Tag: Hong Sang-soo
A Traveler’s Needs | Review
The Traveler Has Come: Huppert Shines in Latest Collaboration with Sang-soo
There are few directors who seem to rightly channel the comic side of Isabelle...
2025 Berlinale: “Dreams (Sex Love)” Won the Golden Bear … but “The Blue Trail” Was the Best Film
Todd Haynes' jury awarded the 75th Berlin Intl. Film Festival's top honors this past Saturday to Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) but the...
2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
It's year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival's Centrepiece programme - the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as...
2024 Locarno Film Festival: Ramon Zürcher, Kurdwin Ayub, Hong Sangsoo & Pia Marais in Pardo d’Oro Comp
Former Pardo d’Oro champs Hong Sangsoo (Right Now, Wrong Then - 2015) and Wang Bing (Mrs. Fang - 2017) will be measuring up against...
2023 NYFF: Haigh, Hamaguchi, Lanthimos, Triet, Glazer and Annie Baker in Main Slate
We were scratching our heads on where films such as Andrew Haigh's (retitled) All of Us Strangers and the under-the-radar A24 film by Annie...
In Not Just Another Country: Isabelle Huppert Takes a Third Trip with Hong Sang-soo
After teaming on In Another Country (2012) and Claire's Camera (2017) we've learned via a key internet sleuth that the two workhorses of actress...
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
2023 Cannes: Cédric Kahn & Hong Sang-soo Bookend Directors’ Fortnight
Quinzaine des Cinéastes Artistic Director Julien Rejl broke bread this morning with a camera shy live tweet of the line-up. We count nineteen features...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #33. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
It's almost laughable just how prolific South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo is - it's almost as if there is this continual assembly line of...
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
2022 Venice Film Festival: 70 Predictions (Part II) Aroonpheng, Lindholm, Hogg & Rolf de Heer
Only hours before TIFF unveil what should be a sizeable amount of their line-up (and in the same sweeping motion confirm a lot of...
2022 Berlinale: Seidl, Sangsoo, Hers, Meier, Taviani, Denis Cote & Clare Denis in Golden Bear Comp
Several of the names that figured in our most anticipated list and a new Hong Sangsoo project (The Novelist’s Film) are among the eighteen...
Introduction | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Prelude Mood: Sangsoo Explores Familiar Themes with Droll Snippets
What might one make of Hong Sang-soo if Introduction was their first experience with the perennial...
The Woman Who Ran | 2020 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
Rendezvous in Seoul: Sang-soo Gets Spare in Conversational Triptych
Ending a rare year-long absence from the cinema (an observation of note since he presents two...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #20. Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
Untitled Hong Sang-soo Project
Having spent 2019 embroiled in widely publicized divorce court proceedings, 2019 came and went without a new film project from South...
Sang-soo Goes for Slight(ly) Sober in B&W Mix-up ‘The Day After’ | Blu-ray Review
Prolific South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s twenty-first feature, The Day After, was also his second time competing for the Palme d’Or when it premiered...
Hotel by the River | Review
Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life
It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Unhurried Hong Sang-Soo & Lee Chang-Dong | Day 5
I managed to miss the TIFF screening for Locarno premiered Hotel by the River (our Nicholas Bell has been on a steady pace of covering...
2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Fest: Lav Diaz & Lee Chang-Dong Among Highlights
Selections have been announced for the second edition of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival. The brainchild of former Venice Film...
Best of 2017: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Undistributed but not…Unloved
Prior to unveiling the top theatrical releases of 2017, here's a little love for some festival circuit being held for theatrical release next year...
The Conversation: Top 20 Best Films of 2017 So Far …
At the mid-way point of 2017, the usual cinematic trends continue, with the best theatrical offerings from January through June mostly festival circuit offerings...
The Conversation: What Cannes Do – Top 10 Favorites of the 2017 Edition
In one of the most cavalier Cannes juries of recent years, the Pedro Almodovar led voting body closed out the 2017 edition of the...
2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 9: Hong Sang-soo’s The Day After Contains Color
I've been running behind with our grid, now in the clear and past the half way mark here is the latest updates from the...
