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Netflix Bites MGM Grand Las Vegas
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EVO: Evolution Championship Series
Gaming Conventions | Aug 1 - Aug 3, 2025
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Hall of Excellence Rare Sports Memorabilia Exhibition at Fontainebleau
Memorabilia Exhibition | Jun 20 - Dec 31, 2025
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Fathom Events Sunset Boulevard 75th Anniversary Screening Series
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 3 - Aug 4, 2025
Way of the Samurai Film Screening Series at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 2 - Sep 4, 2025

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Make Music New York, World Music Day
Social and Cultural Events | Jun 21 - Dec 21

August 3rd In History

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Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own Exhibit and Auction
Memorabilia Exhibition | Aug 1 - Sep 11, 2023

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Ladies of STK DJ Tour
Contests | Jul 20 - Aug 26, 2023
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014

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First-ever Hong Kong Pop Culture Festival
Art Exhibitions | May 20 - Dec 31, 2023
Hong Kong > > Sai Wan Ho
First Issue of Horror Publication Fangoria Magazine is Published
First Periodical Issues | Aug 1 - Aug 31, 1979

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Bobi Wine Making Live Appearance During Bobi Wine: The People's President Screening Series
Film Screenings and Series | Jul 28 - Aug 5, 2023
United States > New York > New York City > > 10014

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Bubba Smith
Deaths | Aug 3, 2011

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Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
U.S. Theatrical Releases | Jun 28 - Aug 16, 2024
Kang Daniel: My Parade
Film Screenings and Series | Aug 1 - Sep 2, 2023

Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960s Screening Series | Sep 1 - Sep 17, 2023

Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade: The 1960s Screening Series

Film Screenings and Series | Sep 1 - Sep 17, 2023

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

United States > New York > New York City > > 10023

Before Bong Joon Ho, Hong Sangsoo, and Park Chan-wook sprang South Korean cinema onto the world stage, the foundation of their country’s film industry formed after the Korean War. The era sparked a wealth of eclectic and innovative filmmaking that culminated in the 1960s. Closer inspection of this decade, now widely considered Korea’s premier film renaissance, reveals the arrival of seminal works from filmmakers such as Kim Ki-young, Shin Sang-ok, Yu Hyun-mok, Kim Soo-yong, and Lee Man-hee, alongside a meteoric rise and reinvention of genres—from melodramas and period epics to action, horror, war, and giant monster movies.

Although the military dictatorship still imposed tight constraints throughout this era, what these filmmakers managed to accomplish under such conditions, in arthouse fare and unabashed popular entertainment alike, continues to reverberate and inspire to this day. This September, Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema are thrilled to showcase this rich period and its remarkably varied films, encapsulating a generation’s collective endeavor to define a national cinema.

Highlights include Kim Ki-young’s The Housemaid, one of the unquestionable masterpieces of Korean cinema which tells the story of a bizarre ménage à trois formed between a music teacher, his wife, and their increasingly assertive housemaid; Kang Dae-jin’s The Coachman, the first Korean film to win a major overseas award, the Silver Bear (Special Jury Prize) at the 1961 Berlin Film Festival; Hong Eun-won’s A Woman Judge, the second Korean feature to be directed by a woman and considered lost for more than 50 years until a 16mm print was recovered in 2015; Special Agent X-7, a highly entertaining and beautifully shot color spy film from Chung Chang-wha (The King Boxer), which was also long considered lost until the 35mm print was discovered in 2013; Kim Kee-duk’s The Great Monster Yonggary aka Yongary, Monster from the Deep, Korea’s first monster movie and an entertaining take on Godzilla and Gamera “that’s long on rampages and short on sensible behavior”; Shin Dong-hun’s The Story of Hong Gil-dong, South Korea’s very first animated feature film which follows the iconic Robin Hood-like figure Hong Gil-dong and was considered lost until 2008; and A Day Off, Lee Man-hee’s spare, lyrical film concerning the strained relationship of a poor young couple, belatedly recognized as one of the decade’s masterpieces after censors refused to allow its release.

Filmography

  • A Bloodthirsty Killer
  • A Day Off
  • A Swordsman in the Twilight
  • A Woman Judge
  • Aimless Bullet
  • Burning Mountain
  • Eunuch
  • Goryeojang
  • Hopi and Chadol-Bawi
  • Let's Meet at Walkerhill
  • Mist
  • Space Monster Wangmagwi
  • Special Agent X-7
  • The Barefooted Young
  • The Coachman
  • The Devil’s Stairway
  • The Empty Dream
  • The Goddess of Mercy
  • The Housemaid
  • The Marines Who Never Returned
  • The Red Muffler
  • The Seashore Village
  • The Story of Hong Gil-dong
  • Yongary Monster from the Deep
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