Cinema on the Road
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jang Seon-woo
Kim Dong-ho
Im Kwon-taek
Lee Chang-ho
Park Kwang-su
Yeo Kyun-dong
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Presented by noted helmer/former critic Jang Sun-woo, a documentary road movie in which Jang, himself, having shot 10,000 feet of film in Seoul, and still unable to pin down a "definition" of Korean cinema, sets out on the road. In fact, it's an excuse to run through a whole raft of political, historical, and cultural influences that have shown themselves in his country's up-and-down movie production over the past 40 years, since partition.
Director
Jang Seon-woo
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
"The Century of Cinema" is a series of personal documentaries commissioned by the BFI to celebrate the centenary of film. For this series, some of the world's leading filmmakers were invited to provide individual interpretations of the history and development of cinema in their countries. The result is a fascinating look at highly disparate national cinemas and 100 years of film around the globe.
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (special screening) May 17-28, 1995.
Shown in New York City (MoMA) as part of series "The Century of Cinema" April 26-27, 1996.
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The participating filmmakers include: Martin Scorsese & Michael Henry Wilson (USA), George Miller (Australia), Stephen Frears & Mike Dibb (England), Shu Kei (China), Anne-Marie Mieville & Jean-Luc Godard (France), Edgar Reitz (Germany), Mrinal Sen (India), Donald Taylor Black (Ireland), Bernardo Bertolucci & Enrico Ghezzi (Italy), Nagisa Oshima (Japan), Nelson Pereira dos Santos (Latin America), Sam Neill & Julie Rymer (New Zealand).
The participating filmmakers include: Mohamed Tazi (North Africa), Pavel Lozinkski (Poland), Stig Bjorkman (Scandinavia), Jean-Pierre Bekolo (Sub-Saharan Africa), Sergei Selyanov (USSR/CIS), and others.
