{"id":33697,"date":"2016-03-27T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=33697"},"modified":"2016-03-27T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:49:06","slug":"the-biff-imbroglio-further-developments-and-another-communique-from-tony-rayns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/the-biff-imbroglio-further-developments-and-another-communique-from-tony-rayns\/","title":{"rendered":"The BIFF imbroglio: Further developments and another communiqu\u00e9 from Tony Rayns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1236386_Busan-protest\"<\/a><\/p>\n

DB here:<\/p>\n

The aggressive action taken by Busan’s mayor Suh Byung-soo\u00a0to curtail programming at the city’s international film festival continues to have repercussions. A January post here\u00a0reviewed the controversy<\/a>, and a later one\u00a0relayed the support offered to festival Co-Director Lee Yongkwan\u00a0by the Rotterdam Film Festival.<\/a> These entries include links that can supply backstory.<\/p>\n

The reporting of Jean Noh at Screen Daily<\/em>\u00a0has covered some new developments. A\u00a010 March panel <\/a>concluded that the festival is “on the verge of being ruined.” \u00a0Last week\u00a0nine major Korean film organizations threatened a boycott<\/a> if\u00a0\u00a0Mayor Suh does not withdraw from the festival board and apologize for his actions. The photo above\u00a0is from that event. Things are getting hotter. Suh cut short a meeting to discuss revisions to the festival policies, and, as Noh reports:<\/p>\n

Busan City has since filed an injunction against 68 newly appointed advisors to the festival including internationally renowned filmmakers such as Park Chan-wook (Stoker<\/em>), Ryoo Seung-wan (Veteran<\/em>), Choi Dong-hoon (Assassination<\/em>) and top stars such as Ha Jung-woo (The Chaser<\/em>) and Yoo Ji-tae (Old Boy<\/em>).<\/strong><\/p>\n

At this juncture comes a piercing second Open Letter to the people of Busan\u00a0from critic, filmmaker, and programmer Tony Rayns<\/a>. You can read\u00a0Kamikaze Mayor<\/em>, a good-old-fashioned butt-stomping polemic, on Geoff Gardner’s Film Alert 101 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

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

DB here: The aggressive action taken by Busan’s mayor Suh Byung-soo\u00a0to curtail programming at the city’s international film festival continues to have repercussions. A January post here\u00a0reviewed the controversy, and a later one\u00a0relayed the support offered to festival Co-Director Lee Yongkwan\u00a0by the Rotterdam Film Festival. These entries include links that can supply backstory. The reporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivals","category-film-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697","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=33697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33704,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33697\/revisions\/33704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}