The Day After | 2017 Cannes Film Festival Review
Three Women: Sang-soo Goes for Slight(ly) Sober in Black and White Mix-up
South Korea’s Hong Sangsoo surpasses his own prolific, breakneck speed with a whopping...
The Conversation: Run the Comps – Top 5 Most Anticipated Main Comp Entries
It’s back to business as usual for the main competition contenders at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, with programmer Thierry Fremaux re-inviting a number...
Right Now, Wrong Then | Blu-ray Review
Recently formed distribution label Grasshopper Film has already managed to build a formidable reputation by saving a number of auteur driven art-house titles from...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
Aki Kaurismaki’s “The Other Side of Hope” Leads Nicholas Bell’s 2017 Berlin Intl. Film Fest Top Ten
Unfortunately, Berlinale 2017, the 67th edition of the film festival, may be remembered as something of a letdown. Although several surprises were to be...
2017 Berlin Intl. Film Festival: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated Films
As the 67th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival kicks off, we run blazing into a new year of auteur worship. While the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #25. Hong Sang-soo’s Claire’s Camera
Claire's Camera
Director: Hong Sangsoo
Writer: Hong Sangsoo
Usually there's little news about a new Hong Sangsoo title until it shows up in a film festival program....
The Conversation: A Cannes Opener… 2017 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
And as we await the unveiling of the Venice Film’s Festival’s 2016 program, we look ahead to what may be in store for the...
The Conversation: Cinema Italiano – 2016 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Looking towards the Lido, we’re just over three months away before the fourth quarter Fall Festival circuit kick off, and the final prestigious competition...
Grasshopper Film Paints “Right Now, Wrong Then” onto 2016 Slate
Grasshopper Film's Ryan Krivoshey is slowly building his company's year one slate and has picked up one of the best undistributed films from South...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #42. Hong Sang-soo’s Untitled Project
Untitled Hong Sang-soo film
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Writer: Hong Sang-soo
South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo is another perennial favorite who has amassed a significant festival circuit following...
2015 TIFF: Venice Preems from Masters Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov Among 13
As usual, the Masters programme is cholk-full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes)...
2014 NYFF: Chazelle, Broomfield, Bonello, Ferrara, Sang-soo, Hansen-Løve Make Cut
While Sundance (Damien Chazelle's Whiplash and Alex Ross Perry's Listen Up Philip) and Berlin (Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters, Yann Demange's ’71, Alain Resnais' Life...
2014 TIFF: Masters Section Has Your Usual Cannes & Venice Items and…Winterbottom & Bent Hamer World Preems
The Masters section is always a Croisette and Lido heavy selection and this year is no different. From Cannes we have Jean-Luc Godard's Goodbye to...
71st Venice Film Fest: Hong Sang-soo, Duane Hopkins & the Safdies Pack Horizons Section
The Venice Film Festival's Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts...
2014 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: 46th Directors’ Fortnight
Hovering around the twenty-one to twenty-four feature film mark with at least a quarter of those films belonging to first time filmmakers, the Quinzaine...
Asian Delights: TIFF Loads up Masters with Zhangke, Ki-duk, Lav Diaz & Sangsoo; Midnight Madness Grabs World Preem to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching...
The coveted final spot in the Midnight Madness section, is a world premiere screening that belongs to Alex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching...
In Another Country | DVD Review
After a cool reception followed its 2012 premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s In Another Country toured...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hong Sang-soo’s Our Sun-Hee
#70. Hong Sang-soo's Our Sun-Hee
Gist: No details on this one as yet, but expect soju, dudes with girlfriend issues, a leading character with some...
The Day He Arrives | DVD Review
Hong Sangsoo remains an enigma of South Korean cinema. While Park Chan-wook, Kim Ji-woon and a host of copy cat directors fill big box...
Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 6: Hong Sangsoo’s In Another Country
By design, Isabelle Huppert's second film in the competition sees the actress play three versions of the same character in Hong Sangsoo's In Another...
