When in early March even Germany gave up its nonchalance and finally enforced safety measures against COVID 19, such as domestic seclusion, face masks, and the closing of public spaces, I confess cinema wasn’t my first concern. It became one a few days later, when I realized that the movie theatre around the corner had not changed its posters in weeks. With closed-down … Continue reading We Are One, Life Streaming into Cinema, by Elena Furlanetto

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After watching Parasite, my mother texted: “If it had been and American movie, it would have been much more violent.”1 My thoughts went back to Oldboy, Park Chan-wook’s unmatched 2003 cult, where Choi Min-sik pulls someone’s teeth out with a crowbar, and I thought that was highly suspicious – just as suspicious as my mother thinking that in a film there is margin for more … Continue reading Koreans Do It Better: The Academy honors South Korean cinema in Western clothes, by Elena Furlanetto