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...heard of. Even Koreans preferred Hollywood fare. But the nation's cinema is rapidly emerging from the obscurity of the art-house circuit. A new crop of hip young directors and producers is turning out legitimate hits, like Shiri, a slick spy-action thriller, Friends, a sentimental buddy flick, and Ginkgo Bed, a funky exploration of relationships and reincarnation. Koreans are watching their own movies in record numbers?Korean films now pull in 40% of ticket sales, up from 25% three years ago. At more than $250 million, the box-office take in 2000 was almost triple the figure...
...word out overseas is still a challenge. Few moviegoers outside of the country can name a Korean actor or director or, for that matter, a Korean film. Jason Chae is trying to change that. Working as a cinema journalist in the mid-'90s, he was dismayed to find Korean flicks overshadowed by Japanese and Chinese entries at international festivals because nobody was bothering to promote them. Chae, who grew up as a movie nut, set up Mirovision in 1998, the first company to promote and sell Korean movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make the films," says...
Harvard Square has arrived: We now have our very own Hootenanny, the clothing store with a disturbingly Shuttlegirl-esque mascot. The shop resides in the space our beloved Video Pro once occupied, leaving students to trudge to Porter Square if they want to catch a rental flick. At least Harvard students, unable to continue their tradition of dateless evenings with the wholesome Forrest Gump and Casablanca, will be able to buy as many tight skirts and cleavage-baring tops as they desire in a store right above Ben & Jerry’s. Yes, Harvard Square has hit the mainstream...
...goods displayed there. At more focused operations, such as the Internet Movie Database or RollingStone.com contributors think out loud about one topic, like movies or music. And then there are the lemonade stands of cyberspace, personal Web pages where just one person--JoeytheFilmGeek, say, or the Flick Filosopher--issues opinion for anybody who happens to stop...
...participate in Amazon's "Associates Program" can earn commissions when people reading their reviews click on a hyperlink to Amazon and buy the product being reviewed. The payments are modest, up to 15%, but any sales commission amounts to an incentive to post favorable comments. Meanwhile, JoeytheFilmGeek and the Flick Filosopher write screenplays, which raises the question of whether they can objectively review product by the same film studios they might hope to interest in their scripts. In her recent rave review of Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the Flick Filosopher even mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully...