KOREAN MOVIE NIGHT
from September 14, 2010 ­ October 31, 2010
courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service

Every other Tuesday @ 7pm
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E
and 1 train Canal Street stops)

Price? Free.
All seating is first-come, first served. Doors
open at 6:30pm.

UPCOMING MOVIES

Series Three: Documentaries


TUESDAY, September 14 @ 7pm
TURN IT UP TO 11 (2009, 93 minutes, New York Premiere)
Winner of four major film awards, and the documentary that spawned the
Korean catch phrase, "I don't think we're gonna make it," TURN IT UP TO 11
is a rambunctious rock n'roll odyssey about Incheon's unlikeliest talent
incubator: Ruby Salon. A tiny, hole-in-the-wall club founded by aging punk
Lee Kyou-Young, who moved back home to Incheon after accidentally getting
his girlfriend pregnant, Ruby Salon is the seed that sprouts two bands:
Galaxy Express, a tight, ambitious outfit that dreams of stardom; and
Tobacco Juice, a band whose members are so lazy they can't even be bothered
to show up for gigs. As one band goes up, and the other goes down, this
slacker doc follows them to shows, bars, massive concerts, antagonistic
rehearsals and empty clubs in the best movie ever made about the Korean
music scene.

TUESDAY, September 28 @ 7pm
DANCE OF TIME (2009, 92 minutes, New York Premiere)
Song Il-Gon is the director of such classic Korean arthouse films as FEATHER
IN THE WIND and the one-take-wonder, THE MAGICIANS, and here he turns his
attention to the documentary, directing a relaxed, sun-soaked, lighthearted
ode to love, dance, music, Santeria and Cuba. Starting at the turn of the
century, DANCE OF TIME follows Cuba's tiny community of Koreans from their
accidental immigration to the present, along the way surviving wars,
revolutions, and tumultuous romances. A little-known part of Cuba, these
Koreans have flowered into a vital part of the island's culture that almost
no one has heard of. This slick, technically accomplished documentary,
throbbing with music, takes care of that problem.

TUESDAY, October 12 @ 7pm
GRANDMOTHER'S FLOWER (2008, 89 minutes)
It's one of the most astonishing documentaries about modern day Korea ever
made, but when it begins this documentary sounds terrible. Director Mun
Jeong-Hyun is pressured into making a doc about his grandmother, and he's
convinced there's no story there, but when he discovers a secret cache of
his greatuncle's incomprehensible journals he begins to pull on the threads
of his family history, and everything unravels. Ultimately lifting the lid
off his peaceful hometown of Naju, he reveals a hair raising history of
conflict between intellectual left wingers and working class right wingers
who have been at each other's throats since the Japanese occupation. A
harrowing family saga, it begins with torture, persecution and secret
executions and it ends with self-mutilation, decades of discrimination,
threats against the filmmaker, and a family exiled over three countries. A
searing look at what history has done to the Korean people, this is the kind
of documentary that keeps upping the ante, finding new realms of pain and
suffering to inflict as history has its way with its victims.

SPECIAL HALLOWEEN SCREENING
TUESDAY, October 31 @ 4pm
GHOST aka BE WITH ME (2010, 100 minutes, US Premiere)
Every summer it's horror movie time in Korea, but this year, BE WITH ME
captured attention not by scaring the pants off its audience, but by
offering a fresh take on the omnibus ghost film by some of Korea's hottest
young directors who take the traditional horror movie in a funnier, more
experimental and more moving direction. These three stories about ghosts
star a cast of some of the best young actors in Korea including Kim Kkot-Bi
(BREATHLESS) and Kim Ye-Ri (PAJU) and they center around the loneliness of
the ghost. From the tale of  two best friends (and the boy who got one of
them pregnant) competing for a single slot at a top college, to the story of
a boy branded as a loser because he sees dead people, this is one of the
freshest takes on the genre to come along in years.