As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewers. The Films of Bong Joon Ho demonstrates how he hybridizes Hollywood conventions with ...
Released: 2010 Directed by: Lee Jung-beom 9 Mother Kim Hye-ja, Won-bin, Jin Goo 323 votes Bong Joon Ho's tense, emotional thriller revolves around a devoted mother who, in a desperate bid to prove her intellectually disabled son's innocence, uncovers her small town's dark secret...
Bong Joon Ho's movie recommendations include "Psycho," "Raging Bull," "Hereditary," "Zodiac," more. "Parasite" director's favorite films.
Writer-director Bong Joon-ho's "Parasite" became a household title after its surprising Oscar success.The construction of the Park householdis one of several feats accomplished during the production, another being the construction and flooding of the entire semi-basement neighborhood. Next clue: Seve...
After Parasite won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, topped countless critics’ best-of-2019 lists, and then won four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up would become—practically by default—the most-anticipated film of any year in which he chose to releas...
Bong Joon-ho is one of the great directors alive today. His splendid films include “Memories of Murder”, “Mother” & “The Host”. He adds to that repertoire with the Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winner, “Parasite”. This subversive and cynical ‘tragicomedy’ will end up as one...
Bong Joon Ho Richard Milnes/Shutterstock Share Bong Joon-ho‘s “Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May but still managed to be the talk of the fall film festivals despite competing against an onslaught of world premieres. Anyone at Telluride or TIFF will tell ...
Oscar winner Bong Joon Ho reveals his must-see movies PSYCHO (dir. Alfred Hitchcock) THE HOUSEMAID (dir. Kim Ki-young) CURE (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa) RAGING BULL (dir. Martin Scorsese) TOUCH OF EVIL (dir. Orson Welles) Per:The Academy email
Plan B has also been lining up hits since joining Mediawan, including Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” and is behind Bong Joon-ho’s newly-released sci-fi comedy “Mickey 17.” “We are delighted to welcome See-Saw Films to the Mediawan family. Under Iain and Emile’s ...
but the idea of a new film by Peele is enough to get us salivating. Set for release on March 29, Bong Joon-ho puts Robert Pattinson in space inMickey 17, a sci-fi tale about a disposable employee who is sent on a human expedition to colonize an ice planet and after one iteration ...