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Korea Herald
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Korea Herald
Yoon Ga-eun's 'The World of Love' selected for Toronto's Platform competition
Acclaimed director 'The World of Us' breaks new ground with her third feature about a teenager's emotional journey South Korean director Yoon Ga-eun's latest feature "The World of Love" has been selected for the Platform section at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, the film's local distributor Barunson E&A said Wednesday. The selection marks the first time a Korean film has competed in the festival's prestigious auteur-focused competition. The Platform section, founded in 2015, primarily showcases distinctive works from early-to-mid-career filmmakers. It serves as the festival's only competitive program. Past selections have launched major careers, including Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight," which went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, William Oldroyd's "Lady Macbeth," and Pablo Larrain's "Jackie." "The World of Love" will have its world premiere at the festival, which runs Sept. 4-14. The film follows Joo-in, a 17-year-old high school student (played by Seo Su-bin, in her debut role), whose first explorations of love lead her down an unforeseen path. The cast also includes Jang Hye-jin ("Parasite," "Crash Landing on You"). The film qualifies for the Platform Award, which comes with a 20,000 Canadian dollar prize. It is also eligible for the festival's People's Choice Award and the newly established International People's Choice Award, both determined by audience voting. Yoon has built a reputation for her nuanced portrayals of children and adolescents. Her 2016 debut feature "The World of Us" premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and earned widespread acclaim for its delicate depiction of elementary school friendship. Her follow-up "The House of Us" (2019) continued her exploration of childhood perspectives. Director Bong Joon-ho praised Yoon as one of three masters alongside Abbas Kiarostami and Hirokazu Kore-eda in bringing child actors to life on screen. He later named her the only Korean director on Sight & Sound's list of "20 filmmakers to watch." Following its world premiere at Toronto, "The World of Love" will hit Korean theaters later this year.
Indian Express
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Director of ‘the greatest film ever made' died alone and broke, was forced to beg for money from his peers: ‘Erratic, self-destructive, egotistical'
After a decade of self-imposed exile, the great actor-filmmaker Orson Welles attempted to make a comeback. He wanted to make a movie about his old friend, writer Ernest Hemingway's suicide. But no studio wanted to foot the bill. Welles was hailed as a wunderkind after Citizen Kane, often regarded as the greatest movie ever made. But his career was marked by a certain adventurousness that left him struggling financially, off and on, for the vast duration of it. He cobbled together money for his comeback project using foreign financiers (including the Shah of Iran's brother-in-law), but he ran out of funds midway. Accepting a lifetime achievement award in 1975, he made the most of his stage time by essentially asking the august gathering to give him the funds necessary to complete the movie. The industry that once hailed him as a legend, the finest filmmaker to ever exist, discarded him when he had outlived his usefulness. Welles never directed a successful film during his lifetime, even though many of them are now hailed as classics. Citizen Kane, inarguably his most admired creation, was the number one film of all time according to the British Film Institute's Sight & Sound decennial poll of critics. It was nominated for nine Oscars, winning in the Best Original Screenplay category. Only in his mid-20s and already at the top of the world, he developed a reputation for being a spendthrift. Also read – Legendary Bollywood music composer lived as paying guest in final years, banned family from attending funeral Writing for Guardian in 2009, the film historian David Thomson described Welles as 'most glorious film failure of them all.' According to Thomson's essay, Welles 'died, alone and broke, in a cottage in the Hollywood hills on 10 October 1985, at which point his affairs and his estate passed into a chaos that he had known and engineered for most of his life. In his youth, Thomson wrote, Welles 'worked 20 hours a day, ate double meals to keep going, pursued pretty young women like a demon and lived as if he had no tomorrow.' Welles spoke about his financial struggles in an interview with documentarian Leslie Megahey. 'I think I made, essentially, a mistake staying in movies. But it's the mistake I can't regret because it's like saying I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her. I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money and trying to get along, trying to make my work from this terribly expensive paintbox which is a movie. I've spent too much energy on things that have nothing to do with making a movie.' Also read – Bollywood's most celebrated Golden Age writer died penniless, burdened by heavy debts; Javed Akhtar blamed Raj Kapoor In 1982, addressing a group of film students in France, Welles said according to a New Yorker article, 'You are people who have fallen under the spell of the most wicked of all the muses, because it's too expensive.' Asked what the greatest feeling a director can experience is, Welles replied, 'The greatest moment is always when you know the money is in the bank… It's exactly the way you would feel if you were a painter and you had to wait for some fairy to come in the night and give you some paint. Every morning, you wake up and the box is empty. Now, naturally, when you see all those colours in front of you, it's going to be a big moment in your life.' Read more – 'His wife was found begging at railway station': Forgotten composer who launched Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar died penniless Welles reportedly couldn't afford to pay the cinematographer of his final film, and ended up giving him one of his Oscars for Citizen Kane as collateral. To make ends meet, he'd take up acting roles. Famously, he voiced a character in the 1982 animated Transformers film. Once, Welles was hired by director Mel Brooks to narrate some portions of a documentary. He agreed to do it for $25,000. When Brooks asked what he'd spend the money on, Welles replied, 'Cuban cigars and Sevruga caviar. I would have included women, but I'm getting just a little too heavy for that kind of athletic endeavour.' While being honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the American Film Institute, Welles was reduced to asking his peers for money to complete his unfinished film. 'A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours. As a director, for instance, I pay myself out of my acting jobs. I use my own work to subsidise my work. In other words, I'm crazy. But not crazy enough to pretend to be free. But it's a fact that many of the films you've seen tonight could never have been made otherwise,' he said in his speech. He proceeded to show the crowd a scene from his unfinished film, which revolved around a character needing money. Read more – Star of Bollywood's Golden Era died penniless due to flamboyant lifestyle, influenced Amitabh Bachchan and won praise from Mahatma Gandhi Welles died of a heart attack at his Hollywood home at the age of 70 in 1985. As per his wishes, he was cremated. Only a handful of close friends attended his funeral. Joseph Cotten wrote, 'He did not want a funeral; he wanted to be buried quietly in a little place in Spain.' He had been under treatment for diabetes as well as a heart ailment, The New York Times noted in its obituary, adding, 'For his failure to realise his dreams, Welles blamed his critics and the financiers of Hollywood. Others blamed what they described as his erratic, egotistical, self-indulgent and self-destructive temperament. But in the end, few denied his genius.' Writer Stephen Farber noted, 'Looking back over American movie history – a history of wrecked careers – you begin to see that the critics have a lot to answer for. The classic victim is Orson Welles.'
