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Coréen 2495In 1993 for the first time as a chief of the states President Mitterrand visited Korea. On this visit Mitterrand promised that he would return the 397 volumes of the Oe-Kyujanggak Archives (royal protocols of Chosun Dynasty in Kor...
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Country HotelFor the director, Country Hotel was an experiment in almost every respect. Simply shooting on 35mm was challenge enough, so everything needed to be kept as simple as possible. Country Hotel has perhaps the most relaxed approach to...
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Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of IstanbulComposer Alexander Hacke and Fatih Akin-who collaborated on Akin′s Head-On-travel the length and breadth of Istanbul in an attempt to document the diversity of modern Turkish music. From their home base of the Buyuk Londra Oteli, ...
Korean Cinema
Crying Fist2005 The Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, 2005 FIPRESCI Tae-shik, once a silver medalist in the Asian Games, now gets paid to be beaten up in place of others in the middle of the street. With his back up against the wall and nothi...
A Window on Asian Cinema
Dam Street2002 PPP Sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun lives in a small riverside town in China in 1983, where her deeply felt emotions can’t be articulated in the repressive social climate of her home and small town. When her high school teacher...
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Dark HeavenPestonji shot another feature, Dark Heaven(1958), for Kachara Film, a film company owned by a close friend. Keen to progress his films and film industry of Thailand, he shot in colour and expanded the use of songs in the narrative...
World Cinema
Dark HorseDirector Dagur Kari is known for his off beat sense of humor and low-key filmic tone. He′s stated in the past that he prefers making films that are a ′catalogue of ideas′ rather than traditional narratives, and he has carried out ...
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Dear PyongyangDear Pyongyang is an account of the reconstruction of the bonds of affection between a father and daughter that had been sundered by the father′s political choices. Director Yang Yong-hi is a second-generation ethnic Korean born a...