Cinema Paradiso
For the past week or so, I've been practically living downtown Jeonju. Why? Because the 7th Jeonju International Film Festival was in town, that's why. It's the biggest event bar none on the calendar for Jeonju, so everyone goes all out for it.
Street people: A view of JIFF at night, when most people come to watch movies. The event takes place at Cinema Street, which is exactly what it says on the tin. Cinema Street is home to at least four or five multiplexes. For JIFF, they shut the whole street off, and populate it with plenty of decorations, such as...
...old fridges. Yes, really, they just take it and leave it there. It might seem ridiculous, but for some reason it works, adding a sense of artisticness (is that a word) to the whole event. But if you think that's strange...
...then what about this? :>
Lost?: You shouldn't be. Turn left for JIFF. And right. And straight...you get the idea.
Spotted during lunch: Bear for 3,000 wons (3 USD), anyone?
Outdoor class: Tired from walking around and watching three movies in one day? Have a seat and pay attention...
...to the plethora of live music on show. There's at least a couple of shows each day, and they're all good. Very, very cool.
Starlight cinema: Depending on the time of the day, you'd either be enjoying live music or not-so-live movie screenings. Good movies as well; one night, they showed Oliver Twist, the Roman Polanski one.
Big balls: Silver spheres with words and phrases (English and Korean) carved out, making for a nice effect when the lights are turned on.
Delovely: Not love, actually.
Freedom reigns: If you're free and bored, then you can have a quick scribble.
Can't hardly wait: Another event they have is the Masterclass, where they have industry people come in to give special lectures and talks. Here, people wait for the Choi Min Sik Masterclass. Choi Min Sik is often mentioned as Korea's greatest actor. Having seen some of his works, I would compare it to...err, Tom Hanks, perhaps, as far as diversity and quality goes.
A class act: The great man himself. He even answered one of my questions, but his best answer was saved for Kirsten ("I like to give people wedgies on set. The more they say no, the more I do it," when asked on what he does in between takes).
The JIFF Guest Centre: Where guests of the festival (like me), go and chill, taking in free coffee or watch videos of any of the movies.*
An epiphany: I realised something when I took this picture.
The event finished yesterday. After that, I went to watch Mission Impossible 3 straight away.
There's only so much artistic movies that one can take...
*Also, as a guest of the festival, I can watch any of the movies...for free :>
Street people: A view of JIFF at night, when most people come to watch movies. The event takes place at Cinema Street, which is exactly what it says on the tin. Cinema Street is home to at least four or five multiplexes. For JIFF, they shut the whole street off, and populate it with plenty of decorations, such as...
...old fridges. Yes, really, they just take it and leave it there. It might seem ridiculous, but for some reason it works, adding a sense of artisticness (is that a word) to the whole event. But if you think that's strange...
...then what about this? :>
Lost?: You shouldn't be. Turn left for JIFF. And right. And straight...you get the idea.
Spotted during lunch: Bear for 3,000 wons (3 USD), anyone?
Outdoor class: Tired from walking around and watching three movies in one day? Have a seat and pay attention...
...to the plethora of live music on show. There's at least a couple of shows each day, and they're all good. Very, very cool.
Starlight cinema: Depending on the time of the day, you'd either be enjoying live music or not-so-live movie screenings. Good movies as well; one night, they showed Oliver Twist, the Roman Polanski one.
Big balls: Silver spheres with words and phrases (English and Korean) carved out, making for a nice effect when the lights are turned on.
Delovely: Not love, actually.
Freedom reigns: If you're free and bored, then you can have a quick scribble.
Can't hardly wait: Another event they have is the Masterclass, where they have industry people come in to give special lectures and talks. Here, people wait for the Choi Min Sik Masterclass. Choi Min Sik is often mentioned as Korea's greatest actor. Having seen some of his works, I would compare it to...err, Tom Hanks, perhaps, as far as diversity and quality goes.
A class act: The great man himself. He even answered one of my questions, but his best answer was saved for Kirsten ("I like to give people wedgies on set. The more they say no, the more I do it," when asked on what he does in between takes).
The JIFF Guest Centre: Where guests of the festival (like me), go and chill, taking in free coffee or watch videos of any of the movies.*
An epiphany: I realised something when I took this picture.
The event finished yesterday. After that, I went to watch Mission Impossible 3 straight away.
There's only so much artistic movies that one can take...
*Also, as a guest of the festival, I can watch any of the movies...for free :>
posted by Fikri at 5:19 오후
4 Comments:
Hey Kokkiri :), these are all nice pictures, man. Hope you contintue with your photoblog even when you leave Korea. Grrrrrreeeeeaat.....
Take some pictures of the natural beauty of Malaysia.
Might be a long wait for the Malaysian pictures, though :> Cheers.
hahaha what's with the toilet bowls??
i'll never understand modern art.
but maybe that's the point of it all.
Well, some of the movies I saw was crap :> Toilet...as art?
Useful to sit down on, though :>
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