Foreigner's Guide to Film Culture in Korea: November 2009

Monday, November 30, 2009

What's New in Film

New post at the One One Four:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2009/11/30/whats-new-in-film/

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Style, Popular Cinema and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Another take on Quentin Tarantino's latest film:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2009/11/26/in-review-style-popular-cinema-and-inglourious-basterds/

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

BEST OF THE DECADE

Here is the link to my "Best of the Decade" list:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2009/11/19/in-review-best-of-the-decade/

Friday, November 13, 2009

French Cinema Now and Review of ROAD TO THE RACETRACK

Two links to columns at the One One Four:

Preview of the French Cinema Now program at the Seoul Cinematheque here.

Review of Jang Sun-woo's ROAD TO THE RACETRACK (1991) here.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

IN REVIEW: LEONE'S LEGACY

Review of ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, and THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE WEIRD now 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.

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

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. From the Journals of Jean Seberg
10. In the Company of Men

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. Heaven's Gate
9. Ran
10. Paris, Texas

1970s
1. Mean Streets
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
3. The Godfather Part II
4. The Mother and the Whore
5. Celine and Julie Go Boating
6. Le Boucher
7. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
8. The Mouth Agape
9. Scream From Silence
10. The Last Supper

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. The House is Black
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. Letter From An Unknown Woman
5. The Maltese Falcon
6. Scarlet Street
7. Notorious
8. The Big Sleep
9. Casablanca
10. Force of Evil

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 (1988-2009)

2009
1. The White Ribbon
2. Face
3. Lost in the Mountains
4. Dogtooth
5. A Lake
6. Like You Know It All
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. The Hurt Locker
9. Humpday
10. Drag Me to Hell

2008
1. Night and Day
2. The Visitor
3. Wendy and Lucy
4. The Flight of the Red Balloon
5. Happy-Go-Lucky
6. Burn After Reading
7. The Wrestler
8. Doubt
9. Tony Manero
10. Paranoid Park

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. Taxi to the Dark Side
8. I'm Not There
9. Michael Clayton
10. Atonement

2006
1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Children of Men
3. Woman on the Beach
4. Half Nelson
5. Three Times
6. Brick
7. Bubble
8. When the Levees Broke
9. The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema
10. Road to Guantanamo

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. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
8. Capote
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. A Tale of Cinema

2004
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Woman is the Future of Man
3. Cafe Lumiere
4. Fahrenheit 9/11
5. Oldboy
6. Sideways
7. Before Sunset
8. I Heart Huckabees
9. Kill Bill Volume 2
10. The Power of Nightmares

2003
1. Crimson Gold
2. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
3. The Corporation
4. Elephant
5. American Splendor
6. The Fog of War
7. Memories of Murder
8. Open Water
9. Mystic River
10. To Be and To Have

2002
1. Oasis
2. The Son
3. Far From Heaven
4. 25th Hour
5. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
6. About Schmidt
7. The Weather Underground
8. Punch-Drunk Love
9. Turning Gate
10. Frailty

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. Chunhyang
6. Bamboozled
7. Traffic
8. Dancer in the Dark
9. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
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. Christmas in August
6. I Stand Alone
7. Zero Effect
8. The Big Lebowski
9. The Thin Red Line
10. A Simple Plan

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. Breaking the Waves
7. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
8. The People Versus Larry Flynt
9. Crash
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. Chungking Express
3. Vive L'Amour
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Red
6. The Shawshank Redemption
7. Heavenly Creatures
8. Ed Wood
9. Hoop Dreams
10. Natural Born Killers

1993
1. The Blue Kite
2. The Puppetmaster
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Short Cuts
5. The Age of Innocence
6. Naked
7. Mad Dog and Glory
8. A Perfect World
9. Schindler's List
10. Menace 2 Society

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/ Europa
9. Unforgiven
10. Bad Lieutenant

1991
1. Days of Being Wild
2. JFK
3. The Double Life of Veronique
4. My Own Private Idaho
5. Poison
6. Jungle Fever
7. Road to the Racetrack
8. Cape Fear
9. Boyz N the Hood
10. The Silence of the Lambs

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. Reversal of Fortune
9. Awakenings
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. Talk Radio
6. Chocolat
7. Salaam Bombay!
8. 36 Fillette
9. Rain Man
10. Big

Yearly Top Fives (1938-1987)

1987
1. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Raising Arizona
4. Au Revoir Les Enfants
5. Wall Street

