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Judgement (1999, Chan-wook Park)
Short b/w movie. Girl died in a public park or public something, and grieving parents (entitled to big payoff from the city) are there to identify her before the funeral. Funeral director suddenly says...
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I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006, Chan-wook Park)
“Sympathy is the worst of the seven deadly sins.” Title credits built into the opening scene shout: “I Know Where I’m Going!,” but the cartoonish situations, lively editing and bright colorful...
View ArticleThirst (2009, Chan-wook Park)
Not a vampire thriller with comic parts, but an all-out comedy. I used to think Park was someone to take seriously with his vengeance trilogy, but after this and I’m a Cyborg But That’s Okay, I’m not...
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Stoker (2013, Chan-wook Park)
Kind of your standard family-secret homicidal-maniac twist-ending thriller, but Park makes it great. Every scene is amazing looking, not just well-shot but with attention-drawing effects like...
View ArticleThe Handmaiden (2016, Chan-wook Park)
Couldn’t enjoy this as much as I should because I was in a weird state of mind, but it’s supremely entertaining, recalling Bound in its story of fortune-seeking men double-crossed by crafty female...
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The Little Drummer Girl (2018, Park Chan-wook)
Park’s followup to The Handmaiden doesn’t reach the same heights as Stoker, his other English-language movie, held back by the writing and the six hours of buttoned-up spies underplaying to survive....
View ArticleDecision to Leave (2022, Chan-wook Park)
Entrancing detective/seduction story that only lost me when Tang Wei buries/drowns herself on the beach. We’ve previously seen her in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, and if I can find the director’s cut...
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