KOREAN FEST IN NYC

Every year the New York Korean Film Festival (August 25 - September 3) haul in a heap of Korean movies that you may not have heard of. They don't show the major titles like THE HOST, but what they do show are the movies that slipped between the cracks and have a much lower profile in the West but which make up a majority of what fills Korean cinemas year round. While not every title is an undiscovered masterpiece, there are some unexpected finds and it'll give you a totally different picture of the Korean movie scene.

There's full festival info over here and the stand-out movies are MY SCARY GIRL, which was a big word-of-mouth hit in Korea, the aggressive HOLIDAY, and GRAIN IN EAR which got a lot of festival play. They're also doing a four-film Lee Man-Hee retrospective. Lee was a genre craftsman in the 60's and prints of his films have been making the rounds this year.