Korea
Hong Sang-soo’s ‘A Traveler’s Needs’ stars Isabelle Huppert in Korean film
November 8, 2024One of AFI FEST’s top virtues is that it brings many foreign films to L.A., including this year the latest from South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo.
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‘Savagery by proxy’: U.S. imperialism’s Korean executioners
February 9, 2024The Korean War holds a lesson for today: When does “savagery by proxy,” in Gaza, for instance, become savagery by us?
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‘Past Lives’: Well-lived
July 6, 2023Through simple, direct narrative, writer/director Celine Song has deftly sketched a shaded palette of relationships.
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The costs of U.S. empire’s ‘forever wars’
August 26, 2021Back in the days when I was growing up (before the Vietnam War), we were told that the United States had never “lost” a war. Teachers would point to the two World Wars, the Spanish-American and Mexican-American...
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Biden’s Korea deal continues a dangerous U.S. foreign policy
March 11, 2021The president’s progressive domestic policy is not at all well served by catering to corporate interests that see China as a threat.
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