Korean actor Song Kang-ho will play the lead role in an upcoming film about the Gwangju Uprising, tentatively titled “Taxi Driver,” production company The Lamp announced Tuesday.　The film is based on a real story by Jurgen Hinzpeter, a German journalist who filmed and reported the May 18 Democratic Uprising in Gwangju in 1980. It will depict the story of Hinzpeter and a taxi driver who helped him take the video recording of the massacre in Gwangju out of the city, evading the government troops.　

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Award-winning director Park Chan-wook said Monday his Cannes-bound film “The Handmaiden” is a lot different from his previous works for having the most lines and giving subtle pleasures. 　“It has the most lines of all films that I have made. It also has four protagonists, a long running time and is a very juicy film,” Park said during a news conference at a Seoul hotel to promote the upcoming thriller. “I think this is the most singular of all my films since it is full of small funs.”　So, it cam

JIFF’s 17th edition may mark a turning point for Korea’s top indie film fest

JIFF’s 17th edition may mark a turning point for Korea’s top indie film fest

The blockbuster movie “Train to Busan” has been invited to the 69th Cannes Film Festival, according to the film’s distributor NEW. 　Director Yeon Sang-ho and the film’s main cast -- actor Gong Yoo, actress Jung Yu-mi and child actress Kim Soo-an -- will attend the film’s world premiere at Cannes and its official red carpet event. From left: actor Gong Yoo, actress Jung Yu-mi, and child actress Kim Soo-an (NEW)　The movie, which depicts the story of people trying to flee to Busan, will be screened

Korea’s most internationally-recognized director reminisces about famed 2003 film “Oldboy,” discusses upcoming lesbian-themed flick at Jeonju Film Fest

Director Ryu Hoon’s ‘Curtain Call’ offers a close look at stage actors and their craft

It seems there’s no stopping Garry Marshall’s terrifying cinematic rampage on our nation’s treasured holidays. Having ruined both “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve” with his star-packed omnibus projects, the director has burned his way through the calendar, landing on “Mother’s Day” as his next victim.　This time around, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Jason Sudeikis, Britt Robertson, Margo Martindale, Timothy Olyphant, Aasif Mandvi, Sarah Chalke and Shay Mitchell, among others,

Captain America: Civil War　(U.S.)　Opened April 27　Superhero, action. Directed by Joe and Anthony Russo　The Avengers superhero team is divided. Captain America (Chris Evans) believes they should defend humanity’s freedom from government interference, but Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) disagrees.   Brooklyn　(Ireland, Britain, Canada, U.S.)　Opened April 21　Drama, romance. Directed by John Crowley　A young Irish immigrant, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) arrives in Brooklyn seeking a better future and fall

JEONJU, North Jeolla Province -- Director Robert Budreau said he wanted a fresh angle in “Born to be Blue,” the opening film for this year’s Jeonju International Film Festival.　“We were tired of the cliche musical biopic,” he said Thursday afternoon at the Jeonju Cine Complex. A press screening of the movie took place there ahead of its official screening that evening at the festival's opening ceremony, set to take place at the outdoor theater on Jeonju’s Cinema Street.From left: festival execut

NEW YORK (AP) – Hollywood’s summer, which kicks off with the fittingly combative “Captain America: Civil War,” will be a season of struggle: for box office, for originality and for opportunity. 　More than ever, the big tent of summer moviegoing is held up by a forest of tentpoles stretching from May to August. The swelling size of the summer movie has turned the season into a game of survival. The possibility of bombing lurks as an ever-present threat, testosterone often dominates in front of an

JEONJU, North Jeolla Province -- Ten films are vying in this year’s Korean Film Competition at the 17th Jeonju International Film Festival, offering a varying bounty of the best in Korea’s independent film scene. 　The film festival in Jeonju, North Jeolla Province, is set to screen flicks for all sorts. The fest -- running April 28 to May 7 -- will see 211 films on the big screen from 45 different countries, with 49 films making their world premiere. While JIFF doesn’t lack in international flav