The Week I Review | Save the Green Planet! is the 2003 Korean film we SHOULD be talking about @TheWeekIReview | Uploaded November 2019 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Entry 65: Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green Planet! released the same year as Park Chan-wook's Oldboy, coming towards the end of the beginning of the modern Korean film industry. But not nearly enough people know about it, and that is a shame, because there are few things of any kind as singular as Jang's debut film.

It and 20 other films are playing in New York City's Lincoln Center (sadly not a sponsor) as part of a retrospective of this period put together by the fine folks at Subway Cinema. I've seen most of them, and I'm catching up on a number of those as well as a few of the ones I've missed. You should do the same if you're in the area: filmlinc.org/series/relentless-invention-new-korean-cinema-1996-2003

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Ari Aster's Midsommar influences: indiewire.com/gallery/ari-aster-movies-inspired-midsommar/sgp

Apparently, Aster is going to be producing an English-language remake of the film directed by Jang himself, which is a genuinely fascinating, and that particular set of creative minds makes me cautiously optimistic in a way I tend not to be about such things.

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Thanks to Aaron Belinfanti for the drums!