Foreigner's Guide to Film Culture in Korea: Puchon Fantastic Film Festival (July 16-26)

Thursday 18 June 2009

Puchon Fantastic Film Festival (July 16-26)

Next month represents the high point of the year on the Korean cinema scene for fans of horror films. The Puchon Fantastic Film Festival has announced its schedule and there are a vast number of horror features both old and new. Puchon is just southwest of Seoul and is accessible by subway. The schedule is available here.

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Directions

Seoul Cinematheque and Film Forum: located near exit 5 of the subway sub Chongno-3(sam)-ga, which is located on lines number 1, 3 and 5, although access is quicker from line 5. It is not the easiest place to find, but if you keep straight after coming up the stairs of exit 5 and go under the overpass you should see film posters on your left. Go into the building and up to the 4th floor. You should see the box office outside.

Arthouse Momo: located in the Campus Complex of Ewha Women’s University, Line 2, Exit 2 or 3. Once you enter the main gate, the campus complex is up and then on your right. Enter through gate 3 of the complex and turn left, the theatre is down the hall. There are also maps at the gate to find the campus complex, and outside the campus complex in order to find the theatre.

Cinecube: located at the Gwanghwamun subway stop, line 5, exit 6.

Dongseung Cinematheque: located at Hyehwa Station (line #4); take exit 1, and walk towards Hyehwa Rotary (should be 2 minute walk).

Korea Foundation Cultural Center: City Hall subway stop, exit 9.

Top Ten by Decade

2010s

1. The Kid with a Bike
2. A Separation
3. Poetry
4. The Tree of Life
5. The Turin Horse
6. This is Not a Film
7. Oki's Movie
8. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
9. Like Someone in Love
10. Blue Valentine

2000s

1. The World
2. Code Unknown
3. Crimson Gold
4. The White Ribbon
5. Secret Sunshine
6. Pan's Labyrinth
7. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
8. Oasis
9. Yi Yi
10. Mysterious Skin

1990s

1. Satantango
2. Good Men, Good Women
3. A Taste of Cherry
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. The Wind Will Carry Us
6. Heat
7. The Dreamlife of Angels
8. Rosetta
9. Lies
10. From the Journals of Jean Seberg

1980s

1. City of Sadness
2. Raging Bull
3. Do the Right Thing
4. The Thin Blue Line
5. Sans Soleil
6. The King of Comedy
7. Dead Ringers
8. My Dinner with Andre
9. Heaven's Gate
10. Paris, Texas

1970s

1. Mean Streets
2. Killer of Sheep
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
4. The Godfather Part II
5. The Mother and the Whore
6. Celine and Julie Go Boating
7. Le Boucher
8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
9. The Mouth Agape
10. Scream From Silence

1960s

1. Breathless
2. Persona
3. Pierrot le Fou
4. Army of Shadows
5. Playtime
6. The Hustler
7. Last Year at Marienbad
8. In the Year of the Pig
9. Harakiri
10. Shoot the Piano Player

1950s

1. Vertigo
2. Early Summer
3. The Searchers
4. Rio Bravo
5. Tokyo Story
6. Madame de ...
7. Sunset Boulevard
8. Rear Window
9. Touch of Evil
10. Sansho Dayu

1940s

1. Citizen Kane
2. Double Indemnity
3. The Third Man
4. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
5. The Magnificent Ambersons
6. The Maltese Falcon
7. Scarlet Street
8. Notorious
9. Letter From An Unknown Woman
10. Casablanca

1930s

1. The Rules of the Game
2. M
3. Sisters of the Gion
4. Le Crime de Monsieur Lange
5. Trouble in Paradise
6. It Happened One Night
7. Only Angels Have Wings
8. La Chienne
9. Osaka Elegy
10. The Public Enemy

1920s

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
2. The Man with the Movie Camera
3. Un Chien Andalou
4. The Last Laugh
5. Greed
6. The Battleship Potemkin
7. Sunrise
8. The Crowd
9. Nosferatu
10. The Marriage Circle

Yearly Top Tens (1988-2012)

2012

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Like Someone in Love
3. Argo
4. Caesar Must Die
5. Mad Men Season 5
6. National Security
7. Breaking Bad Season 5.1
8. In Another Country
9. Girls Season 1
10. Louie Season 3

