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  • Special Screening of The Yellow Sea @ The Museum of the Moving Image

    Sunday, November 20, 2011 | 4:00 PM
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    The Korea Society and the Museum of the Moving Image present The Yellow Sea as part of Korean Cinema Now at MoMI. The Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society have impressed growing audiences in 2011 with an exciting run of new work. In The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin tells a tale where, to bring his wife to Yanbian (on the border of North Korea and China) and pay off his gambling debts, protagonist Kim Gu-nam takes on an assassination job. After a disastrous... Read More

  • Special Screening of The Unjust @The Museum of the Moving Image

    Sunday, October 9, 2011 | 4:00 PM
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    The Korea Society and the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image present The Unjust, part of Korean Cinema Now, on New York City’s hottest state-of-the-art screen. Earlier this year, the Museum of the Moving Image and The Korea Society embarked on an exciting run of new work, with highlights from the Busan International Film Festival, that has been warmly received by audiences and the film media. The Unjust is director Ryoo Seung-wan’s dramatic take on police corruption and features an investigator on... Read More

  • Korean Film in Focus: Director’s Talk with Jeon Kyu-hwan

    Monday, October 3, 2011 | 6:00 PM
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    Director Jeon Kyu-hwan has garnered international attention since the 2008 debut of Mozart Town, the first in his Town Trilogy. His second film, Animal Town, was lauded by critics and festival attendees. The third installment, Dance Town, earned awards at Berlin and the Pusan International Film Festival.Variety Magazine’s Russell Edwards hailed Dance Town as a “confrontational slice of urban life that plays like a blend of John Cassavetes and Ken Loach with a sharp kimchi taste.” Jeon’s next feature film is... Read More

  • The Good, The Bad, The Weird

    Wednesday, July 27, 2011 | 7:00 PM
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      Join The Korea Society and the Museum of The Moving Image for a cinematic wild ride from director Kim Jee-woon’s. Set in the 1930s Manchurian desert, where lawlessness rules and ethnic groups clash, three Korean men fatefully meet on a train: a bounty hunter, the leader of a gang of bandits, and a train robber with nine lives. The three strangers chase across Manchuria to take possession of a valuable map. In Korean with subtitles. Special Screening @ The Museum of the Moving Image(Part of... Read More

  • Special Screening of I Saw the Devil @ The Museum of the Moving Image

    Sunday, July 17, 2011 | 7:00 PM
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    Director Kim Ji-woon’s latest film follows a bloody cycle of catch-and-release as the protagonist inflicts “equal sorrow” on his fiancée’s killer. Kim casts a distinctive mark in each of his films, and is known for the best “genre films” in Korean cinema. Kim Ji-woon made his directorial debut with The Quiet Family, a film hailed by critics and audiences for its unique styling. Kim went on to direct The Foul King (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), A Bittersweet... Read More

  • The Journals of Musan

    Sunday, April 24, 2011 | 7:00 PM
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    Winner of "Best New Narrative Director" at 2011 Tribeca Film Festival!   The Tribeca Film Festival presents the New York premiere of the much-anticipated The Journals of Musan, co-hosted with The Korea Society. Director Park Jung-bum’s debut tells the story of a North Korean defector forging a new life in South Korea. The film took the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival. Park, who assisted Lee Chang-dong on the stirring Poetry, presents a disarmingly... Read More

  • Special Screening of HaHaHa

    Sunday, February 20, 2011 | 6:00 PM
      The Korea Society joins the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image to present Hong Sang-soo’s Hahaha, a deceptively light romantic comedy which won the 2010 Prize Un Certain Regard at Cannes. The film follows a filmmaker on the skids who meets a film-critic friend. During a drinking session, they decide to share memories of trips they took to the same seaside town. Enjoy this special screening at Museum of the Moving Image’s new 267-seat cinema, which is only ten minutes from The Korea Society, at 35th Avenue... Read More

  • Special Screening of Poetry

    Sunday, January 23, 2011 | 4:00 PM
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    About the Director: Lee Chang-dong was a successful novelist and screenwriter before he came to be one of Korea's most talented directors. His movies, such as "Peppermint Candy,” “Oasis,” “Secret Sunshine," and his award-winning debut, “Green Fish,” are viewed as artistic critiques of Korean society. Director Lee has garnered much international recognition and has won awards at the prestigious Cannes, Berlin, and Toronto film festivals.   Sunday, January 23, 2011 | 4 PM   Museum of the... Read More

  • Filmmakers Roundtable: A Discussion with Director Brian Iglesias

    Thursday, December 2, 2010 | 9:01 PM
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    Film fans and students of military history unite for an intimate discussion with director Brian Iglesias on the making of his award-winning independent documentary Chosin. Brian, a Marine and Iraq veteran, embarked on this production to honor those who sacrificed at the Battle of Chosin Reservior in the Korean War. Those who survived went on to facilitate the first evacuation under UN auspices, and over one million Koreans today descend from those who were assisted. The director will discuss his... Read More

  • Classic Movie Night: The Housemaid

    Wednesday, October 27, 2010 | 6:30 PM
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      In recognition of our recent sold-out premiere of The Housemaid (2010) at MoMA, The Korea Society proudly presents this special screening of the lovingly restored 1960 original, directed by visionary, some suggest eccentric, Kim Ki-young, a director who examines pre-modernity and modernity with respect to class differences in Korean society. Compare Kim's The Housemaid to Im Sang Soo's 2010 remake of The Housemaid. The original version of The Housemaid (1960) was restored by the World... Read More

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