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Greatness graced the portals of the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) on the evenings of Friday, March 4 and Saturday, March 5. On those two privileged nights, Im Kwon-taek, a filmmaker of unrivaled skill and international renown, was on the premises to host the HFA’s screening of two of his most recent films...
...qualification “most recent” is absolutely necessary because the 69-year-old Korean filmmaker has directed an incredible 99 films during his 50-year career in the film industry. In fact, in order to attend the screenings, Kwon-taek had to take leave from the set of his 100th feature...
During the decades he has labored behind the camera, Kwon-taek has amassed considerable critical acclaim: he has won every prize offered by South Korea’s three annual film awards ceremonies; received countless laurels from major international film festivals; and in 2002, he added a Best Director prize from Cannes to his trophy case for his film Chihwaseon...
Three Films by Im Kwon Taek...
...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’s work...