animated film written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg titled “Sausage Party.”The project was announced Tuesday by Sony, which is co-financing the film with Annapurna Pictures. Writing partners Rogen and Goldberg penned the script along with Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir.“Sausage Party” is described as “one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence.” After falling out of a shopping cart, the sausage journeys through a
Sept. 25, 2013
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China’s richest man aims to rival Hollywood
QINGDAO, China (AFP) ― An ambitious studio complex built by China’s richest man will be a major boost for the country’s film industry but experts say it needs more than sprawling grounds to rival Hollywood.Global A-listers Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and Catherine Zeta-Jones showed up on Sunday for the lavish event to showcase plans for the Oriental Movie Metropolis, set to span 376 hectares, in the eastern port city of Qingdao.The 50 billion yuan ($8.3 billion) complex will house 20 studio
Sept. 24, 2013
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Film on Korean shaman to open DMZ Docs
A film about a famed shaman and her life intertwined with the tumultuous modern history will open this year’s DMZ Korean International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ Docs), the organizers announced on Tuesday.Written and directed by famed media artist and filmmaker Park Chan-kyong, the documentary film “Manshin: Ten Thousand Spirits” follows the tortuous life of Kim Guem-hwa, a well-known shaman in Korea. Born in 1931 in a rural town in Hwanghae Province, now in North Korea, Kim was often threat
Sept. 24, 2013
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Indonesian films get festival treatment
A total of nine Indonesian films will get the festival treatment in Korea this week, including a biopic of Indonesia’s third president, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie.The first Indonesia Film Festival kicks off in Korea on Thursday, co-presented by Korea’s major multiplex chain CJ CGV, Korean entertainment company CJ E&M, Indonesian chain of movie theaters Blitz Megaplex and Indonesian film distribution company Jive Entertainment. The film festival will be held in Seoul and Ansan, Gyeonggi Province,
Sept. 23, 2013
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Hollywood stars turn out for China’s new ‘cinema city’
QINGDAO, China (AFP) ― Nicole Kidman, Leonardo DiCaprio and John Travolta on Sunday added their star power to the glitzy inauguration of the ambitious “Qingdao Oriental Movie Metropolis,” billed as China’s answer to Hollywood.China’s richest man Wang Jianlin and his conglomerate Wanda Group have poured 50 billion yuan ($8.3 billion) into the sprawling complex in the city of Qingdao. Construction has already started but the complex will only be operational from 2016.Wang told a lavish and star-st
Sept. 23, 2013
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Golden Globes to honor Woody Allen’s career
LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The organizers of the Golden Globe Awards say they will honor Woody Allen for his contributions to filmmaking.The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Friday that Allen will receive the 2014 Cecil B. DeMille Award. A tribute to the 77-year-old actor, writer and director will be included in the 71st annual Golden Globe ceremony set for Jan. 12. Morgan Freeman and Martin Scorsese are among the previous recipients.Allen’s much-honored films include “Annie Hall,” “Hannah and H
Sept. 15, 2013
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Box Office: The Face Reader, The Spy, Elysium
The Face ReaderOpened Sept. 11Drama. Directed by Han Jae-rim. Nae-gyeong (Song Kang-ho) is the son of a disgraced noble family living in the Joseon era with a talent for physiognomy. With one glance of a person’s face, he is able to assess their personality, mental state, and habits. He is approached by officials in the royal court to use his skills to help solve a murder case. Nae-gyeong’s talents become recognized by the royal court and he is asked to not only solve crimes but also assist the
Sept. 13, 2013
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‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ shuns scares for laughs
More silly than its sinister predecessor, “Insidious: Chapter 2” is entertaining for the contortions the script makes to incorporate both a brief prequel and highlights from the first film into a new 105-minute package.This is a Mobius strip of a movie, looping in on itself with ghosts from “The Further” and parallel existences interwoven into the lives of the lost Lamberts of sunny Somewhere, Calif.Those “Saw” / “Insidious” guys James Wan (director) and Leigh Whannell (co-writer, co-star) throw
Sept. 13, 2013