Death, taxes, and one-to-three Hong Sang-soo movies per year. I much prefer the latter, and it's nice knowing we're just a month out from In Our Day, his 30th ...
Two things can be true at once. The old debate over whether Hong Sangsoo's cinema is overly earnest or self-aware was always a bit reductive––when the most lig...
An early notable of this year's Berlin lineup is A Traveler's Needs, the latest from Hong Sang-soo. No surprise he's appearing at the festival for the fourth c...
Rarely does a short generate interest like The Daughters of Fire, an ink-to-runtime ratio that could best be explained by its status as Pedro Costa's first pro...
2023's second Hong Sangsoo release (third if The Novelist's Film came your way a bit late) is In Water, his shortest-ever feature at 61 minutes and wildest for...
Ask any short-film director and they'll tell you the same thing: finding distribution for short films absolutely sucks. Ask any distributor and they'll tell yo...
As years pass by and films rack up, it's only natural to associate directors with certain things. And none more so than Hong Sangsoo, for whom a new release us...
As The Novelist's Film stays fresh and in water just begins screening, it might be easy to overlook Walk Up in the current constellation of Hong Sangsoo. Don't...
This is the customary sentence noting it can be easy to take Hong Sangsoo for granted. The prolificacy of which should tell us he's as appreciated as ever, and...
Well, all right: the headline isn't 100% ironclad. Your mileage may vary on where the best of Hong Sangsoo's recent work—let's say the last five films instead ...
