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Oldboy Turns 20: Revisiting the Hallway Fight, the Meaning of Vengeance, and That Spike Lee Remake

Oldboy director Park Chan-wook reflects on his iconic movie ahead of its 20th-anniversary theatrical remaster.

Inverse

TV tonight: Bridget Christie’s fantastic comedy about the menopause

After turning 50, Linda (played by Christie) gets on her bike to find herself. Plus: David Tennant stars in There She Goes. Here’s what to watch tonight

The Guardian - UK

The Sympathizer: next episode, trailer, cast and everything we know

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Sympathizer is a new limited series from Park Chan-wook and Robert Downey Jr. Here’s what you need to know.

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A Hitchcock Classic is Getting a Remake — But Park Chan-Wook Already Did It Better

Robert Downey Jr. is producing and in talks to star in a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo — for better or for worse.

Inverse

Why 'Tár' deserves several Oscars, including best picture

LOS ANGELES — Final voting for the Oscars is now underway; the results will be unveiled on March 12. Not being a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (an ideal arrangement for all involved), I don't get a ballot, though if I did, here's how I…

Los Angeles Times

The Guide #72: How Sam Smith became one of pop’s most boundary-pushing stars

In this week’s newsletter: With their camp, raunchy new video, the singer has firmly traded sensible and sombre ballads for unapologetic, unbothered queerness

The Guardian - UK

Envelopes, please! Our film critics reveal their personal Oscars shortlists

Ahead of the official Academy nominations on Tuesday, Observer critics and film writers pick their standout movies, performances, directors and more

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Robert Downey Jr ‘remembers every single crew member and background actor’, says director Park Chan-wook

Director and actor have united for HBO’s adaptation of ‘The Sympathiser’

The Independent UK

Ranked: 12 best Asian films of 2022, with trailers

Tom Cruise and James Cameron may be vying for global box office dominance this year, but there has been no shortage of films emerging from Asia to delight, inspire and provoke audiences around the world.

Bangkok Post

Oscars 2023: Actor power rankings

Awards season greetings! What you have here is the Gold Standard's first batch of acting power rankings where, yes, this week, it's a man's man's man's world. (We'll get to the women next week.) These are the performances that people are talking about, counting down toward the ones that are…

Los Angeles Times

Why Park Chan-wook crafted 'Decision to Leave' so love is more mysterious than murder

A detective falls for a beautiful murder suspect. But that's just the beginning of the experience of "Decision to Leave." In the hands of South Korean master Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy," "The Handmaiden"), that familiar noir premise is just the outermost layer of a cinematic onion — a sweet one nevertheless…

Los Angeles Times

Vikings, cows and lots of Michelle Yeohs: The best films of 2022, ranked

The Independent’s chief film critic Clarisse Loughrey has rounded up her top 15 movies of the year – 12 months in which Paul Mescal was sad, Tilda Swinton was confused and Tom Hanks was incomprehensible

The Independent UK

Bold predictions for 6 top Oscar categories, including best picture

LOS ANGELES — We're still a couple of months away from Oscar nominations, but, outside of "Avatar: The Way of Water" and its glorious space whales, all the contenders have landed. Now it's just a matter of convincing voters to give them a look.

Los Angeles Times

‘Decision to Leave’ review: From South Korea, a dazzlingly confounding detective mystery

World-weary detective falls for sphinx-like widow in a murder case. Talk about the usual suspects! We have seen this setup once or twice.

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The Guardian - UK

Decision to Leave review – Park Chan-wook at his playful, slinky best

A married detective contemplates infidelity in the Korean director’s seductive, multilayered crime drama

The Guardian - UK

The Guide #57: Is it just me, or is everything we watch getting more gory?

In this week’s newsletter: Martin McDonagh’s sad, funny Banshees of Inisherin has unexpected moments of true gruesomeness – just like every other hit these days

Evening Standard

Decision to Leave: Here are the other South Korean films you absolutely shouldn’t miss

From The Host to The Handmaiden, here’s our top picks

Boston Herald

Movie review: Riveting noir ‘Decision to Leave’ evokes Hitchcock

South Korean director Park Chan-wook, conjurer of dark, sexually charged dreams such as “Oldboy” (2003) and “Stoker” (2013), gives us his most Hitchcockian effort to date. One of the music tracks is even entitled “Rear Window.” “Decision to Leave,” is a film noir about a young, married detective named Hae-jun…

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Decision to Leave: South Korean director Park Chan-wook turns in a desperately romantic detective thriller that breaks the rules

This Oscars contender and Cannes winner breaks the rules around police procedurals and femmes fatales, while being ‘achingly romantic’ to boot.

Salon

"Decision to Leave" seduces & mesmerizes

The "Oldboy" and "Handmaiden" director delivers a romantic thriller that took Cannes by storm

Los Angeles Times

Review: Park Chan-wook's thrilling mystery 'Decision to Leave' is noir at its most nourishing

At first glance — and it rewards several glances — "Decision to Leave" seems to tell the story of a police detective and the beautiful woman who upends his dull, well-ordered existence. It's a tale of impossible longing, the kind that can undo a marriage, ruin a career and send…

The Independent UK

Q&A: Park Chan-wook on love, genre and 'Decision to Leave'

Long before Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed at the Oscars and “Squid Game” circled the globe, Park Chan-wook was astonishing worldwide audiences with his sumptuously stylistic, outrageously violent and devilishly elaborate vision of Korean cinema

Tribune News Service

What to stream: With arrival of 'Decision to Leave,' revisit the best from Korean director Park Chan-wook

South Korean master auteur Park Chan-wook has a new film, “Decision to Leave,” hitting theaters this Friday, the first film in his career selected as the South Korean submission for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Park has gained a cult following across the globe for his…

The Guardian - UK

London film festival 2022: Peter Bradshaw’s top 12 picks

A new Sam Mendes drama, Noah Baumbach adapts Don DeLillo and an amazing debut by Charlotte Wells: the Guardian’s chief film critic chooses his must-sees

Evening Standard

And the Oscars go to... why Steven Spielberg and Cate Blanchett are among the frontrunners for awards in 2023

As awards season starts, our expert reveals what the recent film festivals in Venice, Telluride and Toronto tell us about the front runners for next year’s big film prizes in Los Angeles

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