Park’s breakthrough success feels like a cinematic page-turner, set in the context of an investigation on a shootout incident at the border separating North and South Korea.
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Joint Security Area (2000)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Handmaiden, The (2016)
A sexually-explicit Korean lesbian film that proves to be invitingly perverse under the hands of visual master Park Chan-wook.
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Death of Nintendo (2020)
The four young teens at the center of Raya Martin’s new film provide a strong reason to smile in this fun and invigorating coming-of-age comedy.
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Pickpocket (1998)
As China urbanises, a man stagnates in this masterful and revelatory feature debut by Jia Zhangke, shot in 16mm and featuring non-professional actors.
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Stoker (2013)
A disappointing effort by Korean auteur Park Chan-wook – an unfortunate case of too much style and too little substance.
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Thirst (2009)
An outrageous stunner, Park’s ‘vampire’ movie exploring the sin of desire and the limits of religious faith is a genre-bending and unsettlingly beautiful work.
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Oldboy (2003)
Still one of the finest achievements of contemporary Korean cinema, Park Chan-wook’s psychologically complex and violent revenge mystery will consume you whole.
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John Denver Trending (2019)
Straightforward but effective feature debut that depicts the perils of social media virality in a post-truth world, through the eyes of a young boy suffering from an immeasurable injustice.
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Dementia 13 (1963)
An early horror B-movie by Coppola, produced by Roger Corman, with effective mood-setting but an undercooked story.
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Ashik Kerib (1988)
With wall-to-wall ethnic music and a highly-theatrical style, Parajanov’s last completed feature may be the most accessible of his most well-known folkloric works, best described as an experimental Fellini on steroids.
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