Movie of the week #1: Paranmanjang, Park Chan Wook

While checking links on some of my old posts to make them work in this new blog, I found out that Park Chan-wook's Paranmanjang, a short film made entirely with a iPhone 4, is available on iPhone Film Festival's YouTube channel. It is a 33-minute video and, though there are no English subtitles, the images captured are quite beautiful and need no translation. Do check it out!

My private Korean Movie Week

GD & TOP - High high

This week will be Korean Movie Week for me, yay! Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Thirst, A tale of two sisters and, if possible, My sassy girl. Comments will follow. (And click on each of the names to see the trailers!)

I'm also preparing a post with lots of lovely pictures of modern first year birthday parties, that include my favourite Korean tradition: the part in which the child "chooses" her or his future. Parents nowadays are really creative and come up with a lot of really pretty and modern solutions for this moment.

And, well, the video has nothing to do with any of this, but I find TOP is extremely handsome in it, so... why not post it?

edit: i do realize my sassy girl has no connection whatsoever with any of the other movies, but i do feel i'll be in need of something to cheer me up by the end of the week.


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Korean movie made with iPhone 4

This is not news but for me, but I thought it was quite interesting and worth posting.

Earlier this year, the news that director Park Chan-wook was about to release a 30-minute movie shot entirely with an iPhone 4 made headlines all over the world (obviously, I missed them due to my post-London depression). The feature, 파란만장 (that means something like "life full of ups and downs" and was translated as Night Fishing), tells the story of a man that, while out fishing one night, ends up catching the body of a woman. Mixing horror and fantasy, the movie was co-directed by his brother, Park Chank-yong, and cost only $133,000 (financed by Korea's only iPhone provider).

For those of you who don't know or can't remember, Park directed other great movies like Old Boy, Lady Vengeance and Thirst.

Check out the teaser trailer:

Below, the Behind the scenes for the movie. Bad thing is in Korean with no English subtitles.

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Into scary movies?

So do check the list Ginny, from Korean Blog, compiled:

http://www.transparent.com/korean/scary-korean-movies-2/

Originally posted here.