Director – Wong Chun – 2016 – Hong Kong – 101m ***** Mental health is no child’s play: all the odds seem to be stacked against a father’s struggles to care for his bipolar adult son, in a film that’s a sharp comment on Hong Kong’s failure to care for the most vulnerable – played […]
Director – Emma Franz – 2017 – US – 118m ***** Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell is a unique talent, a shy man and an extraordinary individual about whom fellow musician turned director Franz has made a remarkable film – now on DVD, BD and VoD This extraordinary character study of one of the most significant […]
Director – Yoo Ha – 2006 – South Korea – 140m ***** As GoodFellas as it gets! Yoo Ha’s gangster film compares favourably to Scorsese’s classic on many levels, an underrated dirty gem of Korean noir – from the London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) 2017 Byung-doo, 29, (Jo In-sung) is a smart, lean and hungry […]
Director – Kim Il-rhan, Lee Hyuk-sang – 2016 – South Korea – 116m **** Revisiting the Korean towering inferno: follow-up doc to Two Doors, has survivors of the Yongsan tragedy released from prison to tell their side of the story and grapple with the resulting emotional and psychological problems – from the London Korean Film […]
Director – Kim Il-rhan, Hong Ji-you – 2011 – South Korea – 101m ***** Is this the Korean Grenfell Tower? Threatened eviction, SWAT, lethal building fire: compelling documentary about the Yongsan tragedy in which a police raid on a group of housing protesters went horribly wrong – from the London Korean Film Festival 2017 The […]