Hey NYC peeps, guess what? The Korean Cultural Service is about to start their second free film series of 2012 after the first one wrapped itself up on Feb. 28th. Series Two is titled “It’s a Fine Romance!” and launches on March 13th down on Varick street. All the details are below as are the names of the films that will be screening but remember, becasue it is a free event, you should try to get there early as seats are filled quickly. I know i’ll be making my way down there and hope to see some of you there too!
Korean Movie Night
from March 13, 2012 – April 10, 2012 courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service
Every other Tuesday @ 7pm Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E and 1 train Canal Street stops)
Price: Free! All seating is first-come,first served. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Series 2: It’s a FineRomance!
Ever since Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire sang “It’s a Fine Romance” in1936’s Swing Time, movies have been bowing down to the power of love. Unfortunately,Hollywood just doesn’t make romantic comedies theway they used to and these days if you’re looking for love in an American movie, you’re looking for it in all the wrong places. Thank Aphrodite for Korea. Ever since My Sassy Girl broke box office records in 2001, the Korean film industry has been making some of the funniest, most outrageously swoony movie romances, and for this series we’ve picked three of the best.
CYRANO AGENCY (2010) — Tuesday, March 13 @ 7pm
The biggest romantic hit of 2010 (grossing only slightly less than Harry Potter and the Proper Noun: Part 1) this big budget romantic comedy won “Best Screenplay” and its star, Lee Min-Jung (Boys Over Flowers) won a truck load of “Best New Actress” awards. Full of irreconcilable differences,beautiful stars and ridiculous, laugh-out-loud plot twists, it’s all about the Cyrano Agency, a matchmaking service that sets up elaborate, MissionImpossible-style scenarios to help their clients win the man (or woman) of their dreams. Now, their 100% success rate is in danger because a sad sack hedge fund manager wants to date a free spirited gal who just happens to be the head of the Cyrano Agency’s ex. Hollywood hasn’t made a movie this frantic and romantic in decades.
MY GIRLFRIEND IS AN AGENT (New York Premiere, 2009)—Tuesday, March 27 @ 7pm
Opening at number one, and staying in the box office top ten for nine straight weeks, MY GIRLFRIEND IS AN AGENT is the Korean version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Kim Ha-Neul gets dumped by her boyfriend, Kang Ji-Hwan, because she’s never around. Actually, she’s a spy. Three years later, he runs into her again, only now he’s also joined the intelligence service too, albeit in a different department. Now they both have undercover identities they both have to keep hidden and they’ve got secret missions they both have to fulfill, while working out the trauma of their past relationship. Full of high-speed chases and plenty of glossy gun play, it’s easy to see why a movie this fast on its feet is already slated for a Bollywood remake.
PETTY ROMANCE (US Premiere, 2010)—Tuesday, April 10 @ 7pm
A word-of-mouth hit in 2010, this romance is set in the world of manhwa (Korean comic books), and the couple at the center of the story have chemistry to burn. TV star Lee Seon-Gyun is a struggling manhwa artist who enters a competition with a massive cash prize. To raise his chances of winning, he hires a sex advice columnist, Choi Gang-Heui (star of the breakout hit, My Scary Girl), to write his erotic comic. Little does he know that she plagiarized her column from the Kama Sutra and the Kinsey Report because her ideas about sex are a bit…vague, to put it kindly. PETTY ROMANCE been winning hearts and minds on the film festival circuit for a year and it’s a guaranteed crowd pleaser.
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