Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night
Water MillIn mid-1960s known as the period in which "literary cinema" became thriving, Lee who was in desperate search of new cinematic language became interested in cinematic re-interpretation of pre-existed fiction. Based on a short story...
Critics' Choice
Me and You and Everyone We KnowMe And You And Everyone We Know deals with the relationships and communications between individuals in modem, multi-media society. Moreover, it is a delightful comedy filled with laughs and gags. It is still an insightful explorat...
World Cinema
Persona Non GrataPolish master Krzysztof Zanussi returns with a new film where historical trends inform the present. Victor is the newly widowed Polish ambassador to Uruguay. Returning home following his wife′s death, he meets his old friend Oleg,...
Special Programs in Focus
Host & GuestHo-jun is a college lecturer who lives an isolated life with dissatisfaction for society. He is locked in his bathroom because of a broken door lock. A missionary, Kye-sang, happens to save him. Since then, Kye-sang started visiti...
Wide Angle
Back VocalTwenty-four years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, there is still a legal prohibition against female singers singing in Iran. However, rumors start to circulate about females being permitted to sing as part of a duet. This ne...
A Window on Asian Cinema
The Weeping WillowWhat does a man′s happiness stem from? How come it′s always so fragile? Director Majid Majidi explores these simple but never-answered questions in his latest film The Weeping Willow. Yusef, a 45-year-old college professor who los...
Special Programs in Focus
Vera DrakeMike Leigh has focused on the working class for much of his career; the struggles, the motivations and the circumstances. In 1950 London, working-class house cleaner Vera has a side job providing abortions for desperate girls. Whe...
Oepn Cinema
Beowulf and GrendelThe oldest text of recorded English is the classic epic poem of a battle between man and monster. A Norse king, Hrothgar of the Danes, accepts the help of great warrior Beowulf in defeating a monstrous marauding foe, and putting a...