What most of us know about Wayne Thiebaud, the American master who died in 2021 at 101, boils down to the handful of pictures you've likely come across in a coffee-table book: This is the man who dedicated his whole career to painting cakes and slices of pie, lined up like goods in a shop window and painted to look good enough to take a bite. Those who have read past the captions might add he is a figure of the early '60s pop art moment, that loose bunch that begins with Andy Warhol and runs thr

Alfonso Cuaron is coming to Korea for the first time as a guest of the 31st Busan International Film Festival next month, organizers announced Friday. Cuaron will attend the opening ceremony and give a master class on his filmmaking, according to the festival. The Mexican filmmaker has won the Academy Award for best director twice, for "Gravity" (2013) and "Roma" (2018). A special IMAX screening of "Gravity" is also on the program. Cuaron will be joined by his son and frequent collaborator, Jona

"The Intern" (South Korea) Opened Sept. 17 Comedy/Drama Directed by Kim Do-young A retiree (Choi Min-sik) signs on as a senior intern at a startup led by a young CEO (Han So-hee) in this Korean remake of the 2015 Hollywood film. "Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" (UK) Opened Sept. 9 Documentary/Music Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern A chronicle of Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher's first joint interview in over 15 years. "The Drama" (US) Opened Sept. 9 Roma

"The more I made films, the more I realized how hard it is to truly connect with another person," Lee Chang-dong said as he accepted the TIFF Ebert Director Award in Toronto, in remarks from the ceremony revealed by Netflix on Wednesday. "In an age when AI is taking the place of people, and people themselves seem to be losing their sense of self, I believe cinema still needs to talk about the people we can't quite reach. 'Possible Love' was a small attempt at that." The 72-year-old auteur had ju

Stefan Sagmeister has been telling designers that solving a problem is nothing to brag about. Any competent professional, he argues, should be able to produce a readable poster or design a comfortable chair in an afternoon. Making something beautiful is where the actual work starts, and the profession has been hung up on the practical side of things for too long. The Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer was behind the album covers for Lou Reed, the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads. His

It took Lee Jin-joon, a professor at KAIST's Graduate School of Culture Technology, 2 1/2 years to earn a doctorate in fine art at Oxford. His master's degree in sculpture at Seoul National University took nearly twice as long. He failed the qualifying exam three times after submitting the same media-based work each time; his professor insisted he come back with something more conventional. He passed only after the professor retired. That was hardly the first time he had taken the long way aroun

The gallery inside the Gangnam headquarters of apparel exporter Global Sae-A Group is going blue-chip this fall with the likes of Chagall, de Kooning and Hockney under one roof. Opening Sept. 15 and running through Jan. 9, the century-wide survey "Highlights of Modern Painting: Portraits of an Era" at Global Sae-A Art Space brings together 20 works by 14 artists that move across surrealism, postwar abstraction and the figurative paintings of recent years. The show is split into three sections. T

Na Hong-jin's part go-for-broke blockbuster, part screwball farce alien epic "Hope" pulled in nearly $5 million in its first week at North American theaters, the film's Korean distributor Plus M Entertainment said Tuesday, in what amounts to a respectable start for a Korean-language release on a limited run in the region. The 156-minute creature feature debuted Sept. 9 to a $1.1 million opening day and went on to collect another $3.3 million over the weekend, cracking the box office top 10 along

Picture a newspaperman in a movies set in the 1970s -- what probably comes to mind is a rumpled shirt, a few days' stubble and a cigarette burning down in an ashtray on a cluttered desk. In "The Assassin(s)," Lee Min-ho is anything but. In director Hur Jin-ho's newsroom thriller based on real events, the K-drama superstar plays a rookie reporter who comes to the job with a trust-fund pedigree and movie-star looks. His Young-il is the youngest brother in a chaebol family who joined the fictional

"Possible Love," which took home the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, was not exactly the most talked-about title going into the competition. Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years featured four of Korea's biggest stars, Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong, but much of the chatter ahead of the festival had to do with where it was coming from. Netflix bankrolled the film, making for an offbeat pairing between an arthouse veteran and a

"Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" (UK) Opened Sept. 9 Documentary/Music Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern A chronicle of Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher's first joint interview in over 15 years. "The Drama" (US) Opened Sept. 9 Romance/Drama Directed by Kristoffer Borgli An engaged couple (Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) see their relationship unravel after one makes a shocking confession a week before the wedding. "Obsession" (US) Opened Sept. 2 Horror Direc

Don't let the title fool you: "The Assassin(s)" is no hitman picture. Director Hur Jin-ho's latest is the first Korean film set in the country's authoritarian past that puts the reporters who risked their lives going after the truth front and center. What you get is a well-made journalism procedural based on the 1974 shooting that killed then-first lady Yuk Young-soo, one that has every chance of joining the ranks of recent politically forthright period hits like "1987" and "12.12: The Day." Tha

Nancy Meyers' 2015 "The Intern" was never a sophisticated film, and it never intended to be one. Its pleasures were of the most soothing kind, set in a Brooklyn startup where a frazzled young CEO finds the answer to her problems in the seen-it-all wisdom of a 70-year-old intern. The Korean remake, out Sept. 16, brings that comfort to the Chuseok holiday stretch, when families flock to multiplexes wanting nothing more than a good time. What the remake can't carry over is, of course, De Niro and H

President Lee Jae Myung sat down with Korean directors, actors and industry executives in southern France Monday ahead of an inaugural global summit on the film and television industry. The message he heard: Korea's film industry is in worse shape than its global reputation suggests. The meeting, which took place at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, preceded the main program of the Lumiere Summit, a multinational gathering on the future of cinema that Lee co-chaired with French Presid

When Lee Chang-dong's "Possible Love" made its world premiere in the main competition at the Venice Film Festival Sunday, the reaction was swift. After the credits rolled at the Sala Grande, a standing ovation reportedly lasted for over six minutes before staff had to clear the theater for the next screening. More impressive were the reviews that came out the same day, which were nearly uniform in their praise. The film, Lee's first since "Burning" in 2018 and his seventh in three decades, was a