2011

1. The Kid with a Bike
2. A Separation
3. The Tree of Life
4. The Turin Horse
5. This is Not a Film
6. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
7. Margaret
8. Martha Marcy May Marlene
9. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
10. Louie Season 2

2010

1. Poetry

2. Oki's Movie
3. Blue Valentine
4. Hahaha
5. Never Let Me Go
6. Breaking Bad Season 3
7. Animal Kingdom
8. Another Year
9. Rabbit Hole
10. Exit Through the Gift Shop

2009

1. The White Ribbon
2. Face
3. Lost in the Mountains
4. Dogtooth
5. About Elly
6. Like You Know it All
7. A Lake
8. Up in the Air
9. Inglourious Basterds
10. Police Adjective

2008

1. The Class
2. Night and Day
3. Lorna's Silence
4. 35 Shots of Rum
5. The Visitor
6. Wendy and Lucy
7. Flight of the Red Balloon
8. Happy-Go-Lucky
9. Burn After Reading
10. The Wrestler

2007

1. Secret Sunshine
2. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3. No Country for Old Men
4. There Will Be Blood
5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
6. The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams of Freedom
7. Terror's Advocate
8. Taxi to the Dark Side
9. Michael Clayton
10. Gone Baby Gone

2006

1. Pan's Labyrinth

2. The Wire Season 4

3. Children of Men

4. Woman on the Beach

5. Half Nelson

6. The Lives of Others

7. Colossal Youth

8. Three Times

9. Brick

10. The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema

2005

1. The World

2. Mysterious Skin

3. Cache

4. A History of Violence

5. The Squid and the Whale

6. Good Night, and Good Luck

7. Grizzly Man

8. Nine Lives

9. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

10. A Tale of Cinema

2004

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2. Woman is the Future of Man

