Rare is the film that earnestly inspires you to hold your loved ones closer. Rarer still is the film that does so while making room…
To every aspiring, established, even failed artist, the world is a mystery: a panoramic playground populated with playthings they can liberally enjoy, experiment with, or…
You’re occasionally forgetting words for now, but gradually your memory will worsen. At first you won’t recall nouns, then verbs. You know verbs, right? Of…
The sun shines through a windshield. We see a blue sky speckled with blinding white clouds. If heaven exists, and it’s up there, it doesn’t…
Across 30 years and seven films, Lee Chang-dong has told stories about a diverse array of people, from the gangsters in Green Fish (1997), to…
Two years after announcing himself to the film world with Green Fish, a noir that used the genre’s bleak markers to scaffold the erasure of…
A friend once admitted to having consumed Wonka (2023) on his cellphone mid-flight, in 10-minute increments between naps, “the way Scorsese intended.” The admission is,…
Lee Chang-dong retrospective…
Rare is the film that earnestly inspires you to hold your loved ones closer. Rarer still is the film that does so while making room…
In this dispatch: Possible Love, Heil…
The Last Word from Your Editor, Sam C. Mac: With the 2010s officially over, the time seems right for another departure: after 12 years (with…
Do we really need another portrait of a frustrated sad-sack young man, even if it comes in the form of one of Lee Chang-dong’s typically…
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival, it has to be said, looks as if it may be one of the strongest slates since our site first…