Lee Chang-dong
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The 2018 Brickwall Film Awards
The Oscars get it wrong pretty often. In fact, they rarely get it right. To set the record straight (and really just for a bit of fun), I’m looking back at past years and re-picking the nominees and winners for the major Oscars categories and a couple of new categories of my own. This time… Read more
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Peppermint Candy is Essential Cinema
“Peppermint Candy” is one of South Korea’s finest dramas. Writer, director Lee Chang-dong might not be quite as well known and admired in the U.S. as the likes of Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, but he is undoubtedly a filmmaker that deserves adulation worldwide. This video was originally intended as a normal review but ended… Read more
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