3. Cafe Lumiere

4. The Wire Season 3

5. Fahrenheit 9/11

6. Oldboy

7. Sideways

8. Before Sunset

9. The Power of Nightmares

10. Kill Bill Volume 2

2003

1. Crimson Gold

2. Goodbye, Dragon Inn

3. The Corporation

4. Los Angeles Plays Itself

5. Capturing the Friedmans

6. Elephant

7. The Wire Season 2

8. American Splendor

9. Memories of Murder

10. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

2002

1. Oasis

2. The Son

3. Far From Heaven

4. The Wire Season 1

5. 25th Hour

6. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

7. About Schmidt

8. The Weather Underground

9. Punch-Drunk Love

10. Turning Gate

2001

1. The Royal Tenenbaums

2. The Piano Teacher

3. Memento

4. The Believer

5. Take Care of My Cat

6. Waking Life

7. Mulholland Drive

8. The Man Who Wasn't There

9. A.I.

10. In the Bedroom

2000

1. Code Unknown

2. Yi Yi

3. The Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors

4. In the Mood for Love

5. The Circle

6. You can Count on Me

7. Songs from the Second Floor

8. Chunhyang

9. Bamboozled

10. American Psycho

1999

1. The Wind Will Carry Us

2. Rosetta

3. Lies

4. Peppermint Candy

5. The Limey

6. The Insider

7. Being John Malkovich

8. Magnolia

9. Eyes Wide Shut

10. Election

1998

1. The Dreamlife of Angels

2. Happiness

3. Rushmore

4. The Power of Kangwon Province

5. The Big Lebowski

6. Christmas in August

7. I Stand Alone

8. Zero Effect

9. The Thin Red Line

10. Buffalo 66

1997

1. A Taste of Cherry

2. In the Company of Men

3. Happy Together

4. The River

5. Level Five

6. The Mirror

7. Boogie Nights

8. Jackie Brown

9. Deconstructing Harry

10. Funny Games

1996

1. Goodbye, South, Goodbye

2. Irma Vep

3. The Day a Pig Fell into the Well

4. Lone Star

5. Secrets and Lies

6. A Petal

7. Breaking the Waves

8. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

9. The People Versus Larry Flynt

10. Fargo

1995

1. Good Men, Good Women

2. Heat

3. From the Journals of Jean Seberg

4. Crumb

5. Leaving Las Vegas

6. Safe

7. Casino

8. Dead Man Walking

9. Seven

10. Before Sunrise

1994

1. Satantango

2. To Live

3. Chungking Express

4. Vive L'Amour

5. Pulp Fiction

6. Red

7. The Shawshank Redemption

8. Heavenly Creatures

9. Ed Wood

10. Hoop Dreams

1993

1. The Blue Kite

2. The Puppetmaster

3. Dazed and Confused

4. Short Cuts

5. The Age of Innocence

6. Naked

7. Seinfeld Season 4

8. Mad Dog and Glory

9. A Perfect World

10. Schindler's List

1992

1. Reservoir Dogs

2. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

3. Actress/ Center Stage

4. Bob Roberts

5. Swoon

6. Brother's Keeper

7. Benny's Video

8. Zentropa

9. Unforgiven

10. Bad Lieutenant

1991

1. Days of Being Wild

2. Slacker

3. JFK

4. The Double Life of Veronique

5. My Own Private Idaho

6. Poison

7. Jungle Fever

8. Road to the Racetrack

9. Cape Fear

10. Boyz N the Hood

1990

1. Close-up

2. GoodFellas

3. Miller's Crossing

4. Metropolitan

5. To Sleep with Anger

6. White Hunter, Black Heart

7. Pump Up the Volume

8. Seinfeld Season 1

9. Reversal of Fortune

10. The Grifters

1989

1. City of Sadness

2. Do the Right Thing

3. The Seventh Continent

4. Mr. Hoover and I

5. Drugstore Cowboy

6. Say Anything ...

7. Crimes and Misdemeanors

8. sex, lies and videotape

9. Roger and Me

10. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

1988

1. The Thin Blue Line

2. Dead Ringers

3. Grave of the Fireflies

4. The Vanishing

5. The Story of Women

6. Talk Radio

7. Chocolat

8. Chilsu and Mansu

9. Salaam Bombay!

10. 36 Fillette

Yearly Top Fives (1938-1987)

1987

1. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
2. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On
3. Full Metal Jacket
4. Raising Arizona
5. Au Revoir Les Enfants

1986

1. The Decline of the American Empire
2. Tampopo
3. Manhunter
4. Blue Velvet
5. The Terrorizers

1985

1. Ran
2. Vagabond
3. Taipei Story
4. Rendez-Vous
5. Re-Animator

1984

1. Paris, Texas
2. Summer at Grandpa's
3. Boy Meets Girl
4. This is Spinal Tap
5. Blood Simple

1983

1. Sans Soleil
2. The King of Comedy
3. L'Argent
4. The Dead Zone
5. A Nos Amours

1982

1. Fanny and Alexander
2. The Verdict
3. White Dog
4. Blade Runner
5. Videodrome

1981

1. My Dinner with Andre
2. Mandala
3. Thief
4. Body Heat
5. Blow Out

1980

1. Raging Bull
2. Heaven's Gate
3. Poto and Cabengo
4. The Return of the Seacaucus Seven
5. Bad Timing

1979

1. Scream from Silence
2. Apocalypse Now
3. Dawn of the Dead
4. Vengeance is Mine
5. Manhattan

1978

1. Days of Heaven
2. The Deer Hunter
3. Fingers
4. The Last Waltz
5. Eraserhead

1977

1. Killer of Sheep
2. The Devil, Probably
3. Annie Hall
4. New York, New York
5. The Ascension of Han-ne

1976

1. The Last Supper
2. In the Realm of the Senses
3. Taxi Driver
4. All the President's Men
5. Network

1975

1. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
2. Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Every Man For Himself and God Against All
5. The Passenger

1974

1. The Godfather Part II
2. Celine and Julie Go Boating
3. The Mouth Agape
4. Chinatown
5. F for Fake

1973

1. Mean Streets
2. The Mother and the Whore
3. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
4. Badlands
5. The Spirit of the Beehive

1972

1. Tout Va Bien
2. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
3. Love in the Afternoon
4. The Godfather
5. Aguirre, Wrath of God

1971

1. Punishment Park
2. The Last Picture Show
3. Harold and Maude
4. Millhouse: A White Comedy
5. WR: Mysteries of the Organism

