Kim Ki-young's guest appearances

Kim Ki-young

The Korea Society

Civilcinema

First Impressions: Thinking Aloud About Film

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July 19, 2023 - World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. When Yuh-Jung Youn won the best supporting actress award at the 2021 Oscars, she thanked Kim Ki-young, the “genius” director of the first film she starred in, 1971’s Woman of Fire. During his thirty year career, Kim Ki-young produced thirty-three films and became revered by critics within the national and international community as one of the few South Korean ‘auteurs’. As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young in English, ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young covers his entire career and history of cinematic work, highlighting the thematic and stylistic singularity of Kim’s oeuvre, which was produced relative to the specific historical and cultural conditions of post-war South Korea. It offers an innovative departure point from which to explore South Korean film relative to the wider history of world cinema, in addition to situating Kim’s work within the broader fields of Korean modern history, transnational cinema and cultural studies. Join us for a conversation about Kim Ki-young's films and career with the contributors to this volume: Jason Bechervaise, Steve Choe, Chung-kang Kim, and Ariel Schudson. For more information, please visit the link: https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1697-the-films-of-kim-ki-young

July 19, 2023 - World-renowned South Korean directors, including Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon Ho, cite Kim Ki-young as being the greatest Korean influence on their work. When Yuh-Jung Youn won the best supporting actress award at the 2021 Oscars, she thanked Kim Ki-young, the “genius” director of the first film she starred in, 1971’s Woman of Fire. During his thirty year career, Kim Ki-young produced thirty-three films and became revered by critics within the national and international community as one of the few South Korean ‘auteurs’. As the first comprehensive scholarly volume on Kim Ki-young in English, <a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus-the-films-of-kim-ki-young.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">ReFocus: The Films of Kim Ki-young</a> covers his entire career and history of cinematic work, highlighting the thematic and stylistic singularity of Kim’s oeuvre, which was produced relative to the specific historical and cultural conditions of post-war South Korea. It offers an innovative departure point from which to explore South Korean film relative to the wider history of world cinema, in addition to situating Kim’s work within the broader fields of Korean modern history, transnational cinema and cultural studies. Join us for a conversation about Kim Ki-young's films and career with the contributors to this volume: Jason Bechervaise, Steve Choe, Chung-kang Kim, and Ariel Schudson. For more information, please visit the link: <a href="https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1697-the-films-of-kim-ki-young" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.koreasociety.org/arts-culture/item/1697-the-films-of-kim-ki-young</a>

The Films of Kim Ki-young

https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/05/21/thinking-aloud-about-film-the-housemaid-kim-ki-young-south-korea-1960/We continue with our discussion of the MARTIN SCORSESE’S WORLD CINEMA strand on MUBI, this time focusing on Kim Ki-young’s THE HOUSEMAID (South Korea, 1960). MUBI’s take is that it influenced Bong Joon-ho’s PARASITE – clearly evident – and that it ‘changed the course of South Korean cinema forever. An immense success when released in 1960, this striking masterpiece is a blend of sexual obsession and class struggle, horror and social critique’. In the podcast, we agree with most of what MUBI says about it but question the claim that it’s a masterpiece,’ finding the film deeply misogynistic in ways that go even beyond the patriarchal norms of its time and culture. The very handsome version being screened by MUBI is the 2008 restoration by the Korean Film Archive and is a real pleasure to see, making visible the film’s very real inventiveness with light, composition and movement.

<a href="https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/05/21/thinking-aloud-about-film-the-housemaid-kim-ki-young-south-korea-1960/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://notesonfilm1.com/2022/05/21/thinking-aloud-about-film-the-housemaid-kim-ki-young-south-korea-1960/</a> We continue with our discussion of the MARTIN SCORSESE’S WORLD CINEMA strand on MUBI, this time focusing on Kim Ki-young’s THE HOUSEMAID (South Korea, 1960). MUBI’s take is that it influenced Bong Joon-ho’s PARASITE – clearly evident – and that it ‘changed the course of South Korean cinema forever. An immense success when released in 1960, this striking masterpiece is a blend of sexual obsession and class struggle, horror and social critique’. In the podcast, we agree with most of what MUBI says about it but question the claim that it’s a masterpiece,’ finding the film deeply misogynistic in ways that go even beyond the patriarchal norms of its time and culture. The very handsome version being screened by MUBI is the 2008 restoration by the Korean Film Archive and is a real pleasure to see, making visible the film’s very real inventiveness with light, composition and movement.

The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, South Korea, 1960)

Difundida durante décadas en pobrísimas copias y al borde de la desaparición, The Housemaid llegó a convertirse en una suerte de mito del cine coreano y asiático gracias al desbordante conflicto entre una empleada puertas adentro y sus patrones, que parte en clave de drama social para derivar a escenarios de delirio y terror. ¿Cómo hizo Kim Ki-young para dirigir este filme alucinado en un país que al poco andar caería en dictadura? ¿En qué estaban los durísimos censores locales que la dejaron pasar bajo sus narices? Comparada frecuentemente con las sátiras de Buñuel, admirada por un Scorsese que la rescató a través de su Film Foundation e inspiración directa en la creación de la aplaudida Parasite, nada en The Housemaid parece haber envejecido lo suficiente como para hacerla perder su feroz mirada sobre los enfrentamientos de clase, las grietas de la masculinidad y los  espejismos del desarrollo económico-social. De eso y más se habla en este podcast.