I have returned to Jeonju for the final days of the festival. Here are some recommendations:

Wednesday: 11:00 A GOOD RAIN KNOWS, the latest from Korean director Hur Jin-ho; 14:00 JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT, featuring 3 short films  made exclusively for the festival (an annual Jeonju tradition that dates back to 2000); also at 14:00, Pedro Costa’s CASA DE LAVA, his second feature, a reimagining of Jacques Tourneur’s I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE; 17:00 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, the latest feature from the great Spike Jonze, a deeply personal film hiding inside a Hollywood children’s book adaptation; and at 20:00, the complete METROPOLIS, although it should be noted there are no English subtitles. Since it’s a silent film this isn’t a huge problem, since it is only intertitles, but for those unfamiliar with the film it may be a hindrance. Also, at 20:30, Kevin Brownlow’s 1975 film WINSTANLEY.

Thursday: 11:00 IN THE SHADOWS, a German thriller modeled after the French master Jean-Pierre Melville; 14:00 ANTONIO DAS MORTES, Glauber Rocha’s 1969 feature that was a key work in the Cinema Nuovo movement in Brazil; 17:00 NE CHANGE RIEN, the latest from Pedro Costa, a musical documentary about the singer Jeanne Balibar;  17:30 TETRO, the latest from Francis Ford Coppola featuring a great lead performance from Vincent Gallo; 20:30 LAND OF ANNIHILATION, a documentary about the Holocaust, directed by German political director Romuald Karmakar; also at 20:30 Pedro Costa’s epic COLOSSAL YOUTH, a film that features such beautiful images that a big screen is necessary for appreciation.

Friday has a reduced schedule, but at 11:00 there is a rare chance to see the Argentinian agitprop documentary THE HOUR OF THE FURNACES, directed by Getino and Solanas, the authors of the manifesto “Towards a Third Cinema”. At 11:30, the quirky comedy HERE AND THERE has been an audience favorite; and at 14:30 there is Sergei Eisenstein’s silent classic OCTOBER. The festival closes with TO THE SEA by Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio.

The complete shcedule is here.

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