The latest issue of Asian Cult Cinema features my article about Chan-Wook Park's I'M A CYBORG...AND THAT'S OKAY. Park is primarily known to action and horror film fans as the director of the brilliant and bloody OLDBOY, SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE, and LADY VENGEANCE.
His most recent film though is a beautiful and endearing fantasy about an emotionally unstable young woman who, after her schizophrenic grandma is carted off, comes to believe she is a cyborg. Committed to a mental hospital herself, she and a fellow patient begin a strange and poignant courtship even while she grows more and more delusional. Like Park's other films, CYBORG is moving and haunting, and it's been unfairly overlooked by his own legions of fans.
Also in this issue is an article by Max Allan Collins about two recent Mongol-mania films about Gengis Khan; Ric Meyers' take on the 50 best Shaw Brothers Kung Fu flicks; an interview with Bong Jun-Ho, the director of MEMORIES OF MURDER and THE HOST; and tons of essays and reviews on Asian horror/action/samurai/yakuza flicks. If you're a fan of Asian flicks, defintely subscribe to the magazine. Also check out their website for some good prices on rare imports.
3 comments:
Definitely have to pick this issue up, Mr. P. Lisa and I loved the Cyborg film very much. Really would like to read your comments on this gentle, strange film.
thanks!
Thanks, Ricky! Hope you dig the piece. I think you will since we so often see eye to eye on Asian films, and this one moved me greatly.
That's cool that you're giving props to CYBORG, Pic. I agree with you that it's a little underrated gem.
But dude, I SO cannot wait for you to see THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD!
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