Kim Jong Il Talks Film and Filmmaking, In His Own Words
The late Kim Jong Il was so passionate about the North Korean film industry that, according to the BBC, he once kidnapped a South Korean director and his actress wife and forced them to make films for him, while also imprisoning them separately for over five years.
Jong Il also fashioned himself as something of a film theorist. He wrote multiple books outlining his views on the cinema, beginning with "On The Art of Cinema" in 1973, and continuing up to "The Cinema and Directing," which was then translated into multiple languages, according to publishing notes from the Korean Friendship Association in 1987. His book is a sort of field guide for moviemakers in North Korea.
Some of Jong Il's most astute observations made in "The Cinema and Directing" have been outlined below:
posted by Ricky at 13:01
linkar para este post
