For Bong, the Hitchcock movie that stands above the rest is “Psycho.” The 1960 psychological horror movie is included on Bong’s Sight and Sound poll and it was one of the movies Bong watched before filming “Parasite” for inspiration. Image Credit: Paramount/Kobal/ShutterstockĮvery director has at least one Hitchcock movie on his or list of the best films ever made. Five brothers and their mother adjust to city life outside of their rural home in a tragic melodrama that soon involves a deadly love triangle. Luchino Visconti, 1960)Īnother 1960 film on Bong’s 2022 Sight and Sound ballot is Luchino Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers.” Set in Milan, the Italian drama charts the disillusion of a family in the wake of its patriach’s death. It’s an obvious inspiration for Bong’s “Parasite,” and has been remade multiple times - most recently by director Im Sang-soo in 2010 starring “Squid Game” Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae. Image Credit: Courtesy Everett CollectionĬasting his ballot in Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll for 2022, Bong highlighted Kim Ki-young’s 1960 “Hanyo,” also known as “The Housemaid.” The legendary South Korean psychological melodrama and horror centers on the arrival of a seductive woman at a quaint home who subsequenty destroys the family that lives there. With editorial contributions by Zack Sharf. This includes a couple of new picks from his 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time ballot, in which Bong reiterated his established love for classics (like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”) but also shouted on some new favorites (namely, Kim Ki-young’s “Hanyo” and Luchino Visconti’s “Rocco and His Brothers.” Check out a handful of Bong’s favorite movies below, listed in no particular order. Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and Naomi Ackiealso star.īong is a great director, but he’s also an avid cinephile who loves talking about films and raising awareness for some of the best Asian filmmakers who came before him, including Kim Ki-young, Shohei Imamura, and Keisuke Kinoshita. Although audiences have already received a small tease for the film, it’s not due out until Maand remains generally under wraps. “Mickey 17” is Bong’s next movie: a sci-fi epic starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable human clone sent to colonize a distant planet. His influence, particularly as it relates to the acceptance of subtitled films by American audiences, is as difficult to conceptualize as it is to overstate. The drama is the first foreign-language movie to win Best Picture, and Bong is the first South Korean filmmaker to win Best Director. Bong’s incredible journey with “Parasite” culminated in six Oscar nominations and historic wins for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature. The months that followed brought Bong to nearly all of awards season’s biggest festivals (Telluride, Toronto, NYFF) and ceremonies (Golden Globes, SAG Awards, DGA Awards, Critic’s Choice, etc.). “Parasite” premiered to the world at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it made history as the first South Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or. With “Parasite,” Bong vaulted himself into the topmost echelon of the world’s best directors working today. Bong Joon Ho has long been one of South Korea’s best filmmakers thanks to acclaimed movies such as “Memories of Murder,” “Mother,” and “The Host,” but it wasn’t until 2019 that Bong become a worldwide cinema superstar.
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