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January 15, 2007
Coda
Yen and I spent this frozen solid day editing the short film that he directed back in August, a few weeks before Ciao started shooting. We shot it in one day, and had been hoping to edit it in about as much time and have the whole thing finished and ready for a 35mm blowup after a single weekend. If you ignore the five months between then and now and the fact that we don't have any money for a 35mm transfer at this point, we made our goal! It turned out beautifully, and hopefully Yen can piggyback it onto the final Ciao sound mix, which he's heading to LA to supervise this week.
Our intermissions in the editorial process consisted of watching all but one of Hong Sang-soo's three most recent features. I think that Woman Is The Future Of Man is better than Woman On The Beach, but I can also see that opinion flipping with a bit more thought. Yen pointed out that Hong's work is more and more resembling early Woody Allen; the films are getting funnier, and the male leads are getting increasingly neurotic. I can't wait to watch A Tale Of Cinema, the one film on our docket that we didn't get to this evening.
Tomorrow, I'm going to brave the icy freeways and visit the Apple genius bar to find out why my MacBookPro battery hates me so...
Posted by David Lowery at January 15, 2007 03:18 AM
Comments
tale of cinema is my favorite hong sang soo film. i think he and lee chang dong are top of the class when it comes to current korean cinema. as far as the woody allen comparison, i dont really see it. however, i do see the humour in hong's films, i just dont think of it as the kind of funny that comes with a woody allen film. but you're right, there is humour in his films nonetheless.
Posted by: anon at January 15, 2007 05:07 PM