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The Moon Is … The Sun’s Dream, 1992(Film still) James Balmont unpacks five of the director’s early productions, which tell a story themselves of how South Korea’s film industry became global phenomenon February 02, 2021 It’s been almost a year since Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite staked its claim in the history books as the first South Korean film to win an Academy Award. And while no-one can deny that director Bong was deserving of the plaudits, many commentators were surprised it hadn’t happened sooner. This watershed moment marked the zenith of a film industry that had been on the ...

Dear fellow fiends for oily cakes, It’s funny—despite the amount of hubris, not to mention ego, involved in Christopher Nolan’s campaign to be the savior of cineplexes, I just haven’t found it in myself to be quite as frustrated or as furious with him as some of you have (understandably) been. Did his desire to be the first big director back in theaters after lockdown wind up looking disastrously callous when lockdown never ended? Should Tenet have beat a judicious retreat to 2021, alongside so many other of this year’s would-be blockbusters? Yes and absolutely. And yet, what I kee...