Complete Kim Ki-young Retrospective to Screen in Seoul
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A complete retrospective of the late director Kim Ki-young, nicknamed "Mr. Monster" for his eccentric genius, will be held at the Korean Film Archive from June 20-29.
Although retrospectives of Kim'swork have been held before in Pusan, Paris and New York, this will be the first time that all of his 23 surviving films, including those with missing reels, will be presented.
The event will open with a screening of the newly restored print of Kim's masterpiece "The Housemaid - 1960" (Hanyo), which was featured in the "Cannes Classics"section of the most recent Cannes Film Festival last month. The restoration, funded by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, has vastly improved the image quality of the print, and restorers will continue to work on erasing the handwritten subtitles that appear on two reels by the end of this year.
Other highlights will be the rarely-presented "The Sea Knows" (1961), a highly praised war film made right after "The Housemaid - 1960" which exists in incomplete form, and the recently-discovered Neu-mi (1979).
Together with the retrospective, the Korean Film Archive will also release a DVD box set with four of Kim's most critically acclaimed films: Goryeojang (1963), "The Insect Woman" (1972), Promise of the Flesh (1975), and "Ieodo" (1977). All four titles will be subtitled in English, and there will be numerous extra features to provide additional background information on the director and his films. A DVD release of "The Housemaid - 1960" will follow once the restoration of the film is complete.
For more information about the retrospective, which does not include English subtitles, visit http://www.koreafilm.or.kr.
Darcy Paquet (KOFIC)
Although retrospectives of Kim'swork have been held before in Pusan, Paris and New York, this will be the first time that all of his 23 surviving films, including those with missing reels, will be presented.
The event will open with a screening of the newly restored print of Kim's masterpiece "The Housemaid - 1960" (Hanyo), which was featured in the "Cannes Classics"section of the most recent Cannes Film Festival last month. The restoration, funded by Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation, has vastly improved the image quality of the print, and restorers will continue to work on erasing the handwritten subtitles that appear on two reels by the end of this year.
Other highlights will be the rarely-presented "The Sea Knows" (1961), a highly praised war film made right after "The Housemaid - 1960" which exists in incomplete form, and the recently-discovered Neu-mi (1979).
Together with the retrospective, the Korean Film Archive will also release a DVD box set with four of Kim's most critically acclaimed films: Goryeojang (1963), "The Insect Woman" (1972), Promise of the Flesh (1975), and "Ieodo" (1977). All four titles will be subtitled in English, and there will be numerous extra features to provide additional background information on the director and his films. A DVD release of "The Housemaid - 1960" will follow once the restoration of the film is complete.
For more information about the retrospective, which does not include English subtitles, visit http://www.koreafilm.or.kr.
Darcy Paquet (KOFIC)
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