L.A. film festivals to celebrate Korean, Czech movies
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Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre will host two international film festivals.
‘Look East: Korean Film Festival’ will be June 23-24 at Grauman’s. The festival will feature new and classic films from Korea including features directed by Kwon Taek Im, Jee-woon Kim and Chang-dong Lee. And for the first time in the legendary Hollywood movie palace’s history, Korean performers, including actor Byung-hun Lee, will have their handprints and footprints added to the theater’s courtyard.
A schedule of the films and events will be released in the coming weeks.
For more information, go to http://www.LookEastFestival.com
The Czech Filmfest 2012 will take place May 16-24 at the Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theatre. The inaugural festival opens with the 2010 thriller ‘Walking Too Fast’ from director Radim Spacek, who will participate in a Q&A session.
Other films include 2012’s ‘Four Suns,’ from director Bohdan Slama, and the 2011 animated ‘Alois Nebel.’
The closing night presentation moves to the Italian Cultural Institute, where ‘Rhythm on My Heels,’ a 2009 musical set in 1950s Czechoslovakia, will be shown. For more information, go to http://www.cinefamily.org/films/czech-film-fest-2012.
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—Susan King
[For the record: A photo on an earlier version of this post was not of Byung-hun Lee.]
