Park Chan-Wook, Director of the Year

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

Park Chan-wook was named the best director of the year by his fellow film directors, who also picked actor Song Kang-ho and actress Kim Hye-ja as the year's best actors.

The 12th Directors' Cut Awards was held at CGV Apgujeong in Seoul on Monday. The winners were selected by votes from 238 directors who are members of the directors' network.

Park's latest film "Thirst" inspired hope in the discouraged Korean cinema community by winning the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival this year, the director's group said. "Park's films, which are always fresh and novel, are the most cinematic," it added. It is the fourth time that Park has received the award as he was previously honored for his films "Joint Security Area," "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance," and "Oldboy."

Song won the best actor award for a fifth time, becoming the winningest actor in the history of the Directors' Cut Awards.

The awards for the best rookie actor and actress went to Kim Dong-wook of "Take Off" and Park Bo-young of "Scandal Maker." Korean-French Ounie Lecomte won the best new film director award for "A Brand New Life."

Yang Ik-june, director of "Breathless," received the award for the best independent film, and director Yoon Je-kyoon, who produced and directed the disaster blockbuster "Haeundae," won the award for the best producer. "Haeundae" drew the fourth largest audience in Korean film history.

The directors also awarded a tribute trophy to late actress Jang Jin-young, who died of stomach cancer in September.

Source: Chosun Ilbo

Did anybody see Thirst? How was it? What is your favorite PCW movie?

Comments

[uchuu-kita.livejournal.com]

I've not been particularly impressed with his more recent work tbh.... *is shot* It looks gorgeous, but the characters whilst well depicted left me a little cold. Maybe it just takes repeated viewing. JSA was thoroughly depressing, but enjoyable.

[uglypricetag.livejournal.com]

his more recent work tbh

you're referring to Cyborg? i agree that it was a bit lacking, but i ate that shit up anyway =/

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

werk it bb

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I haven't seen any of his films when I keep hearing how awesome they are. Need to start with "Old Boy".


slightly OT - jealous 'cuz one of my former classmates got to meet him and sit in on a talk that he did this year >.>

[milkshake.livejournal.com]

Oldboy was the first movie of his I saw... talk about traumatic XD;;;

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

haha ohh man. Old Boy is tight. you are in for a surprise. it's a good mindfuck-what-the-hell-did-i-watch-just-now? kind of movie

[neumi.livejournal.com]

One cold snowy weekend, you gotta watch all 3 of the vengeance films in a row. Netflix has em ^_^

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

Hmmm sounds like an awesome plan.

[milkshake.livejournal.com]

I saw Thirst a few weeks ago. It's really nice!
It gets you into a whole debate on what kind of "thirst" he was talking about in the movie. It's really good. :) Not your typical vampire movie that's for sure.

But seriously, that guy makes the WEIRDEST most fucked up movies EVER.... but I love I'm a Cyborg but that's OK. :X

[valyrian.livejournal.com]

Oldboy was so messed up..
I loved it, haha.

[qvinx.livejournal.com]

winningest

a quick google search later

[qvinx.livejournal.com]

nvm it is a real word.

[akihoshika.livejournal.com]

Never seen any of the movies. What's oldboy about and what kind of movies does he make? I'm now interested to see these

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

oldboy is a revenge movie, and that's all i can tell you pretty much XD

[cinis.livejournal.com]

Good to hear :D They deserve it.

[gawibawibo.livejournal.com]

I liked Thirst, but my favourite PCW film is Cyborg :)
A friend recommended I watch JSA so I'm trying to look for a place to watch it.

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who didn't dislike Thirst gotdamn? :(

Forever the best chase I've seen in a cinema <3.

[lydzi.livejournal.com]

Re: Forever the best chase I've seen in a cinema <3.

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

ugh thank you for reminding me I NEED TO FIND THIS MOVIE'S SOUNDTRACK. so dang good ♥

[neumi.livejournal.com]

Well deserved.

[hyunaa.livejournal.com]

i liked oldboy, sympathy for lady vengeance, and thirst...i didn't really like the cyborg one. And sympathy for mr. vengeance and JSA I didn't watch the whole movies yet...

[esotericwhisper.livejournal.com]

He deserves to win every year. He's like my fav. director~

Thirst was great, definitely right up his alley! Creative and different. A little creepy, if you have a weak stomach watch it during the day LOL

My favorite movie of all time is Old Boy so that's my answer, thought Sympathy for Lady Vengeance comes right after, if we're talking about films by PCW

[slayerizedcarol.livejournal.com]

yay even though i find his movies a bit hard to watch sometimes, i love the fact that he always makes me feel uncomfortable with his movies, not a lot of movies make me feel that way. They are great :D he deserves it!

[poeek.livejournal.com]

i saw thirst last month and it was pretty good but it felt to long! and the comments i heard afterwards from other ppl was that they also felt that it was to long... kinda sick/strange movie but i felt that some scenes he could have made shorter, cut them down a bit because i think that gave you the feeling that the movie was to long.

i liked the cyborg movie though, but also i think that because rain was in it you like it a little more.

[constructions.livejournal.com]

the movie felt long to me the first time, but the second felt much shorter!

[constructions.livejournal.com]

YES! I've seen Thirst about five times.

[femmephantom.livejournal.com]

I saw/own Thirst and I love it. It's not exactly scary, but it's rather tongue-in-cheek about a lot of things, and I like it for that. There are also some very touching scenes between the characters, and some slightly disturbing ones as well. I was never bored.