MoMA. Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today will start on Sept. 22 and last through Oct. 2. September 21, 2011

I am excited to announce the second annual screenings of new Korean films this at MoMA. Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today will start on Sept. 22 and last through Oct. 2.



This year, we are pleased to welcome back Yim Soon-rye, South Korea’s most highly regarded female filmmaker, to The Korea Society for the Opening Night’s screening of Rolling Home with a Bull (2010), which follows a young man’s forlorn life as a failed poet and unemployed bachelor who winds up taking an unexpected journey throughout the country with his father’s cvherished bull and making a series of peculiar run-ins.



This year’s Yeonghwa series will also have a special focus on director Jeon Kyu-hwan, whose Town Trilogy films--Mozart Town (2008), Animal Town (2009) and Dance Town (2010)—examines various human lives that exist in Seoul’s urban landscape, including those of an African laborer, a Russian exchange student, a reformed pedophile, a North Korean defector, and a dejected print-shop owner. Jeon’s Town Trilogy critiques the “town” of Seoul from a sociological auteur’s perspective.



And this year, for the first time ever, The Korea Society's film lineup includes two short films by master filmmakers Bong Joon-ho and Hong Sang-soo that were featured at the 2011 Jeonju International Film Festival as a part of their Digital Film Project. These short films will be making their premiere in New York through the Yeonghwa series.



We are also pleased to present the New York premiere of Kim Ki-duk’s highly anticipated film Arirang (2011), which has created a lot of buzz since its world premiere at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.



Finally, the Yeonghwa series will close with a retrospective of South Korea’s legendary filmmaker Lee Man-hee, whose works have recently experienced a surge of renewed interest since the 2010 remake of Late Autumn—a lost film that was originally conceived by Lee in 1966. Yeonghwa will screen Black Hair (1964) and Day Off (1968).






Please fine more information at www.koreashttp://www.koreasociety.org/arts/film/yeonghwa_korean_film_todaymoma.html.






The schedule for New York Korean Film Festival 2011 will be as follows:



Thursday, 22 September–Sunday, 2 October
Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today @ MoMA
All films will be shown in the Roy and Niuta Titus 1 Theater@MoMA



Thursday, 22 September
6:00 – 7:30PM Opening Reception/cocktail with hors d'oeuvres (75 people)
4:30PM Passerby #3 (91 min ) 2009
7:45PM Rolling Home with a Bull(108min) 2010
Followed by Q&A with Director Yim Soon-rye



Friday, 23 September
4:30PM Rolling Hone with a Bull (108 min) 2010
7:45PM Hello Ghost (111 min) 2010



Saturday, 24 September
1:30PM Hello Ghost (111 min) 2010
4:00PM Joenju Shorts (61 min) 2000, 2009
5:30PM Midnight FM (106 min) 2010



Sunday, 25 September
2:00PM Hanji (118 min) 2010
4:30PM Passerby #3 (91 min) 2009



Monday, 26 September
4:30PM Midnight FM (106 min) 2010
7:45PM Hanji (118 min) 2010



Wednesday, 28 September
4:30PM Joenju Shorts (61 min) 2000, 2009
7:45PM Black Hair(115min) 1964



Thursday, 29 September
4:30PM Mozart Town(90min) 2008
7:45PM Animal Town(97min) 2009



Friday, 30 September
4:15PM Dance Town (95 min) 2010
6:30PM Day Off (76 min) 1968
8:15PM Arirang (100 min) 2011



Saturday, 1 October
1:30PM Dance Town (95 min) 2010
Followed by Q&A with Director Jeon Kyu-hwan
4:00PM Animal Town(97min) 2009
Followed by Q&A with Director Jeon Kyu-hwan
7:00PM Mozart Town(90min) 2008
Followed by Q&A with Director Jeon Kyu-hwan



Sunday, 2 October
1:00PM Black Hair(115min) 1964
3:30PM Day Off (76 min) 1968
5:30 PM Arirang(100 min) 2011


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