1970

1. Le Boucher
2. The Conformist
3. Le Cercle Rouge
4. Claire's Knee
5. Little Big Man

1969

1. Army of Shadows
2. The Sorrow and the Pity
3. My Night at Maud's
4. Antonio Das Mortes
5. Medium Cool

1968

1. In the Year of the Pig
2. Once Upon a Time in the West
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Salesman
5. Rosemary's Baby

1967

1. Playtime
2. Belle de Jour
3. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
4. Le Samourai
5. Weekend

1966

1. Persona
2. Masculine Feminine
3. The Battle of Algiers
4. Mouchette
5. Made in USA

1965

1. Pierrot le Fou
2. Repulsion
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
4. The War Game
5. Alphaville

1964

1. Gertrud
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3. Marnie
4. Dr. Strangelove
5. Before the Revolution

1963

1. Contempt
2. The Leopard
3. The Birds
4. Shock Corridor
5. Les Carabiniers

1962

1. Harakiri
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. La Jetee
4. The House is Black
5. Jules and Jim

1961

1. The Hustler
2. Last Year at Marienbad
3. An Aimless Bullet
4. The End of Summer
5. Chronicle of a Summer

1960

1. Breathless
2. Shoot the Piano Player
3. Peeping Tom
4. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
5. L'Avventura

1959

1. Rio Bravo
2. The 400 Blows
3. Pickpocket
4. North by Northwest
5. Floating Weeds

1958

1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Equinox Flower
4. Man of the West
5. Bonjour Tristesse

1957

1. Wild Strawberries
2. Throne of Blood
3. Sweet Smell of Success
4. The Wrong Man
5. The Seventh Seal

1956

1. The Searchers
2. Bigger Than Life
3. Bob le Flambeur
4. The Killing
5. Seven Men From Now

1955

1. The Night of the Hunter
2. Kiss Me Deadly
3. Rififi
4. Pather Panchali
5. Night and Fog

1954

1. Rear Window
2. Sansho Dayu
3. Seven Samurai
4. Crime Wave
5. Salt of the Earth

1953

1. Tokyo Story
2. Madame de ...
3. The Naked Spur
4. Ugetsu
5. The Big Heat

1952

1. The Bad and the Beautiful
2. Singin in the Rain
3. Ikiru
4. Othello
5. High Noon

1951

1. Early Summer
2. Strangers on a Train
3. Ace in the Hole
4. The Day the Earth Stood Still
5. A Streetcar Named Desire

1950

1. Sunset Boulevard
2. Gun Crazy
3. In a Lonely Place
4. The Asphalt Jungle
5. Rashomon

1949

1. The Third Man
2. The Reckless Moment
3. Late Spring
4. White Heat
5. They Live By Night

1948

1. Letter From An Unknown Woman
2. Force of Evil
3. Bicycle Thieves
4. Rope
5. The Pirate

1947

1. Out of the Past
2. Monsieur Verdoux
3. Black Narcissus
4. Body and Soul
5. Odd Man Out

1946

1. Notorious
2. The Big Sleep
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. Stairway to Heaven
5. The Killers

1945

1. Scarlet Street
2. Fallen Angel
3. Detour
4. Leave Her to Heaven
5. Rome, Open City

1944

1. Double Indemnity
2. To Have and Have Not
3. Laura
4. The Woman in the Window
5. Meet Me in St. Louis

1943

1. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
2. I Walked with a Zombie
3. Shadow of a Doubt
4. Heaven Can Wait
5. The Seventh Victim

1942

1. The Magnificent Ambersons
2. Casablanca
3. Cat People
4. To Be or Not To Be
5. Now Voyager

1941

1. Citizen Kane
2. The Maltese Falcon
3. The Lady Eve
4. Sullivan's Travels
5. How Green Was My Valley

1940

1. His Girl Friday
2. The Shop Around the Corner
3. Rebecca
4. The Philadelphia Story
5. They Drive by Night

1939

1. The Rules of the Game
2. Only Angels Have Wings
3. Le Jour Se Leve
4. Stagecoach
5. The Wizard of Oz

1938

1. Bringing Up Baby
2. La Bete Humaine
3. The Lady Vanishes
4. The Adventures of Robin Hood
5. Angels With Dirty Faces

Foreigner's Guide to Film Culture in Korea

Thursday 18 June 2009

Puchon Fantastic Film Festival (July 16-26)

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