The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Park Chan-wook
February 28-March 3, 2013 at
Museum of the Moving Image
, New York
World-renowned director Park Chan-wook is a versatile stylist whose idiosyncratic and graphic horror-and-humor style has been likened to that of Quentin Tarantino—an outspoken fan and supporter of Park's work. The South Korean filmmaker became one of the most impressive new figures in world cinema in the 2000s, with Joint Security Area, a powerful story about a murder along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea that was the biggest box-office hit in the history of Korean cinema. In the U.S., he is best known for his Vengeance Trilogy, including the thrillers Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance, and Oldboy, two of which are currently being remade in the U.S. Shifting elegantly between different genres, the 2013 gothic tale Stoker, which screened at the Museum on February 28, marks the director's English-language debut. He is already signed on to several upcoming Hollywood films.
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