According to Reuters Sundance Channel has picked up eight Asian features from Tartan USA and will begin airing them as an "Asia Extreme," late-night Sunday showcase starting midnight April 2.
And the film's are Chan-wook Park's "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" and his Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner, "Old Boy"; Ki-duk Kim's "Samaritan Girl"; Ji-woon Kim's "A Tale of Two Sisters"; Jong-hyuk Lee's "H," Tae-Yong Kim and Kyu-Dong Min's "Memento Mori"; Byeong-ki Ahn's "Phone" and Shinya Tsukamoto's "A Snake of June."
The collection from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan will air each Sunday at midnight starting April 2.
Aren't all those listed Korean films? How's that "Asia" Extreme? ^^
"A Snake of June" is Japanese.
My bad on the multiple post.
by the way, i didn't notice any Hong Kong or Taiwanese films in the lineup.
This is nice enough. I remember a few years ago when the Sundance Channel did a month of Takashi Miike movies on Friday nights or something. It's always nice to see movies on TV that I otherwise wouldn't get to see there.
Fuck being too extreme for daytime TV. This is what parental controls are for sheesh.
Most of us aren't pleased with either "Asia Extreme" or the midnight showings, but in some ways, this is at least a step toward greater awareness of such films. Although, personally I have no problems with lack of non-Korean films here, as I think these are some of the best films regardless of country.
I'd be please with 'Asia Extreme' if they really showed EXTREME...
that is, something like 'Teenager Hooker Becomes Killing Machine' or 'Chow Yun-Fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl'. Hell, some of Shim Hyung-Rae's early 90s flicks, or a retrospective of Park No-Shik's 70s action flicks. Now that's EXTREME!
Rahat has it right. good post. forget the 'extreme' name. it doesn't mean the same in every country. just cos you relate it to absolute maximum pushed beyound limits, just remember that in other countries in the world, extreme is probably not so obviously blatent and hard drawn. These places have a quiet and gentler culture. For example "The Eye" was so atmospheric and orignally created and far scarier than any hollywood horror i have ever seen. Also remember that when the grudge came out, America was quick to re-make it and the sequel due to how imperssed they were in the J-Horror genre. If you can impress an american, who has most probably seen it, done it, ate it, shit it, moved on .... then you are probably pretty extreme. See the sublty in the translation of the aems word "extreme". It doesn't have to mean the same thing to everyone. Especially since there are so many cultural slants to take into consideration from countries a lot older than our first world ones.
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