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Three Films by Im Kwon Taek
...Im Kwon Taek is a director who, without overstatement, has dominated the Korean film industry. The extent of Im’s influence and the range of subjects he has treated—not to mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film—are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im?...
...Im has also gained considerable recognition outside of homeland. His 1993 film Seopyonje garnered three international prizes, in addition to the 27 awards it received at Korean film festivals. Chunhyang, released in 2002, became the first Korean film ever to be accepted at Cannes and was also an official selection at the Telluride, Toronto and New York Film Festivals in that year...
Tonight, as well as Saturday evening, Im will be at the Harvard Film Archive to kick off three screenings taking place under the auspices of their “Directors in Focus” series. At 7 p.m., the Archive will show Chunhyang, a romantic epic that, like several of Im’s films, is related by a traditional pansori singer—and which with its sweeping sets and lavish costumes, recalls both the Korean theatrical and Hollywood musical traditions from which it draws. Chihwaseon, a portrait of Korea’s great artist and brush master Jang...
Meanwhile, Davidson placed third in the 400-yard IM. She also brought up the Harvard pack in the 200-yard IM, finishing seventh to O’Brien’s fourth and Ono’s sixth...