The Independent
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
David Lynch's grave stone bearing enigmatic phrase unveiled in Hollywood
David Lynch 's grave marker has been unveiled at the Hollywood Forever cemetery, with the simple flat black stone bearing the enigmatic epitaph: 'Night Blooming Jasmine.' The visionary Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director died in January at the age of 78. According to reports he was cremated and his ashes were buried at Hollywood Forever. The storied cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles is the final resting place of many classic Hollywood icons including Judy Garland, Cecil B DeMille and Jayne Mansfield. Lynch's grave marker bears just his full name, David Keith Lynch, his dates 1946 - 2025, and the three-word phrase which refers to a scent he associated with Los Angeles and nostalgia for a bygone era of Hollwood. In a 2016 interview with AnOther Magazine, Lynch said: 'When you fly into LA at night, it's all lit up, miles and miles of lights – so beautiful. It's a very fast image. But within it there are these places that talk about memory. 'You know, on a summer's night, maybe more like a spring night, you could drive to certain places and if you smell that night-blooming jasmine, you can almost see Clark Gable or Gloria Swanson. The golden age of Hollywood is still living in some moods here, in the DNA of the city.' In one of his regular 'Weather Report' YouTube videos posted on December 21, 2020, Lynch said: 'Now, the days are gonna start getting longer, and spring time is right around the corner. When, at least in LA, that night blooming jasmine will once again fill the air with its sublime fragrance.' Lynch's death was announced in January by his family in a Facebook post, which read: 'There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'' In the days before his death, the Oscar-nominated auteur had reportedly been evacuated from his LA home due to the city's devastating wildfires. In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine last year, Lynch revealed he had been diagnosed with emphysema due to smoking throughout his life, and said he could not 'go out' because of the risk of catching Covid. 'I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long and so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. It would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold,' he said, admitting that he could only walk a short distance before he was 'out of oxygen.' Lynch, who frequently collaborated with Hollywood luminaries such as Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Naomi Watts, Jack Nance and Harry Dean Stanton, left behind an iconic body of work. He earned critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama The Elephant Man (1980), the mystery thriller Blue Velvet (1986), and the psychological drama Mulholland Drive (2001).
See - Sada Elbalad
08-02-2025
- Entertainment
- See - Sada Elbalad
David Lynch's Cause of Death Revealed
Yara Sameh Legendary Hollywood director David Lynch's cause of death has been revealed nearly a month after he died at the age of 78. The visionary filmmaker and director behind "Mulholland Drive," "Twin Peaks" and more classics, who in 2020 was diagnosed with emphysema, passed away on January 16. On Friday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health published David Lynch's death certificate, which lists his immediate cause of death as cardiac arrest due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Dehydration is also listed as a significant contributor to his death. Lynch's death was announced by his family in a Facebook post, which read: 'There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us. But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.'' In the days before his death, the Oscar-nominated auteur had reportedly been evacuated from his L.A. home due to the city's devastating wildfires. According to Deadline, sources said that the move had led to a decline in his health. In an interview with Sight & Sound magazine last year, Lynch revealed he had been diagnosed with emphysema due to smoking throughout his life, and said he could not 'go out' because of the risk of catching coronavirus. 'I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long and so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. It would be very bad for me to get sick, even with a cold,' he said, admitting that he could only walk a short distance before he was 'out of oxygen.' Lynch, who frequently collaborated with Hollywood luminaries such as Laura Dern, Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Naomi Watts, Jack Nance and Harry Dean Stanton, left behind an iconic legacy. He earned critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama "The Elephant Man" (1980), the mystery thriller "Blue Velvet" (1986), and the psychological drama "Mulholland Drive" (2001). Lynch is survived by his four children, Boxing Helena director Jennifer Lynch, Austin Jack Lynch, Riley Lynch, and Lula Lynch.
