Nearly all of Hong Sangsoo's films are funny—Funny Ha Ha does what it says on the tin—but it's been a moment since the man released a proper comedy. This made ...
While effectively every Hong Sangsoo film nabs nice responses from those who seek it out, By the Stream has carried a tad more weight––the sense that, after a ...
The last time Hong Sangsoo failed to feature in a Berlinale program, Childish Gambino’s “This is America” was in the charts and Green Book was on its way t...
For his first feature of two features this year, Hongsangsoo made a long-awaited reunion with Isabelle Huppert. Following In Another Country and Claire's Camer...
Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it's nice knowing we're just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th ...
Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo's cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most lig...
An early notable of this year's Berlin lineup is A Traveler's Needs, the latest from Hong Sang-soo. No surprise he's appearing at the festival for the fourth c...
Rarely does a short generate interest like The Daughters of Fire, an ink-to-runtime ratio that could best be explained by its status as Pedro Costa's first pro...
2023's second Hong Sangsoo release (third if The Novelist's Film came your way a bit late) is In Water, his shortest-ever feature at 61 minutes and wildest for...
Ask any short-film director and they'll tell you the same thing: finding distribution for short films absolutely sucks. Ask any distributor and they'll tell yo...
