Special Programs in Focus
The AdjusterAtom Egoyan′s fourth feature film, The Adjuster, is a haunting drama of emotional isolation and twisted morality. Elias Koteas is Noah Render, an insurance adjuster who doesn′t so much live his life as manage it-much like his atte...
Wide Angle
To Live Is Better Than to DieIn the 1990′s, Chinese farmers in Henan province sold their blood to make money and escape extreme poverty. However, poor hygiene conditions infected 60 percent of the farmers with HIV, and it was passed onto their children. To Li...
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!
Five Fingers of DeathA martial art competition is held and Cho Ji-ho, who has wanted to live a peaceful life, is sent by his former master to learn better skills at the Sang-Moo Martial Academy under the tutelage of a new master and thus participate i...
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The ZoneIn the 1970s Swedish-born Jewish photographer Esaias Baitel immersed himself in a Parisian suburb where motor bikes, rock and roll, and swastikas go hand in hand. Keeping his Jewishness secret he did not find lost or mislead youth...
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!
Temptress of a Thousand FacesThis is the first film Chung made with the Shaw Brothers. It was the first Hong Kong film to be exported to Europe and the success of the film provided a firm ground for Chung to continue working in Hong Kong. He included some of ...
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Slowly SilentlyA woman is walking slowly and silently. As she walks tiredly from life itself, what stops her is a man with no legs lying on the streets. She covers him with her clothes and then starts walking again. The slow pace of the camera′s...
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Chung Chang-wha, the Man of Action!
Five Fingers of DeathIn December 1972, Anyang Production imported Five Fingers of Death under the title An Iron Man in the form of joint production. However, it is an irony that the Korean audiences did not know that An Iron Man was the same film whic...
Special Programs in Focus
Chenmo and MeitingChen-Mo, who illegally sells flowers in the street and Meiting, who works at a barbershop, are just two people living in the gutters of Beijing. They meet by chance and end up moving in together. There is no such thing as a future...
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The Spring and the DelightThe time is around the 1920s and 30s. In a wealthy-looking and yet remote summer house situated by the seaside, a modern woman, Choon-hee, who wants to live a passionate and splendid life away from the ordinary everyday life, is s...