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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...
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...
...clearing a path for one of Kim's younger sons by boosting the profile of Ko, but her death last year, reportedly of cancer, may have thrown the succession into confusion again. In November, South Korean intelligence revealed that Kim had sacked his powerful brother-in-law Jang Song Taek, husband of Kim's sister, after he was accused of building an independent power base in the military in an attempt to wrest power from the family, according to Sohn Kwang Joo, the author of a biography about the North Korean leader...
...from the hermetic communist kingdom that Kim's portraits are disappearing from public buildings, there are other signs the dictator is facing unaccustomed challenges to his grip on North Korea. Intelligence officials in South Korea testified last week that Kim recently purged his brother-in-law Jang Sung Taek for trying to establish his own military stronghold. Jang may also have become an obstacle to Kim's plans to hand over power to one of his sons someday...