ACF 1369: HONG Sang-soo Film Retrospective at MoMI

 Hong Sang-soo Film Retrospective 
When: March 17, 18, & 23, 2012

Where: Museum of the Moving Image

35th Avenue at 37th Street, Astoria, Queens

From midtown, taxi or N/Q Train outbound to 36th Avenue

Film free with museum admission

More information at www.koreasociety.org 

 
The Korea Society celebrates Asia Week with a screening of works by celebrated director Hong Sang-soo (The Day He Arrives, Hahaha). Since his debut film The Day a Pig into the Well in 1996, all of his films were invited by prestigious film festivals like Cannes, Berlin, and New York Film Festivals, and began to receive worldwide attention. The Korea Society will present five highly acclaimed films that will be shown at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image, home to New York City’s finest, state-of-the-art screen. This retrospective is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. 

The Day a Pig Fell into the Well / Daijiga umule pajinnal

The Day a Pig Fell into the Well / Daijiga umule pajinnal 
Starring : Bang Eun-hee, Cho eun-sook, Park Jin-seong

1996, 113 min.

Saturday, March 17 at 2 PM

Hong Sang-soo's debut film was a critical success, winning awards at the Rotterdam and Vancouver film festivals and revealing Hong’s consistent theme of individuals desperately longing for connection. It depicts tangled and tragic relationships: Min-jae obsessed with Hyo-sub, a struggling writer; Po-kyung, a married woman, in an affair with Hyo-sub; and Dong-woo, Po-kyung's husband alone. The title is from a 1954 book by John Cheever.

Woman on the Beach / Haebyonui yeoin

Woman on the Beach / Haebyonui yeoin

Starring : Go Hyun–jung, Kim Seung–woo, Kim Tae-woo, Song Seon-mi

2006, 128 min.

Saturday, March 17 at 5 PM

Joong-rae goes on a road trip with friend Chang-wook and Chang-wook's girlfriend, Moon-sook. In the beautiful beach setting of Shinduri, Joong-rae and Moon-sook find themselves attracted to each other and spend a passionate night together. But where does life go the morning after? A filmmaker, writing his latest script at a seaside resort town, becomes involved with two women. As ever, Hong is comically and painfully lucid in outlining the jealousy and self-absorption that fuel his male characters’ excess.

Night and Day / Bamgua nat

Night and Day / Bamgua nat

Starring : Kim Yeong-ho, Park Eun-hye, Seo Min-jung

2008, 144 min.

Sunday, March 18 at 2 PM

Kim Sung-nam, a married 40-something painter in Seoul, flees Korea after he's caught smoking marijuana while drunk at a gathering. In Paris, he takes refuge at a run-down lodge owned by a Korean, calls his abandoned wife, and hits the streets looking for action. Night and Day premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008 and screened at the 46th New York Film Festival.

Like You Know It All / Jal aljido mothamyeonseo

Like You Know It All / Jal aljido mothamyeonseo

Starring: Kim Tae-woo, Uhm Ji-won, Go Hyun-Jung

2009, 126 min.

Sunday, March 18 at 5:30 PM

In this entrant into the 2009 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight, Kim Tae-woo (Women on the Beach, Woman is the Future of Man) plays a critics’ filmmaker, often drunk and confused as his work takes him across the country and into contact with the past. Director Ku attends a festival in a small town and bumps into old friend, Bu. Over drinks, he meets Bu’s wife. Soon after, Ku goes to Jeju Island to give a lecture. There he meets his college senior and finds out that his new wife is Ku’s love from his twenties.

Oki’s Movie / Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa

Oki’s Movie / Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa

Starring : Jeong Yu-mi, Lee Seon-gyun
2010, 80 min.

Friday, March 23 at 7 PM

Oki's Movie was the closing film for the Horizons section of the 67th Venice Film Festival. A story told in four chapters, Oki's Movie follows a film student and her complicated relationships with a young director and a middle-aged professor, the awkward romantic triangle serving as the inspiration for her film project.