{"id":33231,"date":"2016-01-29T22:22:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-30T04:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=33231"},"modified":"2016-02-02T07:31:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:31:52","slug":"two-quick-overdue-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/two-quick-overdue-announcements\/","title":{"rendered":"Two quick, overdue announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yongkwan<\/a><\/p>\n

Lee Yongkwan.<\/em><\/p>\n

DB here:<\/p>\n

The first, only slightly overdue: Tony Rayns<\/a>\u00a0criticizes\u00a0the ongoing efforts to dismiss <\/a>Busan Festival Co-Director Lee Yongkwan. Tony’s open letter\u00a0is at Geoff Gardner’s estimable blog.<\/a><\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, this turn of events has scarcely\u00a0been covered in the English-language film press. Mr. Lee \u00a0has been beleaguered for some time. The initial pressure on him<\/a> goes back to 2014, and his response<\/a> came early the following year. A spring 2015 meeting of South Korean filmmakers defending him is reported here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second announcement is that Peter Labuza, mastermind of the Cinephiliacs<\/a>, has mounted two podcast interviews with us. The one with Kristin is here<\/a>, the one with me is here<\/a>. We thank Peter for asking us to participate, and we hope that people think our comments are worth a listen.<\/p>\n

\"Busan<\/a><\/p>\n

Opening ceremony, Busan International Film Festival, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee Yongkwan. DB here: The first, only slightly overdue: Tony Rayns\u00a0criticizes\u00a0the ongoing efforts to dismiss Busan Festival Co-Director Lee Yongkwan. Tony’s open letter\u00a0is at Geoff Gardner’s estimable blog. As far as I can tell, this turn of events has scarcely\u00a0been covered in the English-language film press. Mr. Lee \u00a0has been beleaguered for some time. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,24,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","category-national-cinemas-korea","category-people-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33231"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33286,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33231\/revisions\/33286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}