1986
1. The Decline of the American Empire
2. Tampopo
3. Blue Velvet
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
5. The Terrorizers

1985
1. Ran
2. Taipei Story
3. Rendez-Vous
4. Re-Animator
5. The Breakfast Club

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. The Dead Zone
4. Zelig
5. First Name: Carmen

1982
1. Fanny and Alexander
2. The Verdict
3. White Dog
4. Blade Runner
5. Videodrome

1981
1. Heaven's Gate
2. Thief
3. Body Heat
4. Blow Out
5. Gallipoli

1980
1. Raging Bull
2. The Return of the Seacaucus Seven
3. Bad Timing
4. Dressed to Kill
5. The Empire Strikes Back

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. Annie Hall
2. New York, New York
3. The Ascension of Han-ne
4. Rabid
5. Slap Shot

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. The Godfather
4. Aguirre, Wrath of God
5. Last Tango in Paris

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. The Sorrow and the Pity
4. Le Cercle Rouge
5. Gimme Shelter

1969
1. Army of Shadows
2. Medium Cool
3. The Passion of Anna
4. The Wild Bunch
5. Go, Go, Second Time Virgin

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. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
3. Le Samourai
4. Weekend
5. Point Blank

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. Marnie
2. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
3. Dr. Strangelove
4. Before the Revolution
5. The Woman in the Dunes

1963
1. Contempt
2. The Leopard
3. The Birds
4. Shock Corridor
5. Les Carabiniers

1962
1. The House is Black
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. La Jetee
4. The Manchurian Candidate
5. Jules and Jim

1961
1. The Hustler
2. Last Year at Marienbad
3. An Aimless Bullet
4. Chronicle of a Summer
5. Through a Glass Darkly

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. Ride Lonesome

1958
1. Vertigo
2. Touch of Evil
3. Man of the West
4. The Hidden Fortress
5. Some Came Running

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

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. White Heat
3. They Live By Night
4. I Was Male War Bride
5. Border Incident

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. Meet Me in St. Louis
5. Phantom Lady

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. Casablanca
2. The Magnificent Ambersons
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

Top 100 American Movies

Just for fun, My Own AFI 100 list, in descending order of year:

The Visitor
No Country for Old Men
Mysterious Skin
A History of Violence
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Far From Heaven
The Royal Tenenbaums
Memento
The Limey
The Insider
Being John Malkovich
Happiness
In the Company of Men
Heat
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Crumb
Pulp Fiction
The Shawshank Redemption
Reservoir Dogs
JFK
GoodFellas
Do the Right Thing
Mr. Hoover and I
The Thin Blue Line
Dead Ringers

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Paris, Texas
The King of Comedy
Heaven's Gate
Raging Bull
Apocalypse Now
Dawn of the Dead
Days of Heaven
The Deer Hunter
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
The Godfather Part II
Chinatown
Mean Streets
Badlands
The Godfather
Punishment Park
Gimme Shelter
Medium Cool
The Wild Bunch
In the Year of the Pig
2001: A Space Odyssey
Salesman
Bonnie and Clyde
Point Blank
Marnie
Dr. Strangelove
The Birds
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
The Hustler
Psycho
Shadows
Rio Bravo
North by Northwest
Vertigo
Touch of Evil
The Searchers
Kiss Me Deadly
The Night of the Hunter
Rear Window
The Naked Spur
The Bad and the Beautiful
Singin in the Rain
Strangers on a Train
Sunset Boulevard
In a Lonely Place
The Asphalt Jungle
The Third Man
Gun Crazy
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Force of Evil
Out of the Past
Notorious
The Big Sleep
It's a Wonderful Life
The Killers
Scarlet Street
Double Indemnity
To Have and Have Not
Casablanca
The Magnificent Ambersons
Cat People
Citizen Kane
The Maltese Falcon
His Girl Friday
The Shop Around the Corner
Only Angels Have Wings
Bringing Up Baby
It Happened One Night
Trouble in Paradise
Scarface
The Public Enemy
Sunrise
Greed

Foreigner's Guide to Film Culture in Korea

Monday, November 30, 2009

What's New in Film

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Style, Popular Cinema and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

BEST OF THE DECADE

Friday, November 13, 2009

French Cinema Now and Review of ROAD TO THE RACETRACK

Thursday, November 5, 2009

IN REVIEW: LEONE'S LEGACY

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