Hong Sangsoo
A Public Conversation with Hong Sangsoo on The Novelist’s Film
By cscope2 | | Cinema Scope Online
By Mark Peranson Gartenbaukino, Vienna, Austria, November 1, 2022 Mark Peranson (MP): You are not really a filmmaker who likes to interpret your films, but talks about them more in terms of process, about how the films are made. The Novelist’s Film (2022) is your 27th film. Your 28th film, Walk Up (2022), is showing…
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Infinite Worlds Possible: Hong Sangsoo’s Right Now, Wrong Then
By Roger Koza | | CS64, From Cinema Scope Magazine, Interviews
Essay By Roger Koza Interview by Francisco Ferreira & Julien Gester Set in Suwon, about 30 kilometres south of Seoul, Hong Sangsoo’s Golden Leopard-winning masterpiece is divided into two sections which are almost exactly the same. Even the opening credits are repeated once the film reboots an hour in, though with one subtle yet noticeable…
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Women Under the Influence: Hong Sangsoo’s Nobody’s Daughter Haewon & Our Sunhi
By Jordan Cronk | | CS56, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Jordan Cronk As an agent for acclimation, alcohol is one of our most proven resources. In the cinema of Hong Sangsoo, it’s less a casual commodity than a conduit for conducive social interaction, a property of both emotionally collateral and physically direct engagement. The characters portrayed in the prolific South Korean auteur’s work drink…
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