Cinematheque Friends Film Festival

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2012/01/07/2012-cinematheque-friends-film-festival/

Classic French Cinema at Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/10/02/classic-french-cinema-at-seoul-cinematheque-oct-12-nov-13/

Ozu Retrospective

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/09/06/yasujiro-ozu-retrospective-at-seoul-cinematheque/

CineVacances Program at Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/07/23/cine-vacances-program-at-seoul-cinematheque/

Mario Bava Retrospective

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/06/25/italian-horror-master-mario-bava-retrospective-at-the-seoul-cinematheque/

9th Anniversary Seoul Cinematheque Film Festival (May 10-22)

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/05/09/9th-anniversary-seoul-cinematheque-film-festival-may-10-22/

Three Faces of the Bs Program at Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2011/04/07/three-faces-of-the-bs-program-at-the-seoul-cinematheque/

VAGABOND (Agnes Varda, 1985)

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/08/14/in-review-vagabond-agnes-varda-1985/

Federico Fellini Retrospective at Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/06/07/federico-fellini-retrospective-at-the-seoul-cinematheque/

This Week in Cinema

Two posts about screenings this week in Seoul:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/05/13/oscar-season-in-korea/

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/05/11/this-week-at-the-cinematheque-jiff-in-seoul/

Elia Kazan Retrospective

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/04/04/in-review-elia-kazan-retrospective/

New at the Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/03/13/two-korean-films-this-week-at-the-seoul-cinematheque/

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton, 1955)

New Review at theoneonefour.com:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/02/04/in-review-the-night-of-the-hunter-charles-laughton-1955/#more-5669

Friends of Cinematheque Film Festival

Link to a preview of the upcoming Cinematheque Friends program:

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2010/01/13/the-5th-friends-of-the-cinematheque-film-festival/

Classic Hollywood at the Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2009/12/20/hollywood-classic-special-at-seoul-cinematheque/

Jean Cocteau/ Jean Genet Special at the Seoul Cinematheque

http://www.theoneonefour.com/2009/12/15/jean-cocteau-jean-genet-special-at-the-seoul-cinematheque/

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.

Cine-Vacances at the Cinematheque (August 4-30)

The August program at the Cinematheque has been announced and is available here. Among the highlights include a huge retrospective on the films of Don Siegel, along with a day of Jacques Demy films on Tuesday, August 4th (although no subtitle information is given). There is also two screenings of Sergei Bondarchuk's 1968 War and Peace in four parts.

Nagwon Music Film Festival

From July 21 to August 2, the Seoul Cinematheque will be showcasing a lineup of music related films, from American rock concert films to Soviet musicals. Films showing in English or with English subtitles include:

The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978)
Hair (Milos Forman, 1979)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (Alan Parker, 1982)
The Doors (Oliver Stone, 1991)
The Commitments (Alan Parker, 1991)

Tractor Drivers (Ivan Pyryev, 1939)
A Better Tomorrow on the Street (2008)

Also, the Puchon Fantastic Film Festival continues running until next week.

1950s Korean Cinema at the Cinematheque

Upcoming at the Seoul Cinematheque, June 9th-18th, is a program of Korean films from the 1950s. So far, six of the thirteen films are listed as having English sub-titles. The films are:

Yangsan-do (Yangsan Island) (Kim Ki-young, 1955) (90 minutes)
Piagol (Pia Village) (Lee Kang Cheon, 1955) (106 minutes)
Chongchun Ssanggogseon (Han Hyeong-mo, 1956) (100 minutes)
Jayu Buin (Madame Freedom) (Han Hyeong-mo, 1956) (124 minutes)
Muyeong-tab (Pagoda of No Shadows) (Shin Sang-ok, 1957) (117 minutes)
Jiokhwa (Flower in Hell) (Shin Sang-ok, 1958) (86 minutes)

Probably the most well-known of these films are Madame Freedom and Flower in Hell, both of which are discussed at length in the Korean Film Archive's A History of Korean Cinema. As can be guessed by the titles, both are melodramas. Yi Hyo-In devotes a section of his overview of 1950s Korean cinema on Madame Freedom with the title, "Madame Freedom, the Application of the Modern Thinking into a Film and the Repulsion Against It." Flower in Hell is of interest in both its subject matter (one of the lead characters is a prostitute servicing American GIs) and its apparent mixture of genres and styles. And Yangsan Island is the second film of the acclaimed Kim Ki-young. I know little else about the other films, although all appear to be from the melodrama era except for Pia Village, which I think is part of the war cycle and deals with a group of communist guerillas.

The cinemathque website has the times and listings, but not the translation of the titles, so go by the year and running time. I've also linked each film to its imdb page.