Classic Movie Night June 19, 2008

Netflix doesn't stock your favorite Korean films? Your local video store clerk doesn't know Shin Sang-Ok from Park Kwang-Soo? The Korea Society's Classic Movie Night is your answer. On the third Thursday of each month, The Korea Society will be screening Korean films from the 1960s to the 1990s in the second season of its Classic Movie Night series.

This month, on June 19 at 6:30PM, we will be screening Bae Chang-ho’s Deep Blue Night. Abandoning his pregnant fiancée in Korea, Baek Ho-bin (Ahn Sung-ki) starts a new life in America and marries Jane (Jang Mi-hee) for a green card. Plans go awry when, despite his brutality, she begins to fall for him. Adapted from a Choi In-ho novel, this dark vision of human depravity by director Bae Chang-ho (the “Steven Spielberg of Korea” in the 80s) set a box-office record by showing both the sinister and tragic dimensions of one man's American Dream. Starring Ahn Sung-ki, Jang Mi-hee, Jin Yu-yeong. (1985, 93 minutes)

Classic Movie Night films will be screened at The Korea Society in midtown Manhattan (950 Third Avenue@ 57th Street, 8th Floor). Tickets are available for $5 (members) and $10 (non-members) at www.koreasociety.org. A brief lecture on the film and refreshments will be provided.

For more information, contact Yuni Cho at (212) 759-7525, ext. 323 or [email protected]. To become a member of The Korea Society, please visit www.koreasociety.org.

Join us on the third Thursday of each month for Classic Movie Night. The screenings will be followed by a brief lecture and Q&A period. Light refreshments will be served. Buy tickets online at the door or online at www.koreasociety.org .

Official Website: http://www.koreasociety.org