So Yong Kim at the Women with Vision Festival at Walker
Treeless Mountain, So Yong Kim’s second feature film is back in Minneapolis. The film screened this past March in the Walker Cinema as a part of the Women With Vision series and is now being released nationwide. The Landmark Cinema (Edina) will be screening Treeless Mountain beginning on Friday July 17th. I strongly encourage anyone who missed the March screening to attend the film or even those who attended to see it again.
The New York Times and critics alike have praised the movie since its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. From the unobtrusive camera , to the child-non-actors, Treeless Mountain is wistfully captivating, telling a story reflecting the director’s memories of growing up in Korea.
“Ms. Kim, her camera hovering gently and unobtrusively around the girls as they play, quarrel and daydream, turns their intimate moments into a quiet, poignant drama of abandonment and resilience.”—A.O. Scott, New York Times
“Rarely has a child’s POV been as evocatively emulated as it is in So Yong Kim’s Treeless Mountain, a work of tremendous poise and poignancy that assumes and articulates the perspective and emotional tenor of its two juvenile protagonists.”—Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
In March, So Yong was in attendance to introduce the film and answer a few questions from the audience post screening. You can find the audio files from this conversation along with a previous blog post about the film on the Walker website.
For more information about So Yong Kim & the film, visit the Oscilliscope website and the Landmark website for screening times.
l-r: Walker Film Curator Sheryl Mousley, Ramin Bahrani, and Associate Film Curator Dean Otto
We had a incredible couple days with Ramin Bahrani here at the Walker and managed to have a quick snapshot taken outside our Cinema. Thanks to all that were able to come out to the screenings and partake in the Master Class on Friday afternoon.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was at Walker in November 2004 to present New Language from Thailand
Regis Dialogue: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Chuck Stephens.
At that time Walker presented regional premieres of his films Sud pralad (Tropical Malady) and Sud Sangeha (Blissfully Yours.)
Lesser known in 2004, especially outside of international cinema circles, this Thai artist has just been awarded the Fine Prize, established by the Fine Foundation, at the Carnegie International exhibition that opened last weekend at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
Link to info about the dialogue and Chuck Stephen’s essay printed in the Walker’s Regis brochure.
Filmmaker Bill Rude returns to Minneapolis every summer to teach teens at his alma mater, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, bringing his independent filmmaker friends to pitch in. This summer the teens are working with the Sean C. Covel & Chris “Doc” Wyatt, producers of Napoleon Dynamite and Ari Fishman who has recently been a producer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. So with this team in town, its great that Bill will sit down with them at Walker on July 18 to talk about making movies and TV their way, for as little money as possible. Open to the public, this is a free event.
Walker Cinema, Tuesday, July 18 7PM Free with Ticket.
Tickets given out starting at 6PM.
Waiting backstage with film curator Sheryl Mousley, Ang Lee and James Schamus plan the Regis Dialogue and discuss the wonderful news of seven Golden Globe nominations for their film Brokeback Mountain.
The 2005 Women with Vision film festival at Walker opened last May with Susanne Bier’s film Brothers. This past Sunday the nominations for the 2005 European Film Awards were announced Sunday at the Seville Film Festival. The prizes will be presented on December 3rd in Berlin. Leading the list with seven nominations is Michael Haneke’s Cache, followed closely by Susanne Bier’s Brothers . Both movies are nominated for best European Film this year, along with Wim Wenders’ Don’t Come Knocking, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s L’Enfant, Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love, and Marc Rothemund’s Sophie Scholl – The Final Days.
