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Metrograph Highlights Remarkable Career of Lee Chang-dong
The director of Poetry and Burning gets a retrospective at the Metrograph starting this weekend. Don't miss it.
Walter Chaw is senior film critic for FilmFreakCentral.net. He has bylines in various publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Weekly, Vulture, Decider and others. He produced, wrote and narrated a documentary for David Fincher's "Voir" project on Netflix; is a contributor to NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour;" has written a monograph on the film "Miracle Mile" and a critical study of the career of Walter Hill called "A Walter Hill Film: Tragedy and Masculinity in the Films of Walter Hill."
The director of Poetry and Burning gets a retrospective at the Metrograph starting this weekend. Don't miss it.
An awesome horror film festival is about to start in NYC.
An interview with the legendary writer/director on the eve of the Criterion release of one of his best films.
A look at the new Criterion set dedicated to Jackie Chan.
An interview with the director of Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, Chan is Missing, Smoke, and many more.
A review of the new Criterion version of Walkabout.
A look at the Ousmane Sembène program screening at NYC's Film Forum this month.
A feature on the new box set of Budd Boetticher Westerns from Criterion.
A closer look at Joseph Losey's 1963 film, which has just been given a 4K release by the Criterion Collection.
Ishirō Honda's 1968 fantasy of victimization and empowerment will be screening this Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival.