To begin each new year at the Seoul Cinematheque, there is a rather unique film program involving the direct participation of many within the Korean film industry. The Cinematheque Friends Festival includes 13 films selected by various Korean directors, performers, and critics, who also introduce and discuss the film they select in person (unfortunately, there has not traditionally been any English translation). Among the more notable participants this year are the directors Hong Sang-soo, Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho, as well as many others. In addition, there is also another Special Section as well as a retrospective on the American filmmaker John Ford. The festival takes place over the next month and a half (January 15th to February 28th) and features a total of 29 films, most of which are screened at least twice. It is a truly impressive line-up with many of the greatest films in the history of cinema being screened, notably Jean Eustache’s THE MOTHER AND THE WHORE, Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO STORY, and Louis Feuillade’s serial LES VAMPIRES, to name just a few examples. The program lineup can be found here, and below is a list of the films along with subtitle information and a link to their imdb page.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE FILMS

Steamboat Round the Bend (John Ford, 1935)

Drums Along the Mohawk (John Ford, 1939)

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

How Green Was My Valley (John Ford, 1941)

My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)

Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)

Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956)

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (Fritz Lang, 1956)

Two Rode Together (John Ford, 1961)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Terence Fisher, 1969)

Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)

The Assassination of Trotsky (Joseph Losey, 1972)

Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974)

Amadeus (Milos Forman, 1984)

Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)

SILENT FILMS

Les Vampires (10 part serial) (Louis Feuillade, 1915)

The Navigator (Buster Keaton, 1924)

The Iron Horse (John Ford, 1924)

The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein, 1928)

WITH SUBTITLES

Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu, 1953)

The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)

As Tears Go By (Wong Kar-wai, 1988)

WITHOUT SUBTITLES (so far, keep an eye on schedule, as this can change)

Confessions of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry, 1936)

Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)

The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964)

Capricci (Carmelo Bene, 1969)

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