Posted on Saturday, March 13th, 2010 by David Chen
Lots of cool film-related stuff happens in Boston, Massachusetts and not that many people are here to document it, preserve it and spread the word about it. Special screenings, Q&As, panel discussions — we have them all, and frequently too. /Film Boston aims to be a bi-weekly column that will bring you audio and video content from film-related events around the Boston area. If you don’t live in Boston, I hope that this column will give you a window into some of the cool stuff that happens here regularly. If you do live here, hopefully you’ll come here to get the heads-up on what’s been going on, and what is to come.
After the break, an interview with director Bong Joon-Ho and a panel discussion with Elvis Mitchell and Jonathan Demme. Plus, I chat with Nick Argott, the director of The Art of the Steal. [Above photo: Screenwriter Jenny Lumet stands at the podium on the stage of the Coolidge Theater, while a Jonathan Demme montage plays on screen]
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The more we see from Bong Joon-ho’s (The Host, Memories of Murder) upcoming film Mother, the more I’m reminded of just how much of a tremendous talent he is. We ran an English-subtitled international trailer for the film over the summer, and now we have the first official domestic trailer. There’s some footage that we haven’t seen before, but mostly it’s just great to finally get a glimpse of this film in HD.
The plot concerns a 27-year-old man who is a bit of a simpleton, and dependent on his very devoted mother (not unlike the lovable idiot Gang-du from The Host). He notices a girl while walking home one night and decides to follow her — only to lose track of her as she disappears into an alley. The next morning the girl is found dead, and the man is accused of her murder. His mother believes he’s innocent, and with only maternal instinct to help her, she decides to seek out the truth.
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There are a bunch of new posters this week, and easily the most striking of the bunch is the painted image for The Wolfman, created by legendary Famous Monsters of Filmland cover artist Basil Gogos. CHUD got the image as an exclusive; you can see part of it above, and click through for the full thing. It’s not my favorite Gogos by a stretch, but like his best paintings it is grotesquely colorful in a way that points a direct line to the cinematography in films like Suspiria. The fact that Universal got him to work with their remake is a great thing.
After the break, the poster for Kevin Smith‘s Cop Out, a new domestic poster for Mother, character sheets for Percy Jackson and The Crazies, and a great poster for a tiny, weird Danish post-apocalyptic Western called Connected. Read More »
Along with Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho is one of the many great cinematic talents that heralded a new wave of film-making from South Korea. He’s perhaps most famous for his brilliant family-centered monster film, The Host, and his previous effort Memories of Murder breathed new life into the police procedural. While doing rounds for his latest film, Mother, Joon-ho chatted with Frosty at Collider about his next project, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi film entitled Snow Piercer—an adaptation of the French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige. The project was formerly titled Transperceneige, and is being produced by Chan-wook.
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Because there’s a lot of other stuff coming down the wire toady, I’m going to unceremoniously squish together two pieces of news here that are only tangentially related by title.
First, the Bong Joon-ho film Mother that played so well at Cannes and will soon be hitting TIFF now has distribution in the US. Variety reports Magnolia will be bringing the picture to the States; the company previously distributed his film The Host. Magnolia also picked up rights to Barking Dogs Never Bite, Bong’s debut film from 2000, which never got a proper US release. Mother will hit screens in early 201o. Ideal timing, since the movie is Korea’s entry for Best Foreign Film Oscar this year.
After the break, news about that Mother’s Day remake/reimagining directed by Saw’s Darren Bousman. Read More »
One of the films I was most interested to hear about out of Cannes (and am now most interested to see in Toronto) was Bong Joon-ho‘s Mother. Bong’s last films were Memories of Murder and The Host, but now he turns to a story of crime and matronly devotion that sounds a lot more in the vein of Park Chan-wook’s films. Now there’s an english-subtitled trailer, and you should be sure to take a look. (Actually, looking around, I see that this has been floating around for a while. But it’s the end of a slow week, we haven’t run it yet, and the film looks great. So enjoy.) Read More »
Wildgrounds found a 30 second teaser for The Host director Bong Joon-ho‘s upcoming dramatic thriller Mother. The film tells the story of a mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their horrific murder. I love how the teaser posters, seen above, mirror each other. The teaser doesn’t show much, but I thought anyone who has seen The Host might be interested to see what Joon-ho was doing next. Check out the clip after the jump.
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Universal Studios has signed a director to remake Bong Joon-ho‘s 2006 Korean monster film The Host. Commercial film director Fredrik Bond will helm the project, based on a script by Smart People scribe Mark Poirier, and Gore Verbinski will produce. Bond has directed a variety of commercials over the last few years (check them out right now here). Haven’t seen The Host? Check out the trailer below!
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The Host follows a dysfunctional family who sets out to bring their little girl back home after a horrifying giant monster that emerges from the Han River to wreak havoc on Seoul. The Host was released on a record number of screens in South Korea and broke box-office records throughout its domestic run. By the end of its run, over 13 million people had bought tickets, making it the highest grossing South Korean film of all time. Joon-Jo talked to Sci-Fi about the idea of an American remake during the film’s original theatrical run. Here is what he said:
“Maybe three or four years down the line, if The Host [remake] comes out, and there’s a cool director who takes it on and makes it a real great film, then I’d be very happy,” Bong told SciFiWire in an interview, through a translator. “On the other hand, if it’s just crap, I think I’d be happy, too, because then people would be like, ‘Oh, yeah, Bong’s original was really good.’ So, for me, it’s a win-win situation. But Universal has a tradition of doing horror and creature films, so I anticipate that they will do a great film.”
If you haven’t yet, check out Fredrik’s commercial work in our Commercial Directors Spotlight.
