Archive for September 23rd, 2009

A still from the newly found and restored "Crossroads of Youth"

The Korea Society would like you to join them for a special screening of Korea’s oldest surviving silent film that is going to be screened at New York Film Festival. It is a digitally restored historic film that is accompanied by live music and narration. We believe this could be a good study for Film and East Asia Studies both. This is a good opportunity to grasp the vivid look of Seoul in 1930s’s as well.

The Korea Society and the Film Society of Lincoln Center will take audiences to a bygone era when they present Korea’s oldest surviving silent film, Crossroads of Youth, accompanied by musicians and live narrators (byeonsa) of the type found in Korean theaters of the 1930s. This special screening event will take place at 11:00 AM on October 3, in Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, as part of the 47th New York Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »